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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Jul 27, 2021, 08:16 PM Jul 2021

Ron DeSantis Meets with Wild L.A. Vaccine Skeptic Despite Flooded Hospitals [View all]

Hours before federal officials on Tuesday issued new mask guidance to combat the surge of the Delta coronavirus variant across America, and even as his state’s hospitals were veering toward disaster, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis quietly met with anti-maskers.

Among the attendees at the Monday night meeting behind closed doors was at least one L.A.-based doctor who embraced conspiracist rhetoric about the same vaccines DeSantis has purported to champion as his only strategy to fight COVID-19.

The event, held at the state Capitol in Tallahassee, principally featured various COVID-19 masking skeptics. They included a Stanford professor with a history of opposing lockdowns, and a Tallahassee private school student who was “very concerned about masks being required this year.”

Still, the standout may have been Mark McDonald, a Los Angeles clinical psychiatrist.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-gov-ron-desantis-meets-194918593.html

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