DeSantis' Death Squad Is Pushing Vaccine Bullshit to Win Over GOP

[Nevilledog]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/wajahat-ali-on-why-ron-desantis-wants-floridas-supreme-court-to-look-at-covid

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https://archive.vn/UANNb

On the heels of a major study announcing that vaccines helped save millions of lives during the pandemic, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis instead chooses to double down on vaccine skepticism to prop himself up as the new MAGA leader.

In the least shocking news of the year, a major study from the Commonwealth Fund and Yale School of Public Health revealed on Tuesday that Covid-19 vaccines work. They, you know, save lives. Specifically, the vaccines have saved more than 3.2 million lives and kept more than 18.5 million people out of the hospital in the US, a country that still has an unvaccinated population of 20 percent and leads the world in COVID-19 deaths.

In addition, the study shows that without vaccinations, there would have been nearly 4 times more hospitalizations and deaths within the past 2 years. Since money is often the only factor that determines whether we invest in community health care, frugal capitalists and deficit hawks will be happy to learn that vaccines also saved the U.S. nearly $1.15 trillion in medical costs.

It’s the easiest all-around win for anyone who cares about protecting Americans and the economy during a devastating, once-in-a-lifetime pandemic. However, why let life-saving vaccines get in the way of one’s selfish political ambitions? It’s more politically expedient to weaponize science and demonize healthcare professionals, such as Dr. Fauci, to satiate your base’s endless rage and fuel the right-wing 24-7 hate news cycle.

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[Zambero]

1. Knuckle draggers will eat it up

Live stupid, die early, and in-between all that stuff vote Republican!

[jimfields33]

2. Honestly, he doesn't have to do much. Only 13% have gotten the latest booster.

That is really a tragic number and that means all areas of society have decided not to get the latest booster.


https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/12/majority-of-americans-have-not-received-latest-covid-booster-national-survey-finds/

[bronxiteforever]

3. Anti science Desantis will have the US last in research

should he become POTUS. I wouldn’t be surprised if he tried to torpedo fusion research just to show off his use of arbitrary power.

[Phoenix61]

4. Killing off your base seems an odd strategy but I'm good with it. nt

[Walleye]

5. The relationship of anti-vaccers to car crashes is very interesting

I wonder what the accident rate in Florida is.

[chowder66]

6. I personally think these people (Desantis and TFG, etc) are getting off on killing people

without physically doing it themselves.

[mercuryblues]

7. I've called it his Death Porn since 2016

[ananda]

8. Quite likely. The whole GOP is a death cult now.

It has been for awhile.

[area51]

10. +1 n/t

[BlueTsunami2018]

9. Yep and it's working.

At least among the fascists I see online. They still like Piss Wig but they lament the fact that he’s pro-vaccine.