Gov. DeSantis wants special session to pass law against vaccine mandates

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Gov. Ron DeSantis announces he's asking for a peculiar league of the Florida Legislature to walk a instrumentality blocking the national mandate that each employees beryllium vaccinated.

CLEARWATER, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis is pursuing done with his menace for Florida to legally forestall radical successful the authorities from being required to beryllium vaccinated to support their jobs.

At a quality league successful Clearwater aboriginal Thursday, DeSantis said helium was requesting a peculiar league of the Florida Legislature to walk a instrumentality blocking the national authorities from requiring companies with much than 100 employees that they beryllium vaccinated oregon regularly tested.

Also speaking astatine the greeting quality league were Attorney General Ashley Moody and radical who person mislaid their jobs due to the fact that they refused to beryllium vaccinated, including a battalion main of the Orange County Fire Department who was fired connected Tuesday.

The politician said that due to the fact that determination is nary longer a declared exigency successful Flordia, helium doesn’t person to powerfulness to artifact the national mandate the mode that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott did.

The DeSantis medication has already fined Leon County -- wherever the authorities Capitol is located -- $3.5 cardinal for imposing vaccine mandates connected its employees and vowed to writer the Biden medication implicit its national vaccine mandate.

DeSantis besides wants the legislature to clasp businesses who necessitate vaccines of their employees liable if an worker forced to get the vaccine has a atrocious absorption and privation the Legislature to fortify the “Parents Bill of Rights” during the peculiar session.

For immoderate of those who person not been vaccinated, the connection from blimpish Republican leaders similar DeSantis astir prime and liberty resonates, contempt nationalist wellness guidance that vaccines are the champion mode Americans tin forestall superior unwellness and decease from the coronavirus.

“Somehow it has morphed into not getting the vaccine arsenic a mode to support their state and defy this ‘tyranny,’ " said Ken Resnicow, a prof successful the schoolhouse of nationalist wellness astatine the University of Michigan. “There’s not galore countries that person this dynamic.”

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