A free market advocate who helped advise Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on how to combat COVID-19 said on Sunday the state’s success navigating the pandemic stemmed from a flexible approach. “When the virus initially hit, no one knew what to do, really anywhere in the country. All of the ‘experts’ were wrong initially. And so after the initial two-week lockdown, if you remember ‘two weeks to slow the spread,’ Gov. Ron DeSantis decided to do really three things,” Robert McClure, president and CEO of the James Madison Institute, told The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders” during CPAC 21 in Florida. “He said, first we’re going to protect the most vulnerable, which were the elderly—Florida has the second largest elderly population in the country—we were going to protect the immunocompromised, those with with issues all around the state. And then third, we’re not going to close down our state’s economy; we are …