"We know that there is no time to waste when it comes to getting shots in arms."; "They're safe, they're effective vaccines."; "The messaging should be: 'get a vaccine because it's good for you to do it.'"; "The vaccine works. Get vaccinated and then live your life as if you're protected."; "These vaccines are saving lives; they are reducing mortality. These vaccines make it so that your chance of survival is pretty doggone close to 100%."; -Ron DeSantis exhorting Floridians to get vaccinated against COVID before he chose pandering to his base over keeping it alive. And all it cost was the deaths of 80k+ Floridians.