California has one of the higher infection rates in the US.
Wonder if anyone is doing tracking?

 

Florida governor faces growing charges of vaccine favoritism


By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON
55 mins ago

MIAMI (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and state health officials came under deeper scrutiny amid revelations that seniors in a wealthy enclave in Key Largo received hundreds of life-saving vaccinations as early as mid -January, giving ammunition to critics who say the Republican governor is favoring wealthy constituents over ordinary Floridians.

The revelations were the latest example of wealthy Floridians getting earlier access to coronavirus vaccines, even as the state has lagged in efforts to get poorer residents vaccinated.

DeSantis pushed back Thursday, saying a local hospital — not the state — was behind the vaccinations of more than 1,200 residents of the exclusive Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo, Florida, and that the state “wasn't involved in it in any shape or form.”


Officials from Monroe County, home to Key Largo, said the affluent club’s medical center, which is an affiliate of Baptist Health Hospital, received the vaccines through the hospital as part of the governor’s program to vaccinate communities with a populations of people 65 and older. County spokeswoman Kristen Livengood said the allocations were coordinated through Baptist and the state of Florida.

Revelations about Ocean Reef residents getting vaccinated were first reported by the Miami Herald.

The inequitable distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines is becoming a public relations challenge for the governor. Of the 3.2 million people who have received one or two doses of the vaccines, less than 6% have been Black, when they make up about 17% of the total population.

Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried joined Democratic U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist in calling for federal officials to probe the DeSantis administration’s vaccine distribution programs.

During a Thursday press conference at the Florida Capitol, Fried called on the FBI’s public corruption unit to launch an investigation.

“If this isn’t public corruption, I don’t know what is,” Fried said, noting what she said was a pattern.

“Give campaign contributions big dollars, get special access to vaccines -- ahead of seniors, ahead of our teachers, ahead of our farmworkers and so many of our residents here in our state of Florida who are scared and who are wanting vaccines.”

Last week, Crist, a former Florida governor, asked the U.S. Department of Justice to look into possible favoritism in the state's distribution of the vaccines, asserting that DeSantis were benefiting "political allies and donors, over the needs of higher-risk communities and existing county waitlists.”

Both Crist and Fried are considering campaigns to oppose DeSantis in next year's gubernatorial election.


The Ocean Reef Club, a senior community in Key Largo, had more than 1,200 homeowners vaccinated through their second dose by late January, according to a message to community members by the management obtained by the Miami Herald.

Those vaccinations came at a time when “the majority of the state has not received an allocation of first doses,” the management noted.

In recent weeks, other reports have surfaced of wealthy retirement communities getting exclusive access to vaccine doses through pop-up vaccine sites. Democrats have criticized him for choosing those places, but the governor’s office has noted that more than half of them have been in Democratic stronghold counties of Broward and Palm Beach. Supporters of DeSantis say he has also coordinated clinics with faith-based groups in underserved areas.

After Publix was made the sole distributor of vaccines in Palm Beach County in late January, the mayors of predominately Black farming communities in the area urged the governor to reconsider, and the state set up a vaccine station shortly after.

Even so, DeSantis during a Thursday news conference applauded the hospital network for going to the exclusive club in the Keys to vaccinate more seniors.

“My view is if you are 65 and up, I am not worried about your income bracket. I am worried about your age bracket because it's the age, not the income, that shows the risk,” he said at the news conference. “I think it was good that they did it. I support the hospitals doing that.”

The pastor of a Hispanic church with 400 members in Homestead, Florida, not far from Key Largo, says he feels his and some other areas have been forgotten in the vaccination campaign due to technological and language barriers.

“Many people here work all day and they are not up to date with where to go and how to sign up,” said Miguel Carrillo, pastor of Iglesia Roca Fuerte.

Carrillo says many of the Guatemalan and Mexican members of his church suffer from conditions that would make them extremely vulnerable to the virus such as diabetes but they don’t have primary doctors to provide them the note they need to head to one of the federal sites.

“I wish they would give these workers a chance,” he said.

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Calvan reported from Tallahassee, Florida.

