How did Ron DeSantis Handle COVID19? | Desantis vs. Cuomo vs. Trump | COVID policy appraisal
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- Vinay Prasad, MD MPH; Physician & Professor
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He was a sane voice in an insane world. I became a single issue voter based on his covid response. I will vote for him every chance I get.
You should not. That tells me that you're not paying attention to what is happening locally. Did you see what the legislature passed? There are all kinds of bills that eliminate home rule, and make it easier for Real Estate developers and polluters like Mosaic to destroy our environment. They even passed a bill that will let them put radioactive waste in our asphalt. He's also a thin-skinned dictator, looking at how he is handling Disney. He cannot handle anyone speaking out against him. Do not be a single-issue voter on anything.
Same
@@georgeharrison6022 lol, he's an evil man, like Trump. He understands the far right's need for a daddy figure to "protect" them from boogeymen. Florida handled COVID about as poorly as you can, and Prasad knows this. But he can't tell the truth, because his right-wing audience will leave him, and the money will go with them. So instead he has to do the same thing as the mainstream - lie about COVID.
LOL
I've been a "liberal" my whole adult life. I wasn't "supposed to" agree with anything other than the leftist MSM narrative but somehow, objectively as possible, I was impressed with Desantis' handling of the pandemic, supportive of Canadian truckers, etc... Now I'm off the team according to supposed woke friends although I have no inspiration to actually vote red. Crazy times!
Me too!
Voting has nothing to do with anything. They are all utterly corrupt and many are WEF sock puppets.
Nothing changes then.
That's your inspiration to vote red.
So, you would have not only drank the poisoned koolaide Jim Jones gave to his cult members, but you would also assist in giving the poisoned drink to your family, friends and neighbors.
Telling the truth shouldn't require courage but these days it does. Thanks for stating the facts clearly and honestly.
As a senior Floridian I was prioritized to get the vaccine. I was also one of those individuals that had a bad reaction to the Moderna vaccine first shot (severe AFib, most likely due to myocarditis). I also saw how Desantis protected the elderly in nursing homes (unlike Cuomo). He also prioritized treatment for the elderly that had COVID. Several friends benefited from that. Opening the schools, rescinding mandates, etc. I saw it. The folks that wanted to wear the masks wore them, the ones that didn't, didn't. I think his execution during this difficult time was brilliant and he didn't budge in spite of the relentless media attacks. That took a lot of courage and conviction.
Meanwhile here in Canada we prioritized young healthy teachers lmao
So he prioritized the poison to the elderly! Great!
@@carreromartialarts He prioritized the availability. He didn't force it on them. There is a big difference! You are letting your liberal hate and bias to overwhelm any logical or deductive reasoning skill you possess.
@@harveybc you mean he made seniors get easy access to the shots..And these seniors were under heavy propaganda!
@@garrymullins And gave federal money to unions that were pushing hard to have all newborns injected as well.
Great evaluation of of the topic of DeSantis, thank you!
💯 agree. We chose to leave a school lock down state to allow our kids to leave freely and are so grateful ❤
A nuanced, unbiased assessment of this topic is such a breath of fresh air given the hyper-polarized thinking plaguing healthcare today. Your videos have kept me sane during this bizarre timeline, Vinay. Thank you for articulating the conclusions that many of us have intuitively arrived at but lack the expertise and experience to communicate so effectively. This channel is a master class on how to think critically. Keep it up!
As a senior Californian I took the vaccine Moderna without hesitation as did most of my friends but I wore a face shield at the Census Bureau before it was judged unacceptable, and I traveled a lot because I am of the laptop class and I never got so much as a cold except on a drive from FL back to CA and it was a mild cold. I am now recovering from I suspect RSV and still suffering lethargy, but that is related to my 78 years as well.
Thank you for your reasonable analysis three years into this pandemic. I think I now have a better understanding of what happened to the world in the last 3 years and I appreciate that it comes from a progressive and I am not.
