Posted on 12/17/2022 2:33:53 PM PST by RandFan
Early in the pandemic, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis repeatedly praised President Donald Trump for the expedited development and rollout of a coronavirus vaccine. The governor’s office pushed for $480 million in pandemic resources, including media campaigns promoting the shots, according to state budget documents. And DeSantis, a Republican, even lauded the Biden administration for helping to expand access to vaccines.
“We’re having more vaccine because of this, which is great,” DeSantis said of a federal program shipping shots to pharmacies in February 2021.
But this past week, DeSantis threw himself into misleadingly disparaging the vaccines, convening skeptics to buck guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and seeking to investigate vaccine makers for fraud.
“These companies have made a fortune off this federal government imposing or at least attempting to impose mandates, and a lot of false statements,” DeSantis said at the roundtable event on Wednesday. “I think people want the truth and I think people want accountability, so you need to have a thorough investigation into what’s happened with these shots.”
A review of DeSantis’s public positions on the vaccines shows a full reversal that has unfolded gradually since 2021, seizing on the shots’ waning efficacy against new virus variants and portraying evolving scientific advice as deliberate deceit.
The hard-line position he’s now staking out is taking on additional significance: DeSantis is widely seen as a potential presidential candidate in 2024, with many Republicans wanting him to challenge Trump for the GOP nomination and some seeing vaccines as a potential wedge issue to outflank the former president to his right.
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Only after the direct guidance from the Trump administration was released. We've already gone over this in detail, I can link that thread if necessary.
Ivy League
Trump went to an Ivy League school as well. And while Trump brags about his Ivy League education, DeSantis has consistently put his Ivy League experience down.
Prepare to be surprised.
Anyhow, you should embrace a DeSantis run.
Unlike Trump, he might actually win.
” if used PROPERLY,”, there is no proper use for it. “ to inoculate the elderly and immune compromised,” these are the people who should be the last to use it. It only makes their immune system weaker.
It was well known the vaxxes were bad mumbo long before DeSantis, who it seems has suddenly realized there are issues with some of these vaxxes. Seize the moment!
My point exactly. He was forced to shut down travel and the economy by fauci’s recommendations and regretted it when he found out what liars they all are.
If new facts\evidence present themselves only a fool doesn’t ‘refine’ his\her position. In short, change the facts change the mind!
Johnny made me do it! Good thinking.
I remember 2020.It wasn't the federal government that stopped us from flying to FL. It was the governor of FL who required that we quarantine alone for 14 days after we got off the plane.
Trump said no to federal restrictions at that time. So DeSantis imposed his own.
Kind of parallels the facts as they were exposed concerning the vaccine, it's efficacy, or lack thereof, it's dangers and the coverups as they became obvious.
WaPo.
All propaganda, all agenda, all the time.
Hey, Wapo, maybe DeSantis, like most Americans, wanted to trust the medical establishments, and mostly did, until almost three years of evidence changed the minds of more and more Americans.
WaPo. Do I need to say more?
DeSantis started reversing his position at the exact moment that Trump came out and declared that he was personally responsible for developing the vaccines, and that they are one of the greatest inventions in the history of mankind.
Are you really saying you're actually on DeSantis side with regard to the "bad mumbo vaxxes" now? Can't be. No way. More likely, you're just trying to get in a cheap shot on DeSantis, and hoping no one will notice Trump still claims to be the father of the vaccines. Go ahead, set the record straight for us. Thanks.
Correct. The vaxxes are complete garbage, and dangerous garbage at that. They have benefitted no one and harmed many.
He was for it before he was against it.
Here’s what Trump said, specifically at one of his press conferences announcing his lockdown guidelines. Note things like “avoid groups larger than 10” and “avoid discretionary travel.”
Remarks by President Trump and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force
This afternoon, we’re announcing new guidelines for every American to follow ... The White House Task Force meets every day and continually updates guidelines ... we’ve made the decision to further toughen the guidelines and blunt the infection now. We’d much rather be ahead of the curve than behind it, and that’s what we are. Therefore, my administration is recommending that all Americans, including the young and healthy, work to engage in schooling from home when possible. Avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 people. Avoid discretionary travel. And avoid eating and drinking at bars, restaurants, and public food courts. If everyone makes this change or these critical changes and sacrifices now, we will rally together as one nation and we will defeat the virus.
he is going after the Trump base, so obvious. He will pivot back after the primaries if he should somehow win because most Americans have taken the jab and won’t admit to themselves it may have been a bad decision.
This guy is such a fake and a phony. He’s not sincere about this at all.
Agreed...Billy.
These shots have been a disaster. Clinging to them in the face of the mounting evidence of danger is a lower position.
Could I see the link of DeSantis reversing his position at the exact moment Trump came out and declared that he was personally responsible. Thanks!
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