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Have been made available to all adults. we have -- the cases are skyrocketing, and the governor went m.i.a. i mean, we looked, and from november -- early november until december 17th, when he did not appear, he had about 17 press conferences. some of them were twice a day, and he was on fox news, and then he went m.i.a., and we believe that he has a repeated -- does this repeatedly. when things are going well, hes out there, yo, and he thinks theyre going to -- all these fake victory laps, but w...

Have you been able to determine -- i know youve been tweeting about this and following it. have you been able to determine what happened to ron desantis for those two weeks when mayors were saying, where is ron desantis? we need testing, we need help? >> well, the thing about ron desantis is that he wakes up in the morning with make-up because hes always ready to be on tv or press conference so it was highly unusual for him to go 17 days without a press conference, and so what we believe is that...

Without it, were going to be sort of stuck in the same cycle. >> and dr. ashby, hes sort of reflecting marco rubio who tweeted, record numbers testing positive for a sore throat isnt a crisis. the real crisis is hysteria that has people waiting hours for tests. it seems to me that based on what youve seen, this governor genuinely believes in sort of survival of the fittest herd immunity, right? let everybody get covid, the strong will survive and well vaccinate the elderly and the rich. >> clear...

I think that particularly given the clinical profile so far of omicron, theres not justifiable to let fear overwhelm you. you cant let any type of hysteria undercut the normal functioning of society. >> those are the comforting words of the florida governor who until new years eve had been missing from public view since december 17th with the exception of a december 19th fox news interview. while florida was facing its biggest surge in covid cases yet, with average daily infections exploding by ...

Related to mitigating this pandemic. typically when it comes to testing. and so i dont know if you know this, but back in may, they shut down all the state-run testing sites and now floridians are having to wait hours just to get a test done and then wait days to get the result after that. you know, again, its a fundamental dereliction of duty and rather than address that issue, theyre saying that testing is unnecessary now, which couldnt be further from the truth. >> let me very quickly play th...