Several communities in the US state of Florida want to oblige their employees to have a corona vaccination. Governor Ron DeSantis sees this as an encroachment on personal freedom and threatens hefty fines.
Cities and towns in the state of Florida that require their employees to have a corona vaccination face a fine of $ 5,000 per case. According to media reports, Governor Ron DeSantis announced this on Monday. The potential fines could run into the millions. The Republican is thus tightening his course against the national vaccination campaign launched by President Joe Biden.
Attorney General wants to support vaccination refusals in court
“We will protect jobs in Florida. We will not allow people to be made redundant because of a vaccine mandate,” DeSantis said, according to the New York Times in Newberry, near the city of Gainsville. Gainsville was, along with Orange County and Leon County, one of the communities that made vaccination compulsory for public sector employees. In Gainsville, the decision, which is due to come into effect in October, has sparked protests from workers and unions – more than 200 of them filed a lawsuit against the vaccination requirement last month.
“We feel betrayed and used,” the New York Times quoted a Gainsville firefighter as saying. As a Covid 19 convalescent, a mandatory vaccination is unnecessary for him. Ashley Moody, Florida’s attorney general, wants to support the plaintiffs in court – compulsory vaccination would exacerbate the already existing shortage of law enforcement officers. Governor DeSantis has also invoked a law that prohibits governments and companies from requiring customers to provide proof of vaccination.
Municipalities are sticking to the planned mandatory vaccination
Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings looks into DeSantis’ Advance political motives. His district, he told the New York Times, was in the public service for the planned vaccination requirement – the fines would be “circumvented” in court or in some other way. A spokeswoman said that Gainsville was also sticking to the decision.
As “NBC Miami” reports, the police department of the largest district in the state, Miami Dade, already requires a vaccination for all potential new police officers and employees. Current, unvaccinated employees are required to have regular tests.
In addition, Florida is one of those Republican-governed states that tried to prevent school districts from making masking compulsory. In Florida, an appeals court ruled that such a mask requirement was illegal on Friday. According to a count by the Reuters news agency, more than 3.4 million people in Florida have contracted Covid-19 so far, 49,000 of whom have died.
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