Let's see what's going on in DeFascistLand... Florida's Surgeon general: yes, our rule forbidding MDs from pre-ordering pediatric vaccine doses MIGHT be putting our kids at risk now, but let's focus on what's REALLY important: stigginit to Biden. Florida surgeon general tells lawmakers blocking orders to childhood vaccines could have led to delays His comments are the latest development in the ongoing fight between Florida and the White House over Covid-19 vaccines for young children. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/29/florida-surgeon-general-childhood-vaccine-delays-00043237 Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo told a congressional subcommittee this week that Florida did not allow pediatricians and health care providers to place orders for Covid-19 vaccines for young children until the doses were approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which ultimately could have led to short delays in accessing the vaccines. Ladapo, who briefed the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis on Tuesday, also reiterated his stance that Florida is against Covid-19 vaccinations for young children and doesn’t recommend them for anyone under 18, according to a statement from thesubcommittee released Wednesday. Ladapo’s comments are the latest developmentin the ongoing fight between Florida and the White House over Covid-19 vaccines for young children and the state’s handling of the pandemic. Gov. Ron DeSantis has long rejected Covid-related mandates and lockdowns while the Biden administration has criticized the state for fighting against mask mandates in schools and vaccine requirements for employees of large businesses. Florida previously did not pre-order Covid-19 vaccinations for children under five because the state Department of Health claimed the process was “convoluted” and the agency didn’t recommend the doses for young children. Florida was the only state in the nation not to pre-order the vaccine. DeSantis has maintained that young children should not get the vaccine because they have not gone through enough clinical trials to determine efficacy and young children are the least likely to suffer from serious symptoms. The vast majority of medical organizations and experts have touted the safety and benefits of the vaccines, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the FDA and others. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) criticized DeSantis in a statement, saying the Republican governor impeded access “to lifesaving coronavirus vaccines for Florida’s young children” and has “made it harder for parents across the state to get their children vaccinated.” Jeremy Redfern, a spokesperson for the Florida Department of Health, rejected the subcommittee’s characterization of Ladapo’s briefing to the panel, saying that much of it was nonsense. He said providers in Florida couldn’t order the vaccines for young children since the FDA hadn’t yet granted emergency authorization for it. He added that the pre-ordering system would not have gotten parents the vaccine sooner since the doses would essentially be shipped at the same time, regardless of whether it was pre-ordered or not. He added that the state did not pre-order the vaccine in part because the Florida Department of Health did not want to be the middleman in distributing the vaccine so as to speed up delivery. “The idea that we’re hindering the ability of parents to make this decision is not true,” Redfern said. “It’s true we’re not facilitating this for that age group, but if a provider wants to order this vaccine, they can do that and there’s nothing to stop them [from using the state ordering portal] from doing that.”
DeSantis has already wasted piles of tax payer money defending court cases he was obviously going to lose in order to play to his base. Well he is about to do it again after Florida's abortion law was declared as unconstitutional because it violates the state constitution. DeSantis vows to appeal abortion ruling up to Florida Supreme Court https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...l-abortion-ruling-up-to-florida-supreme-court
DeSantis is a 'very dangerous individual' because he has 'already absorbed all the lessons of Trump' but doesn't have any of the baggage, an expert on fascism argues https://www.businessinsider.com/des...individual-without-trumps-drama-expert-2022-6 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is best placed to take Trump's place as a 2024 GOP presidential nominee. An expert on authoritarianism told Insider that's because he's learned all of Trump's lessons. The expert added that DeSantis 'doesn't have the baggage of Trump,' and could rally voters. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis could be the GOP's natural successor to former President Donald Trump as a 2024 presidential candidate, and he doesn't come with Trump's drama, an expert on authoritarianism told Insider. Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a historian at New York University, and the author of the book, "Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present." She has studied the backsliding of democracy, from the US to Russia, and elsewhere. In a wide-ranging interview, she told Insider that in light of the January 6 hearings, Trump might have to be prosecuted in order to save American democracy ahead of the 2024 election. In that context, she said that DeSantis could take his place as a populist nominee. "What we do find in history is prosecution, in the longer term, is one of the only things that deflates these guys' personality cults, because those cults are founded on the idea that they are invincible, they are infallible," Ben-Ghiat said. "Now, if that does happen to Trump — DeSantis has already absorbed all the lessons of Trump." Ben-Ghiat has written several essays making her argument. "He's clearly readying himself for a national run, whether it's in 2024 or later. And he's a very dangerous individual," Ben Ghiat said. "He's dangerous because he is equally repressive, but doesn't have the baggage of Trump. It's hard to have the baggage of Trump." DeSantis has recently signed controversial bills like Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill— which limits teachers' curriculum around sexual orientation and gender identity in grades Kindergarten through third — and the Stop WOKE Act, which restricts how race is discussed in workplaces, schools, and colleges. He also implemented an Office of Election Crimes and Security, rankling voting rights advocates. DeSantis, who has raised $124 million, has recently denied that he'll run in 2024, insisting that he's focused on his own race in 2022.
