The anti-vaxxer
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Ron DeSantis has made Florida the only state that will not act to make COVID-19 vaccines available to children:
Forty-nine states, plus the District of Columbia, have ordered supplies of COVID-19 vaccines, which will be delivered for use in children under 5 years old. The exception is Florida. Ron DeSantis, the most vaccine-skeptical governor in America, refused to participate.
DeSantis spokesman Jeremy Redfern explains that this is not an omission. The state is not accepting vaccine doses because DeSantis does not think it should take it. “It is also no surprise we chose not to participate in distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine when the Department does not recommend it for all children,” Redfern tells McClatchy. “Doctors can order vaccines if they are in need, and there are currently no orders in the Department’s ordering system for the COVID-19 vaccine for this age group.”
Republican pundits who like to pretend that DeSantis is the Respectable Alternative to Trump rather than his even more evil twin have pretended that DeSantis’s anti-vaxxism is just a libertarian committed to individual choice. The first problem with this argument is that DeSantis is in fact anti-vaxx, and the second is LOL at the idea that DeSantis is any kind of libertarian:
DeSantis has won over anti-vaccine activists with his relentless promotion of anti-science kooks. DeSantis’s pro-vaccine conservative supporters, embarrassed by these tactics, have pretended that DeSantis merely opposes vaccine mandates out of libertarian principle. This defense has been blown up over and over by repeated anti-vaccine steps DeSantis has taken that have nothing to do with mandates: most notably, refusing to say if he is getting a booster shot and appointing a vaccine skeptic as his state’s top health official.
Here is another example. Buying up vaccine supplies and distributing them for free is not the same as mandating a vaccine. DeSantis is not anti-mandate. Indeed, his pattern of authoritarian behavior in recent months has made it perfectly clear he is not a philosophical critic of state power at all. He is against mandating behavior he opposes, and he is for mandating behavior he supports.
Imagine the media reaction if a Democratic governor who won by less than half a percentage point tried to govern like this:
it rules how Ron DeSantis was elected by 0.4% and is governing as a far-right authoritarian and you never see the media or any pundits call him too radical— brent loves Amtrak 🚂 (@brent858) June 15, 2022