Earlier today we told you how White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki took shots at Governor Ron DeSantis and lied about his school police on masks:
Psaki goes hard after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, urging him to do more to "encourag[e] people to get vaccinated," "wear masks, including allowing people and schools to mandate" them. She adds he needs to choose whether "to follow public health" to save lives or "follow politics" pic.twitter.com/YXsXNgI16B
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 2, 2021
It didn’t take long for DeSantis to respond to these ridiculous allegations:
FOX NEWS – DeSantis’ office fired back at Psaki, pointing out that the state allows parents to decide whether their children will wear masks or not, and highlighting that the governor held over 50 vaccine-specific events urging Floridians to get the shots.
“By dismissively ignoring Governor DeSantis’ efforts to protect vulnerable Floridians, Psaki is the one playing politics with the pandemic,” DeSantis press secretary Christina Pushaw told Fox News in an email.
“The White House should be more concerned about the flip-flopping of the CDC, which is inadvertently promoting vaccine hesitancy with their confusing, contradictory public communications. Stating that vaccinated people should wear masks and socially distance is implying that the vaccines do not change anything, which is the wrong message for our federal government to be promoting.”
That’s exactly right. As I’ve said before, either the vaccines work or they don’t. And this administration is trying to have it both ways, which will only lead to more confusion and less people getting vaccinated.
DeSantis has the right message for Florida and I’m glad his office responded as quickly as they did.