March Madness is this week, and as any college basketball fan can tell you, watching the scoreboard can be a tricky business.
Apparently the same applies to the finger pointing and scoreboard boasting from our country’s leaders about how they handled the coronavirus pandemic.
To be sure, victory laps during a deadly pandemic (that isn’t over) are as gross as they are futile. But the re-examination of the way Florida aggressively dealt with COVID-19 has been quite telling.
Let’s be clear: Florida had a large number of deaths – more than 32,000 – and new cases are common.
But the Sunshine State’s death rate is close to the national average, according to Yahoo.com. Protecting those lives was Job No. 1, but in a crisis this layered, it never was the only job for our leaders.