Governor Ron DeSantis and experts discuss Grand Jury Report on COVID-19
Press release from the Officer of Governor Ron DeSantis
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Today, Governor Ron DeSantis and State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo met with members of Florida’s Public Health Integrity Committee (PHIC) to discuss the First Interim Report released by the Florida Statewide 22nd Grand Jury on the harmful impacts of mask mandates and lockdowns, all pushed by the federal government. To watch the roundtable, click here.
“Florida rejected the prevailing orthodoxy regarding non-pharmaceutical interventions, but, in reality, just followed pre-COVID pandemic response guidance, which elite bureaucrats tossed aside as fear and hysteria took over,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. “Florida preserved freedom and blocked mandates. The Grand Jury has now confirmed what we knew all along – Florida got it right.”
In this initial report, the Grand Jury noted that their investigation was hampered due to the refusal to participate by various federal agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Even with this refusal from the federal government impeding a review to allow for transparency and accountability, the report’s determinations were clear:
- Lockdowns and mask mandates caused more collateral damage than good. The Jury identified anxiety, depression, suicidal behavior, and attention deficits as attributable to the “heavy-handed” policies of lockdowns.
- Lockdowns resulted in higher excess mortality rates. The Jury found that jurisdictions that implemented lockdowns tended to have higher overall excess mortality rates.
- Evidence to support mask mandates was abysmal. “There is uncertainty about the effects of face masks,” the Jury concluded. There has never been sound evidence that face masks provided statistically significant effectiveness against the virus.
- The CDC’s COVID-19 hospitalization data is likely inflated. The Jury found that the CDC’s number of total COVID-19 hospitalizations is likely inflated due to asymptomatic or minor SARS-CoV-2 infections among patients that were classified as COVID-19 hospitalizations in order to financially benefit the hospital.
“Leading by common sense and sound science was a priority for Florida from day one of COVID-19,” said State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo. “The findings of the Grand Jury demonstrate how going against federal mandates was the right choice for the health and freedom of all Floridians. The lasting damage done to Americans by COVID-19 mandates is no secret, but the Grand Jury’s first interim report makes it even more evident.”
“During the pandemic, we threw away the basic principles of public health,” said Dr. Martin Kulldorff, PhD. “The verdict is in. Lockdowns were a huge mistake.”
“CDC and other bodies ignored basic science, used their power to silence scientists that didn’t agree with them, and subverted high-quality evidence to make decisions,” said Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD. “In 2021, [Governor DeSantis] ordered monoclonal antibody treatment for Floridians, and the Biden administration cut the funding at a time that would have saved countless lives. Now, I don’t know for sure, but it looked to me like one political party trying to hurt members of another political party.”
“There have been some accounting tricks used to make COVID-19 seem more dangerous than it really was. There is something odd that a fundamental principle of public health was thrown under the bus,” said Dr. Bret Weinstein, PhD. “It is great to see the state of Florida acting in a capacity of international leadership. The entire planet is suffering from the exhaustion from COVID.”
“Every American knows a large number of mistakes were made. We’re not seeing a nation come together on what we did wrong,” said Dr. Joseph Fraiman, MD. “I hope the Grand Jury can offer our country guidance on how to organize our government and how to handle events like this in the future.”
“A spotlight needs to be shone on the federal agencies and their actions during the pandemic. That needs to come from the highest level possible, and that’s not happening,” said Dr. Steven Templeton, PhD. “I don’t think [the federal government] has an appetite right now to address these problems, and I don’t think there is going to be an appetite any time soon for it.”
Continued denial and gaslighting about the number of Covid deaths in FL. Remember he hid the actual number of deaths until he was exposed. And that complete charlatan that he appointed, Dr. Ladapo, who is collecting a huge salary (approved by DeSantis) who never shows up at his office at UF and who lives in a $600k home in a gated community, is completely denying that Covid vaccines are BS. Gaslighting Ron is at it again.
