As the state of Florida continues
to be one giant hot spot for
coronavirus.
The Governor of the state,
Ron DeSantis has decided to claim
that President, Joe Biden could
really learn a thing or
two from his wonderful leadership
in responding to the pandemic.
Let's hear what he had to say.
>> You're just now the new
enemy of the state.
President Biden's going
after you harder than the Taliban.
How were you Governor Ron DeSantis
prepared to handle that?
>> We'll be standing up against his
failed policies at the border.
His failed policy,
he said he was going to end COVID,
he hasn't done that.
We are the first state to start
the treatment centers for
monoclonal antibodies.
We're having great success
with that.
That should have been a bigger
plan, a bigger part of this whole
response throughout the country
from the beginning.
But at the end of the day,
I think he's trying to find a way
to distract from the failures
of his presidency.
And so he thinks that he can attack
Florida.
Sometimes he attacks Texas,
because we're Republican states.
>> No, it's incredible, I mean,
Florida currently is number one in
the country in terms of Coronavirus
related hospitalizations.
And Ron DeSantis,
the Governor of that state looks at
that situation, and
he's like great success is Bora.
Bora is the governor of Florida.
Complete and utter moron.
Why don't we take a look at what
that great success looks like?
That is the state of Florida.
And the reason why everything is in
dark red, is because you see COVID
cases spiking in every single part
of that state.
All right, so let's take a look at
how Florida looks, compared to
the rest of the country.
Would you look at that?
Florida tends to be a lot redder
than the rest of the country.
And the red of course, indicates
higher numbers of new COVID cases.
But Ron DeSantis looks at that and
thinks great success,
great success.
I mean, look, we're doing these new
treatment centers and it's working.
How about encouraging the residents
of Florida to get vaccinated?
But I forget,
Ron DeSantis only does that for
his wealthy donors, who he ensured
he got the vaccines to first.
That was Lakewood Ranch and
Palm Beach, which we'll get to in
just a second.
Cenk, I can't help myself,
I want to show one more thing.
You look at this list of
states with the highest
number of hospitalizations.
Florida is number one, number one.
Look at that, they have more than
17,000 Americans hospitalized in
the state of Florida right now.
These are unvaccinated
COVID patients.
It could have been avoided.
The situation is so
dire that Orlando urges residents
to conserve water because of surge
in COVID hospitalizations.
Liquid oxygen used in hospitals and
water treatment is in short supply,
as more critically ill
patients need respiratory therapy.
So officials in Orlando, Florida
are telling their residents,
please conserve water,
we're in a dire situation, we need
to ensure that we're able to treat
these Coronavirus patients.
Take short showers,
don't water your lawns,
it's insane.
>> Okay, so now it'd be fair to
Florida they're number one in
hospitalizations per capita.
But they're only number three in
deaths, thanks to Louisiana and
Mississippi.
To other deeply red states,
who thought it was a brilliant idea
not to take any precautions.
But I want to go back to that
hospitalization graph that we
showed you guys, because I want you
to see the context.
And so, you'll see that the per
capita is in the middle, and you
see that Florida is the highest 80,
eclipsing, Alabama and Louisiana,
Mississippi, etc.
By the way, that means that Florida
next week will lead in deaths,
because more hospitalizations lead
to more deaths.
So Florida caught up to Louisiana,
Mississippi, etc
,and is going to pass them in
deaths if this trend continues.
But I wanted you to see also
the national average there,
which is 29.
So Florida is almost three times as
bad as the national average.
Well, that's what happens if
you don't take any precautions.
And if you don't take precautions,
you don't get 29, you get 80.
And so those 70,000 people,
you know a certain percentage of
them are going to die.
I'll give you last week stats from
Florida.
This week is way worse
than last week, and next week is
going to be even worse, right?
But last week stats were,
212 people dying in Florida
every single day from Coronavirus.
Almost all of them
are unvaccinated.
Almost all of them were
preventable.
>> Yeah.
>> But DeSantis chose not
to prevent them.
That's 1,400 dead in one week.
I mean, imagine if anything else
had killed 1,400 people in Florida.
And the Governor said to everybody,
what's the big deal?
I can't believe people
are criticizing me just because I
didn't take- >> Yeah.
>> Because remember guys when there
was no vaccine, it was harder
to blame leaders, right?
Now, if they said absurd things
like you should inject bleach
into your lungs.
You say, hey,
that's not a good idea, right?
But at least they couldn't say,
hey, take the vaccine, and
you'll be safe.
Because there was no vaccine,
now, there is a vaccine,
you could actually totally prevent
this in your state.
This agency is actively
choosing not to.
And finally, it's actually getting
through the citizens of Florida,
which I'll tell you about
in a second.
>> Yeah, no,
I actually have a lot more to add
to this because it's infuriating.
I think Ron DeSantis should be
prosecuted for what he's doing.
Because he's intentionally lying to
the people of Florida,
knowing full well,
that the vaccine is effective.
Knowing full well, that wearing
masks helps to keep people safe,
but he's intentionally pandering to
right wing conspiracy theorists and
lunatics for his own political
career, and people are dying as
a result of that, all right?
So I'll tell you exactly why I
believe this, I have evidence.
His donors, his wealthy donors,
were able to skip ahead of the line
to get the vaccine first.
