{"id":116296,"date":"2021-03-16T13:18:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=116296"},"modified":"2021-03-16T13:18:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:18:10","slug":"after-months-of-scathing-criticism-us-media-and-politicians-are-reconsidering-floridas-response-to-pandemic-by-jon-miltimore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=116296","title":{"rendered":"After Months of Scathing Criticism, US Media and Politicians are Reconsidering Florida\u2019s Response to Pandemic. ~ By Jon Miltimore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta, GA…In July, Adam Weinstein of\u00a0The New Republic<\/em>\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was leading Americans \u201con a Death March\u201d by not embracing the same COVID-19 restrictions as many other US states.<\/p>\n

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\u201cKeeping churches open\u2014as well as beaches, restaurants, and dividend-yielding commerce\u2014has been a big priority for Ron DeSantis,\u201d wrote Weinstein. \u201cDeSantis has resisted calls from medical experts and Florida residents to return to quarantine measures or shutdowns of nonessential businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Weinstein wrote that DeSantis, instead of listening to the experts, was simply encouraging residents to behave responsibly, which Weinstein called a \u201clibertarian-dreamer gambit.\u201d Such an approach, he wrote, made DeSantis an accomplice to murder and perhaps even genocide.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I write this, the virus has killed 44 times more Americans than died on 9\/11,\u201d Weinstein wrote. \u201cEventually, many of our political leaders will be seen for what they are in this: witting accomplices to homicide on a scale that Republicans might call genocide, if they watched it unfold in another country.\u201d<\/p>\n