There never was a pandemic. This brand new super deadly & constantly replicating virus you speak of never existed in reality.
You got played. So did billions worldwide. And that’s fine. But stop pushing the bullsh!t.
Covid was an operation, not a virus
Florida has lots of Medicared seniors who were put into ICU$ on ventilators for weeks until their beds paid off for the next one.
Giant waste of time.. common sense and science huh..😉 ohhhhhhhh k
Legitimate medical historians will someday exonerate Florida. Today, there’s too much corruption in the cliques for that to be written yet.
Legitimate medical historians have already spoken and Florida has been declared a politicized cesspool of anti-science propaganda. It wasn’t a hard call.
“Oh, People are dying!” …those people were dying anyway. Schwab from the WEF said, “the pandemic was the perfect cover to implement the great reset”…it’s all a scam. If the thing has a 99.98% survival rate, what does that round up to? 100%… They ruined the $, they ruined our economy. They can put that Covid passport where the sun don’t shine. Whats the endgame?
New world order, one world government, & global totalitarianism.
Global warming is BS…the planet is just fine. The WHO is trying to use medical tyranny and fear for control.
F the UN. “He who sacrifices liberty for safety gets neither”… god bless America and our inalienable rights!
Sure Bullwinkle, that’s why Biden and the CDC declared it over in April of 2022, because they wanted to enslave us.
Give us a break.
But that isn’t the the problem. The problem is that all government actions (known as countermeasures) to Covid were only allowable under implementation of the PREP Act. PREP Act can only be triggered under active state of emergency. So what you do, if you’re a psycho, is allow one emergency declaration to expire (Covid) while enacting a whole new state of emergency (Marburg and Ebola thru 2028) for another non-existent problem. Covid, Marburg, and Ebola are the past, current, and future legal basis for enacting the PREP Act, thus allowing for the medieval counter measures recently witnessed.
Ebola and Marburgs virus state of emergencies are currently active till Dec 31 2028.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/11/27/2023-26075/notice-of-declaration-under-the-public-readiness-and-emergency-preparedness-act-for-countermeasures
This is how the non-approved Covid shots and other drugs (countermeasures) were allowed to be administered…they were authorized, not approved. Emergency Use Authorization countermeasures (like the shots, remdesivir, etc) need PREP Act in place in order for involved parties to receive legal immunity from the fallout.
The 4th or 5th paragraph from the above .gov link mentions it:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) authorizes the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (the HHS Secretary) to issue a Declaration to provide liability immunity to certain individuals and entities (Covered Persons) against any claim of loss caused by, arising out of, relating to, or resulting from the manufacture, distribution, administration, or use of medical countermeasures (Covered Countermeasures), except for claims involving “willful misconduct” as defined in the PREP Act. Under the PREP Act, a Declaration may be amended as circumstances warrant.
The mandates were tyranny. The shot mandates treated citizens like livestock – owned by gov’t, managed by gov’t. There was no real freedom or informed consent. Jobs were threatened (and those threats were carried out in many cases). Businesses were ruined. Families and friendships were broken. People were convinced to be terrified of human contact.
I have family members who took those harmful shots to keep their jobs and to be allowed to see elderly parents. It was financial and emotional blackmail, and the tyranny benefitted some elites with a tremendous financial windfall, and incredible power over our lives.
The COVID response was evil. I thank God for the freedom sanctuary that Florida became, and for the exposure now of the abusive methods that the tyrants used.
May this terrible chapter in our history become a cautionary tale to help us all avoid being manipulated by such powerful propaganda by self-serving, greedy people in the future. May we preserve our freedoms as citizens going forward for our children and grandchildren.
Yes, the devil showed his hand.—
“You will not be able to engage in commerce if you don’t take the mark.”
Explain how then it is OK for kids having to be vaccinated to attend schools, or are you against that also?
No one was forced to be vaccinated, by if you refused one and had a job requiring exposure to the public, you were told to stay home.
Poor you. You wouldn’t know “tyranny” if it bit you in the butt.
