Posted By Tim Hains
On Date December 19, 2021
Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis discussed the omicron variant of Covid-19 and challenges to President Biden’s vaccine mandate taking another step on the path to the Supreme Court.
"We're going to continue focusing on early treatment," DeSantis told Maria Bartiromo on FNC's "Sunday Morning Futures."
"Some of these universities, they force everyone to be vaccinated, they force them to wear masks, and they still lock down because you have these cases going up," DeSantis said, defending his stance against mandates and shutdowns. "In Florida, people are going to be able to make those decisions."
On Date December 19, 2021
Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis discussed the omicron variant of Covid-19 and challenges to President Biden’s vaccine mandate taking another step on the path to the Supreme Court.
"We're going to continue focusing on early treatment," DeSantis told Maria Bartiromo on FNC's "Sunday Morning Futures."
"Some of these universities, they force everyone to be vaccinated, they force them to wear masks, and they still lock down because you have these cases going up," DeSantis said, defending his stance against mandates and shutdowns. "In Florida, people are going to be able to make those decisions."
GOV. RON DESANTIS: Well, first of all, on the OSHA mandate, I thought it was a terrible decision. Now, this is just a three-judge panel. I thought the whole circuit in the Sixth would certainly have struck this down. I do think we're going to get positive relief from the U.S. Supreme Court on that.
But, Maria, what we did in Florida is, we didn't leave it to chance. We pass substantive protections in a special session for Floridians, so that they are able to have generous ability to opt out of these types of mandates.
And so we feel like we have done what we needed to do to protect our employees. I think it's important from a legal and constitutional matter that something like the OSHA mandate not be allowed to stand. They reached back decades, found some statute, and are using that to force vaccinations?
That's never been done in the history of our country. And so I think it's a massive expansion of federal power that goes beyond the Constitution. So we absolutely need to win that case at the Supreme Court.
And, yes, we had another monoclonal. This is more for preventative for very high-risk people. You take it, and then you have about six months of really good protection. And we should be talking about all this stuff. All you hear is the same stuff about masking and lockdowns. We should be talking more about early treatment.
Fortunately, in Florida, we are, but that has been a huge problem for the last year, when we have had available treatments and they have not been touted by the powers that be.
