Given all that we know about COVID-19 and the severe risk it poses to the elderly population, it should not be controversial that a governor has chosen to give senior citizens in his state priority for getting the coronavirus vaccine.

Only, it’s a Republican governor, so that changes everything. Now, it’s racist and a scheme to obtain votes for reelection.

Last week, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida said his administration was focusing vaccine efforts on “communities that had high levels of seniors.”

In response, an NBC News headline stated: “Florida governor accused of playing politics with Covid vaccine.”

CBS News decried the plan: “The zip codes are two of the county’s wealthiest and whitest,” 

The Washington Post noted: “Ron DeSantis (R) unveiled a ‘pop-up’ clinic offering coveted coronavirus vaccines in an affluent, mostly White part of Manatee County.”

“How has he played politics with the coronavirus vaccine?,” writes BizPacReview, “By zeroing in his state’s vaccine coronavirus efforts on communities that contain a large number of seniors, regardless of race, gender and other immutable traits.”

BizPacReview writes:

According to NBC News, the true reason why DeSantis picked these zip codes is that senior citizens are “one of Florida’s most potent voting blocs.”

The left-wing outlet also complained that, by vaccinating seniors first, the governor had violated the CDC’s extremely controversial original vaccine distribution guidelines.

So, why is it the media are attacking DeSantis with such furor over a logical plan to vaccinate the most at-risk population first?

BizPac speculates it has nothing to do with science and everything to do with taking the heat off off New York Governor Andrew Cuomo:

Overall, this seems like yet another non-scandal scandal about DeSantis. But why? And why now? The theory from some observers is that the media is trying to distract from the real scandal threatening to engulf New York Gov. Cuomo.

The media is actually outraged that Ron DeSantis is making it easier for elderly people to get vaccinated in Florida

Maybe if he put sick patients into nursing homes, leading to thousands of deaths, and then covered it up he could get positive press—even an Emmy, perhaps?

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— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) February 21, 2021