Gov. Florida Man in Full Anti-vaxxer Pander Mode

 


Governor Ron "Florida Man" DeSantis, no doubt ginning-up for a presidential run, has decided he needs to do some pandering to extremists who don't think he's conservative enough. So he's turning to his superpower, spreading pandemic disinformation.

DeSantis's COVIDiocy has been well-covered in this blog. Who can forget his lying about case numbers in this state? Or his refusal to preorder pediatric vaccine? Or his hiring a guy as State Surgeon General who distributes pandemic misinformation? I could go on at length.

Now he wants to empanel a grand jury to investigate "'wrongdoing' linked to the Covid-19 vaccines, including spreading false and misleading claims about the efficacy of the doses."

His petition to the Florida Supreme Court says: "the pharmaceutical industry has a notorious history of misleading the public for financial gain,” and asks for a grand jury to probe “the development, promotion, and distribution of vaccines purported to prevent COVID-19 infection, symptoms, and transmission.”

This is despite recent research showing that the vaccines he is complaining about, and the quick development cycle that produced them, have prevented more than 18 million additional hospitalizations and more than 3 million additional deaths. There's got to be something sinister behind that, right?

Unsurprisingly—and I know you may find this shocking—there is duplicity involved here! Stephen Colbert played no fewer than five clips of DeSantis hawking the vaccines in news conferences (starts around 03:00 min). He talks forcefully about how great they are and how they reduce your chances of death to almost zero, and so on. So as Colbert pointed out, DeSantis will need to be a subject of investigation.

When you have no integrity you can just make shit up and say whatever suits your purposes, I guess.



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