I have to look this up. I cannot imagine this is telling the whole story. If it is truly banning people who are vaccinated just because they are vaccinated, then I will totally side with you that this is asinine. But something tells me this isn't the whole story.
Ah, of course there was more to the story. The rule that was proposed to pass (which the GOP said no to) was to take action against private enterprises that decided to discriminate against people who were vaccinated vs. not vaccinated. TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Senate declined Thursday to take action against businesses and schools that discriminate against employees who have been vaccinated against COVID-19. The issue came to the forefront after a Miami private school’s CEO sent a letter riddled with misinformation to its faculty and staff and discouraged them from getting vaccinated. The letter, first reported by The New York Times, instructed employees at Centner Academy that if they have received the COVID-19 shot they must be kept “physically distant” from students. The letter made false claims that the vaccine could somehow be “passed” to others and affect their reproductive system. Sen. Jason Pizzo, D-Miami, said he tried to get state agencies to take action against the school, but officials told him they were powerless to intervene. This is based on that crazy school (private school) that put in that rule about vaccinated teachers not being allowed near students. Now, before you go all lunatic on this, I will 100% agree that this private school is nuts for such a rule. But it is a PRIVATE school. The State does not interfere with PRIVATE businesses banning anyone for not being vaccinated anymore than it does for banning people BECAUSE of being vaccinated. Florida doesn't interfere with private businesses regardless of the path they choose. Which is as it should be.
Florida should not "interfere with private businesses regardless of the path they choose"? In Florida? Laughable. This is the state where DeSantis and GOP banned private businesses from using vaccine passports.
"DeSantis for the win" -- Plague rat central edition. DeSantis announces suspension of all remaining local COVID-19 orders immediately https://www.wesh.com/article/desantis-announces-suspension-local-covid-19-orders/36318157 Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that he will sign a bill to invalidate all remaining local emergency COVID-19 orders. The bill will go into effect on July 1. Gov. DeSantis added that he will use his executive powers to suspend those emergency orders from local governments until his bill goes into effect. That executive order will go into effect immediately. "I think this is the evidence-based thing to do," DeSantis commented at a press conference on Monday morning. "I think folks that are saying they need to be policing people at this point. If you're saying that, you really are saying you don't believe in the vaccines," DeSantis said. You don't believe in the data, you don't believe in the science. We've embraced the vaccines, we've embraced the science on it." DeSantis also added that he believes the order will be respectful of people's businesses and jobs.
Sorry, I don't agree. It is one thing to police the requirements for businesses to serve customers because of documentation, and another to tell the business who they can and cannot hire or fire. Would you support businesses being allowed to resist serving customers unless they showed a driver's license?
No shirts, no shoes, no vaccine passport -- no service. Seems like a reasonable extension of rules for private business that government should not interfere with. Private businesses should have the right to protect their businesses from plague rats.
I get it. Fortunately what GWB thinks is reasonable doesn't rule our lives. Maybe lobby your own state's governor to ensure your state is "safe" and secure.
it' important to ensure that nearby states are not becoming plague central. Keep in mind that all 38 of North Carolina COVID variant cases came from Florida. What Florida does (and fails to do properly) -- impacts other states.