Gov. Ron DeSantis’ request for a statewide grand jury to investigate imaginary “crimes and wrongs” in relation to the COVID-19 vaccines is a gross abuse of a process meant to serve justice rather than the schemes of an insanely ambitious and irresponsible politician.
The Florida Supreme Court would disgrace itself and debase the judiciary by granting his petition. It has already given him two statewide grand juries for his political purposes, but the latest one is beyond wrong because it’s so potentially deadly.
Anything that discourages COVID-19 vaccinations, as this surely would, adds to the national COVID death toll, which is still relatively high at nearly 3,000 people a week and rising again. In Florida, the disease has claimed at least 83,200 lives, a figure almost equal to the total population of Deerfield Beach.
