Gov. DeSantis: ‘You Should Never Be Discriminated Against Based on Your mRNA Status’

DeSantis: “And we’re going to be — I think most of you know, you know, we were the first state in the country to ban Covid vaccine passports in the spring of 2021, almost two years ago. (Cheering and Applause) You know, we banned, we protected employees from being fired from their job. We did a special session in 2021 over the shots. (Applause) Banned schools from requiring Covid shots for students, including universities. (Applause) And you have universities around the country, they’re forcing these 18, 19-year kids to get these booster shots. When you had research and Joe is familiar, we had one of the one of the researchers on a panel we did, where you have risk of myocarditis exceeds the risk of getting affected of Covid for these kids, and they’re still forcing that on them. And that’s just runaway ideology. And so we’re going to be doing that, but — so he did all that. A lot of those provisions, though, expire on July 1st. So what we’re going to do is we’re going to do a whole package. We’re going to make all this permanent, then we’re going to add some more protections for people. You should never be discriminated against based on your mRNA status at all in any way. You shouldn’t be — it should not even be an issue.
You should also have protections about masks. You should be able to live your life without a mask and it’s like they say. Well, some businesses make you do it, it’s irrational to be forcing this in any way. Now, yeah, the government in Florida, we don’t allow government agencies to do it, but yeah, you still have these areas where people are being told the go here or there, and I just think it’s a — it’s a civil right to be able to breathe the fresh air and be able to live your life. So we’re going to be working on a lot of this. I think it’s going to be a really good package and I think we’ll be leading that the nation yet again.”