Excellent when one can disagree and many issues and yet recognize when someone does an excellent job. Makes me hopeful we can still have a dialog to solve some of the major issues of our day. Thank you Dr. Prasad.
Lights, Camera, Action!
Lights... hello.
WOW!!!! THANK YOU!!! (Can't stand many things about Desantis, but he got that right!)
How so brilliant and science oriented. Thank you Doctor
thank you for prefacing your video by reminding us of the hysteria of spring 2020.....desantis was not a prisoner of the moment which is why he has my vote
I will give DeSantis credit for the way he handled the pandemic, we were lucky because we had good weather during the winter when everyone else was stuck being indoors. We could go out and enjoy the sunshine, have our restaurants open and still be able to serve people even with some restrictions. But there are too many Floridians in here that have not paid attention to what has just passed in the Florida legislature and are lining up to vote for DeSantis without looking at what he has gotten people in the legislature to do. There are a lot of destructive bills that make it easier for Real Estate developers and polluters like Mosaic to have their way. This is one of the most destructive legislative sessions. Local autonomy and home rule took major hits. And they made it more risky for citizens to sue to protect their environment. The even passed a bill allowing the government to use radioactive waste from phosphate to put into the asphalt in our roads. No one should be a single-issue voter because of covid or any issue.
Great comment!!! 😊
As it stands now, He’ll likely get my vote
Me too!!!
Its refreshing to here Truth every now and then
Outstanding 17 minutes. Thank you making this clip.
Great vid doc, few with your background willing to take on the topic with science over agendas. Desantis did a great job overall.
I’m an unwavering tax-the-rich / reduce-military-spending liberal. I’m also unvaccinated, anti-lockdown, and anti-mandate.
The pandemic madness didn’t fall neatly into Left/Right political divide.
Socialist Sweden probably had the world’s best government response to Covid.
We're not going to get an admission that this was a total screw up in my lifetime. My grandchildren will hopefully learn about this period as a case study in how not to do public health and as a catastrophic failure they can learn from.
Thank you!
Common sense is how he did it.
Fairly simple, and people think it’s genius.
Everyone has forgotten what common sense looks like. 😅😂
I was so impressed when early on he had an open roundtable of experts to get and share advice on the best policies. His transparency and character have impressed me ever since. If he could become president America and the world would be better off.
Thank you so much for laying this out!
I’m hooked on your videos Dr. Can you do one on the Amish compared to the rest of the country? They were predicting annihilation. But apparently they’re fine and the media is ignoring it.
Each day out of government schools is a good day.
Excellent objective analysis.
He took the advice from Dr. Ladapo. Ron hired the right guy. I’m a Florida resident and feel lucky to live here. I agree with roughly 80% of what he does, which is more than I can say for most politicians. His stance on abortion will lose a lot of votes.
Surprised you did not mention the use of monoclonal antibodies for early treatment. He was the first to set up wide use access for these.
If you were to give 100 issues, DeSantis and I would disagree about 98 of them. But even I have to admit, he was correct in his COVID response. We need to be able to acknowledge that sometimes the worst person you know is right about something.
Well said. I don't agree with DeSantis on anything, as evidence by the above conversations that I have had. But even I have to give the devil his due. He got that one right.
Can I get an "AMEN"?!
It's great to hear this review knowing that you probably lean left politically based off other podcasts you've done. We need to put politics to the side and not let it coud us. Thank you for being consistent and evidenced based
Great video, now take a look at the increased deaths being seen in all developed countries since 2021 and continuing. Please!!
Kristy Nome South Dakota !
There needs to be a study to follow the children of Florida over the next decades and compare scores against those of most of the western world.
I did not get vaxed, I did not get covid, and I know 100 more people who can say the same thing. And I know people who got the jab, and they got covid. He has my vote.
You know 100 people who didn't get covid...? Really?
Same here!
I was vaxed, I most likely got some mild form and I'm not voting on him, unless some misplaced US mail in ballots get send to eastern Europe. :D
I got the vaccine twice and I got COVID twice.
I will never forget this and I will vote DeSantis forever.
