Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will keep schools open for in-person learning across the state. The number of students or teachers who test positive for COVID-19 after winter break will no doubt be greatly exaggerated to promote a leftist narrative, likely hence his pledge.

DeSantis has not fallen prey to the Chicken Little school of public health policy. Thus Florida largely remains free of the Nurse Ratched regimen so prevalent in authoritarian socialist states like New York and California.

Instead of keeping a stranglehold on monoclonal antibodies, the federal government must release its stockpiles to states who want them and allow states to purchase these medications directly. pic.twitter.com/TVPUFxMLUT

— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) January 3, 2022

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FNC: “Speaking at a press conference in Jacksonville Tuesday, DeSantis discussed his plan to prioritize at-home testing for the elderly and others with risk factors for illness.

DeSantis argued school closures in other areas of the country, such as in Chicago and Portland, Oregon, mostly have come in working-class areas and mitigation measures returning students to remote learning amid security concerns and behavioral issues further deny parents a right to an education for their children.

The governor highlighted how Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo adjusted policy at the beginning of the school year in September to prevent having healthy children who test positive or had exposure to COVID-19 stay away from school for weeks. Instead, only symptomatic kids are sent home.”

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“Our schools will be open in the state of Florida. If you look at the data that’s been amassed throughout the pandemic, it’s found that you have worse outcomes by closing schools,” DeSantis said at a prior press conference on Monday. “And so it’d be so damaging. Kids need to be in school.”

“Parents need to be assured that they’re going to be able to send their kids to school,” the governor said, arguing data showed that schools have not driven waves of the virus in the past. “Our universities are going to be open, our state universities, they’re going to have in person instruction. I think any university that doesn’t do that should have to refund a hundred percent of the tuition to the parents.” DeSantis said Tuesday, “when you have a free society like Florida, you can choose to be more cautious.” The important part is that it is an individual choice, not a government mandate.