There is no mask mandate in Florida. Our businesses are open. That being said, some of the businesses have a policy about wearing masks, but they don't overly enforce the policy. Part of the reason, some very smart lawyers got together, and began going after some of these larger businesses due to their violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. It's law that big businesses have to accommodate people with disabilities. Plenty of Americans have disabilities that prevent them from wearing a mask. Asthma, COPD, etc. So what are these stores doing to accommodate those with a disability that prevents them from wearing a mask? There have been enough lawsuits, and enough large settlements, that the stores are starting to wake up here.
Those that know about our not shutting down businesses, and no mask mandate, keep asking how our covid numbers are so low, by comparison. They just don't get it, and won't listen.
I posted on another thread about my mother-in-law. She lives in a retirement community. They tested everyone living there in the rec center. All those with negative results, got their covid vaccine at the same rec center. She had an adverse reaction to the vaccine. She got very sick. Dh was sitting on ready, in case he needed to go up to help her, and her other daughter-in-law was ready to go help her too. While she was weak, and sick, she was able to manage for herself until day 3.
On day 3, she experienced paralysis in her arm, hand, and 3 fingers. She called the ambulance, and was transported to the hospital. She was tested for stroke, due to the paralysis. Nope, she had not suffered a stroke. (No, she doesn't have high blood pressure, or heart problems). In addition, they tested her for covid again. She was positive for covid. Her doctors said they've seen the paralysis before, after the vaccine. It's been reported, and is under investigation by the pharmaceutical company. In addition, there have been reports of positive covid tests after the vaccine.
A few staunch mainstream media supporters told me that was impossible, and posted links. Yes, I'm aware the vaccine is not made from a live strain of the virus. Yes, she could have possibly contacted it between the time she was tested, and the time she got the vaccine. The paralysis however, is one of the things doctors are reporting, along with several other things associated with the vaccine in some people.
Again, they kept hammering the small list of minimal side effects the pharmaceutical company lists. I mentioned that they could quit posting the links, as I am fully aware of the information, and I'm sure her doctors are even more aware. I let them know I was not making stuff up, or lying. I was simply conveying what her doctors had said.
There is a pretty long list of drugs that actually went through years of testing, and were approved, then later were removed from the market due to an adverse problem discovered later on, or when the drug was used at optimum level over an extended period of time. The covid vaccine was not rigorously, nor extensively tested. It was fast-tracked, and approved for Emergency Use Only. It's highly doubtful the pharmaceutical companies know all the side effects, and even more doubtful they know of the long term side effects, since it was not tested long term.
Ok, I'm climbing off my soap box now.