Posted on 03/29/2021 7:34:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
If Ron DeSantis isn’t setting himself up for 2024, he’s doing a really good job at looking like he is. The Governor of Florida has been hitting all the rights notes since narrowly defeating Andrew Gillum in 2018. DeSantis has separated himself as the best governor in the country when it comes to handling COVID, having kept his state open with a below-average death rate and a booming economy.
DeSantis has also stepped up to the plate on other issues like big tech. Now, he’s got an answer for Biden’s “vaccine passport” idea, and it’s exactly what you’d expect from someone who has shown no fear of the political establishment.
Great Point By DeSantis On Vaccine Passports:
"I also wonder it's like you're going to do this & what give all this information to some big corporation? You want the fox to guard the henhouse? I mean give me a break. I think this is something that has huge privacy implications." pic.twitter.com/CTeGqvZEsS
— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) March 29, 2021
The idea of a vaccine passport is ridiculous. There are tens of millions of people who have already had COVID and are immune. They don’t need to rush out and get the vaccine, which relieves any strain on the supply so those who are actually most vulnerable can be taken care of. Further, it’s simply a completely anti-American mindset to tell people they must have a certain vaccine to operate within the confines of normal life. It’s one thing to require it for children in a public school. It’s another to require it to go to the grocery store or to a ballgame.
This is also a very slippery slope. You start handing government this kind of power, and there will be many other things they suddenly “require” before you can do basic things, and those things will conveniently conform to whatever the left-wing wants at the time.
Regarding DeSantis’ comments, I especially like that he calls into question the wisdom of handing giant corporations even more power and information. Does Target have a right to know your medical history before you can go buy your kid a new backpack? Doing that would also require a lot more red tape and administrative costs. And for what, exactly? If you aren’t in a vulnerable category and those who are have been vaccinated (a majority of seniors have already gotten their first shot), the risks are basically non-existent.
America was founded on individualism and the privacy that comes with that. I’m not anti-vaccine at all, but making it compulsory, especially for those not in the real risk demographics, is a slap in the face to the core principles of our nation. And as I said, the precedent set would be harshly abused going forward. DeSantis is doing the right thing by slapping this down at the state level. Biden can push whatever he wants. It’s not going to happen in these red states, and certainly not in Florida.
Maybe he can inspire some courage in other governors to tell plugs and his band of thugs to pack sand. I know I will but I don’t count for much.
“your papers” Not here.
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Call me crazy, but wasn’t it DeSantis who had checkpoints set up on the Florida-Alabama and Florida-Georgia borders, oh about a year ago?
Mark of the Beast.
“America was founded on individualism and the privacy that comes with that.”
The Intellectual evil spawn of Karl Marx violently disagree.
I haven't heard of any US governments requiring anything.
Does Target have a right to know your medical history before you can go buy your kid a new backpack...
No, but they have the right to ask you if you've been vaccinated before you enter their property. You don't have to answer or get vaccinated, but they have the right to ask you not to enter if you refuse.
If Biden and the Democrats want to endorse voting passports showing proof of citizenship which must be used in all elections, I’ll go along with their COVID-19 passport idea.
If the passport idea doesn’t work there is always the mileage tax transponder they are proposing.
They’re going to track you one way or the other.
Government doesn’t like you? No healthcare for you.
Big Tech doesn’t like you? Accidentally flips COVID passport to “not safe” so you can’t travel.
Government doesn’t like you? No healthcare for you.
Big Tech doesn’t like you? Accidentally flips COVID passport to “not safe” so you can’t travel.
Just tell them that you need to use a trans friendly bathroom immediately.
Yep. One of the ladies I work with deployed to assist in the surveys.
“mileage tax transponder”
Can I just install that on my cat during the day?
Yes. He had checkpoints for cars entering the state.
The government will be the end administrator and set the standards. They have also indicated that there will be taxes attached to this monstrosity, including new Covid “Sin taxes” for eating in restaurants, going to sporting events, and even going to the gym among other things.
It’s all meant to keep the anxiety and paranoia(fear mongering) front-and-center. A national/global threat that never-ends, just like the global warming scam created to push control/suspension of civil rights by government that would NEVER be lifted.
Now it’s the Big Bad Covid virus pandemic propaganda scam that lurks every day, in every thought, in every corner of every reality pushed by every MSM news headline and every Marxist Democrat health official who is in on the hoax/con.
Another never ending battle in perpetuity until the sun super-novas or Democrats become extinct.
I am the burdened party on an easement used by seven other families and their friends to access their properties.
According to you, I have the right to set up a booth and demand proof of vaccination before allowing them access.
LOL. An easement gives them a legal right to access the property. Who has a legal right to enter a Target store uninvited?
You are crazy.
And what does the one have to do with the other?
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