Right now, more people are dying every day from COVID-19 in Florida than at any previous moment in the entire year and a half that we’ve all been enduring this catastrophic pandemic.

This tragedy could have been averted.

But Florida governor Ron DeSantis continues to cast basic precautions like masks as a hill on which Sunshine State citizens must literally die.

Why?

So he can score points in the pathetic “culture war” the Republican Party cooked up to distract from the fact that its entire platform (such as it ever was) has devolved into little more than conspiracy mongering and racial grievance.

Ron DeSantis is risking the lives of millions of people in Florida — and, by allowing the coronavirus, including the Delta variant, to flourish, all of America — just to out-Trump Donald Trump himself.

Tell Florida Governor Ron DeSantis:

It’s bad enough that you are actively endangering the citizens of Florida, even those that voted for you. But — by turning entire states into giant petri dishes in which the coronavirus can flourish and mutate — you and other Trumpist governors are making the pandemic far worse for the entire country. Stop rejecting commonsense precautions like mask-wearing just to score points in a pathetic “culture war.” Instead, use the power you have as governor to protect the people of Florida and all of America.

Add your name.

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- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen

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