Florida Gov. DeSantis defends refusal to close beaches, points to NYC subway

[TomCADem]

Source: Associated Press

NEW YORK — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Saturday that he doesn’t regret leaving the beaches open for spring break even as the coronavirus outbreak spreads through the state.

Instead, the Republican governor compared people in Florida in the “sunshine, heat and humidity” to New York and the subways where people are “packed like sardines.”

“Do you hear the same people complaining about the New York City subway system being open?” he said at a press conference. “I mean, give me a break. Which one is more conducive to having COVID-19 spread or any respiratory virus? It’s not even close.”

DeSantis has been criticized for his slow response to the pandemic, leaving most of the lockdown decisions up to individual cities.

Read more: https://www.omaha.com/news/national/florida-gov-desantis-defends-refusal-to-close-beaches-points-to/article_1dbd7472-7ee5-529b-9178-75b0ff04dc28.html

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So, Florida's Governor is comparing transportation with partying for Spring Break?

[underpants]

1. Does anyone HAVE to go to the beach?

[Lulu KC]

16. Exactly

Everyone on those trains is taking care of someone else. Preaching to the choir here.

[SheltieLover]

2. Is asshole FL Gov wanting to be #1

Jealous of NY'S high case #s?🤯

Never know whit these fuck heads!

[unblock]

3. When was the last time a beach helped someone get to a hospital?

[C_U_L8R]

4. The subway gets health workers to hospitals

What does the beach do?

[iluvtennis]

5. + 1. nt

[IronLionZion]

19. The beach gets tourism revenue into his pocket

[Rebl2]

21. The beach

gets you exposed to Covid 19 unnecessarily!

[FBaggins]

6. "Not as bad as NY" isn't the best defense

And yes... the subway is almost certainly a bigger risk factor than the beach... but really? “It could have been worse” ?

[Iliyah]

7. Shakes head . . . .

[Sancho]

8. DeSantis is an idiot...

...that is all

[ashredux]

9. How do these people actually get Elected!!!!

[Sewa]

32. Put a R behind your name and voter suppression

That’s the magic formula

[PerceptionManagement]

10. Shorter Ron DeSantis: Whataboutism New York??? Whataboutery???

Yes im a moron, but the NY subway is somehow related to florida. somehow

[bucolic_frolic]

11. He's siding with Trump against NY so he gets the ventilators

This is crony corruption if I ever saw it

[MelissaB]

12. From Rick Wilson about DeSantis and Florida

When the three sources pressuring @RonDeSantisFL to keep FL open and doing business -- despite the risks -- are revealed, shit is going to get real.

(The main one is Trump, but you knew that.)

Link to tweet

[turbinetree]

13. Hey dumbshit.........................if you thinks it so safe to just wonder around.............why

don't you take your dumb ass down to the beach and just mingle. I guess you haven't been reading about this in your part of the neck of the woods your in state........................ this is from eighteen minutes ago....................you are one sick fuck................do you think this thing is just NY thing................how again did you get elected .........


https://www.wesh.com/article/florida-coronavirus/31969271#

[patphil]

14. The subway is open so that people in critical jobs can get to work.

DeSantis is keeping the beaches open to support the tourism industry.

Just a small difference there.
One is a necessity, the other is just for greed.

[Igel]

25. And yet there is a lockdown now

and wasn't during spring break. The NY lockdown started 3/20.

Texas has/doesn't have a lockdown. The large metropolitan areas typically do, with surrounding 'burbs. Rural areas don't.

The area with the #1 death toll so far in Tx does have a lockdown. #2-4 do, too, but #1 is reasonably far ahead. That could change quickly, the numbers are still all fairly small, and I don't trust reported cases, too test-availability dependent.

[treestar]

27. And they may not be packed in like sardines at

this point with nonessential workers and students, etc., not on them.

[Indykatie]

15. The CYA Begins

[paleotn]

17. I'll make a terrible prediction...

due in part to DeSantis arrogance and incompetence, CvD-19 will burn white hot thru FL.

[Dan]

20. Especially given the elderly population.....

[RockRaven]

18. People don't gather from all over the country *to visit* the fucking subway

Asshole!

[Thekaspervote]

22. The # of cases in FL is exploding and with such an elderly population the death toll will be high

He’s just like his idiot king. Blame, project, lie

[dhill926]

23. astoundingly stupid....

as is anyone who supports this dipshit...

[steve2470]

24. stupid and cowardly, WORST governor ever

Even the Civil War-era governors seemed to care about the non-slave part of the population.

[Mendocino]

26. So DeSantis

is blaming NYC, using the John Rocker gambit.

[keithbvadu2]

28. Isn't the subway system losing ridership during this time?

Isn't the subway system losing ridership during this time?

[mitch96]

29. The Sonny and Cher song "It ain't me babe" comes to mind.. nt

[PSPS]

30. Um, the NY subways are virtually deserted these days, as is the rest of NYC.

Here's a video shot driving through Midtown and Times Square LAST FRIDAY AFTERNOON! It would usually be teeming with people and cars but, instead, looks almost like the opening of Omega Man.

[PoliticAverse]

31. He doesn't realize NYC isn't an example of what one should be doing? n/t

[Historic NY]

33. Its was about $$$$

[rockfordfile]

34. DeSantis should be locked up

[RobinA]

35. Jeesh

They're all sounding like third graders now. Well, HE didn't close his subway, so I don't have to close my beach.