DeSantis Selling ‘Don’t Fauci My Florida’ Branded Merch
The Florida governor is offering flags and drink koozie with slogans knocking Dr. Fauci.
QUICK FACTS:
- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is selling branded merchandise donning sayings like “Don’t Fauci My Florida” in critique of the COVID-19 restrictions endorsed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), The Washington Post reports.
- This slogan and others appear on several items now in Gov. DeSantis’ campaign store.
- One flag has the slogan, “Keep Florida Free,” while a drink koozie says, “How the hell am I going to be able to drink a beer with a mask on?”
BACKGROUND:
- Dr. Fauci, along with other medical experts, encouraged Americans to wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic.
- Many conservatives and other medical experts pushed back on mask requirements, social distancing enforcement, and lockdowns.
- Gov. DeSantis refused to block citizens from state beaches, rejected widespread mask requirements, and in May made Florida one of the first states to remove all local coronavirus-related restrictions.
WHAT DESANTIS SAID:
- “No mandates for anything,” DeSantis said on Tuesday, according to WPTV.
- “I think it’s very unfair for some of the youngest kids who are the least susceptible, least likely to spread it, that they have the mitigation imposed on them more severely than a lot of adults do,” the governor added.
Tucker Carlson: Government forced sterilization, what’s keeping them from forcing vaccines? (Video)
The government is no longer pro-choice and could force its citizens to take the COVID jab against their will.
Whether you just don’t want to take the vaccine, or you object for religious reasons, U.S. government figures are announcing “plans to make every last American take this drug. If you don’t take the shot, you’ll wind up on a government list.”
Watch Tucker Carlson expose the threat of forced inoculation facing U.S. citizens:
Here’s a transcript of the show:
We specialize in the obvious, so tonight we’d like to begin with the most obvious observation of all: force works. If you decide to make people do something — if you demand they do it and punish them if they don’t — generally they’ll do it. They’ll comply. They don’t really have a choice.
If you tell them they have to take a dose of experimental medicine, for example, otherwise they can’t have a job, and their kids can’t be educated, most of them will take it. And in fact, most of them have. According to the latest CDC data, 67% of all American adults have received the coronavirus vaccine so far. Sixty-seven percent. That’s a huge number in a country like this. Try to think of anything else that 67% of American adults have done recently.
For perspective, only about 24% of the country’s population voted for Joe Biden in November, and that was enough to make him president of the United States. So in some ways, the administration has done something amazing. Get the vaccine or else. That was their message. Most people did. But not everyone. There are still holdouts. These are not people who haven’t heard of the vaccine or can’t afford it, or can’t just find a dose. It’s free, it’s everywhere and the media never stop talking about it. Every news hour is a Pfizer commercial.
These are people who just don’t want to take it. Many of them have already recovered from COVID and have active antibodies. They don’t need the vaccine. Should people take medicine they don’t need? Apparently, they don’t think so.
Others may have religious objections. That used to be considered a valid reason, back when our leaders acknowledge God is more powerful than themselves. Still, others may have noticed the vaccine was developed very quickly — the first universal coronavirus vaccine ever — and still to this day has not received FDA approval. Maybe that gives them pause. Maybe there are other reasons, including the stunningly high death rate on the government’s vaccine harm database, or the reports of young people developing cardiac emergencies in response to the shot. Maybe all of the above. We don’t know, and actually, at this point, it doesn’t matter. The Biden administration is no longer accepting excuses.
On CNN this morning, the secretary of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra, not a doctor, a politician, announced he plans to make every last American take this drug. If you don’t take the shot, you’ll wind up on a government list.
BRIANNA KEILAR: I wonder if you can answer the criticism that it’s none of the government’s business knowing who has been vaccinated. What do you say?
XAVIER BECERRA: The federal government has spent trillions of dollars to keep Americans alive during this pandemic. So it is absolutely the government’s business. It is the taxpayer’s business. … We want to give people the freedom to choose but we hope they choose to live.
We want to give people the freedom to choose, unfortunately, we can’t. No more freedom for you. The Biden administration is no longer pro-choice. It’s an odd thing to say on many levels, but especially now. The pandemic is waning. Very clearly. Very few people in this country are dying from this virus at this point. It’s hardly a health emergency anymore. But Becerra isn’t arguing it is. Instead, he’s saying the government has spent so much money on the coronavirus, that the Biden administration has a right to go door-to-door to intimidate you into taking the vaccine and keep track of you if you don’t. The government paid, so you owe them that. If you disobey, you’re choosing death.
