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DeSantis Announces New Proposal That Would Provide Permanent Protections Against ‘the COVID-19 Biomedical Security State’
American Greatness ^ | 17 Jan, 2023 | Debra Heine

Posted on 01/18/2023 6:08:28 AM PST by MtnClimber

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Tuesday announced a “common sense” legislative proposal that he said would provide permanent protections to Floridians against “the COVID-19 biomedical security state.”

The governor said the action would make permanent policies that protected Floridians from losing their jobs due to COVID-19 vaccine mandates, and protected parental rights. The policies were due to expire in July of 2023. The proposal also institutes additional protections that prevent discrimination based on COVID-19 vaccine status, and safeguards medical professionals from discrimination based on their personal religious views.

“When the world lost its mind, Florida was a refuge of sanity, serving strongly as freedom’s linchpin,” Governor Ron DeSantis at a news conference in Panama City. “These measures will ensure Florida remains this way and will provide landmark protections for free speech for medical practitioners.”

DeSantis was joined by U.S. Rep. Dr. Neal Dunn (R-Fla.), Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, and Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo.

As governor of “the free state of Florida,” DeSantis led the way in pushing back against biomedical security state to protect Florida jobs and parents’ rights to make health care decisions for their kids. He signed legislation in 2021 to ban private employer vaccine mandates and mask mandates across the state, and continues to ensure no one is discriminated against based on their COVID-19 vaccine status or is subject to a two-tiered test and mask discrimination policy from employers.

“You should never be discriminated against based on your mRNA status ,” DeSantis said. “I just think it’s a civil right to be able to breathe the fresh air.”

The governor noted that taking these actions required his administration to take a stand “against major institutions in our society, the bureaucracy, the medical establishment, legacy media, and even the president of the United States, who together were working to impose a biomedical security state on society.”

By “the COVID-19 biomedical security state,” DeSantis means the unelected technocrats who used the pandemic to impose previously unimaginable social controls—like mask and vaccine mandates—on the entire population.

“They sought to marginalize people who declined COVID jabs by using things like vaccine passports,” DeSantis continued.

They sought to prevent people from being able to earn a living if they declined the jab though the Biden Employer Mandate. They sought to deny children an education if their parents did not want their kids to get mRNA shots. They sought to discriminate against Americans based on vax status by treating them different in their own workplaces. They sought to impose mask-wearing requirements on everyone from spectators watching sporting events to young schoolchildren. And they sought to silence medical practitioners who followed the evidence and backed the science over the narrative.

DeSantis pointed out why it was so important to push back against these government edicts. “They had a lot of momentum, they brought a lot of power to these fights, and they would have won—except for the fact Florida said NO,” the governor declared amid cheers.

The proposal includes the permanent prohibition of the following mandates:

Permanently prohibiting COVID-19 vaccine passports in Florida; Permanently prohibiting COVID-19 vaccine and mask requirements in all Florida schools; Permanently prohibiting COVID-19 masking requirements at businesses; and Permanently prohibiting employers from hiring or firing based on mRNA jabs.

In contrast to a new law in California, the proposal guarantees the First Amendment rights of medical professionals, ensuring no one loses their job or medical license for voicing their professional opinions in Florida.

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation on Sept. 30, 2021 that allows the state medical board to “discipline physicians and surgeons who spread coronavirus misinformation” (offer medical opinions that depart from the official government narrative) during direct patient care. Doctors in the Golden State who commit “unprofessional conduct” by disseminating “misinformation or disinformation” about COVID-19 may be suspended or have their California medical license revoked.

“If a very high quality physician is driven out of California, this is gonna be the first place people are gonna want to go,” DeSantis said. “Just remember, these things don’t happen We are gonna make sure that our state remains the freest state in these United States.”

“As a health sciences researcher and physician, I have personally witnessed accomplished scientists receive threats due to their unorthodox positions,” said State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo. “However, many of these positions have proven to be correct, as we’ve all seen over the past few years. All medical professionals should be encouraged to engage in scientific discourse without fearing for their livelihoods or their careers.”

Ladapo argued that the “crazy ideas” are actually coming from the officials in the biomedical security state.

DeSantis blasted the few conclaves left in America that still impose vaccine mandates on people. “Almost every study has said with these new boosters, you’re more likely to get infected with the Bivalent booster,” he pointed out. “So for what possible reason could you force that? We’re one of the few countries in the entire world that imposes [vaccine mandates] anymore. I don’t even think China imposes that anymore!” He exclaimed. “Even today, Biden and his lawyers at the Biden Department of Justice were in federal court in Miami trying to get reimposed the mask mandate for airline passengers which a district judge had struck down last year. Even after all of this, they still want to put you back in masks when you fly on a commercial airline, DeSantis added.

