The first meeting of the "Re-Open Florida Task Force" which was convened by DeSantis to advise him on how to go forward, met today, Monday Apr 20. The report of the membership, who is there, who is not is detailed by the
Miami Herald Newspaper.
DeSantis is leading the task force and it does not contain a single physician. Instead it is dominated by Republican legislative and executive office holders and the leaders of large businesses. There are no representatives of small business nor of agriculture.
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Also missing were any representatives from small businesses, whom DeSantis and his spokeswoman had assured would have a “big emphasis” on the task force meetings.
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The 90-minute meeting Monday of the group led by Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Chamber of Commerce focused on statistics about the state economy and business leaders thanking DeSantis for his “thoughtful,” “decisive” and “proactive” leadership.
The state’s top two health officials, the surgeon general and the secretary for the Agency for Health Care Administration, were not heard from until the end of the call.
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At least they had one doctor there, listening and allowed to talk at the end. Mary Mayhew is the Sec for the Agency for HCA and is a poly sci graduate and former candidate for governor in the state of Maine.
It seems strange to me that the task force which will recommend to DeSantis is big business [banks, tourism, utilities] and not a single doctor or epidemiologist. I think you can already see what the overriding factor is going to be. $$ not lives. I hope it works out. It might.