Florida Democratic Party chair Manny Diaz on Friday slammed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for the state’s record-high number of COVID-19 cases, accusing the leader of “aggravating this worsening health crisis” by banning vaccine and mask mandates.
Chairman Manny Diaz issued a statement in In reaction to daily surge in COVID cases in Florida that recorded 22,783 new COVID-19 cases, the highest number recorded in a single day since the pandemic began.
Florida Democratic Party Chairman Manny Diaz’s statement read as below:
“Watching a slow moving catastrophe unfolding with no one to stop it brings on a special sense of dread. It’s a sensation Floridians have grown very familiar with over the past few weeks. Day by day we have seen the explosive growth of new COVID cases and hospitalizations, yet the one person in a position to help steer us away from peril is not only not doing so, he is actually guiding us further and deeper into it.
“As the nation has looked on in disbelief, Governor Ron DeSantis has failed to act to save Floridian lives and insists on aggravating this worsening health crisis. He is stopping local governments, school boards and private businesses from implementing common sense public health measures to slow down the rate of infections. He is blaming immigrants for his failures instead of acknowledging his mistakes. At the end of the day this is nothing more than a bare-faced effort to pander to the radical anti-masking, anti-vaccination, COVID-denialist segment of his party. This is morally reprehensible.
“To see these numbers, coupled with the frightening rise of pediatric COVID hospitalizations in our state just days before many counties begin the school year is worrying enough. To know that our Governor is standing in the way of schools that want to protect the lives of those students and their families, is truly terrifying.
“There is no way around it: we are a state adrift without a leader as we face the greatest public health crisis in recent memory.”
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