Savor the reasoning here for a moment. It’s hard not to think we have reached a major new precedent. Something new is happening. As it happens, the federal government spends huge amounts of tax dollars fighting all sorts of diseases, not just COVID. There’s cancer, AIDS, tuberculosis, hepatitis, heart disease, diabetes, and many, many more. Each one of these illnesses its own kind of emergency. Each one kills a lot of people, in some cases far more than COVID has.
So, does the Biden Administration have a right, based on the money they spend fighting these diseases, to your medical information? Do they have a right to know your HIV status? Why not? Can HHS force you to take antibiotics for your TB? Xanax for your anxiety? Thorazine for your mania? And while we’re at it, why are we letting irresponsible, defective people reproduce? Vagrants, mental patients, even QAnon people, can all have children? Why’s that? Why aren’t we sterilizing them?
Sound crazy? It’s happened before, on a huge scale.
So, in response to the atrocities that have been committed in previous generations in the name of science and medicine, medical privacy, physical autonomy, the right to control the medicines you take — these were once the pillars of medical ethics. Officially. Or were. They no longer are. Tony Fauci thinks there merely a “political statement.”
ANTHONY FAUCI: It`s easy to get, it`s free, and it`s readily available. So, you know, you`ve got to ask, what is the problem? Get over it. Get over this political statement. Just get over it.
Get over it. You don’t have a right to disagree.
This is a well-trod road we’re on, and it’s a scary one. We’ve seen this before, more than a century ago. In the early 1900s, officials in Boston decided to make an example of a Swedish-born pastor named Henning Jacobson.
66% of Republicans in Southern U.S. Want to Secede from Country
Two-thirds of Republicans in the southern United States and 47% of West Coast Democrats want to split from the country and form their own nation, reveals a new Bright Line Watch and YouGov poll.
QUICK FACTS:
- A poll released on Wednesday by Bright Line Watch and YouGov reveals that a large portion of American citizens want their local region to secede from the nation, with
- Southern Republicans and West Coast Democrats make up the most unhappy with the current state of U.S. politics and culture.
- The Southern U.S. and West Coast expressed the highest desire to break free, but numbers were also high in the north and in mountain states.
THE FACTS:
- 44% of total southerners (Republican and Democrat) support secession, 66% of Republicans, 20% of Democrats, and 50% of Independents.
- On the West Coast (including Alaska and Hawaii), a total of 39% of Americans want secession, 27% of Republicans, 47% of Democrats, and 33% of Independents.
- In the north, 34% in total said they want to secede, 26% of Republicans, 39% of Democrats, and 35% of Independents.
- In the mountain states, 32% want to break with the U.S., 43% of Republicans, 17% of Democrats, and 35% of Independents.
WHAT’S BEING SAID ABOUT THE DATA:
- Bright Line Watch called the figures “distressingly high.”
- Data journalist Christopher Ingraham called it the “most disturbing datapoint I’ve seen in a while.”
Experts Warn of ‘Huge Risk’ as Moderna Launches COVID Vaccine Trials for Pregnant Women
The vaccine maker is launching a clinical trial to assess safety of its vaccine in pregnant women, despite 133,000 pregnant women having already received a COVID vaccine prior to trials.
Moderna will begin studying its COVID vaccine in pregnant women, according to a posting on ClinicalTrials.gov. The observational study, expected to begin July 22, will enroll about 1,000 females over age 18 who will be studied over a 21-month period.
Women who received a Moderna vaccine during the 28 days prior to their last menstrual period, or at any time during pregnancy, are eligible.
The brief summary of the trial states the main goal is “to evaluate the outcomes of pregnancy in females exposed to the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine (mRNA-1273) during pregnancy.”
The study will measure the number of participants who have infants with suspected major and minor congenital malformations, the number of participants with any pregnancy complications, the number of participants with any pregnancy outcomes and the number of participants with infant outcomes, Fox Business reported.
Currently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says pregnant women can get a COVID vaccine. But the CDC also acknowledges there is limited data available about the safety of COVID vaccines for people who are pregnant.
The CDC website states:
“No evidence exists of risk to the fetus from vaccinating pregnant people with non-replicating vaccines in general. However, the potential risks of COVID-19 vaccines to the pregnant person and the fetus are unknown, because these vaccines have not been extensively studied in pregnant people.”
According to the CDC’s website, as of June 29, data collected from the CDC and U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) safety monitoring systems had not identified “any safety concerns for pregnant people who were vaccinated or their babies,” but the agencies stressed findings are preliminary.
Experts urge caution
“Pregnant women are taking what may be a huge risk with the COVID vaccine,” said Jennifer Margulis, Ph.D., author of “Your Baby, Your Way.”
