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(171,042 posts) Fri Oct 15, 2021, 04:29 PM Oct 2021

DeSantis Is "Offended" by Biden's Attempt to Prevent Americans From Dying a Miserable, Preventable D

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/ron-desantis-vaccine-mandate-lawsuit

Ron DeSantis Is “Offended” by Biden’s Attempt to Prevent Americans From Dying a Miserable, Preventable Death
The Florida governor plans to sue the Biden administration over their vaccine mandates, which would, y’know, actually help end the pandemic.
By Bess Levin
October 15, 2021

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Like most Republican governors—whose states already require multiple doses of various vaccines for people to take part in the rituals of regular life—DeSantis is absolutely incensed by Joe Biden’s vaccine requirements. Despite the fact that Florida has recorded at least 3,617,649 confirmed COVID cases and 57,711 deaths since last year, and, according to the Miami Herald’s review of CDC data, logged an average of 186 deaths and 2,845 cases per day this week, DeSantis believes the best use of his time is to bitch and moan about how mean the president is being and to sue for Floridians to have the right to die an easily preventable death.

Per Politico:

Gov. Ron DeSantis has opened a multimillion-dollar battle against vaccine mandates, and on Thursday took the fight to the Biden administration. The GOP governor said Florida will challenge in federal court and through legislation any vaccine mandates placed on employers or others by President Joe Biden. DeSantis’s comments follow those of Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who earlier this week banned vaccine requirements in his state.

DeSantis has consistently rejected COVID-related restrictions, including vaccine passports, mask mandates, and lockdowns. He has continued a months-long dispute with school districts that defied his order against mask mandates, including docking the salaries of school officials who implement mask requirements without an opt-out policy for parents. That fight has also brought in the Biden administration, which has provided more than $500,000 in financial assistance to school officials.

Florida over the summer was a hotbed for new infections as the delta variant spread through the state. At one point, the state made up about 1 in 5 new coronavirus infections in the nation. Before the summer surge, Florida had the nation’s 27th highest COVID-19 death rate; afterward, the state’s death rate climbed to 10th highest, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.

DeSantis said on Thursday that the suits against federal vaccine mandates will be filed in the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He also made a big show pretending to care deeply about the livelihoods of the people whose actual lives are less important to him than politics. “Let’s not have Biden come in and effectively take away—threaten to take away—the jobs of people who have been working hard throughout this entire pandemic,” DeSantis said during a news conference. “I am offended that a police officer could potentially lose their job.”