A Compassionate Doctor Who Might Turn Florida Blue; Returning Citizen Vote, Medicaid Expansion

- Dr. Kayser Enneking. 'She's the opposite of Trump & DeSantis: A compassionate doctor who might just turn Florida blue.' Daily Kos, Oct. 4, 2020.

As I outline on the [still-growing] site COVIDSuperSpreaders.com, Trump is not the only reason we are in this miserable place. The abject lies and knowingly careless and callous decisions made by a number of Republican governors and state legislators have also played an outsized role in the death of 210,000 Americans, the illness of 7.3 million, and the tens of millions of people who have lost their jobs, healthcare, and loved ones.

Chief amongst those governors has been Florida’s devastatingly irresponsible Gov. Ron DeSantis. He has never mandated masks, refused to shut the state down for over a month, reopened it far too early in both May (when they were at 11k new cases a day!), did little nothing to stem the skyrocketing caseload this summer, and just reopened it again despite ongoing trouble.

While Florida Republicans have ignored science every step of the way, Kayser Enneking has been helping as many people in the state as possible since the virus first emerged. She’s not only a Democratic candidate for a super-flippable seat in the Florida State House, but Enneking is also a doctor who teaches at the University of Florida and practices at its medical center, Shands Hospital.

In March, Enneking converted her campaign into an information center for COVID-19, including weekly webinars that continue to this day.

I first spoke to her back in May, right when DeSantis reopened the state, which Enneking correctly predicted would lead to a spike in cases. We recently reconnected to discuss the situation in Florida as it stands, now that DeSantis has again prematurely reopened the state. Enneking is dealing with her own fair share of COVID-19 cases as a physician, which combined with her campaign gives her a unique insight into the problems plaguing the state.

I asked Enneking to go through the biggest mistakes made by DeSantis and his GOP cronies. She offered three major indictments...

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/4/1983550/-She-s-the-opposite-of-Trump-DeSantis-A-compassionate-doctor-who-might-just-turn-Florida-blue