A health official in Florida has been put on administrative leave for encouraging his employees to get vaccinated against covid-19, despite legislation passed last year in the Sunshine State prohibiting public and private employers from mandating it.
More than 63,000 Floridians have died of the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, third-highest in the nation (18th per capita).
Yet another reason I never want to travel to Florida again. I just don’t get why people want to retire there. (And before you say “the weather” - I have the complexion of a vampire so sunbathing is out, along with an aversion to high temperatures, humidity, bugs, and giant flesh-eating lizards).
It doesn’t sound like Dr. Pino mandated anything, just gave his opinion. Which isn’t, so far as I know, against Florida law but maybe they’ve repealed the First Amendment when I wasn’t looking.
We have a lot fewer earthquakes than they have hurricanes. Plus, in keeping with the forum, Costco and grocery store patrons are 100% masked without anyone checking. In my area at least.
One of the two times I traveled to Florida on business and chanced to catch a local evening news broadcast the talking heads said that a positive ID had been made on what had been eating the local small dogs and cats.
It was a monitor lizard. Not a Komodo dragon, “just” a smaller relative which was still larger than anything I’d want to meet in the wild. Which was, in fact, a large, flesh-eating lizard but it was clearly released from someone’s custody as it was not a species native to Florida.
Yes they did. University of Florida forbid professors from giving any expert testimony that would be against the interest of the state.
But that didn’t last. Professors sued. Courts rules for professors. Free speech prevailed! Maybe health admins need to do likewise, and see what happens.