People screaming about "60,000 Floridians being dead of COVID" are ignoring the fact that without DeSantis' leadership, we'd have hit 100,000 by now and our economy wouldn't be as strong as it is.
The people that praised Cuomo for his handling of COVID are the same people that say DeSantis is a failure.
There is NO way you can look at Florida's elderly population and believe that treating them the same way would have resulted in less deaths.
As far as the vaccine mandates, that would have hurt our economy and stopped growth.
"LIVES ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN MONEY!"
Tell that to the father who can't feed his kids because he lost his job to a vaccine mandate.
No one is arguing that the deaths are no big deal.
But it could have been much, much worse.
If 60,000 deaths are on DeSantis' hands because of his policies, the millions of not-dead Floridians are to his credit.
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Man, they do NOT like having their hypocrisy thrown back at them.
All I want is for people to be honest about themselves and their history.
Politics could become humane again if anyone used the words “yes, I did that. I was wrong and won’t do it again.”
But neither side is taking that step.
The Left certainly isn’t. They have two modes: winning and escalation. They will say or do anything necessary to win. And if the Right does that, they memory-hole their actions and escalate.