Kristi Noem, Governor of South Dakota, did better than Ron DeSantis, as she kept the state open the entire time and implemented the Barrington declaration, protecting the vulnerable while allowing the young and healthy to go about their business, keep their businesses open, and no lockdowns. God bless her. She doesn’t get the credit she deserves. With all due respect to Mr. DeSantis, Kristi’s record is better than his on this.
I would like to welcome back your face. Its beautiful.
Glad to see you finally shaved and cut the hair. I was kind of worried about you ;) Love what you do.
Love your analysis of different states policies in response Covid.
Closing the schools made it more difficult for the very poor students to access food around the world because in many regions the school food programs look out for children of the very low income people
You are more and more Awesome . Glad i didnt give up on you , when you recomabded Lot of that insanity but you sounds like true truth seeker . Please stay strong and continue to do what you doing. You have big gift inside of you 🙏🫶
We already know what the outcomes are.
It is always a brave act to publicly leave the team sports of politics and make an argument based purely on your convictions. To let facts guide your beliefs rather than belief guide your facts is loyal first and foremost to science.
I agree with you to give credit when credit is due. I see your point about DeSantis and his stance on Covid... His other ideologies...are terrifying.
What is so terrifying about protecting children or not teaching critical race theory? I am not aware of anything else that he is doing to limit our ability to pursue happiness or live our lives to the fullest extent possible.
What exactly is terrifying about anything he has done? …please be specific….
Yeah...totally terrifying protecting kids from being sexualized, sterilized, mutilated.🙄
Great information. Thanks!
As a Floridian and an RN that actively worked the pandemic, I was very grateful for DeSantis’s leadership.
However, I DO NOT support his presidential run.
The last thing this country needs, as a whole, is far right policies such as his 6 week abortion ban.
I’m not interested in Biden either, he’s too old and too immersed in corporate influence.
I support RFK regardless of his vaccine stance. He’s anti war and if we see nukes nothing else matters anyway.
Abortion is a state by state issue and is not under the president’s purview. 6 weeks is also not “far right.” 😂😂😂 And Florida allows elective abortion up to 15 weeks which is too extreme the other way.
I’m unclear where the humor is?
I think it’s far right and you don’t.
We’ll have to agree to disagree. That’s not what this topic is about anyway. I apologize for not responding to any further comments.
“Every American recognizes that when the government controls religion, all religion becomes the state. But few Americans are willing to accept that when the government controls health, all health becomes public health and all privacy is lost. The erosion of our liberties is not a mystery. It is largely the result of the frightening alliance between medicine and the state….” - Thomas Szasz
But Fauci said, NY is the best state to deal with Covid and is a leading sample of national wide. Reasons for that? "Because NY followed up our advice to wear mask, keep social distance and stay at home when get sick".
Thanks for your honesty ! Let’s hope this helps him get elected to potus
You are always informative…thank you
I know more people that moved to Florida because of covid than died of covid.
How did a health emergency become a big Party A vs Party B issue? What's the role of the recommender systems that feed us the news we prefer (and that feeds our confirmation bias)?
❤
There is no way I would vote for him because of many of his subsequent stances on issues I care about. But during the pandemic, I was in admiration of how he handled things. I said as much to many fellow liberals who all looked at me like I was crazy.
What's better about Biden?
Great to see your face!
Much better than your RFK video.
DeSantis seems to be extremely sharp on many other policies that the mainstream media is trying so hard to push.
I'll give him credit for covid but taht's about it. The only reason why he go re-electedd was because there were TWO Major Hurricaines within four weeks of each other right before the election. Believe it or not when disaster strkes people are reluctant to change leadership.
Can you do a discussion into International Countries /Policies and how they have impacted their people - while we know that Policy was largely superficial - and what really emerged were the tyrannical tendencies in many policies. I live in the Caribbean where vaccine uptake was very minimal (
The governor who did the best job with Covid is my own governor here in Georgia, Brian Kemp. First to open up, even with Trump brow beating him not to do it.