Margulis told The Defender in an email:
“We have no long-term studies showing it’s safe. We made this mistake with diethylstilbestrol — a synthetic estrogen thought to be safe during pregnancy that was later found to cause aggressive (and sometimes lethal) cancer in the genitals of young teenagers whose moms had been prescribed it.”
Margulis believes it is irresponsible, and even unethical, to assert that we know the Moderna vaccine is safe for pregnancy.
She said:
“It’s imperative to use the precautionary principle when it comes to this highly experimental technology. The burden of proof must be on the intervention. We have no evidence that this is safe. But ample evidenceshows that it is dangerous to expose pregnant women and unborn babies to drugs and interventions that can disrupt immunity.”
The most recent data from the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) — one of the safety monitoring systems co-managed by the FDA and CDC — has received 2,678 reports of adverse events related to COVID vaccines in pregnant women, including 994 reports of miscarriage or premature birth between Dec. 14, 2020 and July 2, 2021.
Data assessing safety of COVID vaccines in pregnant women is lacking
Since the FDA in December 2020 granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for COVID vaccines, the CDC has recommended pregnant women be offered the vaccine — despite the fact that pregnant women were excluded from preauthorization clinical trials, and despite the limited data on safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines during pregnancy.
In January, the World Health Organization said pregnant women should not receive a COVID vaccine. A week later, the agency changed its guidance and advised everyone to take the shot, including pregnant women.
According to a March 1 safety update by the CDC’s vaccine safety panel on the COVID vaccine and pregnancy, post-authorization safety monitoring and research are the primary ways the CDC obtains safety data on COVID vaccination during pregnancy.
In other words, the vaccine is given to pregnant women before studies determine whether the vaccine is safe for that population. The CDC’s websitestates that 133,466 pregnant women have already received a COVID vaccine as of July 12.
“It seems bass-ackwards to release the vaccine to pregnant women before doing a clinical trial or proper animal studies,” said Lyn Redwood, RN, MSN and president emerita of Children’s Health Defense.
Redwood said:
“Does the vaccine lipid nanoparticle cross through the placenta? If so, what is the effect on the offspring with regard to morbidity or mortality? These are questions we need to be asking. Pregnancy used to be a time where we were to protect the mother and baby from any potential harms, especially during the first trimester.”
In April, the CDC started actively recommending all pregnant women get vaccinated for COVID based off of one retrospective study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The retrospective study, “Preliminary Findings of mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine Safety in Pregnant Persons,” relied on multiple vaccine surveillance systems from December 2020 to February to assess the safety of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines in more than 35,000 pregnant women who had chosen to get vaccinated after the vaccines were approved for emergency use.
What China Hides About Its Economy
Unreliable statistics, mounting debt, and nonperforming loans are just a few underlying characteristics of China’s economy.
For years, China has tried its best to hide and shadow its unsustainable economic practices from its people and from the world. Research suggests that it has been overstating gross domestic product numbers for the past decade.
It’s important to acknowledge that Beijing does release huge amounts of data. However, when it comes to statistics, there’s a big difference between quality and quantity.
Isn’t it time to find out what’s really going on in China?
On June 30, The Heritage Foundation released its inaugural “China Transparency Report.” (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation).
This 120-page assessment analyzes China’s transparency on eight different issues, ranging from the economy to human rights. The report rates economic transparency from the Chinese government at only 4 out of 10. The overall rating isn’t much better at 5 out of 10.
Unfortunately, recent external shocks, including the COVID-19 pandemic, have led President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party to adopt a more authoritarian approach.
The government has interfered by harshly cracking down on protests, collecting private data, and surveilling the country. Unambiguously, the Chinese Communist Party has made it clear that authoritarianism is here to stay.
The economy is no exception. Instead of making structural changes aimed at forwarding progress, Beijing turns to more command and control to keep businesses afloat.
Over the past 30 years, China’s economic development has been quite impressive. The country’s 2001 entry into the World Trade Organization allowed it unprecedented opportunities for foreign trade. Global trade revolutionized Chinese markets, lifting millions out of poverty. But despite this and other seemingly positive reforms, China has never let go of its tight grip on the economy.
In fact, more than ever, businesses can only operate in China if the Chinese Communist Party approves, and only to further its goals.
Heritage’s recently released annual Index of Economic Freedom measures economic governance in key areas related to economic growth and prosperity. It highlighted, once again, that China remains a “mostly unfree” economy.
The economic freedom that does exist in the world’s second-largest economy is severely lacking in depth and breadth across the country. China’s economic freedom has barely grown over the past 27 years.






