I saw this quote. There was nothing racist about it. This is what I'm talking about with your lunacy and quoting people.
He said: “overwhelmingly Hispanic” day laborers and agriculture workers are the source for Florida’s recent surge in coronavirus cases.
“Some of these guys go to work in a school bus, and they are all just packed there like sardines, going across Palm Beach County or some of these other places, and there’s all these opportunities to have transmission,” DeSantis said during a press conference in Tallahassee.
None of this is racist. These migrant farm workers travel from state to state. These are exactly the conditions in which they work. The Strawberry farms right outside Tampa are a perfect example of it. A farmer goes into town, tells a "foreman" how many he needs, and they get a truck or bus loaded with these guys to come pick the Strawberries. What is the racist piece I am not seeing?
But members of the tightly knit agricultural enclave say it isn't the farmworkers’ fault that they are getting sick.
They maintain the federal government has deemed them “essential workers” and the state has been slow to provide the community with the resources farmworker advocates have requested to slow the spread of the highly contagious virus.
The community actually agreed with the statement! They claim it isn't their fault (and I don't believe it is).
Antonio Tovar, executive director of the Farmworker Association of Florida, accused DeSantis of ignoring pleas from a coalition of 50 groups that asked the governor for help in late April.
“We sent this letter to the governor more than two months ago and now he is realizing that foreign workers are more suitable to get infected. That is very shameful because he was advised, he was told when we sent the letter,” Tovar told The News Service of Florida on Wednesday.
The letter asked DeSantis, Florida Cabinet members and state lawmakers to expand access to COVID-19 testing in rural areas, provide more personal protective gear to farmworkers and offer alternative housing options to workers who live in crowded conditions.
Now a question for you. Please show me the scientific evidence that a mask mandate works. Since that is your claim.