Thank you for this video. I may now forgive you for your RFK Jr hatchet job
I fasted when I had it, and it was over in no time! If your immune system is in good shape you can survive almost anything, but if it's in bad shape you can be carried away by a sniffle. Thankfully, fasting can repair the immune system very quickly. Which is also important for healing and repairing the damage of aging, which is also the immune system's job! Some benefits of doing occasional extended fasting: High blood pressure is lowered to normal levels very quickly while fasting.
Fibrosis/scarring is reversed over time.
Fasting increases nitric oxide release.
Fasting restores NAD+ to healthy levels.
Telomeres are lengthened and fasting also increases anti-aging Yamanaka factors.
Blood clotting is reduced and blood clots and arterial plaque are reabsorbed into the body.
Fasting stimulates phagocytosis, the ingestion of bacteria, plaques and viruses by the immune system. It will also remove any 'foreign material' that is not supposed to be there.
Reflexes and short term memory are increased.
Fasts from 36-96 h increase metabolic rate due to norepinephrine release!
After 72 hours or more fasted, your body recycles up to 1/3 of all immune bodies, rejuvenating your entire immune system.
Fasting can help with MS, Depression, BPD, Autism and seizures.
Fasting reduces pain and anxiety by stimulating the endocannabinoid system in a similar way to CBD oil.
Thymus is regenerated, which suppresses aging and renews the immune system. The thymus also plays a vital role in fighting cancer.
Weight loss from daily caloric restriction has 1/4 to 1/3 of the weight lost as lean tissue while many studies show fat loss from 36 h fasts without losing any lean tissue! The hunger hormone ghrelin also lowers with extended fasting and rises from dieting.
Blood sugar and insulin are lowered, allowing white blood cells to move more freely throughout the body and do their job. Some viruses activate glycolosis (the release of sugar in the body) and clinically it has been shown that decreasing glucose metabolism in the body weakens the influenza virus.
When you move out of MTOR your body shuts down the building blocks of the cell which are used to produce organelles and proteins. This means the mechanisms needed by viruses to replicate are by and large unavailable when you are in a deeply fasted state.
What breaks a fast? Anything with protein or carbohydrates in it will break a fast. Most teas and herbs are OK.
Does fasting lower testosterone? No, it raises it when the fast is broken by increasing lutenizing hormone. Fasting also increases insulin sensitivity, which helps with muscle building.
Fasts of 36-96 will not affect short term female fertility or affect menstrual cycle. They also may increase long term fertility, especially in women with PCOS.
The hormone Leptin is an immunomodulator that keeps the body from attacking itself and obesity causes leptin resistance. Fasting very quickly reduces leptin resistance and leptin levels and one day of fasting can cut your leptin levels in half and gets your immune system working properly again!
Does the body preferentially prefer glucose as a fuel? No, except for brief periods of very intense exercise, your body mainly burns fats in the form of free fatty acids. Your brain also prefers to burn ketones at a rate of around 2.5 to 1 when they are available in equal quantity to glucose.
Fasting stimulates the AMPK complex and activates autophagy. Autophagy (literally self eating) will cause cells to recycle foreign matter such as viruses and kill cancerous and senescent cells
Lowering insulin via fasting virtually eliminates chronic inflammation in the body.
When not in ketosis, the brain can only burn carbohydrate, which produces a great deal of damaging ROS the brain has to deal with.
It increases mitochondrial function and repairs mitichondrial DNA, leading to improved ATP production and oxygen efficiency and thereby making cells better able to fight off infection. Increased mitochondrial function also has the added benefit of increasing your metabolism and cancer prevention!
Fasting also releases BDNF and NGF in the blood which stimulates new nerve and brain cell growth. This can help a great deal with diseases like MS, peripheral neuropathy and Alzheimers.
In fact, the biochemical regulator of BDNF production is beta-hydroxybutyrate, which is the same ketone the body produces to nourish the brain while fasting.
Fasting also increases telomere length, negating some of the effects of aging at a cellular level.
