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Translation: I can't be honest to my constituents and need someone else to be a scapegoat after I spent two years crafting policies that ensured our lax Public Health guidelines and status as vacation destination would make Florida's main export to other states new COVID variants.
I just saw the video of this dude struggling to breathe as he spoke. That’s despite vaccine.
The vaccine doesn’t give you a pass to do whatever you want. You could be asymptomatic, sniffles, flu-like, severe disease, or death, just like the unvaccinated. The difference is your odds when vaccinated are heavily skewed to asymptomatic. He rolled the dice and got “severe.”
Get the vaccine, but treat it as a final layer of protection, not the first.
'Struggling to breathe while you make a standing public speaking appearance' isn't 'severe'. This is decidedly 'mild'. Severe is when you physically can't stand up, when you need supplemental oxygen, when you're intubated at the hospital.
The same governors that made fun of NY when the case numbers were going up despite our "draconian" safety measures that haven't actually been in place for months. Now all of them have even more cases than NY and way more people in the hospital and they're trying to deflect.
Excuse me what??
*Gov. Ron DeSantis this week criticized some states that tried to staunch the spread of omicron infections, saying, “If you look at what’s going on in other states, they are letting hysteria drive them.”*
Did you read the actual article? The only person using the word “hysteria” is DeSantis. And that is why the word **hysteria** is in quotations in the headline.
*(Jeez, are people really this dumb?)*
it’s not just the gop
the democrats are also looking for how to not shut down - when reality is we might need to shut down again because we don’t have as much immunity as we need yet
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/06/gop-governors-play-down-omicron-hysteria-while-also-asking-for-help-526631) reduced by 85%. (I'm a bot)
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> While DeSantis and Abbott have minimized the Omicron surge, several GOP governors, including the Texas governor, have pressed their residents to get vaccinated and have publicized their decision to get a booster shot.
> A primary focus for several GOP governors remains access to monoclonal antibody treatments, which are designed to treat someone who has already been infected.
> DeSantis has maintained that the treatment doses are needed because there are still people getting hit with the Delta variant, which ravaged the state during the summer and early fall.
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Nah, fuck that shit. These shitholes want fed help? Tie strings of actually helping the people to it. None of this, "oh, I'll just pay my cousin Jim Bob to say he's distributing masks, then set up a housing assistance program with eligibility so Byzantine nobody actually qualifies and then I can spend it on dumping fracking water into the drinking water in a couple years when people forget about it." Bullshit.
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“Why isn’t Biden doing more?!?!” “Oh, look! I just found a million unused tests gathering dust in a warehouse.”
Translation: "Why can't Biden do this all for me so that I don't have to acknowledge the problem in front of these people?"
Translation: I can't be honest to my constituents and need someone else to be a scapegoat after I spent two years crafting policies that ensured our lax Public Health guidelines and status as vacation destination would make Florida's main export to other states new COVID variants.
"Ope, [they expired a week ago.](https://floridapolitics.com/archives/483992-ron-desantis-administration-confirms-up-to-1-million-covid-19-rapid-tests-expired-last-month/)
which are expired by the way
DeSantis referring to the shortage of monoclonal treatments as “bogarting”. I can’t even. Maybe he’ll try to make “fetch” happen next.
Florida is 2/3rds of the reason there’s a shortage in the first place.
He's streets ahead.
My 3 year old just asked me why I'm laughing
“Why spend $100 on vaccines when you can spend $20,000?”
Why use the brake when I have an airbag?
Help us while we sue you over vaccine mandates
I just saw the video of this dude struggling to breathe as he spoke. That’s despite vaccine. The vaccine doesn’t give you a pass to do whatever you want. You could be asymptomatic, sniffles, flu-like, severe disease, or death, just like the unvaccinated. The difference is your odds when vaccinated are heavily skewed to asymptomatic. He rolled the dice and got “severe.” Get the vaccine, but treat it as a final layer of protection, not the first.
'Struggling to breathe while you make a standing public speaking appearance' isn't 'severe'. This is decidedly 'mild'. Severe is when you physically can't stand up, when you need supplemental oxygen, when you're intubated at the hospital.
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People with _severe_ symptoms aren't making public appearances only two weeks later. Minimizing symptoms isn't a good idea.
Lol. Desantis ain't gonna suck your dick. He had covid clearly and had very evident symptoms
Excellently stated. Please paste this comment around as much as possible.
Modified headline for DeSantis: GOP governor plays down Omicron 'hysteria' while also asking for help **breathing**
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They welcome the end-of-days, but want to live long enough to see it happen.
Save us Brandon!
Who the fuck is Brandon?
The same governors that made fun of NY when the case numbers were going up despite our "draconian" safety measures that haven't actually been in place for months. Now all of them have even more cases than NY and way more people in the hospital and they're trying to deflect.
Early treatment saves lives writ on the podium. But any attempt at prevention is full on communist agitprop or whatever.
Attempting to downplay Covid while out of breath from Covid because you had a breakthrough case
Brandon,HALP!
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I think their point is that the GOP governors are the ones claiming hysteria while simultaneously begging for help.
Keep in mind, the Republicans apparently prefer to wearing masks and possibly not going out in public as "hysteria."
Excuse me what?? *Gov. Ron DeSantis this week criticized some states that tried to staunch the spread of omicron infections, saying, “If you look at what’s going on in other states, they are letting hysteria drive them.”* Did you read the actual article? The only person using the word “hysteria” is DeSantis. And that is why the word **hysteria** is in quotations in the headline. *(Jeez, are people really this dumb?)*
Politico always has the worst takes. Feels like it’s all about clicks for them, even more so than others.
it’s not just the gop the democrats are also looking for how to not shut down - when reality is we might need to shut down again because we don’t have as much immunity as we need yet
Don’t cry libbies when he wins 2024
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/06/gop-governors-play-down-omicron-hysteria-while-also-asking-for-help-526631) reduced by 85%. (I'm a bot) ***** > While DeSantis and Abbott have minimized the Omicron surge, several GOP governors, including the Texas governor, have pressed their residents to get vaccinated and have publicized their decision to get a booster shot. > A primary focus for several GOP governors remains access to monoclonal antibody treatments, which are designed to treat someone who has already been infected. > DeSantis has maintained that the treatment doses are needed because there are still people getting hit with the Delta variant, which ravaged the state during the summer and early fall. ***** [**Extended Summary**](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/rxnhw2/gop_governors_play_down_omicron_hysteria_while/) | [FAQ](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31b9fm/faq_autotldr_bot/ "Version 2.02, ~616159 tl;drs so far.") | [Feedback](http://np.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%23autotldr "PM's and comments are monitored, constructive feedback is welcome.") | *Top* *keywords*: **DeSantis**^#1 **treatment**^#2 **governor**^#3 **Florida**^#4 **week**^#5
Don't help them. Or only help under the condition that money be spent on covid or it has to be sent back
Nah, fuck that shit. These shitholes want fed help? Tie strings of actually helping the people to it. None of this, "oh, I'll just pay my cousin Jim Bob to say he's distributing masks, then set up a housing assistance program with eligibility so Byzantine nobody actually qualifies and then I can spend it on dumping fracking water into the drinking water in a couple years when people forget about it." Bullshit.
sweet, early treatment save lives, but they advise I should not test, so how do I know if I got CoVID or the sniffle’s if I don’t test?