" For $12, you can buy a red beverage cooler imprinted with the words: "How the hell am I going to be able to drink a beer with a mask on?"

Those with deeper pockets can be the proud owner of a $21 T-shirt stamped with the map of Florida and the logo "Love My Gov" and "Keep Florida Free".

But perhaps the merchandise with the best sales potential are the drink koozies and T-shirts that say "Don't Fauci My Florida".

As Covid cases rise in Florida, Governor DeSantis digs at Fauci with merchandise


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/14/florida-ron-desantis-digs-fauci-merchandise-covid?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Mods, please move this thread to the Women's Basketball board.

Dude fauci sucks

Almost 3,000 Floridians are being hospitalised each day, according to the New York Times, the highest number in the nation and the fourth-highest per capita. New cases increased by 429% over the past 14 days, a dramatic surge only superseded by that in Tennessee.


Couldn't happen to a nicer state

MiZery said:

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Almost 3,000 Floridians are being hospitalised each day, according to the New York Times, the highest number in the nation and the fourth-highest per capita. New cases increased by 429% over the past 14 days, a dramatic surge only superseded by that in Tennessee.


Couldn't happen to a nicer state

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Tennesse lawmakers: hold my beer.

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The Tennessee Department of Health will halt all adolescent vaccine outreach not just for coronavirus, but all diseases amid pressure from Republican state lawmakers, according to an internal report and agency emails obtained by the Tennessean. If the health department must issue any information about vaccines, staff are instructed to strip the agency logo off the documents.

The health department will also stop all COVID-19 vaccine events on school property, despite holding at least one such event this month. The decisions to end vaccine outreach and school events come directly from Health Commissioner Dr. Lisa Piercey, the internal report states.

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MiZery said:

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Almost 3,000 Floridians are being hospitalised each day, according to the New York Times, the highest number in the nation and the fourth-highest per capita. New cases increased by 429% over the past 14 days, a dramatic surge only superseded by that in Tennessee.


Couldn't happen to a nicer state

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Ah yes, The NY Times. A bastion of truth. Kinda like CNN

bearister said:

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" For $12, you can buy a red beverage cooler imprinted with the words: "How the hell am I going to be able to drink a beer with a mask on?"

Those with deeper pockets can be the proud owner of a $21 T-shirt stamped with the map of Florida and the logo "Love My Gov" and "Keep Florida Free".

But perhaps the merchandise with the best sales potential are the drink koozies and T-shirts that say "Don't Fauci My Florida".

As Covid cases rise in Florida, Governor DeSantis digs at Fauci with merchandise


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/14/florida-ron-desantis-digs-fauci-merchandise-covid?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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Please move this to OT

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MiZery said:

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Almost 3,000 Floridians are being hospitalised each day, according to the New York Times, the highest number in the nation and the fourth-highest per capita. New cases increased by 429% over the past 14 days, a dramatic surge only superseded by that in Tennessee.


Couldn't happen to a nicer state

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Libs still buy into media fear porn-in this case covid

Libs are having a blast. They get to choose between covid fear porn, insurrection fear porn, and election integrity fear porn.

bonsallbear said:

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Ah yes, The NY Times. A bastion of truth. Kinda like CNN

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Please share your bastion of truth with us so that we can switch over.

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Libs are having a blast. They get to choose between covid fear porn, insurrection fear porn, and election integrity fear porn.

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They need something to get butt hurt about now that Trump is gone.

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BearForce2 said:

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Libs are having a blast. They get to choose between covid fear porn, insurrection fear porn, and election integrity fear porn.

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They need something to get butt hurt about now that Trump is gone.

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Exactly how is he gone? Most people in your party still kneel before him.

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Libs are having a blast. They get to choose between covid fear porn, insurrection fear porn, and election integrity fear porn.

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Right, we should do as you do and whine about an election that occurred over half a year ago, an obscure college course, and a few arcane, discontinued Dr Suess books. You know, the really pressing stuff.

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If only the careless science deniers were the only ones to suffer the consequences.

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LA County ignoring -- directly contravening -- the guidance of the CDC. Remember when it used to be bad, primitive and a reckless disregard of The Science to do that? https://t.co/HBNPh8qVjF

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 15, 2021

There's good science, bad science, and political science.

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chazzed said:

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If only the careless science deniers were the only ones to suffer the consequences.

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LA County ignoring -- directly contravening -- the guidance of the CDC. Remember when it used to be bad, primitive and a reckless disregard of The Science to do that? https://t.co/HBNPh8qVjF

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 15, 2021

There's good science, bad science, and political science.

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But but but....SCIENCE!

Where are the science believers now?

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But but but....SCIENCE!

Where are the science believers now?

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The problem isn't the science believers, it's the COVID deniers who take advantage by pretending they are vaccinated while spreading the virus.