When you fast, this stimulates apoptosis in senescent or genetically damaged cells, destroying them. Senescent cells are responsible for many of the effects of aging and are a root cause of the development of cancer.
A fasting mimicking diet for 3-5 days in a row also provides many of the same benefits as water fasting. FMD usually has 200-800 calories, under 18 g of protein and extremely low carbs.
Exogenous ketones can aid with fasting, making it easier in healthy people and allowing some people with specific issues to fast in spite of them without worrying as much about hypoglycemia.
Children, pregnant or nursing women should not fast for periods longer than 16 hours. People with pancreatic tumors or certain forms of hypoglycemia generally cannot fast at all. Type 1 diabetics can also fast but it is more complicated and should be approached with caution as it could lead to ketoacidosis. Those with Addison's disease may also be unable to fast without liberal use of exogenous ketones, depending on severity. If you experience extreme symptoms of some kind, especially dizziness then simply break the fast and seek advice.
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My channel which will always contain an updated version of this list of fasting benefits on the community tab. I also have playlists on fasting and health topics.
He did such a great job that now we can't rid ourselves of the people that moved here.🫣
Thank you, Dr. Prasad, for having the courage to share this wise analysis. It is reasoned, smart and true!!
Thank you!
Thank you for the fair assessment. TH-cam's COVID warning is the best evidence this is good.
seriously!
How
The COVID warning is the best evidence we remain run by idiots.
Is Google EVER going to wake up and realize that the CDC was and is the worst source for accurate info on Covid??
They put the covid warning on every video discussing it
I was talking to a Vietnam veteran this morning who said it took him many years to accept the fact that his government put him and his buddies into a war zone over lies and profit. But we know that most wars are fought over Natural Resources and lifeforms are just insignificant casualties. Politics is not for health, but $.
Duh 🎉
What was profitable about the Vietnam war?
As a New Yorker I can tell you they did a number on us here in NY, they had us so scared we stayed put and most of us did everything we were told to do and everyone seemed to have gotten what they call "mass psychosis"(Many still do...I know plenty of people on their fifth shot) So proud of a few people who saw thru the garbage, the only thing that woke me up was having a bad reaction to the shot and realizing I had fallen right in line. Once I had my reaction and they were still wanting to mandate this, I finally understood. I thought Cuomo and Fauci were heroes. I can't describe how they worked on my brain and this will never happen again. Unfortunately I don't trust anything any more but that is a small price to pay for finally waking to this nightmare!
Mass psychosis. Classical conditioning. Call it what you will. It was done in conjunction by the authorities and the media with absolute malice to the public at large.
It took me awhile to find anything other than the official narrative.
But, after four shots, I finally found solid programs that have opened my eyes to a myriad of lies we've been told on various topics.
Their plandemic seems to have backfired!
Amen.
That had to have been a very difficult and painful realization. It says a lot about you that you were able to take that journey.
That’s very well said. I’ve thought a lot about my own reaction to the news of Covid in early 2020. I never thought it was that serious. I knew the reports of Covid having a 3% or higher case fatality rate were flat wrong. I debated a friend in April 2020 who insisted that it was that high that the actual fatality rate was around .1 (which is probably about right). In a keynote address in May 2020, I implored an audience of K-12 school professionals to not close schools in the fall. I told everyone it would cause an epidemic of mental illness among young people . I could go on. The point is, I’ve wondered how I knew. I did find quite a bit of data to support my positions. Even early on there were studies on Covid coming out of Italy and elsewhere. There were also prior studies on SARS and other outbreaks. All of these convinced me that Covid was being way overblown. Still, how did I know? It didn’t help that I was in a leftist major city on the west coast where everyone believed it was their moral duty to believe everything the government told them (?). I think what it was is that I’m a free thinker. I question truth claims, even my own. Everything I hear I say ‘maybe’. I need to understand it for myself. And if there’s good evidence and there’s a rational reason to believe it then I’ll tentatively go along.
Thank you for this report. It reminded me how sane Florida was during the pandemic.
