You need to read the NY Times article on Ron Desantis handling of Covid. As a FL resident we saw all of this in real time. First embracing and promoting vaccination. Saying it was the key to controlling covid. Then getting hooked up with a wacko expert that "herd" immunity was the way to go. So then shifting this vaccination campaign to minimize the vaccines. Florida had abundant vaccines way before the surge available but people would not take them because of his shift. Then people started dying unnecessarily in large numbers so DeSantis shifted to pumping very expensive monoclonal antibodies. Because he was wrong his pride would not allow him to go back to promoting vaccination. His own guy says his flip flopping resulted in thousands of unnecessary deaths.
So here we are today. DeSantis is actually campaigning on how we need to prosecute and hold accountable those responsible for Covid failures like Fauci. Yes. Fauci. Because he said don't wear masks then changed his position.
It is a sad state of this country that political leaders for blind ambition can cause unnecessary death and then gaslight his followers to demonize others. And people are oblivious.