ON RON DESANTIS, OPEN BEACHES, COVID!9, MORTALITY CURVES

Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida (R FL) continues to make weak and  irresponsible excuses for NOT closing the Florida beaches. These ciastal strips of sun drenched sand are venues where our nation’s youths fully bare their skin and drink themselves into oblivion.  These places  continue to act as the “Siren’s Call” for  irresponsible Americans—the “Spring Breakers” and the politicians who facilitate their dangerous behavior.  These youngsters with more testosterone (or progesterone) and alcohol in their blood than is good for them might be partly excused—they simply are not that smart or don’t know any better.  But adult politicians should.  

These youngsters are the perfect example of how we as a wealthy, permissive  nation have all fallen into self destructive and often dangerous practices that ignore the dictates and imperatives of biology and evolution.  These young people envision themselves as invulnerable to the laws of nature.  Their behavior once only affected themselves -in surges odf STDs and evolution of drug resistant bugs which can not be cured.   Misinformed “students” ignore safe health practices and the surge in STDs and other diseases prove it. In the past our advanced medical technology provided cures for STDs and similar diseases, but that was then. Today there is no cure for the Wuhan corona virus.  

Spring Break is the perfect example of what NOT to do during a pandemic and national crisis.  So In the age of Chinese pandemics the free-for-all  in Florida and elsewhere are no longer safe or permissible   Perhaps we can understand the poor behavior of these less than fully mature youths —and the mental lapse of their parents who pay for this dangerous stupidity, but what about those elected officials who act to facilitate such behaviors?. 

Let’s take the example of Republican Governor Ron De Santis.  DeSantis has refused to close down the Florida beaches bars and restaurants where these irresponsible youngsters congregate, drink excessively and pass body fluids between multiple partners many of which are surely laced with the Covid19 virus as well as your common STDs, fungi, bacteria and flu viruses.   When these still-financially dependent “students” return home to their families—they will surely carry with them this opportunistic Covid 19 pathogen  to infect their unsuspecting local friends, siblings, parents and grandparents—all across this nation.  

DeSantis as the new governor (seated 2019) is obviously putting the financial well-being and profits of the Florida beach, bar and hotel establishments- ahead of the lives and physical well being of the nation as a whole.  At a time when the rest of the nation’s businesses are shuttered and facing debt and despair, DeSantis has permitted Florida establishments to stay open and profit from the misbehavior of many.  But this act is not just self serving.  By permitting these places to operate he also places the rest of the nation in danger by creating young “Typhoid Marys” of these students as they become unknowing vectors of this deadly disease all across the nation.  

 In January of this year  the  President, learning about the Covid 19 outbreak in China closed our borders to the Chinese.  He did so in the face of stiff political opposition and opprobrium from the media, from business interests  as well as the “politically correct” crowd.  He was called a “racist” and worse for acting to protect us from the menace of Chinese carrying the virus to this nation.  Ron DeSantis’ behavior in this crisis is a stark comparison with that of the President. .  DeSantis is still stuck in the old pre-pandemic way of thinking; “what’s best for me?”, which is on a par with the youthful spring breakers whose behaviors he is facilitating.

So when the infection and mortality curve that our illustrious Dr Fauci keeps warning us about,  rises into a steep exponential climb after these spring breakers go home and infect others,  in good part we can thank Gov DeSantis of Florida for keeping the beaches open.  

(The Italians who have a large number of Chinese nationals working in the textile industry in northern Italy (Milan).  To accommodate these individuals they had daily direct flights from Wuhan City to Italy. After the outbreak was reported the Italian government blithely (or cowardly) failed to close down those flights and the human sources of infection from China.  They suffered for that act of hesitation, serving the interests of powerful industries, self-serving, political correctness (and stupidity) .  Italy ( a nation of only 60 million) now has a death rate higher than that of China (1.4 billion population) where the virus originated.  So it is clear that in times of crisis being politically correct can have deadly consequences. )