New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is mired in scandal.
That didn’t stop the so-called “mainstream” media from slobbering all over him for a year.
And the media is finally beginning to admit they were dead wrong about one Republican Governor.
While New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was showered with praise and even an Emmy for his COVID-19 briefings, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was smeared as a grandma killer – while Cuomo was actually busy killing grandmas with his disastrous nursing home order.
However, it’s difficult to argue with results, and even the corporate-controlled press is beginning to reverse course on how they view DeSantis’s handling of the coronavirus.
Axios wrote, “After a solid year of living with a pandemic, the national press is beginning to ask the question that even Democrats have been quietly pondering in the Sunshine State: Was Gov. Ron DeSantis’ pandemic response right for Florida?”
The unequivocal answer is yes.
Despite having the second most aged population in the country (only behind Maine), Florida’s case fatality rate was comparable with California, which has the youngest population in the country.
California instituted some of the strictest lockdowns in the country while Florida largely remained open.
The New York Times begrudgingly admitted of Florida that “Much of the state has a boomtown feel . . . a sense of making up for months of lost time.”
Florida’s unemployment rate is 5.1%, compared to 9.3% in California and 8.7% in New York.
And New York had the second worst mortality rate in the country (only behind New Jersey), and one of the worst mortality rates in the world.
Left-leaning POLITICO admitted, “With a COVID death count cover-up consuming New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and a pandemic-related recall effort haunting California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Republicans are embracing DeSantis as a red-state exemplar.”
DeSantis defied the establishment approach of locking down firmly and indefinitely.
Florida schools also remained open, allowing students not to lose an entire year of development.
Meanwhile, California is being bulldozed by the Stalinist teachers unions, and the kids are being made to suffer.
If Donald Trump doesn’t run again in 2024, DeSantis is building a strong Presidential résumé.
The corporate-controlled press has smeared him for months, perhaps trying to cut him off at the pass.
But the jury is in and DeSantis’s handling of COVID crushes so many of the Left’s narratives.
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