This is your best video yet. I sincerely appreciate your dedication to leaving your political beliefs at the door and evaluating the situation based on real data outcomes.
So agree
Not many people could put their political beliefs aside and look at how Covid, lockdowns and the vaccines were handles, objectively, but you did it! Well done. 🎉🎉🎉
Dr Prasad, I have so much respect for you evaluating fairly the individual policy decisions of a public figure who, no doubt, has many other positions you might strongly oppose. Excellent work promoting dialogue.
took the words out of my mouth! thank you. Agreed.
Thank the Lord for real scientists, ethical and fact-based, and apolitical- people like Dr Prasad.
🙏🙌
Real as opposed to unreal .. haha
@@gloriahallelujah111 As opposed to fake scientists- those paid to promote a certain narrative, versus do proper science
Prasad started out as a good source, but ultimately the money you can make as a far right grifter was too hard to pass up for him. He now spends all of his time making fools out of his audience, knowing that the only audience he has available is made of far right nuts who need a daddy figure like Trump or DeSantis.
Great quote during this pandemic: If vaccines work, mandates don't make sense. If vaccines don't work, mandates don't make sense.
@@sandylewis8897 Yep. It should be VERY rare to mandate them for most of the population. Especially experimental ones. Yet they tried to see if they could do it, and sadly most people blindly bought into it, thinking they were doing the right thing for themselves and society. The propaganda put forth by the Pharmaceutical companies, the government, and the mainstream media, is a well oiled machine - and it worked in the sense that billions in profits were made - but at the cost of the health of thousands, if not millions (we still don’t know the long term effects of those mRNA formulations), and a huge loss of trust, that will be very hard to recover from.
Lifelong liberal here. Moved to florida from New Mexico last year and what a crazy difference. Kids in NM were out of school for over 2 years and NM was already fighting for last place in student test scores. Life in florida was proceeding as usual, like the pandemic was in the past. Might consider voting for DeSantis.
Great, as always. It's a pleasure to listen to someone with an open mind, especially on medical topics. It has become painful to view the covers of our American medical journals because they all shout this quarter's social hysteria. I'd dare say Mr. Desantis did better than all of our medical elites. How did this herd mentality develope? Always a pleasure, Dr. Prasad.
How did this herd mentality develop? Start by looking at who staffs the offices of the American Medical Association, and follow the clues.
I applaud you! and I appreciate this was likely a difficult choice- **Thank you for standing for what you see as medical facts that stand above the R/L political climate**
I disagree with DeSantis on some significant issues but his handling of the pandemic was remarkable and intelligent and courageous.
As someone who lives in the bay area here in California (Like Vinay Prasad)- There is no question about it as to who handled covid best. There are still people here in California who would be completely ok going into another year long lock down with no questions asked..... if Gavin Newsom recommended it tomorrow.
Another Bay Area, CA resident who will no longer drink the Kool-Aid. Had already been politically independent but willing to give Dems a chance during Covid but after the first few months…NOPE
Which issues do you disagree with him on? I think he's right about banning drugs and irreversible surgeries on children who have psychological problems surrounding their sex and prohibiting sex education in school for children 12 and under. The only thing I think he's gone too far on is abortion.
@@alunjones3860 so you condemn all of Western Europe then.
I should have clarified, I meant Newsom I was wrong about. Nothing good to say about him now. DeSantis I think is too extreme on abortion.
Policies did very little except mentally and emotionally.
.DeSantis light touch did brilliantly
So refreshing to hear a completely fair and honest analysis without the terrible political bias we have all been enslaved and subjected to for so long. Because of your integrity, Dr. Prasad, I have pay-subscribed to your YT channel. THANK YOU!
Excellent points, excellently argued. I don't think it's a coincidence that our constitution is a better guide than an overpaid bureaucrat.
DeSantis did much better than Cuomo.
Better than newwsome better than 99% of them
@@mercury13 And now he's spoiling it by banning books becuase he feels he has to be antiwoke.
There both fascists as far as i can tell.
