If you are under 65 years of age ?
The Flordia government advises you to NOT follow the Feds suggestion to get a new Covid variant booster shot….
This is making Covid visus, vaccines and masks a political wedge against the US Federal Health officals, and of course, the Biden admin….
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is advising people under the age of 65 against getting the new Covid-19 booster shots from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, contradicting federal health officials’ guidance.
DeSantis, a 2024 Republican presidential contender, said he won’t allow federal officials who green-lit the new boosters to “use healthy Floridians as guinea pigs for new booster shots that have not been proven to be safe or effective.”
The Florida governor’s comments are the latest escalation of his efforts to place his Covid-19 management at the forefront of his campaign. DeSantis in recent weeks has sharply criticized former President Donald Trump’s handling of the early months of the pandemic, arguing that Trump ceded control to Anthony Fauci, the long-time top federal infectious disease expert.
“Once again, Florida is the first state in the nation to stand up and provide guidance based on truth, not Washington edicts,” he said Wednesday.
Amid an uptick in coronavirus cases and an increase in hospitalizations late this summer, GOP presidential contenders have increasingly touted their opposition to new public safety efforts – seizing at times on limited, local mask mandates to warn against broader restrictions…
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He has pledged to cut federal funding for entities such as schools and airlines that mandate masks or vaccines.
DeSantis and Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo discussed the state’s guidance for the new boosters in an online roundtable Wednesday. Their guidance directly contradicts the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendation that everyone over the age of 6 months get one of the new boosters.
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Earlier this week, the Food and Drug Administration gave the green light for new shotstargeting circulating variants, like the XBB.1.5 Omicron subvariant of the coronavirus and other closely related strains. The CDC then signed off on the vaccines, which will be available this week…
Note…..
The Governor got a covid shot in April 2021
Suicidal freaks.
He just takes the opposite …..
I wonder if people down there actually tune into his crazy stuff…….
How many will suffer?
How many will die?
Yes, how many?
As “ pander bear” Ron prostrates himself before the hate filled Republican kooks who among their other hates include an irrational hatred of medicine and science.
They’re “ pro life” you know.
Ron……..
‘What ME Worry?’
I just looked it up…….
Ron DeSantis got his covid vaccine shot in April 2021
Ron DeSantis desperate flop sweat will wind up getting people killed.
On the upside there should be a lot of good deals at estate sales in The Villages next year. Long after DeSantis has dropped out and quietly taken his own vaccine booster. Oh well.
DeSantis’ BS is why I no longer make plans to vacation in or do toy drops in Florida. You could say other states bordering Georgia are worse, but Florida has gone off a cliff at warp speed and stands to be a place smart people flee due to rising sea levels. At least the other states bordering mine have some room for growth and betterment, especially considering the preponderance of estate sales that will be happening in the next decade!
Disney Florida numbers have also dropped
I’d rather go to Disney Land in California at this point. Maybe move Disney World to Columbia, SC. It will certainly give that city a boost, as it’s one of the only Southern Metro areas that doesn’t have much going for it right now.
Hey Jack?
Disney in Columbia ?
… or Myrtle Beach?
Climate change concerns rule out anything beachside/coastal vis a vis Disney.
Myrtle Beach usually ranks second to Disney World as an East Coast tourist attraction.
I usually drive up there once or twice a year.
Among MBs claim to fame?It has more miniature golf courses than any other place in the country!
No wonder it’s nickname is “the redneck Riviera!”
Whatever….
I always have a lot of fun when I go !
Why would Disney relocate to another state dominated politically by Right wing kooks and spineless pieces of Republican slime like Henry McMaster?
Just this week a bunch of Republican yahoos in the state legislature held a “ hearing” on the new Covid boosters.Of course the anti science goofballs purpose was to “ reveal” some of their right wing conspiratorial nonsense.One of their star witnesses?A chiropractor!Hey maybe he can jerk your neck in some way to keep the Covid away!
Then there’s another forthright, upright Profile in Courage from the Palmetto State named Graham (The Politician Formerly Known As McCain’s double).
Ya can’t make this stuff up……
They want to go back to the Middle Ages…..
Next thing they’ll want to put doctors in jail?