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FROM JULY, 2021: DeSantis Delivers Full-Throated Endorsement of Covid Vaccines: ‘These Vaccines Are Saving Lives’
Mediaite ^ | July 21, 2021, 4:09 pm | Jackson Richman

Posted on 12/24/2021 9:21:23 AM PST by conservative98

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said on Wednesday that coronavirus “vaccines are saving lives” and “are reducing mortality.”

“If you are vaccinated, fully vaccinated, the chances of you getting seriously ill or dying from Covid is effectively zero,” he said. “If you look at the people being admitted to hospitals, over 95 percent of them are either not fully vaccinated or not vaccinated. And so these vaccines are saving lives.”

DeSantis also touted the vaccines for reducing mortality rates.

“They are reducing mortality. Mortality in nursing homes since we rolled out the vaccines in December is down 95 percent due to Covid. Mortality for elderly people since we rolled out the vaccines is down nearly 90 percent,” he said. “So we’re proud in Florida that we put seniors first on that list because they were the most vulnerable. We have 85 percent of our seniors that are vaccinated and about 75 percent of folks over the age of 50. We have no mandate. We’ve provided information to people and we’ve been very honest about any data that comes out.”

DeSantis acknowledged that some vaccinated people “can test positive … but they don’t get seriously ill in except maybe rare instances, there’s always one-off on stuff.”

However, continued the governor, “in Florida, your chance of surviving if you’re vaccinated is close to 100 percent.”

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To: Chunga85

Here’s a more current take, that this five month old one, by Gov DrSantis….

DeSantis warns ‘fully-vaxxed’ Americans will need boosters to keep jobs ‘if we don’t stand up now’

Florida’s Republican governor said Biden’s sweeping new mandate requiring employees to become ‘fully vaccinated’ is ‘just the tip of the iceberg.’

Nov 8, 2021

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ron-desantis-covid-vaccine-boosters/

DeSantis was right: Definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ is rapidly changing to include booster shots

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/desantis-was-right-definition-of-fully-vaccinated-is-rapidly-changing-to-include-booster-shots/


161 posted on 12/24/2021 10:48:06 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: conservative98
BOOM💥
“These vacines are saving lives”

In his most direct effort to encourage people to get vaccinated, Governor Ron DeSantis said 95% of the new COVID cases are those who are not

What's BOOM about it?
I don't see DeSantis or President Trump forcing anyone to take any vaccine.
Or making anyone lose their jobs because they refused to take some vaccine.
In fact DeSantis has instituted laws in Florida to stop anyone from losing their jobs because they refused take some vaccine.
Go and do your “BOOM” elsewhere.

162 posted on 12/24/2021 10:51:19 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: conservative98; JulieRNR21; Travis McGee; AAABEST; kinganamort; katherineisgreat; floriduh voter; ..
My website seems to be in a coma this morning, so no grafix.

Florida Freeper Ping!

I'm compiling a list of FReepers interested in Florida-related topics.
If you want to be added, please FReepMail me.

163 posted on 12/24/2021 10:51:32 AM PST by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: kjam22
My feeling is that if I'm that sick, throw everything at it, whatever it takes I don't care. We have friends who have done both, recently one friend age 42 ended up on oxygen tried ivermectin and got very sick.
She then thankfully was able to get the monoclonal and it worked.
164 posted on 12/24/2021 10:51:46 AM PST by bella1 (DeSantis 2024)
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To: Jane Long
Why post an older statement from July, without date in headline?

Because “Conservative98” is a left wing propagandist, totally determined to push compulsorily covid vaccinations for everybody. Just like Joe Dementia wants.

165 posted on 12/24/2021 10:56:55 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: SoConPubbie

>>> I’m willing to give both of these gentlemen a break when it comes to sincerity.

Great... then lets ask them what they are basing their conclusions on.

We don’t see that happening now do we?

Considering who Trump is, and how many anti-vaxx supporters he has, Don’t you think he is being inundated with warnings from his supporters that he is promoting genocide??? What do you think the odds are of Trump being PERFECTLY isolated from claims that would cause most reasonable people to at least INVESTIGATE those claims?

WHO IS TRUMP TRUSTING NOW??? (assuming he is innocently ignorant)
How about his OWN DOCTOR.. who SAVED HIS LIFE???? Is Trump paying ANY attention to him???
How many people are even aware of what Dr. Zalenco is saying?

Seems like every time Trump endorses the vaccines, he throws in his line about “I’m against mandates”... but the fact that he even has to say that should be raising red flags!

Seems to me like Trump’s priorities are not quite in line here on this. The fact that he has to emphasize his opposition to mandates, but is NOT really DOING anything about them, or at least digging into the bigger questions about safety is something I find really suspicious!


166 posted on 12/24/2021 10:57:48 AM PST by Safrguns
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To: Jim Noble

“He is absolutely correct.”

Drag federal dollars through the medical community and most of them will say and do just about anything.


167 posted on 12/24/2021 10:57:58 AM PST by Chunga85 (fatality rate 0.26)
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To: conservative98

I’m not looking to Trump or the governor of Florida for medical advice. Neither of them are looking to cram theirs down my throat. The media are drawing Republicans out on this topic this week, and they’re nervously complying. Next week maybe they’ll find a Republican who’s wised up and primed to rebound the question into a teaching moment about tyranny vs liberty.

Or we could shoot good people in the back if they have a different opinion about one thing. I know which I prefer, but it’s a free country.


