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The cynic in me believes that DeSantis is only concerned with how the seniors vote. The fact that he made this announcement in The Villages is very telling.
So he’s smarter or has better judgement than the cdc in your opinion. Look I am not debating order. Everyone has to determine the rollout thanks to our system. But to exalt a governor points to something unclear as to why FL is different.
I’m not “exalting” anyone. But I do, I guess, exalt the fact that there are some people who haven’t completely abdicated basic judgement and common sense to government agencies because they are manned by “experts”. Listen to them, sure. But are they above being questioned? Are they speaking ex cathedral? C’mon, Frenns - you know better than that.
The cynic in me believes that there’s a political consideration in every one of their utterances. If they were altruists they never would have become politicians in the first place. His motives are his motives - I don’t know and couldn’t care less. The policy is what I care about. It’s a departure from what the CDC is recommending and IMO a sensible one that will save lives. Isn’t that what we’re trying to do?
When you stop caring about the motives of people’s actions, methinks you might need some introspection.
When you stop listening to common sense, life saving ideas because of a political bias that you (in your infinite wisdom) think “might” be self serving, methinks you might need more than some introspection.
I assume he has the same information as the CDC - just a little more common sense. That information shows that Covid is most lethal to those 75+. Next at greatest risk are those 65-74. So, after long term care facility workers and staff, health care workers with direct patient contact and people hospitals deem extremely vulnerable to Covid 19 are vaccinated it goes to the general population. Here, that will be seniors 65+ (rather than those 75+) followed by those deemed essential workers (firemen, school teachers, grocery clerks, etc). If the object is less deaths, moving the 65-74 group up in priority certainly makes sense. He’s an “essential worker”, of course, but will wait in line until the most vulnerable have been served. Good for him.
He has also said no essential workers like police, first responders, teachers have priority.Oh, and he SAID a lot of things, but Florida has no real plan. Well, other than making sure all The Villages got their shots first. Wonder why that is a priority? Meanwhile my 96 yo WWII vet dad waits.
That was my point earlier. I don’t know the right order and a group of infectious disease experts got together and made a recommendation. Now everyone is making the “common sense calls”Just feels like another step of ignoring the cdc. Which has not really worked that well so far.
We know who Covid kills and who it doesn’t. The CDC is one of the sources of that knowledge. That doesn’t make them policy experts. If the goal of the vaccine is to save lives why should people at almost no risk be put in front of people 6x, 10x or more likely to die if they contract it? Sorry, but “because the CDC (at this point, anyway) says so” isn’t a good enough reason for more needless and preventable deaths. That this is even debatable blows my mind.
That this is even debatable blows my mind.
My wife has said she will take half of everything before she lets us move there.
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No, he's not. Nor is be a miracle worker. But he is actually going to make an effort and attempt to lead.