Submitted by: Larry Jordan
Governor Greg Abbott revealed today that he has now issued an executive order banning vaccine passports for the state of Texas.
Below is his announcement:
By my count Abbott is now the second governor to ban vaccine passports, following after Florida Governor DeSantis last week. Hopefully the Texas legislature is working to make this the law of the land.
As an aside, I just want to make a quick point about schools. I’ve seen online that some people are getting upset that schools and universities are requiring the COVID vaccine for attendance. But that’s standard fare in my opinion. When I went to college, I had to have certain vaccinations long before COVID, and it’s because you are entering a micro population of people for several years, living, eating and schooling with these people. I think it’s fine that they would also require the COVID vaccine now, as they do others. Just my two cents.
At a round-table hearing convened by popular Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, top scientists and public-health experts from across America and beyond slammed face masks, lockdowns, contact-tracing schemes, and dubious mandates imposed by many other governors and policymakers in response to COVID-19. One of the scientists, who has been subjected to Big Tech censorship on social media, also argued that censoring experts who disagreed with the establishment narrative was dangerous to public health. In short, DeSantis is being vindicated.
All the fake “fact checks” in the world could not blunt the devastating testimony by the highly credentialed scientists and medical experts on the Florida panel brought together by Florida’s governor. And so, aside from a handful of local reports trying to dismiss the hearing and demonize the Republican governor, the establishment media just pretended it did not happen. Still, the news is getting out. And increasingly, even Democrats are realizing DeSantis appears to have gotten it right, despite all the hysteria from the press and the totalitarians.
Among the experts at DeSantis’ discussion was Stanford Medical School Professor of Medicine Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, one of the leading figures behind the “Great Barrington Declaration” that slammed COVID restrictions as unnecessary and disastrous for public health. When asked by Governor DeSantis about whether mass masking had reduced COVID transmission in areas where it was widespread, the highly respected
doctor’s answer was clear and unambiguous. “It just doesn’t help on disease spread,” he said, ridiculing the idea of teaching children to read while wearing face masks.
Not only does the evidence show the masks did not prevent transmission, “In some ways, they’ve been harmful, because people believed that masks protect them — vulnerable people — and they take more risks than they
ought, because they feel like they’re protected by something that does not protect them,” Dr. Bhattacharya concluded, slamming CDC scientists for spreading claims that were “not true” regarding
masks. “On net, I think not only were the masks not effective, but they’ve been harmful.”
Ironically, dozens of studies have shown that the masks — even in controlled hospital settings — are at best ineffective. At worse, they can be potentially harmful. Among other concerns, numerous doctors and experts have suggested that masks can and do lead to bacterial or even potentially deadly fungal infections — especially when worn by untrained members of the public. Adding insult to injury, dangerous chemicals that can shrink male genitals and produce infertility have been found in widely used disposable face masks.
Even Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has been peddling COVID tyranny from his federal perch, urged the public not to wear masks before suddenly changing course and claiming he previously had been lying to advance public health. “We were concerned the public health community, and many people were saying this, were concerned that it was at a time when personal protective equipment, including the N95 masks and the surgical masks, were in very short supply,” said Fauci in his comments defending what he said were his previous false claims.
In addition to the negative health effects of mask mandates, the Stanford medical professor warned about negative societal consequences. “The mandates themselves have created social divisions in ways that are really to be regretted,” Dr. Bhattacharya said. “Public health is supposed to create some source of unity, not the kinds of division and moralization of behavior that it has created.”
But the mask mandates were not the worst policy response deployed during COVID. “I think the lockdowns were the single biggest public health mistake,” explained Dr. Bhattacharya during the round-table
discussion. He also blasted as “just punitive” the ongoing efforts to use “contact tracing” under the guise of tracking COVID cases and the spread of the virus.
Continuing on, DeSantis then pointed to Sweden, where health authorities early on warned the public against mass masking and where the population never adopted it. In response, Dr. Martin
Kulldorff, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, noted that Sweden — which had no lockdowns, either — had results that were better on average than other European nations in terms
of disease spread and mortality. COVID totalitarians warned the “Swedish model” would produce mass death, but it never did. In fact, the Swedes did far better than the United States.
DeSantis has been by far the most ardent critic among the nation’s governors of COVID tyranny throughout the pandemic. Just last week, when bureaucrats and media
began openly peddling the idea of a “vaccine passport,” DeSantis took immediate action to ensure that no such assaults on individual liberty — even from local
government officials — would come to the Sunshine State via government during his watch and beyond. However, those pushing the fear-mongering have already been
trying to undermine his efforts by calling on individual business entities to require COVID passports, making it impossible for Americans to go to sporting events,
restaurants, airports, theaters, and more unless we have COVID passport.
DeSantis’ successful resistance to the COVID madness has now catapulted him to presidential front-runner status, thanks in part to the media’s dishonest demonization of
him and his policies. It also proved once again that, as American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin is widely credited with having said, “Those who would give up
essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” In the end, those who give up their freedoms for imaginary safety from a virus
will end up neither safe nor free. Ultimately, freedom is the cure!
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