How convenient and how deeply liberal! Let's call strong leaders dangerous fascists if they are Republicans. They dare to sign bills that look bad to this professor. Let's tell everybody that they are dangerous fascists supported by a dangerous crowd of rednecks. This is all just a matter of cult of course. Only uneducated people are supporting them. Let's repeat it as many times as we could. It will stick. Let's applaud strong leaders like Obama because they are just that - Strong Leaders! It will stick too. Unfortunately, this methodology is working. Americans, especially educated Americans, are indoctrinated in high schools and colleges to the extreme. They are thoroughly avoiding thinking and analyzing. I see plenty of examples on this board.
Be careful, tards. You are not all that smart. As Jan. 6 hearings portray an enraged Trump, DeSantis may be biggest winner https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ja...mp-desantis-may-be-biggest-winner-2022-06-30/
Others winners are Republicans In their attempt to tar and feather Trump they are quoting many republicans and Fox news people, showing how rational they were on jan 6
DeSantis is absolutely the biggest winner of the January 6th hearings. All the big Republican donors have backed away from Trump and now are supporting DeSantis or Pence. DeSantis has been sitting quietly in the background -- and probably is applauding the entire January 6th proceedings as more damaging information about Trump keeps coming out.
DeSantis crony Lapado did not only admit that he deliberately blocked health departments from providing Covid vaccines to tens of thousands of disadvantaged children --- he proudly boasted about it in front of a Congressional subcommittee. Florida surgeon general admits state decision could limit vaccine for thousands of kids https://www.orlandosentinel.com/cor...0220630-w22c6f3wjrf4pivp23wjqdhc7e-story.html In a briefing to a congressional subcommittee Tuesday, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo confirmed that the state decision to block county health departments from obtaining the newly FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccines for young children may prevent an estimated 30,000 disadvantaged kids from accessing the vaccines. Florida’s surgeon general, whose guidance on COVID-19 vaccines and face masks has frequently conflicted with the recommendations of public health agencies and medical academies, presented a defiant defense of his controversial advice while testifying before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis. Ladapo doubled down on the Florida Department of Health’s official guidance that healthy children younger than 16 are “at little to no risk of severe illness complications from COVID-19″ — contrary to recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and advice from the American Academy of Pediatrics. “In Florida, we don’t recommend” coronavirus vaccines for children, Ladapo told the subcommittee, according to a statement from the subcommittee. Ladapo repeated his claim that adolescents are at “low risk” from the coronavirus, and he testified that there is “little data” on whether children benefit from the COVID-19 vaccines, the subcommittee said. (More at above url)
DeSantis’ education initiative in Florida derided as ‘propaganda’ As one local educator put it, “There was this Christian nationalism philosophy that was just baked into everything that was there.” https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow...itiative-florida-derided-propaganda-rcna36327