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Ron light, green light

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You may have already seen the triumphant tweet from Karol Markowicz, who’s shilling her article in the New York Post as well as Governor Ron DeSantis’ news release about Florida now having the lowest COVID-19 case rate.

She vaingloriously announces that it was achieved in this fashion:

“without vaccine mandates, without mask mandates in school & with no restrictions on businesses. Life simply went on.”

What Markowicz failed to mention is life did not go on for 60,000 Floridians. Author Chuck Wendig nailed it on the head with this response:

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“This orphanage, which already burned down, has the lowest case presently of burning orphans in the country. They did it without any anti-fire measures and no restrictions on flammable orphans. Life simply went on. After the fire already engulfed the orphanage and burned out.”

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Florida

Just another Monday in Florida

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Happy Monday, everybody!

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Florida The Current Situation

DipShantis logic

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Florida

Florida license plate of the day

Florida license plate on a white jeep: “W8N 2DIE”
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This person is truly embracing Florida’s “God’s waiting room” stereotype.

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Florida The Current Situation

And now, a few messages from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

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Communist" Ron DeSantis: ShitLiberalsSay
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I got my “JohnnyCare” Instant Care Kit!

I’m one of the 5,000 lucky Floridians who was able to sign up for JohnnyCare, the fake health care sharing ministry created by John Oliver and the people at Last Week Tonight for this recent episode:

Health care sharing ministries are a uniquely American kind of organization where members — who share common religious or ethical beliefs — contribute to a pool of money that covers their health care costs. It sounds good in theory, but as the video above and this New York Times article show, it’s a little different in practice.

Unsurprisingly, the standards for setting up a health care sharing ministry in Florida aren’t terribly high. This is why John Oliver and Last Week Tonight were able to set use Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption, the tax-exempt church that they were able to set up back in 2015, to set up a spin-off church, Our Lady of Perpetual Health, in Florida, which allowed them to create a health care sharing ministry, JohnnyCare, also in Florida.

For a mere US$1.99, I provided another member with the JohnnyCare Instant Care Kit, complete with “not one, not two, but three” band-aids. In return, another member paid the same amount to buy me this one:

It came with this packing slip:Only 5,000 JohnnyCare kits were made. As required by law, since JohnnyCare is a health care sharing ministry registered in Florida, only residents of Florida — of which I am one — were eligible to get one.

Hopefully, I won’t need those band-aids anytime soon. In the meantime, I think I’ll stick with what passes for healthcare here: Neo-feudalist employer-provided health insurance.

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Florida The Current Situation

Today in Florida’s COVID-19 story

5 hours ago:

From WPTV News, West Palm Beach, Florida:

“EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, Fla. — Florida is not shutting down and COVID-19 “hospital admissions have slowed,” Gov. Ron DeSantis emphatically declared on Tuesday, despite yet another day of record coronavirus hospitalizations in the Sunshine State.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said 11,515 people were hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida on Monday, including 2,400 in ICU beds.”

2 hours ago:

From The Hill:

On Tuesday, Florida hit 11,515 hospitalizations due to COVID-19, marking the third straight day that the state has broken its record. About 2,400 patients are now in intensive care. At the same time, there’s concern among experts that the Sunshine State is still weeks away from hitting its peak. The state now accounts for roughly 1 in 5 new cases nationally.

Still, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a rising Republican star who won accolades from conservatives last year for his laissez faire approach to the pandemic, has resisted calls for new mask mandates or lockdowns, arguing that such restrictions had worsened the public health and economic effects on other states.

DeSantis and the Republican-controlled state legislature have also sought to preempt county and local governments from imposing their own rules, drawing backlash from local officials.

“We’re not allowed to have mask mandates now,” Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber said in an interview on CNN this week. “We were one of the first cities to require it and we charged a fine just to get people to do it. The governor stopped allowing us to do it and then immediately we saw a surge across our county and state when he did that.”

1 hour ago:

From The Hill’s “Changing America” section:

Florida hospitals are being occupied by young patients amidst the delta variant that is wreaking havoc in Florida.

As Changing America previously reported, Florida is one of the fastest accelerating places infected by the delta variant.

While Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) continues to resist recommendations from health officials to mandate mask wearing and social distancing, youth in the Sunshine State are being struck with the virus, the Miami Herald reported.