Gov. Ron DeSantis has failed Florida during COVID-19 crisis | Letter to the editor

Here we sit our hospitals filling, COVID-19 medicines being rationed out because there is a shortage and yet you, Gov. DeSantis, act as though it’s just a little blip, nothing to worry about, and we can continue to plow ahead.

It’s sickening really how little disregard you seem to have for human life.

In May we quickly raced to open up businesses. Most people were easily lured out of their quarantine haze. But there were those of us who did not quite buy into your slick reassurance that it was safe to return to normalcy.

We were not ready, and you know it. And yet you continued to ignore reason and instead focused on rushing along to the next phase.

Now here we are. Schools are set to open in the next month. At this point with the virus surging as high as it is, the reality of students and staff members safely returning to schools is nothing more than a pipe dream.

You tell us it’s perfectly safe to open schools since Home Depot and Walmart have been open and are doing fine. No one is buying that. Who exactly walks into Home Depot or Walmart and spends seven hours, the length of an average school day, there?

You are so incredibly out of touch it’s not only embarrassing, it’s downright negligent. As governor of this state your current top priority should be mitigating the virus.

I urge you to do something to help slow this down before countless lives are affected.A mask mandate for one would help.

Although at this point we may be far beyond just slapping on a face covering as a tiny band-aid to fix this gaping hole that the virus is now causing.

Tara Duarte

Bradenton