eVille Times: COVID-19 Update

Just gonna throw this one out there:

And move on with this at WaPo:

Florida judge rules DeSantis administration cannot restrict school districts’ mask mandates

A Florida judge ruled Friday that Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration overstepped its authority in restricting school districts from enacting mask mandates after parents sued officials amid a surge in coronavirus infections.

Judge John C. Cooper of Florida’s 2nd Circuit sided with parents from six Florida counties who challenged DeSantis (R) and state education officials in court this week, arguing that the governor’s order infringes on classroom safety guaranteed by the state’s constitution.

In a milestone decision in the heated debate about mask mandates in Florida, Cooper declared that the state cannot require districts to offer voluntary mandates over “the preservation of general welfare,” comparing the masking issue to the difference between the right to drink alcohol and the criminality of drunken driving.

“We don’t have a right to go into a crowded theater and yell fire because we decided it’s our right to do that,” he said.

The injunction is expected to go into effect as early as next week and will bar the Education Department from punishing school districts for not complying with a Health Department rule requiring those with mask mandates to offer an opt-out option. The ruling came after DeSantis ordered state policy revised to allow parents to choose whether they want their children to wear masks.

The injunction is not against DeSantis himself, the judge specified, but rather the enforcement of rules that stemmed from his order. The decision could be overturned by an appeals court or differ from the outcomes of other lawsuits moving through courts. DeSantis previously vowed to appeal if his administration lost.

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The most ardent of the anti-mask / anti-vax butt heads - the ones who're more than a little willing to deny science and shit on anyone asking them to play for the team once in a while instead of always (and only) for themselves - those are the folks telling us they'll take their chances and go it alone, only to come charging up to the hospital demanding the best possible care when they're about to drop dead because of a disease they keep telling us is not all that bad.

They are also the the ones who complain the loudest about wasting time and effort and taxpayer dollars on the sick and the needy.

Their hypocrisy and their blind foolishness are unbounded. Although, there may be some glimmer of hope that they retain a tiny modicum of self-awareness in that they're acknowledging when they're sick - and that they need help - but it's like they're still too embarrassed and too proudly macho to admit they may have been wrong this whole fucking time, so it all manifests itself in their grasping at straws - ie: fish tank cleaner to get the hydroxychloroquine they thought might help a year ago, and now the livestock de-wormer (Ivermectin) that apparently some of them are eating right out of the tube and ending up at the local ER (with symptoms like the flaming shits and precision-target-vomiting a bloody discharge), only to be told that all the beds are taken by their fellow un-vaxxed idiots so they'll just have to hang loose out here in the parking lot for a while.

This will have to improve by several orders of magnitude in order to qualify as a royal cluster fuck.

BTW, there are stories coming out now about the bills people are getting from their care-givers - bills that are running into the high 6 figures and beyond.