00:00I've continued to take that position as governor.
00:02Vaccine mandates, part of that, you're going to have to get the legislature to approve.
00:05And so far, some Republicans that have been, that are actually bold enough to talk to the press
00:10have said basically no comment.
00:12I know there hasn't been any bill language yet, but the Surgeon General said, you know,
00:18his position is he's going to work to do that.
00:20He recognizes his authority is important and he's exercising it, but it's limited.
00:28It's not unlimited authority.
00:30And so as he goes and meets with legislators, you know, all these agencies propose bills
00:35every year and they can do.
00:37Now, I would also say this, apart from, you know, the overall mandates, which I think as
00:44people learn more about it, we'll understand that what the Surgeon General was saying was
00:50pretty consistent with what many countries are doing.
00:53And then if you look in practice with Florida, having our exemptions the way we do, and a
00:57lot of parents opting for that, that, that, that I think likely you would see very, very
01:02similar outcomes, even in the absence of the current regime.
01:06And I actually think you'd see higher in some respects, because I think, I think people would
01:10say, you know what, you're trusting me.
01:11Yeah, I'm going to listen.
01:12I think people have a more open mind on some of it.
01:14Um, but we did not, we asked the legislature, all the stuff I talked about, about preventing
01:21people from losing their jobs or vaccine passports or all of that.
01:26We did that in 2021.
01:27Very important.
01:28The legislature sunsetted that.
01:31And so it was going to be sunset this year.
01:34So we said, Hey, let's make it permanent.
01:36They didn't make it permanent.
01:37They just extended it.
01:39That's gotta be made permanent.
01:40I mean, that to me is everyone is glad that we did that.
01:45I mean, even the very far left, I don't hear them at least publicly.
01:49They won't admit there for pat vaccine passports.
01:52It doesn't make sense.
01:53So, so would they need to do that?
01:55The other thing is, is addressing some of these issues of discrimination.
02:00Uh, I just, I, I, I get like on some levels, you know, if, if someone comes for medical
02:06care, um, and you're just in private practice, uh, I don't know that you're under any obligation
02:11to necessarily see everybody.
02:13I mean, I, you'd have to talk to doctors about that.
02:15I get there's a business component to this, but to say that, uh, a mom can't get her daughter
02:21in to see a pediatrician because while they did MMR and all the standard vaccines, they
02:28didn't do maybe hep B or they didn't do COVID or some of those, to me, that's discrimination.
02:33I mean, that is limiting people's freedom to be able to do what they think is right for
02:38their kids by having these restrictions.
02:41And basically it's a, it's a, a follow on from mandates.
02:44And if you look at the CDC schedule compared to what it was when I was growing up to now,
02:50I mean, it's a lot of shots, um, for, for these kids and some parents, well, they, I think
02:5590 plus percent would do the, the core.
02:58Some of the other ones, particularly new ones, some parents may not may choose not to,
03:01maybe there's an individual reason.
03:03I would much rather let people make those decisions than to say, Oh no, you're, you're
03:09barred from seeing pretty much any physician, uh, going forward.
03:12And certainly if somebody needs medical care and they need a transplant or something to say
03:19that you're not going to be able to get that because you didn't do this shot or that shot.
03:24Uh, that is not what we want to do.
03:26So that's, that is weaponized against people.
03:29And what we tried to do in this most recent session was really focus on the non-discrimination.
03:35Uh, the legislature did not, uh, did not go for that.
03:38Um, and I think that, you know, there is some currents in the legislature on both sides of
03:43the aisle.
03:43I mean, I think the Dems are very, very much, um, you know, believe in the coercion, but I
03:48do think you have some Republicans who their view is, is that, you know, people should
03:54face negative consequences, uh, for making different choices in that regard.
03:58And I think when you see those examples, you just kind of scratch your head and it's like,
04:02guys, you know, you're losing the plot here to allow that.
04:05So there's a lot of stuff that's kind of developed, uh, since then that I think is problematic.
04:09So make the stuff permanent that we've done.
04:12I think that's really important.
04:14We're going to take another whack at the non-discrimination, uh, as well.
04:19And then I know the surgeon general feels strongly about, um, any, any mandates, uh, for there.
04:25And I said, I've always been against mandates, but, you know, I focused on the non-discrimination
04:29because I thought that was the easiest thing that we could do last session.
04:32And, you know, we got, I think a lot of members support non-discrimination, but I think some
04:37others, um, you know, just, just have different views on it.
04:40And, you know, just as, uh, as a dad, um, you know, we want to make sure that, that the parents
04:45are able to, to be in the best position they can to do what they need for their kids.
04:50And if their kid needs a surgery or something to be able to say, you're going to be rejected.
04:54Remember they were, uh, and we, we fought back against us in Florida, but there was a long
04:59time in this country during COVID where people were being rejected for medical care, um, in
05:04different parts of the country because of the COVID jab, because of not taking the COVID jab,
05:08including people who were, who were naturally immune because they had had, uh, in a prior
05:14infection.
05:15And this is why I think a lot of people get frustrated because like California, for example,
05:20this is during COVID medical professionals were being in California forced to take COVID
05:28shots.
05:29Um, now there were some that they didn't do it.
05:31I don't know if they got fined or maybe they had an exemption or whatever.
05:34So you had, you had nurses and they had a big COVID wave.
05:39So the hospitals are starting to fill up and then some nurses get COVID.
05:44And so they have to go on the sidelines.
05:48The unvaccinated nurses were sent home and they were not allowed to help, uh, deal with
05:55the COVID wave.
05:56And they actually, cause they were shorthanded brought back nurses who were COVID, who had
06:01had the vax, but it had COVID, they're bringing them back.
06:05And I'm just thinking to myself, how nuts is this, that they're doing it?
06:09A lot of the nurses that didn't take the MNRA already got infected by COVID.
06:14And so for them, it's like, you know, they have protection through natural immunity.
06:18So it's almost like this has become something that's very political in nature, because if
06:24somebody has had a prior infection, you know, it's like when we were kids, like they wanted
06:28you to get chicken pox, right?
06:29You get it, you get out of the way and you have natural immunity, lifetime immunity.
06:33Well, if you have immunity from that, would you, would you now turn around and take, um,
06:38the, the, the varicella?
06:40I don't think you would do that if you're already naturally immune, but yet that's what
06:43they were saying to do.
06:44So there's just a lot of things I think that people scratch their head with.
06:49But ultimately we know, uh, from looking at the experience of other countries, uh, that
06:54you can have very robust availability and yes, even uptake on those core, uh, vaxes that
07:01have been around for a long time, uh, without coercing people and without, without imposing
07:06mandates.
07:07And that's very clear.
07:07And I don't think many people know that.
07:09Honestly, I was a little surprised, uh, to see that, uh, when, when the surgeon general
07:13told me that, but this is kind of like, you remember during COVID Sweden was open, a lot
07:18of Europe was closed.
07:19Everyone said Sweden was going to be such a disaster.
07:22Oh, it's so bad.
07:23They ended up having the lowest excess mortality of any country, um, in Europe during the course
07:27of the pandemic.
07:28And so, you know, you have these AB tests and you can kind of see how things shake
07:32and, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
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