Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis has been trying to make a name for himself as a Republican willing to be a Worse Donald Trump, and he hasn’t been missing a single beat lately in trying to out-Trump the former Dear Leader. He was quick to realize that Republican voters really, really wanted fake COVID-19 treatments, and while he ceded the “what if we somehow shoved a disinfecting light up everyone’s —” territory to Donald, he went all-in on hydroxycholorowhateveride, then switched to becoming the nation’s top promoter of monoclonal antibody therapies after the state’s hydroxywhatever stockpiles were proven utterly useless.

DeSantis has, in fact, been touting extremely expensive monoclonal antibody treatments as preferable to being vaccinated against COVID. Imagine his fury, then, as the emergence of the omicron COVID-19 variant turned those drugs from expensive-but-plausible early treatments to utterly useless.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Monday that it will be revoking the emergency use authorizations for Regeneron and Eli Lilly-manufactured monoclonal antibody treatments. The reason for the reversal is straightforward: While the therapies did appear to have some merit in fighting earlier COVID-19 variants, they have proven to be ineffective in combating the omicron variant now responsible for over 99% of new U.S. COVID cases. They’ve been tested; they don’t work.

There are other monoclonal antibody treatments that do still seem to work, but not those two. The FDA, therefore, is withdrawing emergency use authorization for now so that people aren’t being treated with drugs that the FDA and the companies themselves agree aren’t useful.

The point of treating sick COVID patients is to make them less sick, after all. The point isn’t to load them full of treatments that don’t work so that scientifically illiterate political figures can boast to their fans that they know the secret cure for our pandemic troubles.

That brings us to the scientifically illiterate political figure in question: Ron DeSantis. As you can imagine, Ron is extremely furious that he has once again centered his political ambitions on a miracle cure that turns out to not do a damn thing, and because Ron is a Republican, and therefore a hoax-promoting fascist, he is instead insisting that this is all a trick, the FDA is doing it to spite him and to hurt Florida, and he’s going to make sure Florida’s many, many seriously ill COVID patients are pumped full of the two treatments even if he has to sue the federal government to make it happen.

We should note again here that Ron is not a doctor or a medical professional of any kind, and that the closest he comes to one is the part where he inherited the office of a fellow Republican who helped commit the then-largest medical fraud in United States history before popping off to be a U.S. senator. Ron is not only not a medical professional, Ron has never been “professional” about anything in his entire life. But he’s very invested in these two particular drugs, perhaps literally, and so all the medical studies in the world aren’t going to convince him not to inject people with them.

This is still underselling the extent to which the DeSantis office is now a three-ring crackpot circus, however. The Washington Post's Aaron Blake highlights the simultaneous ravings of DeSantis spokescreature Christina Pushaw, who has become Twitter-infamous for the sort of conspiracy peddling and frothing commentary one normally associates with QAnon urine-drinkers. Pushaw has been retweeting claims that “the FDA is trying to make it so that people in Florida die of COVID.”

Looking at it from a distance, it would seem that the people trying the hardest to make sure Floridians die of COVID are those who belittle vaccines, go to great legal and quasi-legal lengths to undermine pandemic safety measures, and now insist that Floridians be treated for COVID with two drugs known to not work—but that would be rude.

And we wouldn’t want to be rude, because that would sell the serial-killing sociopathic Trump wannabe and his cretinous minions short. DeSantis has dedicated himself to promoting fake COVID cures while sabotaging real COVID precautions ever since he watched the party’s previous Dear Leader sail through an entire pandemic using only those two tools and the halfhearted coaching of a son-in-law. DeSantis deserves far more recognition for his pandemic-escalating actions than mere rudeness can properly convey.

Anyhoo, we’ll soon see how far Ron DeSantis is willing to go in his quest to inject Floridians with the useless drugs he bet on rather than the useful ones he didn’t. Perhaps he will call out the state National Guard and forcibly start injecting patients—and billing them, of course—with the drugs as part of a new “monoclonal antibody mandate.” The Republican base would love it, and insist the state abide by it because, obviously, a mandate like that ought to be enforced.

A toast to Ron DeSantis and his miracle cure, they’d shout, and the Florida air would ring with the sound of clinking glasses. What would be in those glasses? The miracle cure Ron DeSantis will settle on after this miracle cure goes down in flames, of course. You and I can both guess.