My prayers are unlikely to affect his wife’s breast cancer one way or another, but millions of lives depend on what kind of leadership people like DeSantis provide during this pandemic.
We need what he can provide a hell of a lot more than he needs what we can provide, and he isn’t giving it.
Always have been so myself, but I have discovered that empathy fatigue is real, and that empathy is not an infinite resource. I will give mine where it can do some good.
That doesn’t make it better, it makes it worse. It proves he’s willing to disregard the health and welfare of the average FL citizen for a few poll points. If he spent a few months in a Covid Coma he’d still owe some Karma points.
“We had between 800,000 and a million test kits, Abbott rapid test kits, in our warehouse that did expire. We tried to get them out prior to that, but there was not a demand for (it). We received a three-month extension on those test kits, which ended up expiring between Dec. 26-Dec. 30,” Guthrie said. “Prior to that date, we did ask Abbott and the federal government for another three-month extension on those so that we can use those tests. We are still waiting to hear about that from HHS.”
Yes, I wasn’t aware of his wife’s health issues. Either scenario makes me somehow respect him less–if he’s privately doing more to protect his health and that of his wife than he publicly expresses it is awful because he is knowingly encouraging behavior that is putting lives at risk. If he’s as irresponsible as he seems, he is directly endangering the life of the person he should be doing everything in his power to protect.
I can tell you that finding those tests in IL and IN were already a huge problem by then because of demand, so I find it hard to believe that TX wasn’t also experiencing high demand in December during the holiday season.
In other words, they didn’t even try to help, despite having the tests ready to go.