Opinion by Lizette Alvarez: Florida’s Republican lawmakers deliver another blow for DeSantis against the common good
and feared that touching a box of cereal at the supermarket might be deadly. Remember how badly we wanted a vaccine? The Democrats even threw the Republicans a bone, pointing out that the vaccine success story was President Donald Trump’s doing.“What has happened to us as a country?” state Sen. Gary Farmer asked on the Senate floor. “Sacrifices are made for the greater good. Not for the squeaky, loud wheel over here who puts rationality and science aside because they want to make a statement.
Children, and teachers, also fell outside the reach of the greater good. The new law codifies that parents, not public schools, decide whether children should wear masks or get vaccinated. Parents who sue defiant schools that ignore the law can recoup their attorneys’ fees if they succeed.Luckily, DeSantis did not get everything he wanted.
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