Love this from @brianjburgess: "With little fanfare, Florida’s victory over the COVID-19 pandemic came on June 4th, 2021"
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thecapitolist.com/the-wrap-desan…
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thecapitolist.com/the-wrap-desan…
"In a move that has already proven more liberating than declaring an end to mask mandates and limited capacity indoor dining, Florida Gov Ron DeSantis single-handedly defeated the virus this month with the simple act of ending Florida’s daily reporting of virus statistics"
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'Shifting our collective attention away from that daily drip of bad news has the effect of ending our collective public “analysis paralysis,” as if we’re all suddenly waking from a coronavirus coma and walking out into the sunshine for the first time in over a year.'
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"In cutting off the daily drip of data doom, DeSantis has done everyone a favor, by returning the authority over that data to the people who actually need it, increasing its value by making it less of a consumer-level commodity...
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"Without that data to crunch, the rest of us armchair epidemiologists can now safely return to our day jobs. I’m confident we’ll be notified the moment our deep and insightful analysis is needed again."
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