 

Florida’s Top Dem: Ron DeSantis Hid His COVID

https://news.yahoo.com/florida-top-dem-ron-desantis-095935086.html

Leaked texts contradict DeSantis's claims about vaccine scandal


Florida governor Ron DeSantis. (Photo by Gage Skidmore)

https://www.rawstory.com/desantis-vaccine-scandal/

 

Off with his head!

 

Ron deShithouse strikes again!



Thinskin

 

Is stumbler gonna share his source or are we supposed to just take his word for it?

 

Like you do?

Thinskin

 

Texts show Manatee COVID-19 vaccine site was set up to help DeSantis’ reelection

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/pol...0210309-f2kelvahcjfdnjdmkt46nqtgde-story.html

 

Huh.
No texts.

 

I don't see how this could even work. First of all if DeSantis did refuse extradition it would make Trump a defacto prisoner of Florida and if he ever set foot out of the state he could be arrested immediately. But more to the point all states have extradition agreements and if DeSantis violated one of those agreements Florida would be totally isolated and no other states would cooperate with them on investigations and extradition. Which is why almost all states cooperate all the time.

Trump allies counting on Ron DeSantis to refuse extradition to New York if ex-president gets indicted


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https://www.rawstory.com/ron-desantis-donald-trump/

 

It's funny how all this bullshit Raw Story crap amounts to a big, complete mothing.

I gotta go find that 'What Made you Smile Today?' thread now.

Lol

 

Now this is interesting.
When comparing the results of Covid mitigation in California and Florida, it turns out that the outcomes have been pretty close to identical, even thought we're talking two completely different approaches.
You know, despicable and deplorable approaches.

See, in California Newsome tried to shut down the state. Businesses were ordered closed. Masks were mandatory. Desantis on the other hand said fuck it, we're staying open and masks are voluntary, sort of.

California and Florida both have a COVID-19 case rate of around 8,900 per 100,000 residents since the pandemic began, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

And both rank in the middle among states for COVID-19 death rates — Florida was 27th as of Friday; California was 28th.
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Shooter has said from the beginning, we can't stop living cause we're afraid of dying.
Despite their differing approaches, California and Florida have experienced almost identical outcomes in COVID-19 case rates - MarketWatch

 

It is not over!

Thinskin

 

No, it isn't over.
Not by a long shot.
We haven't managed to slow down the common cold either, and COVID is the same family of virus and the cold.
It will never really be over.
What will be over is the knee jerk reaction that in the end trashed a roaring economy for very little, if any, slowing of the virus.

 

Brutal video mocks DeSantis for being Trump's lackey as 'Ron Be Gone' group looks to derail the GOP governor


Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

https://www.rawstory.com/ron-be-gone-desantis/

 

Ron DeSantis admin sued for violating Florida’s Constitution by hiding COVID variant info: report


www.rawstory.com

https://www.rawstory.com/ron-desantis-vaccinations-2651129730/

 

Gov. DeSantis touts Fla. Economic boom in grand opening speech

OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 5:40 PM PT – Monday, March 22, 2021
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) touted his state’s booming economy amid the ongoing pandemic. On Monday, the Florida Republican spoke out a ribbon-cutting ceremony and attributed his state’s success to the thousands of businesses and lives that have been protected under his administration’s leadership.

“If you look around the country, you have businesses closing in a lot of these states,” DeSantis said. “Florida, we have businesses opening. New businesses opening.”

Furthermore, the Sunshine State was one of the first to fully re-open by rejecting blue state lockdowns.

“We’re one of the few states where people are actually opening new restaurants, hotels,” DeSantis noted. “And then here in Buc-ees, even though we had the pandemic hit, you know, they were full speed ahead. And I think the results are going to speak for themselves.”

DeSantis went on to highlight the state’s unemployment statistics at less than five percent, which ranks below the national average.

 

‘If Ron DeSantis doesn’t have anything to hide why won’t he turn over the data’: Florida reporter


www.rawstory.com

https://www.rawstory.com/ron-desantis-hiding-vaccine-data/

 

So Ron deShithouse has been hiding Florida's covid-19 deaths.

Rebekah told us that months ago.



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