Earlier today I posted this video:
NEW: @GovRonDeSantis annoyed with USF students—
"You do not have to wear those masks. Please take them off. Honestly, it's not doing anything. We've gotta stop with this Covid theater. So if you wanna wear it, fine, but this is ridiculous."https://t.co/7j1Pb2hV53 @WFLA pic.twitter.com/ZIOyTHLOh3
— Evan Donovan (@EvanDonovan) March 2, 2022
Here is a still of one of those students:
That kid looks so happy to have his mask off.
Now we see him with his mother:
"I took mine off."
"Did you feel pressure by the governor to do that?"
"A little."
This @HillsboroughSch senior's mom says she's very upset and it was "shocking" for Gov. DeSantis to ask her son & the other high school students to take off their masks. https://t.co/JNYeA9dYci pic.twitter.com/W6WZbAOKh8
— Justin Schecker (@justin_schecker) March 3, 2022
Now the boy claims he felt pressured to take it off and didn’t want to.
Yeah… bullshit.
The only pressure is from mom taking this and making herself into a victim.
How much do you want to bet she’s going to (if she hasn’t already) set up a Go Fund Me and is in contact with activist lawyers and try to mill this for money and fame abetted by the DeSantis hating media.
What a shit show.
Ma’am? No mask?
What? Do want young William to DIE!!??
She must be one of them damn Trump voters!
Magats! /sarc
The FL equivalent of ‘mean tweets’. He used a harsh tone.
Basically the kids were likely told to wear masks by some school authority knowing it would likely either make Desantis look bad w/ them wearing them or he would say something. The fact that most of the kids yanked them off faster than you can blink left them scurrying for some sort of spin to attack him.
Does she not realize she’s not wearing a mask there?
Isn’t she putting Them at risk?
I almost said this yesterday but held my … tongue? hands? Anyway…
What I would have really liked DeSantis to say would have been something like, “Don’t take my word for it. You guys have a world class medical school and cancer clinic right here on this campus. Go ask for some real scientific studies that show masks are effective against respiratory viruses. And since no one study proves anything, get as many as you can.”
Better yet, go look up how a biohazard level IV lab that works on viruses approaches masks.