Florida's preventable COVID deaths Vaccinations could have prevented 56% of Florida's COVID-19 deaths between January 2021 and April 2022. That's based on a new analysis by Brown University's School of Public Health. Driving the news: Researchers created a model illustrating what could have happened if 100% of adult Americans got fully vaccinated and boosted after the shots became available. The study used data from the CDC and the New York Times while considering variables such as supply and vaccine effectiveness over time. The big picture: Nationwide, COVID vaccines could have prevented roughly 319,000 deaths, nearly half of those occurring during the study's time frame, Axios' Tina Reed reports. The news comes as the country's overall recorded death toll hit 1 million people on Monday, per the AP. That includes more than 74,000 in Florida. Zoom in: Florida ranks No. 13 in the country, with 1.69 vaccine-preventable deaths per 1 million people. 77% of Florida adults are fully vaccinated but just 42% have received a booster shot. What they're saying: "The vaccine rollout has been both a remarkable success and a remarkable failure," Stefanie Friedhoff, one of the analysis' authors, told NPR. While the U.S. was able to get a large vaccine supply rolled out quickly, the shots are useless if they're not going into arms, she said. The bottom line: As COVID immunity wanes over time and the virus continues to mutate, vaccines and boosters remain our best tools for fighting off new waves of infections. Officials must remain committed to increasing vaccine demand, the study's authors say.
And people wonder why insurance rates are rising so high in Florida. https://www.newsweek.com/florida-ro...-project-funding-amid-rainfall-deluge-1912257 Ron DeSantis Cuts Stormwater Flooding Funding Amid Florida Deluge Published Jun 13, 2024 at 9:00 AM EDT Communities in Florida were hit with heavy rainfall and intense flooding on the same day Governor Ron DeSantis cut budgets for multiple water projects. On June 12, DeSantis signed the state budget after cutting almost $1 billion from the fiscal plan, the Tampa Bay Times reported—including about $205 million in stormwater, wastewater and sewer projects. The governor also declared a state of emergency Wednesday in five counties—Broward, Collier, Lee, Miami-Dade and Sarasota—after a deluge affected important infrastructure, including major interstates, roads, schools and airports. Democratic state Senator Jason Pizzo criticized the budget cut, telling the Associated Press, "As I'm sitting here stuck on a Brightline train because of flooding in my district, all those storm water projects he cut look pretty stupid right now." DeSantis said that while he did not oppose the projects, he wanted them financed differently, by having local communities apply for funds through the Department of Environmental Protection, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
"He’s not alone in the Republican Party. After all, Donald Trump, a Floridian in his own right, suggested last week that the only consequence of rising sea levels would be more beachfront property. With much of Florida underwater now, it’s glaringly apparent he had no clue what he was talking about." https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/r...a-flooding-desantis-climate-agenda-rcna157032
South Florida is supposed to get an extra 11 inches of sea level rise by 2040 (that's not that long from now) People don't realize how catastrophic that is for the low lying areas. Basically take every storm event now where you get a few inches of rain - and add a foot onto it. Every nuisance flood becomes a life threatening disaster flood. And that's not even considering the drinking water problems if the Everglades salinizes. But, at least you can't mention the words "climate change" because..freedom!
Genuine Question: What kind of person supports censorship and then posts misinformation and propaganda to support it in basketball site?
https://nypost.com/2023/07/18/anger-intensifies-over-welcome-to-sex-book-in-big-w-and-target/ Rachael Wong, chief executive of Women’s Forum Australia, told 2GB’s Ben Fordham Live on Tuesday she “felt physically ill at the thought of children reading it”, describing it a “graphic sex guide for children.” Wong was further disturbed that Stynes, in an earlier Instagram post, said while the book was suitable for ages 10 to 15, she would be “happy with a mature and smart 8-yo having a flick through”. She also took issue with the language around consent used in the book, which highlights the legal age as either 16 or 17 and suggests that “if the age difference is small, the law might take this into account.” Wong accused the authors of mentioning the legal age just to avoid “getting in trouble because the book is basically a sex manual for kids.”
How naive would you have to be to believe the latest round of fanatical climate change scaremongering? Wow. It's like a child's fairy tale at this point. Meanwhile their real estate market continues to lead the nation and Florida's population growth is booming.
Coward @SamFisher not making it back to his embarrassment of a thread he started. Biden's cognitive decline has all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation. (according to ScamFisher)
Florida voters who signed a petition to place a pro-choice abortion referendum on the ballot this November say they have been visited by police who are investigating claims of fraud at the behest of Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration, the Tampa Bay Times reported Saturday. Last year, DeSantis, a Republican, signed into a law a ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. In response, pro-choice campaigners gathered and submitted nearly one million signatures to place on the ballot Amendment 4, a referendum that would overturn the ban and restore reproductive rights in the state. Now Florida's Department of State is claiming it suspects fraud in the signature-gathering process. In an email to county election officials, the department's Brad McVay requested that they hand over their already-verified petitions so that the signatures can be reexamined, claiming without evidence that those who circulated the petitions "represent known or suspected fraudsters," Tampa Bay television station WTVT reported. Isaac Menasche, a voter who signed a petition to place the abortion referendum on the ballot, told the Times that he too was contacted by people working for the Florida governor's office. According to Menasche, a plainclothes police officer came to his home to question him, apparently seeking to verify that the signature on the petition was indeed his. “I’m not a person who is going out there protesting for abortion,” Menasche told the newspaper. “I just felt strongly and I took the opportunity when the person asked me, to say yeah, I’ll sign that petition.” Another voter, Becky Castellanos, told the Times that she was visited by a state police officer who interrogated her about a family member's petition signature. She said the incident felt intimidating. "It didn't surprise me that they were doing something like this to try to debunk these petitions to get it taken off of the ballot," she told the outlet.