168 posted on 12/24/2021 11:05:26 AM PST by Iowa Slim
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To: Paradox

Its been that a joke for some time. Its a good aggregation site, like Drudge used to be but thats about it.


169 posted on 12/24/2021 11:05:55 AM PST by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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To: Bob434

Well, there is one claim that can be made which is not contradictory and is fully accurate.

The mRNA gene therapy shots do not have any long term testing. Forget the political machinations of the CDC and the FDA. It is experimental.

Unless I am damned ill & possibly terminal, I’m not getting an experimental drug that has no long term testing or track record. I’m too damn old not to have seen repeatedly over the decades highly touted drugs that turned out to be just the opposite over the longer term and caused heartbreaking damage.

Perhaps if 50%+ of the population (ALL ages!) were getting seriously ill and dying I would rethink my refusal. But the current numbers? (Which are very likely heavily massaged at the least) - Nope.


170 posted on 12/24/2021 11:06:12 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: SmokingJoe

No, you moron. It is for the people spreading hate for Trump for supporting the vaccines when Desantis has supported the vaccines from day 1. He went all over the state opening up vaccine sites WAY before other states AND partnered with publix & other chains even before govt partnerships. This post is for all you morons who are abandoning the Trump ship and saying you’re not voting or voting for Ron because of the vaccine endorsement when Ron did the same.


171 posted on 12/24/2021 11:06:18 AM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98
What do the numbers say? The pandemic has been going on long enough now that it is possible to compare the same time periods in 2020 (when no one, of course, had been vaccinated) to those in 2021 (over the course of which time, millions of Americans, including millions of Floridians, were vaccinated).

Over the course of the seventh month period, April through October 2020 -- again, a time during which no one in the state of Florida had been vaccinated -- there were a total of 16,725 deaths involving COVID recorded in the state.

For those same months in 2021 -- again, a time during which millions of Floridians became vaccinated -- Florida incurred 26,913 COVID deaths. This reflects an increase of some 61%.

Further, the single worst month for COVID deaths in the state of Florida was (post-vax) August 2021, when the state incurred 10,360 such deaths. The second worst month was (post-vax) September 2021, when the state incurred a further 8,235 such deaths. By way of comparison, the figures for (pre-vax) August 2020 and September 2020 were 4,787 COVID deaths and 2,023 COVID deaths, respectively.

[Third on the monthly death list was January 2021, as the vaccines were just being rolled out for the aged and most vulnerable. Florida incurred 5,015 COVID deaths that month.]

Post-vax August 2021 and September 2021 were also the two worst months for excess "all cause mortality" in the state of Florida since the pandemic began, with the "expected deaths" percentages for those two months coming in at 184% and 166%, respectively.

That's just what the data show, based on official death certifications made by doctors and hospitals in the state of Florida and reported to the National Center for Health Statistics.

To my mind at least, if the vaccines do work to prevent death, it is perfectly reasonable to expect that, on a population-wide basis, COVID deaths would have declined after their introduction. But that is not what has happened in Florida. Quite the contrary.

172 posted on 12/24/2021 11:06:26 AM PST by DSH
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To: conservative98

The “Trump ship” is NOT compulsory vaccination for anybody. Nor is it “take vaccines or lose your job”.
It’s never been.
Meanwhile, why would you lost something from a far back as July without making it clear in the OP if you didn’t have an agenda?


173 posted on 12/24/2021 11:18:52 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: SoConPubbie

SoConPubbie wrote: “He seems to be as ignorant as President Trump on this issue.”

DeSantis and Trump know far more about this than most posters here on freerepublic.


174 posted on 12/24/2021 11:24:03 AM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: SeekAndFind

These vaccines are poison, quite deadly in many cases.

These so called wannabe ‘Leaders’ need to come out against them or their ‘feet of clay’ will be realized and their support will collapse. How can they not realize this?


175 posted on 12/24/2021 11:33:53 AM PST by Radix (Politicians; the Law and the Profits. )
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To: setter
The death rates is higher post vaccine due to the delta variant killing off all the unvaccinated.

Funny how nobody was "vaccinated" before and the death rate was much lower...

176 posted on 12/24/2021 11:34:01 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: SoConPubbie

So what? No one is mandating that you approve of him


177 posted on 12/24/2021 11:39:19 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Mr. Mojo

I saw last February that these vaccines were complete BS and that the compulsory submission to them was inevitable. Talk about the Book of Revelation unfolding before us all. I walked away. ‘I retired.’

Whatever this crap may be, it is not the stuff of vaccines in any traditional sense. Five months later in July and 5 months again now in December, there is nothing out there to indicate that these poisons should be referred to as anything else.


178 posted on 12/24/2021 11:42:55 AM PST by Radix (Politicians; the Law and the Profits. )
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To: Radix

I’ve read of others who also retired. If I hadn’t retired early I would have done so in this politically fed covid climate.


179 posted on 12/24/2021 11:45:16 AM PST by caww ( )
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To: SoConPubbie

They are both dealing with the same issue - the PFizer contracts specify that Pfizer dictates how the vaccines are rolled out, and how the government talks about them. Failure to honor the contract can result in Pfizer being given ‘sovereign US assets’ which would include military bases, miltary hardware, taxpayer dollars - you name it.

China is using Pfizer as a stalking horse. 70 CCP members sit on PFizer’s investments board. Other countries have objected to these terms. It looks like Biden’s failure to meet the 70% ‘vaccination’ deadline in July was the reason he essentially gave China Bagram, billions in military hardware and sadly, hostages.


180 posted on 12/24/2021 11:54:12 AM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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