Quick thread: Ron DeSantis has grown on me as he’s governed. He’s gotten a lot of the big, important stuff right (open schools), which is 1 of the reasons why many of his critics are so over-the-top & unremitting. I don’t always agree w/ him (cruise vax stance was wrong imo)…
…I also think he’d be well-served to promote the vaccines (he’s done this, FL’s vax rate is above avg, and his reflexive critics idiotically attacked him for smart vax distribution calls) as often as he’s touting monoclonal antibody treatments (also good policy!) these days…
And though I think framing his school masking policy more as an available opt-out for parents might be smarter politically (I’ve never been elected to anything) than the approach he’s taken, he is absolutely on solid ground scientifically, based on evidence vs mask superstition…
The people railing against his stance against mask requirements for kids — many of whom have been consistently & disastrously wrong about many things on COVID — smear him as anti-child and anti-science. Bullshit. His position is mainstream & working well in many other nations…
Ignoring all of that data/experience, while insisting that a school mandate policy with scant evidential support is “The Science,” feels highly political. And that’s what most of the hysterical fury directed at DeSantis is really about. Thread over. (Showing my work): 
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