Gov. Ron DeSantis: Closing School Campuses in the Spring was one of the Nation’s Biggest ‘Public Health Mistakes’
By Fox News // October 4, 2020
DeSantis: people who advocate school closures are really the flat earthers of our day
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(FOX NEWS) – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that closing down school campuses in the spring as the coronavirus pandemic began to surge across the country might have been one of the nation’s biggest “public health mistakes.”
“In March we may not have had all the information, but in hindsight, knowing what we know now, the closure of schools was one of the biggest public health mistakes in modern American history,” DeSantis said during an appearance on the Drew Steele radio show. “And I think even Europe has said we shouldn’t have closed up.”
DeSantis, who has been pushing hard for students’ return to classrooms in the state, called critics of the effort the “flat earthers of our day.”
“So, now we’re at the point where the people who advocate school closures are really the flat earthers of our day,” DeSantis said. “They’re not doing it based on data. They’re not doing it based on evidence. They’re doing it based on either politics or emotion. And so, the harm of school closures, I think, is really considerable.”
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