This is the Tom Hartman program.

And welcome back.

So, down in Florida, the state is melting down.

Ron DeSantis was confronted by a reporter yesterday who asked him about these seven children

who are in the intensive care unit, just in one hospital, the Joe DiMaggio Children's

Hospital in Broward County, fighting for their lives in the ICU.

What about these kids?

And DeSantis said, this has been a really negative thing throughout this whole thing, with

some of these, quote, experts, some of the media, somebody can contract a highly transmissible

airborne virus and they're viewed as having done something wrong.

That's just not the way you do it.

End quote.

In other words, word salad, right?

Well, you know, kids are dying, Governor DeSantis, and you signed a law that says that you

can't, that when we go back to school, we can't keep our kids safe from each other or

teach you, keep our teachers safe for that matter or keep the kids safe from the teachers

or vice versa.

I mean, whichever whoever might have an infection.

And everybody's like trying to figure out, why would DeSantis do this?

Why, you know, in Arkansas, Aissa Hutchinson, the governor held a press conference in

which he said, it was a mistake for us, I'm paraphrasing here, but you can find the

exact quotes online.

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