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>>>>"Despite far fewer rules and restrictions, Florida lands nearly in the middle of all states on a variety of coronavirus metrics. The state has had about 3% more Covid-19 cases per capita than the US overall, but about 8% fewer deaths per capita."
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>>>>"Those lockdowns have not worked. They've done great damage to our country," DeSantis said Tuesday at a news conference in Tallahassee. "We can never let something like this happen again. Florida took a different path. We've had more success as a result."
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>>>Rubbish -- the guy is responsible for many deaths in Florida including some I know (knew).
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>>>Florida — 9,239 per 100,000
>>>Population: 21.5 million
>>>...that is not good.
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>>>Hawaii ...which has had more restrictions is doing best
>>>Hawaii — 2,003 per 100,000
>>>Population: 1.4 million
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>>>...so which state did it right and which state did it wrong? Pretty simple.
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>>Then CNN have it wrong? Are they lying or mistaken about the facts, when they wrote "Despite far fewer rules and restrictions, Florida lands nearly in the middle of all states on a variety of coronavirus metrics. The state has had about 3% more Covid-19 cases per capita than the US overall, but about 8% fewer deaths per capita." ?
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>CNN isn't wrong - but you have to put things in perspective. Being "in the middle" is not like some major success story -- and don't forget the USA has done worse that almost every other country on the planet -- so basically DeSantis is bragging about being average of the worst.

So then it's not "rubbish" as you first exclaimed. CNN are correct in their evaluation and Florida is about average in terms of cases and deaths whilst at the same time keeping their economy going which itself will account for a massive benefit to the population, employment, tax revenues, social well-being, education, etc. So it is a relative success story when taking into account both cases+deaths and economic+social costs.

iro the comment about how the US has done vs. the rest of the world; that's a different discussion entirely. the CNN article was about the US.