@@josephcooter5763 no dude banning books to children that are being given to children by extremists that teach sexual acts like putting things in the buttox is not banning books . You either didn't know or are lying. Only criticism I have for DeSantis is freedom of speech protecting certain people in Jewish communities and not getting involved with the NY auterney vs Trump lies
@@josephcooter5763 also you do have to be anti woke cause being woke is racism classism being used to divide conquer and bring in globalism take away god given rights
One thing this pandemic has taught me is to stop thinking that the best ideas come from either the left (where philosophically I sit) or the right. Facts and truth, character and commitment matter most. Kilpling’s poem “if” seems to fit the bill. “ if you can keep your head when all about you, Are losing theirs and blaming it on you etc. Thanks to the Canadian truckers, Sweden and Ron DeSantus. Never thought I’d say that.
This channel is one of the only places left where you can find nuance and intellectual honesty. Keep up the great work, VP.
Krystal from Breaking Points will be so disappointed in this perspective lol
Yup, surely she will be. What a shame. She even mentioned Dr. Prasad's name as a "friend" of the show LOL LOL
@@RamTadka yeah her hack job "interview" with RFK Jr. was my "breaking point" for my subscription to their channel. Saagar should go rogue already.
@@jason_108 🤣
One major blunder from Cuomo (which he should have been prosecuted) was mandating that nursing home take covid patients (not only senior citizens). I have an elderly friend who was sent to a nursing/rehab for a knee issue. His room was right next to the covid wing and of course, he contracted covid. Thankfully they never put him on a ventilator and he fully recovered. He was in there for 3 months and the only visitation allowed was everyone being outside the hospital talking through the screened window. It is a no brainer that DeSantis did extremely well and was one of the reasons for me moving to Florida. Of course, I don't know if it was me running to Florida or running away from NY policy as things are just as bad under Hochul (if not worse).
Agreed. And I forgot Trump gave Fauci a medal before he left office 👎🤦♂️. Desantis did great in face of uncertainty and public pressure
Desantis clearly got it very right which will forever make him an ogre in the eyes of those who were so militantly wrong.
Thank you once again for your voice of reason. Quite some time back, during the height of irrational fear, I was participating in a social media message thread where I opined that ANY BUSINESS that ANYONE depended on to keep a roof overhead and feed their family, either as an owner or as an employee, was an essential business and thus should have been allowed to remain open. Target was open; the little corner boutique was not. Someone fired right back, "Oh, so you're a Trump supporter." And I returned fire by saying food and shelter were not correlated with one's choice of a candidate for office, and I'm not sure whether I ever heard Trump advocating for more businesses to be allowed to stay open. I came to that conclusion all by myself.
thank you for your clear level headed assesment of data. i live in canada where our primeminster was very heavy handed w mandates and lockdowns. and then doubled down in face of the new data. you were a beacon of information and truth thru the pandemic. thank you so much for what you do!!!!
I can't imagine the copious amounts of shite that you will be getting from your friends like ZDogg for making this video. Good on you for making it anyway.
Desantis was right
Why can’t everyone admit it
To admit Desantis was right would mean many people excommunicating themselves from Team Blue or Team Trump. Political tribalism is a Hell of a thing to watch.
Not at all. Ron belongs here in Florida. After the way America treated Trump, they dont deserve our governor.
Because of the media lies. Their are people right now who actually believe that its not safe for Black people to travel to Florida. They are completely brainwashed.
@Wendie Payne Put yourself in Trump's shoes. He had what he thought was best of the best in the field of Virology telling him the world was going to end. Fauci and company were lying to him and playing politics as well as covering their ass because they knew where it came from and that they provided funding to the lab it was created in and then released or escaped from. DeSantis' level of responsibility was minuscule compared the POTUS. It's easy to say Trump blew it and Ron crushed in hindsight tapping on your keyboard. I'm not saying Trump couldn't have done things better, but I accept the fact he was getting fed BS info by those around him that put politics before duty.
