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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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KEYWORDS: 0ldnews; 1newnews; 2stillnews; covid; covid19; desantis; fl; florida; rondesantis; smartman; trump; vaccine
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To: shadowlands1960; All
"All of those participants on Free Republic who said they were dumping Trump because he was pro-vaccine and supporting Desantis... what say you now?"

Thanks for posting conservative98.

Trump is an excellent negotiator. But from his first term in office, patriots in the "back seat" have been getting carsick with expert dealmaker Trump at the wheel because they don't understand that he's possibly bluffing to lever the outcome he wants imo.

Insights welcome.

61 posted on 12/24/2021 9:48:38 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: BiglyCommentary

“Old statement and now DeSantis is more fully informed and aware.”

True. It’s from last July. In October he said....​“People being forced to put something in their bodies that we don’t know all there is to know about yet. No matter what people on TV tell you, it’s not true. We’re going to learn more about the safety of these vaccines. We’re finding that some of these vaccines, the protection from infection is less than 40 percent,” he said, “We’re going to learn more about the safety of these vaccines, right?”


62 posted on 12/24/2021 9:48:43 AM PST by moehoward (.)
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To: conservative98

10 years from now conservatives will be writing books on how anti vaxxers took over the party and nearly destroyed it.

The anti vaxxers who are honest will wonder how they were led to believe the anti vaccine bull crap.


63 posted on 12/24/2021 9:48:47 AM PST by setter
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To: varyouga

“I’m hearing the same thing from doctors and nurses. 95%+ of their covid beds are unvaccinated and vaccine side effect cases are almost nothing”

My wife is a nurse and I’m hearing the opposite.


64 posted on 12/24/2021 9:49:06 AM PST by Chunga85 (fatality rate 0.26)
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To: conservative98

Yale gave us the two Clintons, two Bushes, and Frenchy Kerry.

Now Yale gives us Ron DeSantis.

DeSantis like Frenchy checks the Roman Catholic box.

Like Kerry attempted to do, DeSantis plays up his military record.

To his credit (I think) unlike Frenchy at least he is Yalie who was not a Skull & Boner, but then again neither were the Clintons.


65 posted on 12/24/2021 9:49:33 AM PST by Biblebelter
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To: Paradox

I’m reserving judgment until the lizard people come down from their UAPs and give us their two cents.


66 posted on 12/24/2021 9:50:41 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: Paradox

“FR has become a joke”

The anti vaccine cult makes Jim Jones look like a piker.


67 posted on 12/24/2021 9:52:34 AM PST by setter
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To: Flash Bazbeaux

Funniest post on this thread... hands down! Or should I say knees down?


68 posted on 12/24/2021 9:53:39 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: dynachrome

**Fully vaccinated = 2 shots? 3 shots? 4 shots? 2 masks? 3 masks?**

The goal posts have been mounted on wheels for quite some time, and are now out on the freeway. Hopefully they’ll get stuck under a low overpass.


69 posted on 12/24/2021 9:53:54 AM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: shadowlands1960
You’ve been a Trump hater since I first started noticing your posts so this post isn’t surprising.

Bullshit.

I voted for him twice and donated hundreds to both of his campaigns, the only politician I ever donated money to.

I also voted for Ron DeSantis and I prefer him immensely to Donald Trump, who I believe has no chance to get re-elected and probably isn't even going to run (but he's raking in big bucks fundraising).

70 posted on 12/24/2021 9:54:52 AM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: Alberta's Child

We ask, and in our semi-rural area most of the vaxxes were given within our system and are charted.

Occasionally we have unknowns.

Last week the critical (ICU) census was 13, 11 unvaccinated, 1 vaccinated, 1 unknown.

The state is 56% vaccinated.


71 posted on 12/24/2021 9:55:50 AM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: Manly Warrior

Why do you recommend masks?

Merry Christmas


72 posted on 12/24/2021 9:56:05 AM PST by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: conservative98
Why is Mediaite reprinting a story from July days after Trump said he was for vaccines? Do they think people will not notice the original publish date?

Propaganda, pure and simple. Well, at least it shows us who the real trolls are here at FR...

73 posted on 12/24/2021 9:56:43 AM PST by jeffc (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: Zuriel

If the virus continues to decline in potency, like it looks Omicron is showing, then soon it won’t matter... it will be like the flu, you can choose to take the shot or not... should be that way already except for obese and elderly along with other co-morbidities.


74 posted on 12/24/2021 9:57:09 AM PST by shadowlands1960 ("...some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again... " CSL)
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To: conservative98

July?

A lot can happen in 6 months.

Like say, your young and beautiful wife suddenly being stricken by cancer, as has now happened to DeSantis.

Only time will tell if these experimental meds were more helpful than harmful. And politicians better be very careful about getting on the slippery slope of endorsing ANY med that hasn’t been rigorously tested.


75 posted on 12/24/2021 9:58:31 AM PST by Golden Eagle (Without treasonous Republicans, the Democrats have zero power.)
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To: DouglasKC

The death rates is higher post vaccine due to the delta variant killing off all the unvaccinated.


76 posted on 12/24/2021 9:59:07 AM PST by setter
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To: setter
The anti vaxxers who are honest will wonder how they were led to believe the anti vaccine bull crap

TBH, not everything they believe is "bullcrap", it's just that most of them have adopted a "complete" view of COVID that is mostly incorrect, and because the vaxx pushers DO have an agenda which is not about COVID or public health at all, most antivaxxers have become unable to evaluate the whole vaxx - SARS CoV 2 picture.

77 posted on 12/24/2021 9:59:28 AM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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I only mind the mandates.


78 posted on 12/24/2021 9:59:44 AM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: conservative98

This is a slippery slope. If both Trump and DeSantis are arguing that the vaccines are effective and save lives, then there’s no reason to complain about mandates.

If, on the other hand, Trump and DeSantis are wrong and the vaccines are ineffective and are possibly dangerous to one’s health and well being, then we have every right to fight against mandates.

But the question isn’t really about mandates. The question is if Trump and DeSantis are right and the vaccines save lives or are they, as many here argue, ineffective and dangerous.


79 posted on 12/24/2021 9:59:55 AM PST by Armscor38
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To: setter
The pro-vaccine cult is worse. At least the anti-vaxxers are OK with you getting vaxxed, if you so desire. Not so with the rabid pro-vaxxers...
80 posted on 12/24/2021 9:59:59 AM PST by jeffc (Let's Go Brandon!)
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