Florida Is Open, New York Is Closed: The Weaponization Of Covid
By: Christopher Bedford
Covid is a serious problem. It has been made much worse a problem by our own bi coastal ivory tower elites. They have weaponized the virus and used it as a political weapon against their opponents where they have power to to goose step and Jack boot 🥾 those under their control who presume to dare to resist. The author ✍️ of the seeded article gets this exactly % correct.
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Florida Is Open, New York Is Closed: The Weaponization Of Covid
Thus far in Florida, approximately 20,000 people have died of COVID-19. In Texas, the number stands around 24,000, and in New York, about 35,000.
New York is the smallest of the three, with 19.54 million residents. Then comes Florida, with 21.67 million, before Texas, with 28.7 million residents.
COVID numbers are difficult to trust. Cases are often counted more than once as patients go in and out of the hospital, and some deaths are attributed to COVID that are barely related, if at all.
There’s a perverse incentive to write down “COVID” and get state and federal money, no doubt, but one thing rings clear through all the din: Despite larger populations, currently freer peoples, and a media narrative that screams otherwise, there are far, far fewer deaths in Texas and in Florida than in New York.
For months, American media consumers have been treated to news of Florida and Texas’s incoming death spirals. For months after, we were promised those death spirals were just around the bend. The funny thing with COVID, though, is unlike global warming doom science — always 3-12 years away and “too complex” to explain when it inevitably doesn’t happen — COVID doom predictions are checkable in just a few weeks. And COVID doom didn’t happen.
Along Florida’s Gulf Coast, the streets are packed on weekends. In Naples, Florida just one week ago, lights hung majestically from lamp posts, a live Nativity stood in the road, Santa let children sit on his lap, and live bands performed every few blocks. Indoors, the bars were busy, and just after midnight the last pub’s band wound down for the night.
Young parents and some of the elderly wore masks (some old, masked couples dancing adorably to the music), but most people didn’t, and the next morning the beaches and pools were once again bustling. It was the first glimpse of the old normal — truly normal — I’d seen since March. It was wonderful.
Florida’s freedom isn’t some new and dangerous experiment, by the way — the Sunshine State has been open for nearly three months. Yet in New York this past weekend, Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered indoor dining shut down again.
Since COVID began in earnest in late March, I’ve had the opportunity to travel to 23 states and see all kinds of behaviors and impacts. I’ve been to Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Indiana. I’ve traveled to California, Louisiana, Minnesota, and South Dakota. I’ve visited Michigan, Kentucky, Nebraska and Wisconsin. I’ve slept in Missouri, Wyoming, Maryland, and Florida. I’ve taken a look at Virginia, Illinois, Nevada, and Ohio, and I’ve swung through Idaho, Utah, and Kansas.
Most of the people I’ve spoken to have shared a general impression that the whole country was acting the same as they were, and subject to the same rules. The funny thing is in reality, I didn’t even have to travel from Washington, D.C. to Hillsdale, Michigan to remember what sitting at a bar felt like, when just a four-mile walk from my house to Maryland would have scratched that itch.
Just now, blocks away on Capitol Hill’s Lincoln Park, children as young as two are wearing masks while they walk with their parents. Meanwhile across the river in northern Virginia, few if any parents make their young children do the same.
Virginia’s Democrat governor, however, is not in the national media’s cross-hairs for this local break with New York’s COVID culture. Nor is Maryland’s anti-Trump Republican governor. Nor was New Orleans’s mayor, whose French Quarter raged until dawn the October Friday she surprised bar owners with a sudden end to the lockdown.
Why? Because as with global warming science, COVID science has become a political weapon for the left. While their allies escape judgment no matter their sins, political opponents from President Donald Trump to Dr. Scott Atlas, and governors from Florida’s Ron DeSantis to Texas’s Gov. Greg Abbott to South Dakota’s Kristi Noem, are the targets of vicious media attacks on themselves, their states, and their families . Just Friday, a New York Times psychiatrist demanded that doctors who question masks efficacy lose their licenses.
In America today, left-wing politicians obsessed with control are crushing the lives and dreams of their citizens while in the same country just across state lines, young and old celebrate Christmas like we used to without any notable difference in risk and impact. How long can this continue before we all figure it out?