There is absolutely zero requirement for kids to be vaxx’d to attend schools. You are just unaware. Either find a doc to sign off on med exemption or file a religious exemption based on your personal beliefs.
https://www.flrules.org/gateway/readRefFile.asp?refId=2341&filename=Form681.pdf
This isn’t uncommon around the country…
“All states and the District of Columbia allow a medical exemption. A medical exemption is allowed when a child has a medical condition that prevents them from receiving a vaccine. All but three states offer nonmedical exemptions for religious or philosophical reasons. “
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/coverage/schoolvaxview/requirements/exemption.html
Yes you are correct. Jiz is just as delusional as Biden is Unfortunately.
Enjoy old timer:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1708102400668561890
“Either find a doc to sign off on med exemption or file a religious exemption based on your personal beliefs.” Let’s just encourage lying.
That’s what some people do to get handicap placards. That ain’t right either.
You are twisting what I said…
It ain’t a lie if you fundamentally disagree with it. Or if you’re fundamentally repulsed by it. We have this right.
And there are countless examples as to why medical exemptions are needed. The damage that may be caused by over injecting pharmaceuticals into children is wildly known.
Not twisting anything. There’s common sense and there’s no sense. You suggested going to a doctor to get a medical exemption. What’s the medical excuse?
People go to the doc all the time to get handicap placards, not because they’re deserving but because they’re too lazy to walk 10 more feet. Been around town? It’s in clear sight.
There may be countless reasons for medical exemptions but it needs to be valid, not just because people don’t feel like it.
It’s a lie if you don’t have a relevant medical condition or your religion does not specifically require you to not be vaccinated, and virtually none do. In either case, thankfully few try to take this option or many serious medical conditions we have already solved would be on the upswing. Only madmen and idiots would welcome that.
Slice, a medical exemption does not mean most or all kids do not have to be vaccinated – they do. Ditto for a religious exemption, which, unless the applicant is an unprincipled liar using a “right” only available to the superstitious – “A big guy in the sky told me not to take the vaccine.” – would also be limited to very small numbers. Everyone else has to and does get vaccinated if their parents want to attend schools.
Dr. Ladapo has saved many lives by officially warning Florida residents that the Covid mRNA “vaccines are not appropriate for use in human beings.” Here’s Dr. Ladapo’s official statement: http://tinyurl.com/4c44nx5x
Virology is Mythology. It’s a profiteering and social control scheme of Rockefeller’s allopathic medicine model in the aftermath of the “Flexner Report” of 1910. To date, no virus has ever been isolated or proven to exist using the scientific rigors of “Koch’s Postulates”. It’s all gaslighting. This means No “lab leak” or so-called “gain of function” is possible for a non-existent virus is possible.
Dr. Denis Rancourt’s granular study of all-cause mortality revealed there was no signal for a virus in the pre-vaxx era. Many layers of collateral damage, ie: medical homicides, suicides, unemployment etc. were responsible. Then, the injections in late 2020 began to cause a sky-rocketing uptake in all-cause mortality based on the high toxicity of the experimental mRNA injections. Link to Dr. Rancourt’s “There was no pandemic” essay – http://tinyurl.com/mr2496wt
Ladapo is a discredited hack and quack who falsified “research” and who is ripping off UF by receiving a substantial pay check from them WHILE DOING NOTHING. You are a tin foil hat nut.
When hypocrite Ronnie’s wife had cancer, she went to a hospital that REQUIRED all staff and patients to wear masks. Why did she not find a hospital that allowed her the Freedom to not wear a mask and contract diseases and die? Hypocrites.
@ consistent: take your shot & wear your mask!
Me? My body, my choice.
It’s not your choice in matters affecting public health and especially during a pandemic. That’s why your kids have to be vaccinated for a bunch of things before being allowed in school. Don’t get vaccinated? Fine, stay home.
