{"id":1069165,"date":"2021-11-30T15:29:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T20:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1069165"},"modified":"2021-11-30T15:29:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T20:29:05","slug":"gov-desantis-in-florida-we-will-not-let-them-lock-you-down-over-any-coronavirus-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-desantis-in-florida-we-will-not-let-them-lock-you-down-over-any-coronavirus-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. DeSantis: &#039;In Florida, We Will Not Let them Lock You Down&#039; over Any Coronavirus Variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgov-desantis-in-florida-we-will-not-let-them-lock-you-down-over-any-coronavirus-variant%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1069165&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Ron-DeSantis-podium-Brandon-Florida-ap-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday said his administration will not allow \u201cmedia-driven hysteria\u201d to infringe on the rights of Floridians, promising, \u201cIn Florida, we will not let them lock you down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not in Florida, going to allow any media-driven hysteria to do anything to infringe peoples individual freedoms when it comes to any type of COVID variants,\u201d DeSantis said during a Monday press conference in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAnd when I saw Fauci on TV yesterday saying that he couldn\u2019t rule out lockdowns, and even today President Biden didn\u2019t rule it out. He said no not now, for now. And let me just say, in Florida, we will not let them lock you down,\u201d the governor vowed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not let them take your jobs. We will not let them harm your businesses. We will not let them close your schools. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. The lockdowns didn\u2019t stop COVID,\u201d he said, rating against the failed efficacy of mask mandates as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.3809523809524\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s amazing what common sense, scientifically accurate, and unwavering leadership can do. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XdgcV6NFtC\">https:\/\/t.co\/XdgcV6NFtC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1465692895063777281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cForced masking, they said last year would end the pandemic if 80 percent wore masks. Many more than that were wearing masks and it hasn\u2019t worked,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said you could get COVID off surfaces which isn\u2019t true. They have not been honest about the origins of the virus and they haven\u2019t been forthright about natural immunity,\u201d DeSantis continued, noting that he stood as one of the first governors in the country to call for travel restrictions at the start of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, speaking of the omicron variant, DeSantis said there is not yet any \u201cmeaningful\u201d data on the variant and noted that the South African doctor who identified it described it as \u201cvery mild.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo why would you be doing knee-jerk reactions?\u201d he asked, adding that even Dr. Fauci admitted that coronavirus will not go away, instead becoming an \u201cendemic respiratory virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that\u2019s just the reality,\u201d DeSantis said, adding that the virus has already spread and has a seasonal pattern.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.9047619047619\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mass demonstrations erupted across Europe on Saturday with anti-lockdown protests being staged in Vienna, Rome, and The Netherlands. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gyqNiesWQ3\">https:\/\/t.co\/gyqNiesWQ3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1462456379621494793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>DeSantis has continued to stand against those he has described as lockdown lobbyists, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/18\/gov-desantis-signs-legislation-protecting-florida-jobs-against-vaccine-mandates\/\">signing<\/a> legislation this month protecting Floridians\u2019 jobs over coronavirus vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n<p>And as blue states experience major spikes of the virus, including Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania, Florida continues to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/us\/covid-cases.html\">report<\/a> the lowest coronavirus case rate per capita in the nation, along with Alabama and Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, as DeSantis said, President Biden on Monday failed to rule out future lockdowns, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/29\/joe-biden-lockdowns-fight-omicron-variant-off-the-table-for-now\/\">telling<\/a> a reporter that lockdowns are off the table \u201cfor now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday said his administration will not allow \u201cmedia-driven hysteria\u201d to infringe on the rights of Floridians, promising, \u201cIn Florida, we will not let them &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1069165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}