DeSantis continues to drive the left insane
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MSNBC’s headline blared, “'Cover-up': Florida's MAGA governor in COVID scandal on death count data.” The network’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber accused DeSantis of “misleading the public” and “downplaying” the crisis. Meanwhile, the anti-Trump advocacy organization the Lincoln Project accused the governor of “orchestrating a cover-up — in an effort to hide how badly he has failed Florida.”
There’s just one problem with this grand narrative: It isn’t true.
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But if you keep reading, buried many paragraphs down in the story are a few key facts. First, the supposed “cover-up” simply involves changing from recording deaths as they are reported to recording deaths under the date they specifically occurred. Whether one form of reporting is better than the other is something for experts to squabble over. But neither constitutes a “cover-up,” and neither is inaccurate. Indeed, the article contains a quote from an expert defending the change.
“Deaths by date of death curve is the most accurate you can get,” University of South Florida epidemiologist Jason Salemi told the Miami Herald. “You know exactly when people died. You know how to construct the curve and exactly when we were experiencing surges in terms of deaths.”
And, perhaps most glaringly, both sets of data are still publicly available . That’s right: Anyone who wants to see deaths by reporting date can still do so.
That’s not much of a cover-up. Indeed, per the Wall Street Journal, the new reporting method Florida is using is also used by “New York City, Puerto Rico and states such as Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Texas.”
Journalists can’t claim to know what forms of public health data reporting are superior to others. So how can a GOP governor be accused of a “cover-up” for following the same procedures as New York City?
The honest truth is that the liberal media just hate DeSantis....
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The left is frightened by DeSantis's popularity despite of their attacks and I suspect his popularity has been growing because he keeps defying their narrative and is successful. I see this phony attack as another win for DeSantis and another blow to the credibility of the left-wing media.
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