Posted on 10/21/2021 5:11:47 PM PDT by lightman
Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday called a special session of the Florida Legislature to pass legislation banning COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Speaking from the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office Hangar, he announced the special session would take place in November. He called for lawmakers to provide protections for workers whose employment is threatened by vaccine mandates.
"Your right to earn a living should not be contingent upon COVID shots," DeSantis said.
"When the vaccines first came out, we worked very hard to provide it, particularly to our elderly, but we said from day one: We will make it available for all, but we will mandate it for no one because ultimately we want individuals to make the determinations about what is right for them.
"I want a state in which people are able to maintain their livelihoods, earn a living, and provide for their families. And if the federal government or big corporations are hurting people, then we have a responsibility to step up and lead."
DeSantis was joined in the press conference by Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez, Attorney General Ashley Moody and Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo.
"The governor has made it clear: Florida will not stand by and allow hard working citizens to be subjected to unemployment because they are being forced to show vaccine documentation, especially those who have remained on the front lines of COVID-19 for nearly two years now," Ladapo said. "The Department of Health will continue to protect Floridians through multi-faceted and data-driven solutions, not overreach."
In addition to banning mandates, DeSantis called for employers to be held accountable if an employee becomes sick or injured from taking a mandatory vaccine.
Ahead of the press conferences, members of DeSantis' staff handed out signs to attendees featuring an alligator on a yellow background reading "Don't Tread on Florida."
If all those Republicans switched votes, how did Trump get 12 million (or whatever) more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016?
And that’s only the votes the left admits he got.
more voters came out of the woodwork to vote for the candidate hiding in basement because they construed that as he was taking covid seriously.
Your question is ridiculously simply to answer.
In 2016 Trump was a unknown entity to masses of voters.
In 2020 sane Americans recognized his MAGA agenda qualities.
But I give Trump a break because he is essentially a newbie politician. He should never have said “this covid is just another flu and will disappear when warm weather arrives”.
If Trump had said “China has unleashed this lab created virus upon our country to weaken us. It is a seriously contagious disease. But I am going to do my best to protect you and I feel your pain”, he wins in a landslide, overcoming easily the 60-80k fraud votes in swing states.
It does NOT matter WHY people are scared.
It only matters that they ARE scared.
Only scared people will choose to get jabbed with experimental vaccine (current count 220,000,000 mostly adult Americans).
Ignore political reality at your own peril.
One Weird Thread.
I think We are all
In PERIL,FRiend.
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