Early in the pandemic, some reports indicated that COVID-19 might have been an intentional weapon against us. Since then, we’ve learned this is very unlikely, although this hasn’t stopped it from being used as a weapon against us: Not by the Chinese, but by our own elites.
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What an ignorant article, so you don't think that Florida COVID cases and deaths are rising then reality is out of reach for you and the author of this article.
When DeSantis took his victory tour earlier this year a few months later the cases and deaths skyrocketed. Now that he has told the mayors they could not have mask mandates which a number of mayors are fighting this ignorant edict.
The cases in Florida were down to 2/3,000 range per day, now they are back up over 10,000 per day the deaths are rising.
Yesterday we had 11,541 new COVID cases and 125 deaths. The positivity rate was 11.98%. We have 5,110 people hospitalized with COVID.
Since this pandemic started Florida has had 1,250,676 confirmed COVID cases and 20,490 deaths.
I will repeat, this article is BS and the ridiculous comment and cartoon belong in the trash.
In case you were too busy posting shit articles the US had close to 200,000 new COVID cases yesterday and over 3,000 deaths.
You'd think an enemy or America wrote this article!
Why else try to dangerously misinform a citizenry?
No wonder it's posted under "Wuhan virus"
There are conservative and there are delusional nut cases that believe that Trump won the election. Don't insult true conservatives with the BS you post.
You cite a lot of numbers. Got links to back them up
I don't cite numbers I cite facts. They are all available to the public on the net. John Hopkins, Worldmeter, and our Florida dashboard.
Pure BS.
NY is a major Port of Entry and its first cases were brought in from air traffic from Europe.
Texas was sheltered for months.
Florida would not let cruise ships disembark for months or count those sick or passed in FL statistics.
Spin the BS, spin, spin, spin.
What are the author's scientific credentials?
oh that's right, he has none. He's the chairman of the board of the YAF which he started in his mothers basement.
Anyone who writes a glowing book about the Donald is suspect.
His unscientific conclusions are his biASSed opinions, nothing more.
And Florida isn't a major point of entry from Europe? Good one..
Texas was sheltered for months.
It reported its first case three days after New York
The author ✍️ of the seeded article gets this exactly % correct.
Yes, exactly 0% correct. You got that bit right.
More than 1,400 people are dying EVERY DAY, [deleted]!!!!!
The media coverage of covid has been terrible, focusing on perceived partisan advantage rather than reality. Georgia and Florida were accused of Engaging in human sacrifice while media members gushed they were “cuomosexuals”.
Meanwhile, New York has seen almost double the number of citizens die in a per capita basis as those states. Once the narrative of protecting Democrats and blaming republicans, all the dead bodies in the world didn’t have a chance of puncturing that narrative.
Still waiting for the Thanksgiving "surge".
Today we had 247,000 new COVID cases and 3,486 deaths (worldmeter) do you think that's a surge or do you want to wait till we hit 300,000 new cases per day and 4,000 deaths?
Some are still making excuses for avoiding smart phones.
Just proves you can't learn shit from a flip phone.
Brilliant analysts, what is the source of information on this?
So are you saying that it's going to get even worse when Thanksgiving catches up with us?
So you have no source for this it's just blowing more BS, how sad that you have nothing to back up the crap your spewing.
This is nonsense. See my post 7 below.
I really think there are too many variables and too little data to allow anyone to simply look at case or death numbers and reach meaningful conclusions about specific communities or states.
Maybe for you.
This seed is a typical right-wing obfuscation. NY was massively infected by European travelers while Trump was knowingly lying about the contagiousness, mortality and infection level of the coronavirus. Trump’s lies were exposed by NY hospitals being overrun. NY & NJ had to discover that intubation is not always the best route, they did not know about Remdesivir’s ability to get people out of hospitals days earlier freeing up beds, nor did they know about cytokine storms and their easy treatment. Florida had no such infection.
For an apples to apples comparison, let’s look at 6/1/2020 forward for both states. NY had gotten its infection under control and down to a low level similar to Florida’s by that time. The death totals from 6/1 to now per 100,000 population are NY 22 and FL 84. Florida’s approach not so great when you remove the obfuscation.