Red state governors pay people NOT to vaccinate. No, really!

COVID still is sickening and killing Americans. In fact, the situation is getting worse, not better

Our best, proven prevention for this scourge is vaccination. But believe it or not, some Republican governors actually are paying people not to vaccinate!

Apparently, there is no level of stupidity — i.e., attacking the Capital,  giving tax breaks to the rich, pressuring and bribing Ukraine’s president to interfere in our next presidential election on Trump’s behalf — that is too stupid or criminal for Republicans.

RIGHT WING EXTREMISM: DeSantis Courts Anti-Vaxx Voters by Changing Unemployment Rules to Give Them Benefits if They Get Fired: Report

Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis administration is expanding the Republican governor’s anti-vaxx policies by altering state unemployment insurance rules to allow those fired for refusing the coronavirus vaccine to be eligible for benefits.

“Extending unemployment benefits to the unvaccinated is just the latest in a series of proposals aligning the GOP with people who won’t get a COVID shot,” Axios reports, noting that Iowa, Kansas, and Tennessee have also changed their rules to favor anti-vaxxers.

“Republicans see a prime opportunity to rally their base ahead of the midterms. No matter how successful their individual efforts, the campaign is a powerful messaging weapon,” Axios adds.

Up until now being fired for cause – for refusing an employer’s requirements, including being vaccinated – has made terminated employees ineligible for unemployment benefits.

“It’s like if your employer said, ‘Come in at 9 o’clock and you said, ‘Thanks for sharing, I’ll come in at 11.’ If you engage in deliberate misconduct like that, you won’t be entitled to unemployment benefits which are designed to be provided to those who are separated through no fault of their own,” he added.

But DeSantis and his administration have been downplaying COVID and the coronavirus vaccine, promoting expensive COVID treatments over vaccines – treatments that financially benefit one of his top political donors.

(As Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criss-crosses the state opening monoclonal antibody treatment centers using Regeneron as a post-exposure prevention for COVID-19, he is also being criticized because one of his top donors is a Regeneron investor.)

Despite Florida’s resident sickening and dying from COVID, DeSantis bribes people not to get vaccinated for free, and tells them to buy the unproven drug sold by one of his political contributors.

But there is even more: Let us not forget this bit of stupid, right-wing extremism:

DeSantis Hires New Surgeon General: A Hydroxychloroquine-Pushing Physician Who Appeared in ‘Demon Sperm’ Doc’s Video

Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, responsible for one of the worst COVID-19 responses in the nation, has just announced his new Surgeon General, Joseph A. Ladapo, MD, PhD, a UCLA Medical Center physician and health policy researcher who appeared in the viral “Demon Sperm” quack doctor’s video that advocated the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19.

Ladapo signed the Great Barrington Declaration which was a statement urging herd immunity (i.e., hope your neighbors get sick and live so they don’t pass it on to you) and rejecting any reasonable efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

SUMMARY: In addition to paying people not to vaccinate, and accepting bribes to promote Regeneron instead of vaccination, Republican Governor Ron DeSantis appointed as Surgeon General,  Joseph Ladapo, a quack who is anti-vaccination, anti-mask, but pro-hydroxychloroquine. This doctor said about vaccination, ““There is nothing special about them compared to any other preventive measure.”

And this DeSantis character is who Republican voters support.

As the circus magnate, P.T. Barnum may have said, “There’s a sucker born every minute” and they are the ones voting for Republicans.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
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THE SOLE PURPOSE OF GOVERNMENT IS TO IMPROVE AND PROTECT THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE.

The most important problems in economics involve:

1. Monetary Sovereignty describes money creation and destruction.
2. Gap Psychology describes the common desire to distance oneself from those “below” in any socio-economic ranking, and to come nearer those “above.” The socio-economic distance is referred to as “The Gap.”

Wide Gaps negatively affect poverty, health and longevity, education, housing, law and crime, war, leadership, ownership, bigotry, supply and demand, taxation, GDP, international relations, scientific advancement, the environment, human motivation and well-being, and virtually every other issue in economics. Implementation of Monetary Sovereignty and The Ten Steps To Prosperity can grow the economy and narrow the Gaps:

Ten Steps To Prosperity:

1. Eliminate FICA
2. Federally funded Medicare — parts A, B & D, plus long-term care — for everyone
3. Social Security for all
4. Free education (including post-grad) for everyone
5. Salary for attending school
6. Eliminate federal taxes on business
7. Increase the standard income tax deduction, annually. 
8. Tax the very rich (the “.1%”) more, with higher progressive tax rates on all forms of income.
9. Federal ownership of all banks
10. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99.9% 

The Ten Steps will grow the economy and narrow the income/wealth/power Gap between the rich and the rest.

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