Florida's governor Ron DeSantis loves to pick fights.
He will pick fights with anybody who gets in his way.
He will attack you.
He will go after you will have his little minions go after you.
And this week, they decided to pick a fight with a local news station in Jacksonville,
Florida, because that new station had the audacity, the goal to fact check a claim made
last week by Ron DeSantis, where he lied to the public once again.
So here's what happened last Tuesday, you had Florida governor Ron DeSantis and Osceola,
Florida, where he said this about C and he was for context, you know, cuz I have the
partial quote here.
He was talking about the military, kicking people out that aren't vaccinated because
that's the rule you get vaccinated.
And he's mad about that.
How is that saying thank you for your service by kicking people out over something that
doesn't stop you from getting infected in the first place.
And that's, what's so unbelievable about all this stuff.
And I think if you look at the data now, people who have had multiple boosters are actually
more likely to get infected right now.
So before they even began their fact checking, uh, news for jacks, which is the local news
station in Jacksonville, reached out to DeSantis administration and said, Hey, um, we're gonna
fact check this.
So if you wouldn't mind, like, could you tell us like where this data's coming from?
So we can go ahead and say, if it's true or not.
So they got a response from Brian Griffin, not from family guy, Brian Griffin, the deputy
press secretary for the governor's office, sent them a chart.
And he said this upon a quick review of my own accord.
If you go to the CDCs website and then he provides a link rates of COVID 19 cases by
vaccination status and two plus booster doses in ages, 50 plus years filtered for cases,
you can see that those who received boosters after being vaccinated had more reported COVID
infections than those who didn't get boosters.
Here's a screenshot for you.
So you see the chart.
We got our nice little chart here.
We got lots of lots of lines there.
And sure there is a line that would suggest that those who have, uh, had boosters are
at a higher rate of COVID than people who've just had one vaccination.
But see here's a problem.
DeSantis said those who have had boosters, multiple boosters are getting infected at
a higher rate.
Now, if you look at that chart again, you'll see a big black line.
Do you know what that black line is?
The one that's way above everything else there.
Yeah, you guessed it.
That is the unvaccinated rate of COVID here in the state of Florida.
So it would seem that DeSantis claim right off the bat is totally false because the people
Who are getting COVID at the highest rates, of course, as per usual, are those who are
not vaccinated at all.
But news four jacks was not satisfied with just saying, Hey, your own chart proves that
you're an idiot.
They didn't wanna go that route.
So they spoke to multiple different doctors and medical experts who also looked at the
data, not just the graph, but the actual data.
And they said, this is wrong.
and here's why it's wrong folks, because this data is not representative of what's
actually happening because this data is only what has been provided by some Walgreen stores.
Like it's not even statewide, it's not even all pharmacies or testing facilities.
It's just some Walgreens in Florida that have reported this data.
of course it doesn't include people testing at home.
Doesn't include any of that.
It's just, again, some Walgreens that have reported.
So you're working with an incomplete data set and news for Jacksonville, of course,
tried to put this out there in their, you know, fact check saying yeah, or DeSantis
is lying.
He's using incomplete data.
He's using incorrect data.
Of course, what I would've done would just have been like, Hey, look at the chart.
You're wrong.
Move on idiot.
So after they issued this fact check, of course you had another person reach out Jeremy red
firm from the Florida department of health and this is what they said.
How was this still rated?
Not true when these data provided by Brian show otherwise.
And then of course, Brian Griffin had this to say, um, if this is a gotcha attempt, as
it feels from the initial publication of the fact check this morning, we really do need
to focus on the people of Florida.
So they're mad.
They're off, you know, DeSantis office cuz Griffin is, you know, deputy press secretary,
uh, red Fern over at the Florida department of health.
They're like, what the hell are you talking about?
Oh, you're just trying to do a gotcha thing.
No, what they're trying to do is say that you, people are idiots.
You're giving us incomplete data sets, but even your incomplete data sets proves you
wrong, but that is the hell in which we live here in the state of Florida.
It doesn't matter what the facts say.
It doesn't matter what the data says, nothing in reality matters to the DeSantis administration
and they will fight you tooth and nail.
If you try to confront them with reality.