Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis scolded high school students for wearing masks during a photo op/press conference Wednesday. He also used the Ukraine crisis as an opportunity to mock France.
“You do not have to wear those masks. I mean please take them off. Honestly, it’s not doing anything. And we’ve gotta stop with this COVID theatre,” DeSantis barked. “This is ridiculous.”
He sighed as he approached the podium, where he was to deliver his speech. (Watch below).
While South Florida COVID positivity rate rates have fallen below 5% in South Florida, there were still 528 deaths and the death toll was over 70,000.
“Community transmission risks are at CDC-defined ‘medium’ levels in South Florida’s three counties and 24 others across the state,”According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Also, it means that we are not yet out of the woods. To many of the students’ credit, they didn’t listen to the politician badgering them.
The Republican governor laughed at France when he spoke about the Ukraine crisis. “A lot of other places fold when there’s any type of adversity,”DeSantis stated this before releasing his hypothetical. “Can you imagine if he went into France? Would they put up a fight? Probably not!” (Watch below.)
So, yeah, there’s that. It’s clear that DeSantis wanted to take a dig at France because they’re all the things he’s not: sophisticated, worldly, artistic, able to consume cheese without extreme gastrointestinal distress. DeSantis also forgot to mention that France’s citizens were greatly pushed back by Nazi occupation of France in World War II.
Of course, Twitter had a field day, and we’ve posted some of our favorites below.