Childhood vaxx exemptions remain simple. No fuss at all to secure an exemption. Been the same for many decades…way more prevalent than many realize
“Private health care providers may grant a Temporary Medical Exemption (TME), documented on the Form DH 680, Florida Certification of Immunization, for those who are in the process of completing any necessary immunizations. The TME requires an expiration date after which the exemption is no longer valid, and the immunizations must be completed before or at that time.
A Permanent Medical Exemption, documented on the Form DH 680, can be granted if a child cannot be fully immunized due to medical reasons. In this case, the child’s physician must state in writing, the reasons for exemption based on valid clinical reasoning or evidence.
Form DH 681, Religious Exemption From Immunization, is issued if immunizations are in conflict with the religious tenets and practices of the child’s parent or guardian. This exemption is issued by a County Health Department (CHD) and based on established religious beliefs or practices only.
Note: Please contact your local county health department for documentation required to obtain Form DH 681.”
https://www.floridahealth.gov/programs-and-services/immunization/children-and-adolescents/immunization-exemptions/index.html
See above for the destruction of your cynical argument favoring baling on vaccines which have essentially ended the threat of serious illnesses to our children and the world. What kind of idiot favors that?
What a stupid comment. She went to a hospital that was the best at treating her medical issue. Typical evil Demoncrat statement -take a person’s personal illness to make a political expression so you feel better about about the lie you spin.
There are no experts in that photo, as the governor and surgeon general are political hacks, not experts, who falsify information and will willingly use that BS to justify actions which resulted in about 16k deaths from Covid.
“A high vaccination rate was especially important in Florida, which trails only Maine in the share of residents 65 and older. By the end of July, Florida had vaccinated about 60 percent of adults, just shy of the national average. Had it reached a vaccination rate of 74 percent — the average for five New England states at the time — it could have prevented more than 16,000 deaths and more than 61,000 hospitalizations that summer, according to a study published in the medical journal The Lancet.”
“”But in Florida, unlike the nation as a whole — and states like New York and California that Mr. DeSantis likes to single out — most people who died from Covid died after vaccines became available to all adults, not before. As the governor’s political positions began to shift, so did his state’s death rate, for the worse.” – NY Times
“That left the state particularly vulnerable when the Delta variant hit that month. Floridians died at a higher rate, adjusted for age, than residents of almost any other state during the Delta wave, according to the Times analysis. With less than 7 percent of the nation’s population, Florida accounted for 14 percent of deaths between the start of July and the end of October.
Of the 23,000 Floridians who died, 9,000 were younger than 65. Despite the governor’s insistence at the time that “our entire vulnerable population has basically been vaccinated,” a vast majority of the 23,000 were either unvaccinated or had not yet completed the two-dose regiment.” – NY Times
https://climate.law.columbia.edu/content/covid-19-data-misrepresented-florida-governor
Jazzman, my job doesn’t require public interaction but guess what? The powers that be required Covid vaccinations to keep the job. People in my office lost their jobs. Those that complied got more work piled on and the others were never replaced. So, you are delusional that it only affected people with jobs involved with working with the public. I’m guessing you don’t work? Allows you plenty of time to troll conservative news sites? Sad
Dangle, I own a small business and have employees and Governor Death had a bill passed which made it illegal for me to send only vaccinated or masked employees to work inside peoples houses during the height of the pandemic. So much for “freedom Florida”. Cruise lines and Disney got similar or worse interference in their private businesses because of this demagogues BS, By the way, he has never had any job that was not paid with a government check – NONE!
PS Dangle, what kind of work do you do?
I am a professional, Jazzman, with over 30 years in my field, and I work at least 60 hours per week. That is why I only occasionally comment on here briefly, instead of trolling CNN sites and ranting in the commentary sections, trying to shove my opinions down people’s throats. Do you really think you are swaying anyone here with your comments, or do you just enjoy being contrary?
Since your time is so precious (professional what?), I wonder why you wasted it not replying to the issue with a coherent argument, as well as wondering why I am the subject of your stupid attack when I am far from the only one commenting here regularly, and many of them spend more time here than I do. I asked you what you did since you said you suffered from a vaccine mandate and I was interested in your experience. I shared mine.
