@jca2 For well over a year DeSantis stood behind Mayors who put in Mask rules and curfews. He did all sorts of things the first year to keep people safer. He made separate long term care regional facilities for covid patients. During hurricanes instead of shelters with large rooms and lots of people together he put a lot of people in hotels who needed shelter so people were not crowded together.
He didn’t have any rules about people traveling here to mandatorily wear masks, and if the federal government had put it in place I think it would have helped. It would not have been 100% compliance, but I think it would have helped save lives in Florida and all over the country.
Most people comply even if there is no punishment or penalty.
At the beginning DeSantis worked with UF to do random testing in The Villages to see how much asymptomatic cases there were.
I don’t think the whole state should have been shut down for months, I do think Orlando should have had mask orders for well over a year, and it did. I also think a lot of the panhandle counties should have had mask orders more than once, and they didn’t, and the mayors and DeSantis failed there. Sometimes those counties were up at 32% positivity rate. It was bad.
The problem is the President and Governors don’t want to shut down the economy.