{"id":1836068,"date":"2023-02-05T11:51:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T16:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1836068"},"modified":"2023-02-05T11:51:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T16:51:51","slug":"florida-seeks-to-ban-vaccine-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-seeks-to-ban-vaccine-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Seeks to Ban Vaccine Discrimination"},"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\">12<\/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%2Fflorida-seeks-to-ban-vaccine-discrimination%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=1836068&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-->\n<p>Florida lawmakers are considering state House-level civil rights bills to protect residents against discrimination based upon their vaccine or immunity status.<\/p>\n<p>This protection would apply to all vaccines and not just the controversial COVID shots. Both Senate Bill 222 (sponsored by Sen. Joe Gruters, R-Fla.), as well as House Bill 305 (sponsored and sponsored by Rep. Webster Barnaby R-Fla.), have identical names. This simplifies their becoming law if both pass, Mo van Hoek of Health Freedom Florida, the group pushing the bill\u2019s adoption, told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>Van Hoek said the bills would also protect Floridians\u2019 vaccine or immunity status from being shared with the federal government\u2019s tracking database. In 2019, the state created a database of this nature and had to share it with federal officials to get its COVID vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t a good bill, it\u2019s a great bill,\u201d van Hoek said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5033131\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/02\/03\/mo-van-hoek-e1675461294474-1200x1598.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium wp-image-5033131\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/mo-van-hoek-e1675461294474-600x799-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"799\"   style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5033131\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/mo-van-hoek-e1675461294474-600x799-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"799\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Mo van Hoek from Health Freedom Florida is trying to pass a bill that extends civil rights protection to individuals who have been discriminated against due to their vaccination or immune status. (Courtesy Mo van Hoek<\/figure>\n<p>The bill would expand and make permanent protections established in 2021 by temporary protections passed in a special session. Van Hoek stated that the law would expire on June 30, 2023 and will need to be replaced.<\/p>\n<p>The 2021 law wasn\u2019t tough enough, she said. It had originally been more comprehensive and didn\u2019t pass in March 2021. She claimed that the ban against vaccine passports was taken out of it and attached to another bill which passed a couple months later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt had a good impact. It put Governor [Ron] DeSantis on the global map of creating that type of protection for people,\u201d She spoke.<\/p>\n<p>It had one major flaw. Although it was forbidden for companies to fire unvaccinated employees they were permitted to establish vaccination policies that could be used to force them out of compliance, she explained.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Caturano is a Disney World employee who received such treatment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4424501\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/04\/24\/Resized_Screenshot_20220122-163059_Gallery-1200x568.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium wp-image-4424501\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Resized_Screenshot_20220122-163059_Gallery-600x284-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"284\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4424501\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Resized_Screenshot_20220122-163059_Gallery-600x284-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"284\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Nick Caturano, a Disney employee, speaks out about discrimination against those who refuse to receive the COVID-19 vaccination at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAt Disney (if you weren\u2019t vaccinated), you had to wear an N95 mask with a warning sign and face shield,\u201d The Epoch Times heard from Caturano of Kissimmee. \u201cThe goal was to make your life as difficult as possible. I couldn\u2019t have lunch with everyone. I had no choice but to eat behind the storage shed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first bill told them they couldn\u2019t fire people, but they could set policies. They could still put me through tests and discriminate by making me wear clothing that was not worn by others, or forcing me to avoid other people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no appetite to make a strong, clean bill at the time. I\u2019m grateful for DeSantis, that he was willing to move forward, but this is politics,\u201d Caturano said. \u201cYou have to have everyone on board. At the time, the legislators were not willing to risk political capital by doing this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Caturano continues to work at Disney for the past 18 years. He\u2019s involved in an effort to sue the company for discrimination. He claimed they changed their policies and stopped isolating me when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) removed its mask requirements.<\/p>\n<p>He felt the heat of his isolation at the time.