In an attempt to curb the spread of XBB.1.5, the latest COVID strain, The World Health Organization (WHO) is now urging people to return to mask wearing if they are in crowded places, enclosed places, or places where there is poor ventilation. The WHO has also called on countries to consider recommending that passengers wear masks on flights too, despite a multitude of studies that show they did little to slow the spread of the virus. The highly transmissible XBB.1.5 variant is expected to sweep across Europe in the coming weeks.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: covid; desantis; fl; florida; rondesantis; vaxpassport

1 posted on 01/18/2023 6:08:28 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

It is a great start.


2 posted on 01/18/2023 6:08:39 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

This is NOT “Just” The Bio Med State that we are assault by.

I’m no fan of Glenn Beck but this commentary on ESG at the corporate level is sobering. I’ve found, that the banking and insurance companies are heavily subjected by this. And most Multi National Corporations are too. And they all try to lie and weasel out of being labeled.

And there is ChiCom money behind some of them. I can show you that with one of my “was my” insurance companies. Complete with the pretty Chinese lady on the page.


3 posted on 01/18/2023 6:42:09 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: MtnClimber

This is NOT “Just” The Bio Med State that we are assault by.

I’m no fan of Glenn Beck but this commentary on ESG at the corporate level is sobering. I’ve found, that the banking and insurance companies are heavily subjected by this. And most Multi National Corporations are too. And they all try to lie and weasel out of being labeled.

And there is ChiCom money behind some of them. I can show you that with one of my “was my” insurance companies. Complete with the pretty Chinese lady on the page.

Sorry, Forgot the link about ESG:

New TERRIFYING ESG Rules Will Transform the ENTIRE WORLD | @glennbeck (Jan 17, 2023)

https://rumble.com/v260qzd-new-terrifying-esg-rules-will-transform-the-entire-world-glennbeck.html


4 posted on 01/18/2023 6:43:47 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: MtnClimber
Great. Desantis is doing great things in FLA.

I AM SO GLAD TRUMP ENABLED DESANTIS'S 2016 VICTORY BY BACKING HIM WHEN IT MATTEREED, WHEN IT LOOKED LIKE DESANTIS WAS GOING TO LOSE.

5 posted on 01/18/2023 6:45:45 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: MtnClimber

By far the best and most successful politician from FL today.

Probably more so and wider tomorrow.

Thank God for The Ron.


6 posted on 01/18/2023 8:08:47 AM PST by BuddhaBrown (Path to enlightenment: Four right turns, then go straight until you see the Light!)
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To: MtnClimber; JulieRNR21; Travis McGee; AAABEST; kinganamort; katherineisgreat; floriduh voter; ...

Florida Freeper

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

7 posted on 01/18/2023 8:22:02 AM PST by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: central_va

GREAT POST!


8 posted on 01/18/2023 8:45:43 AM PST by Golden Eagle (The LGBT indoctrination agenda is designed to outlaw the Bible, and anyone who follows it.)
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To: Texas Fossil

This is and other comments there may be of interest.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4124132/posts?page=21#21


9 posted on 01/18/2023 8:47:48 AM PST by Golden Eagle (The LGBT indoctrination agenda is designed to outlaw the Bible, and anyone who follows it.)
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To: MtnClimber

Social credit scores, CBDCs, travel/carbon limits, and digital pass requirements need to be next.


10 posted on 01/18/2023 8:49:44 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: All

For people with too much time on their hands. Jason Whitlock and Steve Deace interview Ron Johnson, Robert Kennedy Jr. and others. I am only partly way through the show. RKJ said Canada would likely be part of USA except a pandemic stopped that from happening around the time of the revolutionary war..

FEARLESS Special: The ‘COVID Cartel’ & the Price for Freedom | We Won’t Comply | Ep 359

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bDroEyS2A8


11 posted on 01/18/2023 8:55:26 AM PST by EVO X ( )
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To: Texas Fossil

Good video. Thanks. Frightening about the march to make ESG somewhat compulsory, actually necessary to do business IOW Macdonalds does not want to talk to a huge potato grower unless he is ESG compliant. Not yet but this is coming.


12 posted on 01/18/2023 9:18:32 AM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: MtnClimber; All
"It is a great start."

My reservation is that DeSantis's proposal doesn't seem to include the following imo.

DeSantis's proposal needs to include safeguards that help to prevent corrupt political parties from working in cahoots with "follow the money" industry to abuse government power by forcing people, by means of their taxes, to buy junk science remedies for government-manufactured crises.

Also, I suspect that DeSantis may not be up to speed with the constitutional reality that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to dictate peacetime INTRAstate healthcare policy, not even to try to stop spread of disease imo.


13 posted on 01/18/2023 9:27:01 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: dennisw

Yes. It is coming.

Incoming!!!

I’m 75 and re-aiming my life as local as possible.

I absolutely hate these globalist Fascists.

They can pound sand. I’m going nowhere.


14 posted on 01/18/2023 9:34:41 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Golden Eagle
State by state?

Texas was once a nation. We still are in attitude.

From the grave marker of my father's grandfather:

Citizen of the Republic of Texas

15 posted on 01/18/2023 9:39:29 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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