Did Ron DeSantis Make the Right Call?

[TBoneTX 45,571]

This is a fascinating (graphed), highly readable analysis of the decision in Florida to let Spring Break proceed.  Our comments?

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Did Ron DeSantis Make the Right Call?

by Sean Trende - RCP Staff

 

The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by wrenching images, from previously healthy people hooked up to ventilators to photos of normally packed plazas and boulevards standing almost empty.  But in the United States, perhaps none have been so widely shared -- and derided -- as pictures of college students partying on then still-open beaches in Florida, celebrating spring break.  As one partier infamously put it on March 18: "If I get corona, I get corona.  At the end of the day, I'm not gonna let it stop me from partying."

All of this led to outrage on social media, along with loud demands that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis close the beaches and put spring break effectively out of business.  The governor refused.  This has led to confident predictions that Florida had been seeded with coronavirus cases and was likely to emerge as the next hot spot. [...]

 

Continues here: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/04/09/did_ron_desantis_make_the_right_call_142905.html  

 

 

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

Except Florida DID close its beaches, in so many locations.  Miami, Fort Walton Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Destin, Panama City, the Florida Keys... quite a bit of beach line in FL, in fact.