(08-12-2020, 09:52 PM)jj82284 Wrote:

(08-12-2020, 09:39 AM)mikesez Wrote: I don't think any politician in the US is handling Covid exactly right.  

DeSantis beat Putnam in the primary in part by showing his kid saying "build the wall" in an ad.  So he started out as a cowardly Trump parrot even though he has a record the pre-dates Trump. 

As for Covid, in every public appearance the governor has made about that, he casts aspersions at the media (deserved, but inappropriate during an emergency) and expressed doubt about CDC scientists (as if he knows more than them?).  He walked a thin line, first doing nothing while saying he was concerned, then locking down the state while insisting that he didn't really believe in it, then back to doing nothing while saying he was concerned.

DeSantis was too scared or too ignorant to effectively lock down (letting everyone claim they were essential when they were not) and he was way late on masks.  

Now, no one is getting this right.  With inadequate federal support, it is hard for any governor to get this right.  But an honest governor would say, "this is the best we can do until Washington figures out unemployment, welfare, and overall strategy".  A dishonest one tries to blame Democrats and the media for all this even though he and the President, the ones with the power to help, are both Republicans.

Masks?  Unemployment?  

Frankly I've come to expect a much higher level of gaslighting from u.