Florida’s ICUs are quickly filling up with covid19 cases that DeSantis says aren’t anything but an artifact of more testing.

If you have a heart attack, serious car accident, or other major ailment requiring ICU bed, you may be shit out of luck since hospitals in Florida are out of ICU beds thanks to covid19.

Months of prep and still overrun because DeSantis didn’t impose masking and prep for it. https://t.co/vIBHrfhkTv

— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 8, 2020

Meanwhile, every GOP state mismanaging the covid19 crisis is seeing more cases per capita than any other country on the planet. Covid19 is running rampant, and the GOP are insisting on reopening even faster.

Arizona has had more new virus cases (per capita) over the last week than any country in the world.

Here’s a ranking that treats each U.S. state as a country:

1. Arizona
2. Florida
3. S. Carolina
4. Bahrain
5. Louisiana
6. Qatar
7. Oman

For more: https://t.co/I7kfZQJsF7 pic.twitter.com/p6clPAqrzu

— David Leonhardt (@DLeonhardt) July 8, 2020

They think that they can take the Sweden route. Except that Sweden is exhibit A for what not to do. Sweden ignored social distancing/masking/shutdowns, and their economy still cratered, they saw more cases, and they didn’t recover any faster than the neighboring states that did manage to slow/stop the spread.