I’m angry because we were lied to and propagandized:
Manipulation and repression of the information we were allowed access to, redefining what “vaccine” even means, gov’t and media choosing which “experts” we were allowed to hear from, gov’t and pharma designing “studies” that would show the results they sought, incentivizing hospitals and doctors to code patients who had COVID and died from anything as “from COVID” even if that wasn’t the actual cause of death, simple, readily available meds declared off limits for trying to treat COVID – only the meds that were patented and profitable were allowed…I could go on.
You bet I’m a skeptic! I don’t trust the “experts” that the lockdowners trot out, and I don’t trust the establishment in the public health institutions that went along with the disastrous approach that gov’t and pharma foisted on the populace.
I have become VERY skeptical – those I used to trust have completely betrayed that trust, and almost killed a couple of young men in our family who were in NO DANGER from the virus, but took those evil shots to keep their jobs – they had heart issues, scary heart issues, within HOURS of the jab.
And those of us with concerns about the adverse effects and lack of testing were told to shut up and take the shots or stay home, losing our jobs and being isolated for our arrogance and disobedience.
I have become a skeptic about all mandates. What I used to accept as unpleasant but probably a good idea, I no longer view with the same lenses. Trust has been broken-shattered into a million pieces, and it won’t be repaired by the abuser threatening some more.
I’m done with quietly complying where my health and my family’s health and my neighbors’ health is concerned. I realize now that we are seen as a profit center by the health establishment. The old motto to “First, do no harm,” is clearly no longer the guiding principle at the FDA, CDC, medical schools, big pharma, WHO, etc…Between Big Gov’t, Big Pharma and Big Media, regular citizens have been terribly victimized and manipulated.
We need to see some BIG ACCOUNTABILITY!
Mom, the ones lying to you were and are cynical hacks like DeSantis and Ladapo, the latter already caught falsifying data in his “research” which apparently makes you think the young men in your family were put under needless risk. Real research – not Ladapo’s found that there was heightened risk for heart conditions for that population compared to others, but that the greater risk to them was to be not vaccinated.
The unvaccinated died in much greater numbers than the vaccinated, so the proof of who is lying and who isn’t could not be clearer – DeSantis is with the liars.
Anecdotally, one of my clients is an ICU doc who works in Ocala and Lake City hospitals. He was on ground zero during the Delta variants run, the worst of the Covid outbreak. His patients dying from Covid were overwhelmingly unvaccinated. He related one story of an elderly patient who was slipping away quickly and probably before his wife could get there. He told my client “Tell my wife she’s still the most beautiful women I’ve ever met and to get vaccinated.” – they had both opposed it on political grounds. When his wife got there my client relayed both messages and the one she had the hardest time accepting was the request that she get vaccinated. That’s how sad – and stupid – so many deaths in America were in that period.
PS
“The overall risk of myocarditis – inflammation of the heart muscle – is substantially higher immediately after being infected with COVID-19 than it is in the weeks following vaccination for the coronavirus, a large new study in England shows.
The detailed analysis of nearly 43 million people was published Monday in the American Heart Association journal Circulation….”
https://www.heart.org/en/news/2022/08/22/covid-19-infection-poses-higher-risk-for-myocarditis-than-vaccines
“The risk of developing myocarditis – an inflammation of the heart muscle – following a booster dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is low, according to new research from Israel.
When vaccine-related myocarditis does occur, cases are typically mild, according to the study published Tuesday in the American Heart Association journal Circulation. It found the risk was highest among teen boys and young men…..
The risk of developing myocarditis among males ages 16-19 after a third dose was about 1 in 15,000. Other research shows COVID-19 infection poses a higher risk for myocarditis than vaccines….”
https://www.heart.org/en/news/2022/09/06/myocarditis-from-covid-19-booster-rare-but-risk-highest-among-teen-boys-young-men