A Gross Attack on Ron DeSantis’ Wife Sparks a Debate Over COVID Testing – Opinion

There is no limit to what can be done when attacking Republicans. Ron DeSantis was the most targeted Republican in recent years, aside from Donald Trump. A popular and successful Florida governor, DeSantis has become the public enemy no.1 for the left due to his ability of controlling the media while promoting their preferred policies.

The latest attack against DeSantis is a step too far for anyone in politics. It all began with a relatively mundane post from Christian Pushaw, who serves as DeSantis’ press secretary.

Think about it. Did anyone ever seek out testing before COVID? @GovRonDeSantisToday pic.twitter.com/uPQFwQRJwN

— Christina Pushaw 🐊 (@ChristinaPushaw) January 7, 2022

Now, any normal person who saw the governor’s comments knew he was talking about common, largely harmless transmissible diseases such as the flu. Omicron has made it clear that the coronavirus is now part of the same category. COVID should never be tested on someone who does not present symptoms. To do so is asinine.

Yet, a herd of absolute hacks descended on Pushaw’s post anyway, and they did so by going after DeSantis’ wife, who is currently battling cancer.

Mammograms are just one example. https://t.co/BVv5c2PNVx

— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) January 8, 2022

AWKWARD. pic.twitter.com/7gKl69WRjO

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) January 8, 2022

This shouldn’t have to be explained, but there is a massive difference between specifically at-risk adults (i.e. Middle-aged women get once-a-year mammograms, while vaccinated people randomly test multiple times per month for COVID-19, despite not having any symptoms. To use Casey DeSantis’ cancer as a political talking point is as misleading as it is gross.

However, the DeSantis attack sparked an intense debate over testing. It exposed the absurdity of many on the Left’s approach to this issue. Frank Luntz is clearly a man from the left, even though he may be a very unimpressive gun-for hire. Over the past several years, a combination of Donald Trump’s and COVID has completely destroyed him.

Frank Luntz, the liberal foundation that commissioned Frank Luntz to change lockdowns to public health mandates was looking to sell these to conservatives. https://t.co/7cW6kiFpiY

— Michael Watson (@MichaelWatsonDC) January 8, 2022

In mid-January 2022, the White House will start shipping COVID test directly to Americans who ask.

This should have happened at least 9 months ago to more effectively contain the spikes we’ve seen since then.https://t.co/vblVezsvwm

— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) January 8, 2022

Anybody who insists mass testing will contain COVID-19 spikes, is living in fantasy land. It’s easily transmitted and can also be carried by air. No amount of testing and isolation was ever going to stop its spread, a lesson the world learned long ago — whether most countries want to accept it or not. The left continues to insist that more testing is necessary when we actually need less.

Asymptomatic patients are, for example, testing positive and blocking up emergency rooms when they could be just living their normal lives. That’s a result of the unnecessary mass “testing culture” that has been fostered over the last two years.

The testing obsession is also a window into the left’s collective desire to have a partisan foil when it comes to COVID-19. They want a group of people to blame for a virus that ultimately can’t be controlled. That’s what vaccine passports, mask mandates, and these overblown testing regimes are all about. Democrats find it maddening that everybody spreads COVID, as they all want to maintain a separation of clean and dirty people.

Regardless, using Casey DeSantis’ cancer as a way to lodge a political attack is way over the line, and it illustrates the level of viciousness pointed at Ron DeSantis because he refused to fall in line.