4 Florida Teachers Die From COVID Forcing DeSantis To Cancel Vegas Party With Donors

*PLEASE NOTE: This video was recorded BEFORE DeSantis cancelled his Vegas trip, so he did not end up leaving the state. Political pressure forced him to stay.*

Four Florida teachers in the same county all died within hours of one another in a single day this past week. Schools have only been open for two weeks, but the state is already reeling from the impacts. Meanwhile, Florida's Republican governor Ron DeSantis tried to leave the state to go pander to his donors, this time in Las Vegas. Florida deserves better, as Farron Cousins explains.

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*This transcript was auto-generated. Please excuse any typos.

This past week as students returned to school for the new 20 21, 20 22 school year on a single day in a single county Broward county, which actually defied, uh, governor Ron DeSantis, his ban on mass mandates for teachers died from COVID-19 within hours of each other for teachers in Broward county, within a matter of hours, died from this virus. And as I mentioned, students went back this week. Most of the teachers went back last week. So these teachers had been in these areas in their schools with their fellow teachers for a full week attending meetings.

You know, some of them going to training at the county level, exposing basically everyone

In the administration process and the teachers as well to the virus kids came back this week. We have seen in county after county, after county here in the state of Florida, dozens and dozens, in some instances, actually hundreds of both teachers and students being sent home after either testing positive or after being in close contact with an individual that has tested positive things are not getting better in the state of Florida as

Well. Ron DeSantis had predicted, he told us, oh, once August rolls around all the tourists leave, everybody goes back to school. Our numbers are going to go down, not happening. In fact, what is happening is exactly what all of us predicted would happen. And that is teachers are getting infected. Teachers

Are dying.

Students are getting infected hospitals across the state are overwhelmed. So where the hell is Ron DeSantis while all this is happening? Well on Friday, he decided to skip town and go party in Las Vegas with his wealth, the donors

In LA

Vegas, not, not, not in the state of Florida. Nope, Nope. Kind of like a couple of weeks ago when he left and went out to, uh, Midwest

To meet with the American legislative exchange council and some of those wealthy donors, he just doesn't give a crap about what's actually happening here in the state of Florida.

He's traveling cross country all the time meeting with people that he thinks are going to give him money so that he can win reelection so that he can continue destroying the state of Florida here. Although, I guess there's good news because everybody's reporting, uh, starting on Friday that, Hey, he's backed off his threat to not pay the salary. These

Of administrators who implement mask mandates in direct defiance of

Him, he didn't actually do that by the way, if you actually read these stories, it's very ridiculous to run these headlines because what actually happened was that his spokesperson,

Um,

She just came out and said, well, it's probably going to be up probably going to be up to the individual, uh, school boards to decide how they want to handle the fact that we're going to not fund them and they should

Volunteer to not receive the salary. Um, yeah, not

Exactly backing off a threat. It's reiterating the other threat that we're not going to give you funding from the department of education. If you implement mask mandates. And of course, meanwhile,

As this is happening, of course teachers are dying. Students

Are being packed into hospitals. If there's room and DeSantis is hanging out in wonderful, beautiful Los Vegas, begging for money Connie

For the chance at four more years of screwing up the state of Florida,