DeSantis: Reopening Schools Is Like Killing Bin Laden

Mediaite reports:

With anxious parents around the state of Florida debating whether or not to send their children back to school in the next few weeks, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) shared a metaphor which is unlikely to provide much reassurance.

Speaking at a news conference on Wednesday, the Florida governor relayed comments made to him by Martin County Superintendent Laurie Gaylord. “She viewed reopening her schools as a mission akin to a Navy SEAL operation,” DeSantis said.

“Just as the SEALs surmounted obstacles to bring Osama bin Laden to justice, so too would the Martin County School system find a way to provide parents with a meaningful choice of in-person instruction or continued distance learning.”

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Can we please not invoke death when talking about foolishly opening schools in the midst of a pandemic, @GovRonDeSantis? https://t.co/jXtIzNRBTZ

— Dana Nuccitelli (@dana1981) August 13, 2020

Gasbag @GovRonDeSantis thinks opening schools is like killing Bin Laden? So, it will take ten years?

— JeremyNewberger (@jeremynewberger) August 13, 2020

If, say, bin Laden were some modest number of Florida school children, a larger number of their parents and an appalling number of their grandparents. Metaphors are hard. https://t.co/OVqxQbH0Qw

— David Simon (@AoDespair) August 13, 2020

Yes, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis really just compared the Navy Seals operation to bring down Osama Bin Laden to Florida “finding a way” to send kids back to school.

Raise your hand if your kindergarteners aren’t in the military. pic.twitter.com/U9Bs2891yM

— Mrs. Krassenstein (@HKrassenstein) August 13, 2020

I saw bin Laden trending and I thought trump tried to take credit for killing him too, but it was just Ron DeSantis comparing killing him to sacrificing Florida kids in going back to COVID-19 unsafe schools. pic.twitter.com/bZxrSpScqv

— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) August 13, 2020

Ron DeSantis compared reopening schools in Florida to overcoming the obstacles faced by the US Navy SEAL team that killed Osama bin Laden in 2011

Reminder: More Americans have died from coronavirus in Florida than were killed by Osama Bin Laden

— The Hardy Report Podcast (@EdwardTHardy) August 13, 2020