Mayors of 2 Florida counties told Gov. Ron DeSantis to f___ off & imposed vaccine and mask mandates

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Two Florida mayors have announced mask and vaccine mandates in their counties this week, despite Governor Ron DeSantis refusing to impose statewide pandemic measures.

In Miami-Dade county, indoor county facilities will once again require masks, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava's office announced on Wednesday. Levine Cava tweeted that the county has seen an "alarming rise" in cases and that hospitalizations are increasing there.

In Orange County, where Disney World and Universal Orlando Resorts are located, Mayor Jerry Demings has ordered that all 4,200 non-unionized county employees be fully vaccinated by the end of September.

Demings' announcement was part of a local state of emergency declared on Wednesday, and he also urged all residents to wear masks, regardless of their vaccination status. In a news conference on the same day, he said that cases in the county had reached an "all-time high."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mayors-2-florida-counties-broken-033706264.html

[Hortensis]

1. I shouldn't be disappointed to find they both expressed themselves

professionally as they performed their duties, but I am.

[ShazzieB]

2. This is great!

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I hope lots more mayors and other local officials do the same. DeSantis is nuts. Refusing to enact any statewide mandates is bad enough. Trying to tell mayors, school superintendents, etc., that they can't make any local rules for their own areas is the act of a megalomaniac.

[Deuxcents]

3. I wish our mayor would do the same

BUt I’m in a ruby red county n I’m beside myself with this governor. All the women behind him cheering his defiant and ignorant bill. He wants to see his children smiling. Well, no one’s child can smile with a ventilator jammed down their throats. It’s maddening

[Cha]

4. lol.. I thought they actually told

Death guy to FO.

No matter.. TY.. I just posted that to my FB for my loved one in Florida & just everyone who works at staying safe!

[monkeyman1]

5. THE WHOLE DAMN STATE SHOULD TELL DESANTIS TO FUCK OFF ! NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE!

[Mariana]

7. It isn't negligent. It is intentional. nt.

[monkeyman1]

8. lot of people in floriduh , they need to get off damn ass & do something about it ?????

[SergeStorms]

10. They're being sacrificed...

to further the political ambitions of a short, squat, fascist asshole named DeSantis. He simply cannot have their deaths being counted accurately, and having his horrible decisions for Florida's citizens become public knowledge.

[ancianita]

14. Yes, they are.

Also sacrificed to the wealthy who hold Floridians in contempt and keep assholes like trumpculters in office to help them run 'their' state the contemptible way they want it run.

[SergeStorms]

16. I remember when Florida was a sane place.

When I was a kid my Dad and Mom would pack us all in the car and take a trip to Florida every March. We were expected to keep up with our homework, but we had a week off from school.

I remember Florida as being a very nice place. A little slower moving than New York, but friendly people and a nice break from the north's icy grip. Spanish moss everywhere, palm trees, and all the beaches were littered with beautiful shells, and shark's teeth by the bucket full. No plastic, no red tide, no fishing nets and other assorted garbage washing up. Pristine.

We never noticed the greedy land developers, the greedy sugar cane growers, the greedy, polluting phosphate miners, and the crooked politicians.

Florida was still relatively unpolluted and the massive development had just started. Florida was still wild, and unspoiled.

Within 10 years all hell broke loose and it rapidly began to change. For the worse. Much worse. The greed-heads took over everything.

I often think about those days, and mourn their passing. Now, I have no plans to ever visit the state again. It's such a cesspool of criminal developers, crooked politicians, rude tourists, and a haven for drugs and criminals. People are insane, and the paradise I used to see in Florida is lost. Lost forever.

[ancianita]

17. An eloquent elegy, Serge. Thank you.

[IronLionZion]

13. Death Sentence might have fewer voters soon

Owning the libs is turning out to be a Pyrrhic victory

[Smackdown2019]

6. They need to do a Governor recall!

Start with Florida and head to Georgia!

[Brother Mythos]

9. Death Wish DeSantis must have a case of the sads over this.

[Evolve Dammit]

11. Intentional death and covering up the numbers. Evil sociopathic criminal.

[monkeyman1]

15. bet ya' the shit hit's the fan next week !!

[monkeyman1]

12. just had a good brain fart !!

if 70% of parents boycotts the the system because they will putting kid's in harm's way of a deadly disease, federal fund's would dry up so fast ,make your head swim ! this would typically & effectively put ronny in the gulf of Mexico swimming for Russia!! A GOVERNOR does not have the authority to endanger children's lives for political gain ! this is a national emergency & we need to treat it as such ! adult's can make decision 's & kid's don't have that luxury of that ! why take it out on them ! teachers & kid's can learn at home . shit, now day's their smarter that most of the damn adult's ! this governor is far out of his league as gov. , every time I read about it crack's me up how he got in there in the first place !! excuse me , almost forgot about red tide ricky , now you guy's got that shit back again !! now that I vented because I have friend's & family down there , please put MR.Deathsentence in the future unemployment line & build your state back the it was ! A place that 49 other states wanted to go too !!!

[ancianita]

18. I gotta say, monkeyman, the way FL's elections go, the 16 billionaires and assorted minigarchs here

can run it their way no matter who's in office. They are entrenched, I tell you.

Get rid of the former head of the national chamber of commerce, Vern Buchanan of Sarasota; get rid of Rubio, Gaetz and its statehouse Republicans, and Florida will still be economically unregulated.

Even then, this state's GDP doesn't depend on honest political policies. It's GDP is still based on the top income sectors of 1. tourism, 2. agriculture, 3. "international" trade (let me guess, laundering through land investments? laundering of gun and drug trafficking?) 4. aerospace (NASA?) and 5. Life Sciences (university scientific research). People here have even given up on honest dissent or talk of ridding FL of its longstanding endemic corruption.

[monkeyman1]

19. I have to agree with you 100% !

especially when trump sold property to Russian owner's .