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Carl Hiaasen: Who was that masked man?! Well, it sure wasn’t Gov. DeSantis

Unbowed and unmasked, Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to shrug in the face of Florida’s record-breaking surge in coronavirus cases.

“We’re not rolling back,” he said, even as national disease experts warned that the state is poised to become the next epicenter for COVID-19 outbreaks.

The governor — who is good at papering himself with edited, upbeat statistics — has a list of ready explanations for why Florida’s numbers are exploding, and why

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