Throwback: My Interview With Governor DeSantis In Summer Of 2021
Hi everyone,
In Summer 2021, I had the privilege of conducting an extended interview with Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida in his office in Tallahassee. By then, I had already had the opportunity over the previous year to help the governor with his plans to reopen the state and buck the pressure from public health authorities like Dr. Fauci. In later summer 2020, I served as an expert witness for the state of Florida in the key school reopening case, where the Florida teachers' unions sued to keep the schools closed. In September 2020, the governor invited me to speak with him at a policy roundtable that included Martin Kulldorff and Nobel prize winner Michael Levitt. The day after that roundtable, the governor lifted all remaining restrictions in the state.
In March 2021, I participated in another public roundtable — censored by YouTube — in which I told him that there was no good evidence for force-masking children. He went on to implement legislation banning mask and vaccine mandates, guaranteeing the right of family members to visit sick relatives in hospital, and a host of other protections against public health overreach. In the interview, the Governor reflects on early federal pressure to lock down and his rapid realization — based on his reading of scientific research and listening to scientific debates — that the lockdown strategy was tremendously misguided. I believe this interview is an important historical document that shows how one of most important and influential anti-lockdown political figures in the world was thinking and reasoning in the midst of the pandemic.
I hope you enjoy the discussion!
— Jay Bhattacharya
We followed you on Australian Sky News when various presenters interviewed you and also Dr Harvey Risch. Voices crying in the wilderness but so obviously right about everything. Thank you for standing up for Truth in the most vulnerable circumstances and to Drs Kulldorf and McCullough and all who took the blows rather than go along with the lies and pure evil they pushed. History will revere you as you should be remembered unlike the Faucis etc. whose integrity is completely compromised if they ever had any to begin with.
Everything in this video is entirely reasonable, yet the power- hungry, lockdown-forever TDS crowd fought each point tooth and nail. And don’t let them off easy when they say, “we didn’t know.” They did not listen because they were busy censoring accurate information that countered their sky-is-falling narrative