Posted on 07/18/2023 10:27:25 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Ron DeSantis refused to fire Dr. Alina Alonso, Palm Beach County’s hard-line, COVID-obsessed health director, who venerated Anthony Fauci as her “patron saint,” donated to Joe Biden during her tenure under Florida’s Governor, and even publicly gloated “I’m not being stopped [from pursuing mass vaccination],” while heckling DeSantis at the height of the pandemic, The National Pulse can reveal.
The news comes as the Florida Governor lashes out at former President Donald Trump for not firing National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases chief Anthony Fauci.
“Had I been president in 2020, Anthony Fauci would have been fired, and you’ve got to be willing to do it,” DeSantis told Tucker Carlson at the recent Family Leadership Summit. The DeSantis campaign have even created ads for the campaign theme, failing to mention that it was Vice President Mike Pence who appointed both Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx to his COVID task force.
Now it appears that DeSantis failed to fire his very own Fauci in the shape of Dr. Alina Alonso – a leftist apparatchik who worked for her department (since 1989) for almost as long as Fauci did in his (since 1984).
Dr. Alonso, known as “the face of the COVID-19 pandemic in Palm Beach County,” was given free rein during the COVID pandemic to enforce arbitrary restrictions upon millions of Floridians, including the implementation of mask mandates, establishment of a COVID hotline for lockdown snitches, and even creating an armed COVID compliance police force. Under her direction, Palm Beach County even shuttered playgrounds when other areas, including outside Florida, had already reversed on the matter. She was subsequently recognized as USA Today‘s “Woman of the Year” for her work in the country, and gloated: “This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. I’m not being stopped.”
Under the advice of Alonso amongst others, DeSantis ordered major shutdowns of Florida’s beaches and businesses in both Broward and Palm Beach counties.
Palm Beach County has seen teachers suspended teachers for failing to comply with mask mandates, including one who was arrested and convicted. The locale also collected $24,500 in COVID-related fines and shut down a staggering 27 businesses during Dr. Alonso’s tenure. Yet, DeSantis did little to intervene, with one incident from July 2020 where Dr. Rivkees, then the Surgeon General, had contacted Alonso telling her to stay out of the business of reopening schools, but nothing else and certainly nothing further such as firing Florida’s own Fauci, as DeSantis claims he would’ve done had he been President in 2020. Her role lay directly beneath DeSantis’s handpicked Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo from July 2021.
Alonso very publicly called Dr. Fauci “a national hero and a source of inspiration,” as well as her “patron saint” in an interview with the Palm Beach Post. She even laughed off the idea that DeSantis was a more difficult executive to deal with than Donald Trump, telling a reporter, “[Dr. Fauci] has a harder job than me. I got a piece of cake here.”
Alonso made multiple donations to President Biden throughout her stint as Florida’s Fauci, including six donations of $25, two donations of $237.13, and one of $301.08 – all of which were publicly available at the time. She recently retired of her own volition, heralding the tenure – again, under DeSantis – of Dr. Jyothi Gunta, who Alonso herself claims: “will make a great new director.”
I wonder when DeSantis appointed Dr. Joseph Ladapo to help direct Florida’s Covid Repsonse.
If the good doctor was employed by Palm Beach County, was she under DeSantis’s (state administration) control?
Sounds like more fake news and diversionary tactics to me.
The depth & breadth of the Covid scam is breathtaking
Nice try. Ron DeSantis appointed Covid Nazis like David Kerner, who are as bad as Fauci perhaps worse. Ron DeSantis enforced lockdowns in Florida and now tries to pretend he didn't. That's why he's the Florida Fugazi https://t.co/fctUh16NSQ— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) April 13, 2023
I said months ago that DeSantis (and Trump, for that matter — but for different reasons) would be well served to just stop talking about the COVID fiasco. His own track record is well documented, and it’s not something he should be proud of. Lying about it only makes him look like a duplicitous, lying jackass.
Pathetic, fundamentally deceitful attempt to detract from Trump’s utter failure in leadership during his, I mean Fauci’s presidency. Trump ran the federal government. Fauci worked for the federal government. DeSantis ran Florida; this psycho worked for Palm Beach County.
@GovRonDeSantis says he would have fired Fauci - why did he fire this guy? https://t.co/uucXyJxMjw— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) April 11, 2023
We will not forget what we experienced in #FLORIDA, mask mandates until Feb 2022! DeSantis’ own FL DOH Dr. Alonso advised FOR this mask mandate. Also, DeSantis could have pre-empted anyone from using a mask mandate but he chose not to & is on video saying it! Listen to this… pic.twitter.com/HxlwbryEew— Here I go, so (@here_I_go_so) April 11, 2023
Ladapo was appointed in September 2021 — long after there should have even been a “COVID response” in Florida.
bttt
You guys are petrified of DeSantis. You should be. Any fall from trump either physically, mentally or legally and your doomed.
Do you realize how stupid you sound?
Dr Ladapo has been very good.
What a lot of people don’t realize is how powerful counties are in Florida. Other states seem to be more uniform in their policies, but in Florida a county can practically ignore anything.
I was living in Jax during the shutdown, and the RINO mayor simply refused to open up. Jacksonville is both a city and a county since the city limits are essentially those of Duval County. The mayor loved the power it gave him.
IIRC, DeSantis visited here and had a chat with the mayor - probably, ‘You’re fired unless”- and the mayor shaped up.
Initially, just about every Governor chased that Covid Narrative. Six weeks to flatten the curve and all that.
The difference is that many reversed course. Kemp was one of the earliest and Trump publicly called him out for it as Fauci was standing by his side.
I can sorta give the Governors a pass for their initial lockdown mania. But the courageous one’s reversed course. DeSantis is on that list. I am sorry, but Trump is vulnerable here and saying that DeSantis appointed someone worse than Fauci is a dog that won’t hunt.
How does one appoint someone worse than the guy who likely funded the China Virus, tried to cover it up, and profited from it the entire time that he was locking the country down and masking it up. Fauci is the ultimate culprit and Trump is vulnerable there. Not saying I won’t support Trump, but like every candidate he has vulnerabilities and Fauci is IT for him.
This is a topic that Trump should not dwell on.
The National Pus, like Sundunce, provide the fodder for each day’s “two minutes of hate” frenzy by the Trump cult.
Don’t try to reason with the Trump-or-Die types.
Facts don’t matter to them. They’ve found their failed savior and will stand by him as he loses AGAIN.
“he loses AGAIN.”
Some warrior you are, prob best to change your name to ConservativeWimpNoFightLeftTDS
This website has done more good work to break Ron’s shoes than anything since Dan Rather.
Do you realize how stupid you sound?
Not as stupid as all the Trump-or-Die FReepers who are blindly tying their 2024 hopes to a failed candidate currently being indicted.
Your savior Trump lost while the sitting POTUS. He has even less of a chance now. He was too shortsighted to see the fraud machine and spent his entire campaign lambasting Biden for hiding in the cellar.
A smart candidate would have wondered why Biden didn’t feel the need to campaign. Trump missed it all.
Contrast with the anti-fraud tactics DeSantis employed which allowed him to defeat his 2022 challenger by a landslide.
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