February 24, 2022: Governor DeSantis is Trying to Kill You

2/24/22: The Washington State Patrol trooper who told Gov. Jay Inslee to “kiss my ass,” rather than be forced to get a vaccine, has shown Inslee up, once and for all.

 

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Suppose Governor Inslee ran Florida.

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Rather than get the shots, Robert LeMay took early retirement last October. Now he is taking an early trip to heaven. LeMay contracted COVID-19 and died this week.

 

He was fifty.

 

It would appear LeMay was also a believer in the QAnon myth of liberal elites running a Satanic human-trafficking pedophile ring – which has somehow never been proven. That, however, is supposition.

 

What is not supposition is that 10,669 residents of Washington have succumbed to the disease.

 

According to the Washington State Department of Health, on the day before Mr. LeMay died,

 

Unvaccinated 35-64 year-olds were

 

• 4 times more likely to get COVID-19 compared with fully vaccinated 35-64 year-olds.

 

• 7 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 compared with fully vaccinated 35-64 year-olds.

 

Unvaccinated 65+ year-olds were

 

• 5 times more likely to get COVID-19 compared with fully vaccinated 65+ year-olds.

 

• 9 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 compared with fully vaccinated 65+ year-olds.

 

• 7 times more likely to die of COVID-19 compared with fully vaccinated 65+ year-olds.

The first COVID death in the U.S.A. was in Washington State.

 

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DOWN IN FLORIDA, Governor Ron DeSantis is trying to carve out a special lane for himself, to run for president in 2024. Not only has he refused to say whether or not he has received a vaccination booster, he is backed up by a new Florida Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Ladapo.

 

Dr. Ladapo hates mask mandates. He hates vaccination campaigns unless they are voluntary. He won’t say whether or not he has been vaccinated. And, so, the anti-vaxxers love him – and keep dying in far greater numbers than necessary.

 

In fact, during a contentious two-hour confirmation hearing, the doctor adamantly refused to answer questions posed by Democrats. Had he had the shots? He refused to say, pleading the Fifth, I guess.

 

Meanwhile, nearly 69,000 Floridians have died from COVID-19. So there’s that. A quick check shows that Florida ranks #18, for worst per capita death rate from the disease, with 321 deaths per 100,000. That’s more than twice as many, per capita, as in the State of Washington (153 per 100,000) where Governor Inslee has been told he should be kissing unvaxxed posteriors.

 

Suppose Governor Inslee ran Florida. There are a few variables here that would have to be considered. Yet, a little math razzmatazz tells me (because I am not a numbskull, like DeSantis) that if DeSantis had followed Inslee’s lead, only 33,000 residents of his state would be dead of COVID as of today.

 

Or, to put it in a different way, DeSantis has, if not blood, at least germs on his hands, and he’s helped get an extra 36,000 constituents killed.

 

(For an extensive look at the kind of odds one faces, if unvaccinated, vs. those of us who took the shots, see 1/26/22.)