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DeSantis Cares About Deaths From Hurricane Ian. Just Not From COVID.<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-twisted-values-of-randy-fine-ron-desantis-top-anti-disney-attack-dog">Ron DeSantis</a> was being exactly what a governor should be in an emergency during Tuesday morning’s press conference about the approaching Hurricane Ian. He was the personification of calm and clarity as he stepped up to the podium at the State Emergency Operations Center.</p> <p>Noting that the “Category 3 hurricane” was “anticipated to land in Cuba very soon,” DeSantis allowed that the scientists tracking the storm could not predict its exact course. But that did not prompt him to call the science itself into question. He spoke of the storm’s “cone of uncertainty” much as <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/andrew-cuomo-suggests-possible-flattening-of-curve-in-new-york">New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo spoke of “flattening the curve”</a> at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.</p> <p>As recorded by the Florida Division of Emergency Management and reported by <a href="https://www.orlandosentinel.com/weather/hurricane/os-prem-ne-hurricane-facts-how-many-people-have-been-killed-20210530-5xiqwdztevewvki436qiestzvy-story.html"><em>The Orlando Sentinel</em></a>, 464 Floridians have been killed by “tropical storm-related activity,” or hurricanes, since 1991.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-desantis-cares-about-deaths-from-hurricane-ian-just-not-from-covid?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p> <p>Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tips">here</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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Ron DeSantis was being exactly what a governor should be in an emergency during Tuesday morning’s press conference about the approaching Hurricane Ian. He was the personification of calm and clarity as he stepped up to the podium at the State Emergency Operations Center.

Noting that the “Category 3 hurricane” was “anticipated to land in Cuba very soon,” DeSantis allowed that the scientists tracking the storm could not predict its exact course. But that did not prompt him to call the science itself into question. He spoke of the storm’s “cone of uncertainty” much as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo spoke of “flattening the curve” at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

As recorded by the Florida Division of Emergency Management and reported by The Orlando Sentinel, 464 Floridians have been killed by “tropical storm-related activity,” or hurricanes, since 1991.

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