More lies and word salad devoid of any facts. It's amazing how poor your researching skills are. Eat more horse paste, try some dung too.
As late as July 2021, DeSantis was touting the benefits of vaccines, telling a
local Fox station,
"If you look at the people that are being admitted to hospitals, over 95% of them are either not fully vaccinated or not vaccinated at all. And so these vaccines are saving lives. They are reducing mortality."
Florida's early lockdown resembled those in much of U.S.
DeSantis declared a state of emergency on COVID in Florida before the U.S. had declared its state of emergency. He closed schools in the early weeks of the pandemic just as all 49 other states did; in fact, Florida schools
closed to in-person instruction a couple of days before New York schools did.
By March 16, 2020, when about 6,000 cases of COVID were confirmed in the U.S., President Donald Trump's administration announced social distancing guidelines and states around the country began to issue stay-at-home orders. Just four days later, DeSantis started a partial shutdown of Florida stores and beaches.
After Trump extended national safer-at-home guidelines, the governor
issued his version of a 30-day stay-at-home order on April 1, asking people to refrain from non-essential activities. Previously, he'd been resisting, even amid reports that people were flocking to Florida during spring break.
"When the president did the 30-day extension, to me that was — people aren't just going to go back to work. That's a national pause button," DeSantis
said.
DeSantis made the same policy decision made by the majority of governors in the country, but two of DeSantis' 2024 challengers, Asa Hutchinson, then the governor of Arkansas, and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum bucked the trend, refusing to issue stay-at-home policies, along with
five other conservative governors. Still, both governors, who are also
running for president, did close gyms, restaurants and other places identified as high risk by early April.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ron-desantis-2024-campaign-florida-governor-covid/