Journalist Michael Grunwald implied that Lee County’s hesitation to order an evacuation came from Gov. Ron DeSantis’, R-Fla., attitude towards COVID masks and vaccines.
Author Michael Grunwald suggested that Gov. Ron DeSantis' "free state" attitude towards masks and vaccines contributed to Lee County's hesitation to evacuate.to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ past attitude towards masks and COVID vaccines on Monday.
"Ron DeSantis has been very angrily defensive, I guess is a good way to describe it, when people ask him about this delay in the evacuation order. They waited even though their plan was if it’s a 10% probability of flooding, call for a mandatory evacuation. It was like a 40% chance and they didn’t. What do you make of the fact that they didn’t do a mandatory evacuation in a place that people that run the state have got to know is super vulnerable?" Reid asked.
John Quigley carries a piece of artwork made by his daughter, the only thing he found to salvage from his collapsed home, as he pulls his girlfriend's son Sebastian in a cart while walking off the island, two days after the passage of Hurricane Ian, in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022.