If you really were a science PhD you would know that imposing public health measures in excess of the minimum stated standard is not contra-science, it's called caution. LA County's reasons for doing so seem appropriate. And, of course, had there been fewer anti-science anti-vaxxers, they wouldn't be in this situation in the first place.

To wit:

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In Los Angeles, Davis said the rate of virus spread in the county has officially risen from moderate to substantial, with infections five times more likely to occur among unvaccinated residents.

As a result, Davis said a revised county Health Officer Order will take effect at 11:59 p.m. Saturday, requiring all residents to wear masks in indoor public settings, regardless of vaccination status. The county previously only recommended such mask-wearing in an effort to slow the spread of the virus and protect unvaccinated residents.

There are still nearly 4 million county residents who are unvaccinated.

Davis said that given the rising spread of the virus, ``waiting to do something would be too late.''

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The number of people hospitalized in Los Angeles County due to the virus jumped to 452 on Thursday, according to state figures, up from 406 on Wednesday, with 96 people in intensive care. The number of people hospitalized has been climbing steadily for the past three weeks, and is now double the number reported when COVID health restrictions were lifted statewide on June 15.

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The increase in infections and hospitalizations is widely blamed on the highly infectious ``Delta'' variant of the virus. The variant was first detected in India, where widespread infections were reported. The variant is also credited for significant outbreaks in the United Kingdom and other parts of the world.

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No one who understands science would consider LA's approach to be "anti-science". It's prudent given that there is no better way to prevent unvaccinated from infecting each other (and a smaller number of vaccinated people).

hanky1 said:

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For the record, this is the spike in Los Angeles coronavirus cases that led to them reinstating the indoor mask mandate pic.twitter.com/Z0BvMvUh9u

— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) July 15, 2021

This is not about science

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Only 31 hours until it's unsafe to go mask-less for vaccinated and unvaccinated people in communist L.A.

You're good right now.

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) July 16, 2021

You're safe without a mask until Saturday if you live in L.A. then you better wear one or you'll die.

hanky1 said:

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For the record, this is the spike in Los Angeles coronavirus cases that led to them reinstating the indoor mask mandate pic.twitter.com/Z0BvMvUh9u

— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) July 15, 2021

This is not about science

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If you were a real scientist you would know what was wrong with that post.

Here's a quick shot at why you can't just look at a chart the way hanky did and say whether something "is not about science".

I have been thinking about how different people interpret data differently. And made this xkcd style graphic to illustrate this. pic.twitter.com/a8LvlmZxT7

— Jens von Bergmann (@vb_jens) March 17, 2021

And, unfortunately, this is what's going on in SF right now. The risk to unvaccinated people is real (and possibly vaccinated depending on how things go):

If you're wondering how bad Delta really is, even in highly vaccinated SF (76% of >age 12 fully vaxxed) & still w/ a lot of masking (most folks in stores), we're seeing a pretty steep Covid uptick. Daily cases up 4-fold (10->42; Fig L), hospital pts doubled (9->19; R)(Thread 1/4) pic.twitter.com/6JC2UlA0Sf

— Bob Wachter (@Bob_Wachter) July 15, 2021

The SF # s are still fairly low, & are cause for caution, not panic. But this kind of uptick in SF (U.S.'s vaccination leader) shows that Delta is very real – the places w/ much lower vax rates may well get clobbered. Alas, doesn't seem like there are many persuadables left.(4/4)

— Bob Wachter (@Bob_Wachter) July 15, 2021

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White House: Florida accounts for 20 percent of all new COVID-19 infections | TheHill


https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/563402-white-house-florida-accounts-for-20-percent-of-all-new-covid-infections

" Gov. Ron DeSantis's (R) campaign team this week began selling "Don't Fauci My Florida" merchandise, the latest in a string of conservative attacks on the nation's top infectious diseases doctor, Anthony Fauci.

DeSantis has proudly bucked the advice of federal health officials schools remained open, and statewide public health mitigation measures were minimal."

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Some Republican politicians are slowly beginning to acknowledge publicly that vaccination is a good thing and can stop the spread of Covid. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey is blaming the current spike on the unvaccinated. Mitch McConnell and Adam Kinzinger (R-Illinois) and Steve Scalise are encouraging people to get vaccinated.

Kinzinger even goes as far as admitting that the current surge in Covid infections and deaths is affecting "our own base".

Unfortunately because they now fear a voter backlash for now changing their tune on vaccine safety fears, many of these new supporters of vaccination still are reluctant to come right out and refute the vaccine safety fears that they previously spouted. And even Governor Ivey can't bring herself to support imposing mask mandates. That is a "bridge too far".
And none of these new converts can bring themselves to say anything positive about Dr. Fauci.