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   From: js@phendrie.con   
      
   Alexander Nazaryan | National Correspondent   
   Thu, August 19, 2021, 2:00 AM   
      
   WASHINGTON — President Biden, plainspoken son of Scranton, and Florida Gov.   
   Ron   
   DeSantis, the endlessly ambitious, staunchly conservative Ivy Leaguer, were   
   probably never going to be the best of friends. A loyal adherent of Donald   
   Trump, DeSantis sided with the outgoing president’s baseless claims that last   
   year’s election was stolen. For the first several months of the new   
   administration, Biden and DeSantis kept their distance.   
      
   That changed with the arrival of the Delta variant, which has hit Florida far   
   harder than any other state. The governor and the president spent the first   
   half   
   of August locked in a feud over how to properly respond to the new surge, most   
   pointedly when it comes to masking in schools.   
      
   The battle represents two differing approaches to the pandemic. Biden won the   
   presidency by promising to handle the coronavirus with a science-first   
   consistency that Trump never truly tried; DeSantis is the standard-bearer for a   
   widespread conservative conviction that Trump was fundamentally correct about   
   resisting lockdowns, mask mandates and school closures.   
      
   In the balance are thousands of lives, in Florida and other states. Many   
   conservative governors have adopted DeSantis’s approach, prohibiting masks in   
   schools, doing little to encourage vaccination and generally seeing the   
   pandemic   
   as having run its course, since vaccines — and masks — are available to   
   anyone   
   who wants them. Biden represents those who believe the pandemic will only ever   
   end with a show of collective responsibility, whether by asking students to don   
   masks for one more year or by cajoling the unvaccinated to roll up their   
   sleeves.   
      
   https://news.yahoo.com/as-delta-surges-in-florida-gov-ron-de-san   
   is-is-focused-on-battling-biden-090028999.html   
      
   On this, Biden is right and DeSantis, Abbott, Reeves and other right-wingnut   
   Republiscum/QAnon governors are wrong — case closed.   
      
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