On May 20, Rich Lowry published an article entitled “Where Does Ron DeSantis Go to Get His Apology?†The piece appropriately took shots at the many media outlets and figures that inexplicably but relentlessly trained their fire on the Florida governor in the early days of the coronavirus crisis. Lowry observed that Andrew Cuomo — who presided over a disaster in New York — had received fawning coverage while DeSantis’s Florida was maintaining a remarkably low caseload for a state of its size.
Mostly, though, the piece was focused on letting DeSantis explain his strategy: protecting at-risk groups — especially in nursing homes, noting when rising caseloads in counties were due to micro-outbreaks in contained areas, and taking a county-by-county approach rather than relying on statewide edicts.
As the summer got underway, Florida got hit by a second wave of cases that was undoubtedly more significant than the first. At the peak of the Florida spike on July 17, the state led the nation with a seven-day new case average of 11,756, though it should be considered that many states were experiencing similar case spikes around this time. Nevertheless, the same cabal that had decried DeSantis’s performance months earlier once again singled him out, this time sneering at Lowry as well.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/where-does-rich-lowry-go-to-get-his-apology/
