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Ron DeSantis: “The lockdowns were harmful.”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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Published | Video Starts at 37:30

And he was pilloried. But yet he was right. He was right on all those, all those things. The lockdowns were harmful. the mass mandates on kids. Now I overruled those in Florida. But you know, there were school districts that wanted to do it. The forcible MNRA shots. That was wrong. (37:30–37:33)

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Asserts that lockdowns had negative effects.

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