Lol I like how straightforward you are
Not to mention the division of families. In most states the draconian measures fueled the irrational fear. Families were prevented from gathering which placed a strain on family relationships. It also caused individuals within the family to shun other family members that were not vaccinated and then those people in turn felt a huge disconnect with their family. The families that were already strained put aside any efforts to repair those strained relationships, using the covid excuse. I wonder how Florida did in this regard.
@julieshaffer7140 Excellent points. Plenty of people were basically disowned by their family over the vaccination apartheid nonsense. Also, there was denial of hospital visitations & basic human companionship. I'll never forget the whole disgustng crime against humanity! We cannot & will not allow it to repeat.
the zero covid and mask ",Karen's" are not going to be happy with you, lol. But as a healthcare worker, I agree with you.
It would be helpful to examine Newsom and Cuomo in more depth. I tend to think we learn more from examining errors.
Thank you for the reasoned analysis.
Boy, it’ll take a very long time to examine the errors of those two walking disasters….
"Do as I say, not as I do" Governor Newsom....
Ugh, for those who have to reside in NY or California, there is no further comment necessary. I think Vinay summed up their abysmal mandate decisions in the few words he chose. Yes, he cast a wide-net on Desantis' decisions - it is easy to match those decisions with the other pair. And in three simple words, Cuomo and Newsome "Stink. Stank. Stunk."
Lost my job over a vaxx mandate. Utterly disgraceful
I'm so sorry to hear that. :( But thank you for standing up for your freedom and your choice. You stand with many others who did the same, and that makes your choice and your voice heard.
@@terrim777 I appreciate it very much.
@@bernardgallo2884 What state? If you don’t mind me asking.
@@marieroxylox1456 I worked in CA for a DC company. Double woke whammy
@@bernardgallo2884 Yeah, it was close to the same for me. I got the J&J before the request. But was still angry when I had to show my vaccination card.
Can we get VP into public leadership please?
I live in Michigan which had severe restrictions and closed thousands of small businesses, most of which closed forever. Meanwhile the Michigan governor vacationed in Florida.
The data is in on this topic and your conclusions cannot be disputed. Now let's finally see you put this kind of effort into the effects these mRNA shots have on the human body. Of course, I won't be holding my breath on that.
Agree 💯 let’s see Vinay look into real effects of the vaccines. There’s no good data to even support they kept people out of the hospital.
There is no way Prasad will go against the "miracle of science" narrative for the mRNA shots any time soon. If the narrative changes, then Prasad will also change but that could be 3 to 5 years away.
@@yamishogun6501 I suspect you are correct, unfortunately.
Why have we never seen how many healthcare workers were terminated as a result of vaccine mandates across the country? I would really like to know what those numbers are
I resigned my RN position and a lot of my coworkers were terminated due to their exemptions being denied. There was no way I was going to lie to get a medical or religious exemption.
Yes. I want to know this too.
STAT News has had many articles and analyses about this over the past few years.
My administrator decided that all non vaccinated staff should be forced to wear the plastic face shield and googles at all times inside the building during Covid. I told her I wasn’t going to do it and she was free to fire me whenever she wanted to. I compared that policy to the Nazi’s making Jews wear the golden star. The policy didn’t last more then 3 weeks, and many staff just quit because of it. Before she issued that policy I might have considered getting the jab to keep my job, after she did that, I was done and ready to let the mandates find me a new career field.
It was well known that the vaccines would not prevent transmission before the vaccines came out in the medical community. Herd immunity is not a thing with respiratory viruses. There was a full year of seeing prior infections not preventing future infections. They were clearly lying to us about the vaccine. Add in not accepting natural immunity which made zero medical sense and the ridiculous pressure and being told us unvaccinated were killing our patients, there was clearly something wrong.
I also was forced to resign my RN position as well. I'd love to see the numbers as well.
Well, that was an excellent, rational analysis, Vinay. Yeah, DeSantis did do brilliantly. Against massive hysteria. As a (former) Californian, I greatly admired his approach, AFTER the initial going along stance. He was one of the few who ingested, processed, and acted on better informaiton when it was available. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.