Florida is the 17th highest in deaths per capita. They are not even close to the top.
You are totally full of shit.
DeSantis for the win
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Florida is the 17th highest in deaths per capita. They are not even close to the top.
You are totally full of shit.
Medical scientists have divided the pandemic into two phases; the first when there was no easy preventative treatment for serious illness & death, and the second phase when the vaccine was widely available to greatly reduce serious illness & death.
States that had poor vaccination rates had much greater serious illness and death rates in the second phase. Seeing that over 95% of Covid deaths in the U.S. during the past year were unvaccinated, the preventable death toll in states which did not pushing vaccination and proper proper health measures was significant -- with Florida being a leader since April of 2021.
GWB will cherry pick data and say "Florida is the worst when you consider April 1, 2021 from 3:50PM to August 12th, 2021 at 712PM" or some stupid crap like that. I can do that, too and make Florida the best during a particular stretch of time I unilaterally choose.
He's ridiculous.
You have to look at the whole pandemic. Then, you have to consider not just the number of deaths, but the actions that saved businesses, let people live their lives, and kept kids in schools. Its not just a one variable equation. But stupid is as stupid does.
ooh...can I list all the politicians, states and investment funds linked to the government with investments in companies in Russia??
Go ahead.... but your counter-point should actually be that $300 million is actually a tiny fraction of Florida's pension fund.
That's not a valid counter point if you're making a moral argument there should be no investments in Russia - when there are many, many politicians, states and investment funds doing it. So you're the hypocrite when you point out Florida investments (not something DeSantis chose, by the way) but ignore everyone else.
Actually most states have a well-diversified pension fund portfolio. Some of those funds are in international stocks. The developing nation portion of the funds include Russian stocks -- not that surprising. Florida has larger exposure than many other states to Russia.
The real discussion here is that DeSantis and his spokesperson actually think this Russian investment is still worth $300 Million while other states have already taken steps in preparation to write-off their Russian investments in view they are likely not to recover.
Of course, the other silliness from Pushaw is that she fails to understand that the Russian stock market is currently not open for foreign trades --- even if the stocks recovered Florida would not be able to sell them.
And to conclude -- please point out where I made a moral argument there should be no investments in Russia.