Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

There is no 6-year-old explanation. Florida got slaughtered by this virus, especially if you look at the times that waves of infection hit the state. Its death rates have been particularly high, perhaps due at least in part to the demographics of the state relative to most other states.

But you can make all kinds of simplistic comparisons to try to make false conclusions if you want to do endless bullshit about this virus. Florida is not New York, and New York is not Florida. There are different densities of population, different demographics, the virus came through each of the states in waves at different times, the weather (and therefore when people are gathering indoors) in each state is different.

Rather than playing this stupid game, people should stick to what they know with certainty, because of the evidence we have. 1) Wearing masks around other people prevents transmission. 2) Avoiding large gatherings of people prevents transmission. 3) Vaccination does a really good job of preventing deaths.

All of those things require a critical mass of people to buy in to have an effect, and people need to behave in certain ways to have the effect. Florida, speaking in general, hasn't done very well in any of those things. It also has an asshole for a governor who has made things worse with bullshit, misinformation and generally slimy behavior with regard to how he has handled the public health crisis.

Rather than making what may be unmeaningful comparisons to other places, what people should be wondering is what the true toll the virus took in that state was (because De Santis has done all kinds of dishonest things to try to obscure reality), how many people would have avoided costly and near fatal health nightmares if they hadn't been idiots about about things, and how many people in that state who are dead would still be alive?