Posted on 05/03/2021 6:14:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning COVID-19 vaccine passports and also announced an executive order that suspends all local pandemic emergency mandates effective July 1.
DeSantis signed Senate Bill 2006, passed by Florida state lawmakers last month granting DeSantis the ability to override local emergency orders. The bill also includes a ban on vaccine passports that would levy fines of $5,000 per violation.
“I’m going to sign the bill. It’s effective July 1. I’ll also sign an executive order pursuant to that bill invalidating all remaining local emergency COVID orders effective on July 1,” the Republican governor said in a news conference in St. Petersburg on Monday. “But then, to bridge the gap between then and now, I’m going to suspend, under my executive power, the local emergency orders as it relates to COVID.”
Describing his executive orders as the “evidence-based thing to do,” DeSantis said that proponents of lockdowns “really are saying you don’t believe in the vaccines, you don’t believe in the data, you don’t believe in the science.” He added: “We’ve embraced the vaccines. We’ve embraced the science on it.”
The order suspending local emergency mandates only affects governments, not businesses.
“In terms of what a supermarket or some of them choose to do, a Disney theme park, this does not deal with that one way or another,” DeSantis said. “It’s simply emergency orders and emergency penalties on individual businesses.”
DeSantis has been a vocal opponent of so-called vaccine passports, saying they would create two classes of vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals.
“You have a right to participate in society, go to a restaurant, movie, a ballgame, all these things without having to divulge this type of information,” DeSantis said on Monday.
Last week, DeSantis issued an extension for Florida’s state of emergency order for another...
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We needs about 50,000 more like him.
It would be great to see him run for president.
He’s my own personal front runner, assuming Trump doesn’t run.
If Trump runs, would love to see DeSantis be his running mate.
Go Ron!
Ron is a leader. I am extremely jealous of FL as we in NJ have to suffer dropkick Murphy.
Pfft. I am even worse off than you.
Stated DeSantis for Prez since December. All he has to do now is solve the Dominion problem.
Disney: The Magik Mask Kingdom.
Hypoxia will make it Dizzyland.
I just flipped off President Joe, now I’m off to Diz Knee Land
Dominion AND unsolicited absentee ballots mailing AND eviction of republican observers from vote counting facilities.
Unless all 3 are corrected forget about president DeSantis or 2nd term for president Trump.
I prefer Desantis over Trump actually.
NOW, all you so called Governors of conservatism and so called believers of the Constitution, get some balls and do the same. First step to getting America BACK and keeping it!!
Unfortunately the schools are still making kids wear masks..
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