Five years ago: “Bill Burr Tears Into Florida Governor: ‘Fking Piece Of St Politicians’” (HuffPost)
Comedian Bill Burr tore into Florida Governor Ron De Santis on his podcast, slamming the Republican for banning mask mandates as his own state becomes the epicenter of the highly transmissible Delta variant of Covid-19.
“The amount of people who not only don’t even own a microscope or even have a pair of scrubs – you know, unless they went to some Halloween party – who are literally questioning doctors. It’s just – at this point it’s just hilarious,” Burr said in the programme released on Monday.
Donald Trump apologist DeSantis last month issued an executive order aimed at banning schools in the state from mandating the use of masks to curb the spread of Covid-19.
This is a news, not an opinion, piece and it was apparently a proven fact that Ron DeSantis’s work in Congress and then as governor of Florida could be fairly summarized as “Trump apologist”.
What was the correlation between governor-imposed restrictions and age-adjusted death rates? “In the end, some states that adopted dramatically divergent policies had comparable outcomes (Florida and California, for example).” (December 2022 Bioinformatics CRO, which does seem to show a correlation with pre-existing health conditions and COVID-19 death rate (see Mississippi, for example)).
Separately, here’s a timeless lecture from Bill Burr, whose COVID-19 scholarship was still some years in the future:
Sounds like Bill needs a big ol’ hug. [Hug, hug, hug. Doesn’t he look a little like Jeff on Community? Extra hug.]
On a side note, I know women, especially black women, built this country and keep it running. But why in the hell can’t you ever find one to go into the crawlspace when there is a sewage drip? I had to get my coveralls on and there were all these spidies and creepy crawlies and brown water. Ewww.. where is a girl to do the dirty work? Waiting for the woman plumber, fingers crossed.
Bill Burr used to be great, but somewhere around Covid went off the rails. What happened? As he likes to say.
SK: There are a couple of possible explanations. One is that he is from Maskachusetts and, therefore, coronapanic is in his DNA (as well as unskeptical following of anyone claiming to be The Science). Another is that he got married and he began to conform his political views to fit feminine norms.
Next time we get a novel China-virus in Florida that is about to kill 95,000 people in our state (1 of every 200 residents), I hope the governor decides we should do nothing preventative. Can’t upset a few idle-rich snowflakes like “Dr” Phil by asking for a few simple precautions. Free-dumb!!! (“most people don’t know dumb has a ‘b’ “– Trump’s favorite rally line recently)
Thanks, Mike. Please tell us about the “simple precautions” that you’ve taken over the last few decades that have prevented you from becoming infected with cold and flu viruses. Other folks would surely love to know your secrets!
Separately, SARS-CoV-2 is alive and well and killing humans every day. You’re still taking these “simple precautions”, right? Post a link to a recent photo of yourself at Publix with a surgical mask over your N95, please! I know that you wouldn’t #DenyScience by neglecting the simple precaution of double-masking that could save lives, including your own life.
https://data.who.int/dashboards/covid19/deaths shows about 100 deaths per week right now in the U.S. Tiny Malta, praised by the WHO for its robust lockdown, reported roughly 2 deaths per week, a higher rate than the U.S. is suffering. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Malta for all of the simple precautions that Malta took. Also, “Malta has one of the highest levels of COVID-19 vaccination in the European Union as of the end of September 2021”. If not too many more of these vaccinated masked folks die, they’ll have only roughly 140X the COVID-tagged death rate relative to Nigeria.
@Philip,
On the bright side:
> Next time we get a novel China-virus in Florida …
Mike is agreeing that COVIDFear originated in China. That is a significant admission, especially given how reluctant the real doctor, Dr. Fauci and the Biden administration were to acknowledge the origin.