{"id":58506,"date":"2021-03-30T17:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T21:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=58506"},"modified":"2021-03-30T17:05:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T21:05:22","slug":"gov-desantis-to-take-executive-action-this-week-against-vaccine-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=58506","title":{"rendered":"Gov. DeSantis to take executive action this week against vaccine passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58514\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-1.jpg 580w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>By Katherine Hamilton<br \/>\nNews Breaks<\/p>\n<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2013 Gov. DeSantis said he will be taking executive action against <a href=\"https:\/\/nbc-2.com\/news\/2021\/03\/18\/gov-desantis-round-table-vaccine-passports-could-be-detrimental-to-working-class\/\">vaccine passports<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s completely unacceptable for either the government or the private sector to impose upon you the requirement that you show proof of vaccine, just simply to participate in normal society,\u201d DeSantis said at a news conference in Tallahassee on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, a \u2018vaccine passport\u2019 refers to documents, either paper or digital, that provide health information such as whether someone has received the COVID-19 vaccine. Presenting that information will, in turn, allow the vaccinated person to travel and attend events. The idea of everyone having a vaccine passport has garnered mainstream attention in the past few months as vaccines roll out and travel companies eye future restoration.<\/p>\n<p>The governor said vaccine passports aren\u2019t welcome in the State of Florida, noting how they violate privacy and individual liberties.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58516\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-2.jpg 580w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re going to do this and what, give all this information to some big corporation? You want the fox to guard the hen house? I mean give me a break,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis has previously made his position on the issue clear. At a March 19 round table event, medical experts backed up DeSantis\u2019 sentiments, saying vaccine passports could erode public trust and harm minority and working class communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the zoom class or the lap top class have protected themselves through the lockdowns, while we have thrown the working class under the bus,\u201d said Dr. Martin Kulldorff, who is a Professor at Harvard Medical School.. \u201cNow to say those workers who had an infection \u2014 \u2018they cannot travel.\u2019 But the zoom class who had the vaccine \u2014 they can. That\u2019s just another assault on workers in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis said he will be in touch with the legislature to begin working on an emergency order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that would provide a lot of certainty for a lot of people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/news\/2193084492674\/gov-desantis-to-take-executive-action-this-week-against-vaccine-passports\">https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/news\/2193084492674\/gov-desantis-to-take-executive-action-this-week-against-vaccine-passports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}