Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced plans to form a grand jury to review the safety of mRNA covid vaccines and the pandemic policies put forth by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In the petition filed with the Florida Supreme Court, the Republican governor requests the empaneling of a grand jury to investigate a broad group of entities associated with the development, distribution and promotion of the vaccines, including pharmaceutical manufacturers and their executive officers, as well as medical associations.DeSantis also said Tuesday he was launching a public health integrity committee – a panel that would counter the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which DeSantis said “is not serving a useful function; it’s really serving to advance narratives rather than do evidence-based medicine.” The panel would assess guidance and actions from federal agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health, US Food and Drug Administration and the CDC.
During a roundtable with Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, DeSantis had especially blunt words for the public health bureaucracy.
“We’ve seen over the past few years, really, the bankruptcy of the public health establishment,” DeSantis said during the discussion before criticizing public health officials’ decisions to attend and promote racial justice protests at the height of the pandemic.”If that doesn’t just go to show this is all just a huge political farce, I don’t know what it is,” he added. “…I think you’ve continued to see people in these bureaucracies and in this establishment behave in ways that have totally squandered any type of confidence or goodwill that people would have.”And our CDC at this point, anything they put out, you just assume at this point that it’s not worth the paper that it’s printed on.”
Analysts who are looking for signs about DeSantis’ plans for 2024 have used this announcement to try to forecast whether he has plans to run and challenge former President Donald Trump.
Should DeSantis decide to enter the 2024 presidential contest, the pandemic is one area where the governor could accentuate the differences between himself and Trump, whose administration launched the COVID-19 vaccines in record time.While the governor hasn’t directly criticized Trump or said whether he intends to pursue the presidency, DeSantis made his latest announcement geographically close to Mar-a-Lago, the oceanfront private club and estate where Trump lives in Palm Beach.DeSantis often holds major announcements at locations that carry subliminal messages. For instance, he has taken to publicly calling Biden “Brandon” in a nod to the anti-Biden chant “Let’s Go, Brandon,” and last year signed a bill in Brandon, Florida, when he banned workplace vaccine mandates.
However, those of us who have been following the failures associated with the politicized pandemic response will focus on the findings related to the vaccines, the promotion of those vaccines, and how social media platforms were used to focus on the narrative and suppress reasonable challenges against that narrative.
DeSantis’ move pairs well with Twitter CEO Elon Musk inviting Great Barrington Declaration author and Stanford Medical School Professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to review the Twitter Files on the platform’s manipulation of information related to the coronavirus and the response to it.
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