{"id":1641301,"date":"2022-09-14T18:19:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T22:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1641301"},"modified":"2022-09-14T18:20:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T22:20:12","slug":"casey-desantis-parents-should-be-skeptical-of-health-officials-who-lied-during-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/casey-desantis-parents-should-be-skeptical-of-health-officials-who-lied-during-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Casey DeSantis: Parents \u2018Should Be Skeptical\u2019 Of Health Officials Who Lied During The Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fcasey-desantis-parents-should-be-skeptical-of-health-officials-who-lied-during-the-pandemic%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=1641301&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--><p>CORAL GABLES, Fla. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida\u2019s<\/a> first lady Casey DeSantis doesn\u2019t blame parents for being skeptical of health officials who repeatedly flip-flopped on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/covid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coronavirus<\/a> guidance throughout the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>In an August interview with The Daily Wire following a \u201cMamas for DeSantis\u201d event, DeSantis discussed how the\u00a0coronavirus pandemic has changed the way that parents look at political candidates and elections.<\/p>\n<p>Many parents have become single issue voters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/01\/technology\/anti-vax-parents-political-party.html\">The New York Times reported<\/a>: parents skeptical of vaccine mandates, mask mandates, and the grandiose statements of public health officials, who vote for candidates they believe will stand up for their freedom and their children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should be skeptical of the \u2018health officials\u2019 during COVID because basically everything they told us was a lie!\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cThey said, \u2018Wear the masks it will stop transmission, take the vaccine, and you won\u2019t get sick and you won\u2019t transmit.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cThey were tying people\u2019s jobs to the COVID vaccine when they knew that the science \u2026 wasn\u2019t what they said it was,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have done an immense disservice to \u2026 society because they have been repeatedly wrong on so many things, but they haven\u2019t had the fortitude to come out and admit that they were wrong,\u201d Florida\u2019s first lady said. \u201cAnd so I think parents are very upset by that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also deeply criticized health officials for mandating that children wear masks even when officials like former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, knew that masks weren\u2019t really effective at stopping the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like putting a chain link fence in front of a gnat thinking you are going to stop it,\u201d she said. \u201cBut they never acknowledged the ramifications of what those masks were doing to our kids, the emotional toll that it was taking, because never before have we taken away the ability of kids to see and receive a smile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And experts are now acknowledging developmental delays in children who were forced to mask for so long, the mother of three noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKids aren\u2019t able to speak as well. They started some of those critical years in kindergarten, first grade, with a mask on their face and not the ability to be able to see their teacher.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really is disgusting when you look at public officials who stand up there and take their mask off,\u201d she continued, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/07\/aft-president-randi-weingarten-apologizes-for-going-maskless-at-somos-retreat-in-puerto-rico\/\">specifically naming<\/a> American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, \u201cand at the same time they were forcing and advocating for kids to be muzzled and teachers will be muzzled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just an atrocity for what a lot of folks did to those kids,\u201d she added, \u201cand I am so proud of the governor to stand strong with no vax mandates and no mask mandates from the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CORAL GABLES, Fla. \u2014 Florida\u2019s first lady Casey DeSantis doesn\u2019t blame parents for being skeptical of health officials who repeatedly flip-flopped on coronavirus guidance throughout the pandemic. 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