Good! DeSantis Seeks To Make Permanent Protections From COVID Mandates, Medical Tyranny
Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis on Jan.17 said he’d seek to make permanent the state’s pioneering protections against COVID mask and vaccine mandates, and back physicians’ free speech.
Speaking in Panama City Beach, DeSantis said he’d introduce legislation to carry that out in Florida’s upcoming legislative session. Earlier state-mandated measures were temporary and will expire on July 1, he said.
“We want to make sure our state remains the freest state in these United States,” DeSantis said.
The new legislation—likely to pass since Republicans control both houses of the legislature—will permanently prohibit COVID vaccine passports, COVID vaccine and mask mandates in schools, masking requirements in businesses, and employers hiring or firing based on COVID vaccination status.
It will further protect doctors’ First Amendment rights so that they won’t lose their jobs if they dissent from medical orthodoxy, and defend medical professionals from discrimination based on their religious views.
“When the world lost its mind, Florida was a refuge of sanity, serving strongly as freedom’s linchpin,” said DeSantis. “These measures will ensure Florida remains this way and will provide landmark protections for free speech for medical practitioners.”
State Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said he’d witnessed “accomplished scientists” threatened for holding unorthodox views.
He reminded the crowd that much of the conventional wisdom dispensed by the medical establishment had proven false over the past two years.
“All medical professionals should be encouraged to engage in scientific discourse without fearing for their livelihoods or their careers.”
“When you go away from evidence-based medicine, and you start embracing ideology, you start to do things that aren’t in the public’s interest,” DeSantis said.
“And if you think about our medical establishment, from [Dr. Anthony] Fauci on down over the last three years, you know they were wrong. About lockdown. They were wrong about mask mandates. They were wrong about school closures. They were wrong about mRNA shots. They were wrong about sports and vaccine mandates, and it really goes on and on,” he said.
“The physicians who were speaking out against some of these things, they were really treated very poorly.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/desantis-seeks-make-permanent-protections-covid-mandates