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Pandemic of the Unvaccinated\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cIt was the pandemic of the unvaccinated. We were the vectors of disease. We all got attacked. People attacked me, spoke down to me, and told me I was responsible for killing people.\u201d He claimed that many objections against the jab have been proven to be false.<\/p>\n<p>Health Freedom created Vaxbully.com as a way to collect stories from others who have been subject to such discrimination like Caturano.<\/p>\n<p>Van Hoek claimed that the site had received over a thousand submissions. They will be used by bill supporters to convince legislators that the problem is real, she stated. They\u2019ve heard from people like a medical student who couldn\u2019t do hospital rotations without a COVID shot and a nursing student who couldn\u2019t take final exams without one.<\/p>\n<p>T.B., the student in nursing was identified as T.B. The Epoch Times received a copy of the interview from Jacksonville. It included his thoughts about attending a state college.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was not a single term in which I had confidence that my next term was guaranteed,\u201d T.B. wrote. \u201cFor each new term, I was sent correspondence warning me that my continuing education was in jeopardy based on my vaccination status. A few courageous and understanding professors went to great lengths, in opposition to the administration, to help me finish. I persevered and stuck to my ethical and religious beliefs and am now gainfully employed as a nurse. My wife, also a nurse, was threatened with termination from (a large health care organization) nearly weekly for the same reasons. These same institutions that promote evidence-based medicine proved negligent in this area by trying to force an experimental medical procedure on their own people, then reacted in shocked innocence when rebuffed. Shame on them!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>M.B. M.B.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an employee of the federal government, I was bullied to take the jab. They threatened my job if I did not comply. I tried to request a religious exemption and they ignored it. I was \u2018othered\u2019 and not allowed to go into the office. At another point, they tried to force me to take a COVID test, which again I refused and asked for a religious exemption. Again they ignored it. At one point I was told I need to wear a mask but those that got the jab did not have to. I am a combat veteran and never expected to experience this kind of tyranny from my own government. This experience has taken a toll on my mental health and well-being. Although I am allowed the same freedoms as my coworkers, I sometimes worry they will come back around to bully me into taking the jab.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Vaccine Requirements<\/h2>\n<p>Van Hoek said a pregnant Jupiter woman contacted her, looking for a pediatrician who wouldn\u2019t require the baby to have shots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made some phone calls,\u201d van Hoek said. \u201cI called every pediatrician\u2019s office in Jupiter, and not one of them would allow a baby accepted as a patient unless they adhered to the CDC\u2019s vaccine schedule. I called 11 pediatricians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Van Hoek\u2019s interest in the issue predates the COVID pandemic. Jan, her son, was left disabled 13 years ago by strokes that she claims were caused by his childhood vaccines. He needs round-the-clock care now. Van Hoek stated that she has never been vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>She stated that the bill would not alter the requirements for childhood vaccinations to be required for children to attend school. Parents can already exempt their children for medical or religious reasons. Van Hoek believes the current exemption system is adequate to protect vaccine dissenters. Religious exemption \u201cis extremely flexible,\u201d she said, and can be obtained by the parent submitting the child\u2019s name and birthdate. The medical exemption requires the completion of Form 680 by the child\u2019s doctor.<\/p>\n<p>She said she thinks childhood immunization shouldn\u2019t be required of anyone but respects the rights of parents to make their own choices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut no one should force anyone to take something when the side effects include death, stroke, and seizure,\u201d Van Hoek claimed that vaccine warnings have downplayed all side effects. \u201cEveryone has a different risk-benefit ratio. They need to determine it for their own selves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She wonders if vaccines for childhood have been sufficiently tested for safety and efficacy when combined. The 72 required vaccines are required for children; COVID shots will add 18.<\/p>\n<p>Van Hoek predicts the nation\u2019s growing awareness of problems with the COVID vaccines\u2014the side effects, the suppression of information, and their limited effectiveness\u2014will prompt a reexamination of extensive childhood vaccination schedules.<\/p>\n<p>She believes it will give the push to pass this bill. Republicans hold supermajorities at both the state legislatures. \u201cThis will create true medical freedom,\u201d van Hoek said. \u201cIf they\u2019re 100 percent for freedom, they should get behind it. It creates standard protection, across the board, for every Floridian.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida lawmakers are considering state House-level civil rights bills to protect residents against discrimination based upon their vaccine or immunity status. This protection would apply to all vaccines and not just the controversial COVID shots. 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