His donors mostly reside in
Lakewood Ranch and Palm Beach.
Now, let me give you the details
on how this went down.
And this proves that he knows about
the effectiveness of the vaccine.
But still lies and
will not encourage ordinary,
non wealthy Floridians to get
vaccinated.
So Florida's a roll out started
pretty typically.
The first doses were given to
healthcare workers and
nursing home residents in early
December of 2020.
But then a few weeks later,
Governor Ron DeSantis breaking from
CDC guidelines announced that he
would not vaccinate teachers and
essential workers next.
But instead put seniors first,
making everyone or anyone 65 or
over eligible for the vaccine.
Now, that led to a frenzy
because understandably,
older Floridians wanted to get
vaccinated as soon as possible.
But here's the thing,
the doses were not distributed
evenly throughout the state.
They were concentrated in two
specific areas, Lakewood Ranch and
Palm Beach.
So federal complaint raises other
questions about the governor's
vaccine distribution decisions.
And alleges Governor DeSantis was
discriminating when he hand-picked
communities for
pop up sites across the state.
One of those communities was
Lakewood Ranch in Manatee County,
just south of Tampa.
In February, the governor announced
he was giving 3,000 doses to
the community.
Now, why would he do that?
Why would he focus on
Lakewood Ranch?
Well, it turns out Lakewood Ranch
developer Pat Neal has donated
$135,000 to the friends
of Ron DeSantis PAC.
Don't you guys wonder all of those
conservatives who talk about
a global cabal and the elites.
Don't you ever wonder
why the elites were in a frenzy to
skip ahead of the line and
get vaccinated?
And don't even wonder why your
beloved Ron DeSantis
is discouraging you from getting
vaccinated?
>> Well, Anna they're beginning to
wonder that, and
I got the numbers on that.
But first, from time to
time we read members and
super chats on the show because we
love doing the show with you guys,
you guys make really smart points.
So GA Jackson wrote in,
DeSantis is literally killing more
Americans than the Taliban.
Well, that's indisputably true.
But of course,
DeSantis is going to say, no,
I didn't specifically kill them.
I just told them to take massive
risks with their life and they
wound up dead, so not my fault.
I mean,
we're comparing actual numbers,
it's not remotely close.
But I like that comment, because
imagine if the Taliban, was killing
over 200 citizens in Florida every
single day, and the governor
wouldn't do anything about it.
And the governor was like, no,
I'm not even going to let
the schools ban the Taliban.
He's like, what are you doing?
They're killing children,
12 people every single day.
He's like, I don't care,
I don't care,
I think it's no big deal, right?
But when Coronavirus does it,
he pretty much encourages it.
So now that numbers have moved
in Florida.
Democrats are always against him in
Florida, the independence
had turned against him,
because of how incompetent he's
handled this lately.
But now even the Republicans,
have said it's too much.
52% of Republicans are saying, he's
handling this poorly in Florida.
Now, why is it getting all the way
to the Republicans?
Remember, the right wing,
they don't care about anybody that
is outside of them and
their community.
Unless it affects them,
they don't care.
But now, there's so
many of them dying,
that it's affecting them.
So even the Republicans are saying,
this looks really bad, maybe this
guy is not such a genius, like
everyone on Fox News is telling me.
So let me give you
the numbers real quick.
>> He implemented a ban on
mask mandates in public schools.
And threatened school districts
with cutting their funding if
they implement a mask mandate.
The Biden administration had to
step in to tell the districts
implement the mask mandates.
Don't worry,
we'll make up the difference if
your funding gets cut by the state.
That's the kind of
Governor Ron DeSantis is,
it's disgusting, >> Which goes to
some of these numbers.
61% of Floridians believe the rise
of cases was preventable in
Florida.
And so obviously,
Desantis did not prevent it.
63% believe the mask are effective.
By the way,
that number should be so
much higher.
Still 37% of Floridians go mask,
what are they?
What do I need them for?
We're about to pass Louisiana,
Mississippi in the most
amount of deaths.
What do I need that mass for?
But yes, 63% say duh, of course,
you need the mask.
And 60% of Florida residents
support requiring faculty and
students to wear
a masks while in school.
So the state has turned and
now a significant majority say that
DeSantis is very wrong to say that
they should not have those mass
mandates in the schools.
>> And remember in that interview
to DeSantis is like, but Biden said
we'd be finished with COVID by now,
what happened?
Well, it's because of morons like
you, we could be out of this awful
situation.
But with all these
red states refusing to encourage
their residents to get vaccinated.
I mean, in Vermont 68% of people in
Vermont are fully vaccinated.
In Florida, it's 52%.
In Alabama, which has the lowest
vaccination rate,
37% fully vaccinated.
>> Look, there's a cure, well,
there's a way to
prevent Coronavirus.
And then unfortunately for
some folks,
there is no cure at all, but
there's ways to treat it.
But even more unfortunately,
there's no way to treat dumb.
And so, all these guys think, no,
I don't care that Uncle Bob died.
I rather still listen to
Tucker Carlson, and all the right
wing knuckleheads in the media
telling me that if I'm a tough guy,
I'll take horse dewormer,
instead of taking what every doctor
in the world says I should take.
Well, enjoy your toughness all
the way to the grave, unfortunately