The mandates for public masking established in July of 2020 were rendered as symbolic in September as Governor Ron DeSantis cut powers from local governments to enforce the edicts.
The majority on the City Commission team believed that masks are too “burdensome,” for residents and businesses. Since the city could not punish those who did not obey, they questioned the legitimacy of having the mandate in the first place noting that the people would do what they wanted to regardless, says the Herald Tribune.
This was one of those ordinances that was done as a public spectacle. People don’t really respect us as a commission for us trying to regulate every single little thing. It might make us feel good about passing it, but it just doesn’t work, and I think we need to stop this now.
Vice Mayor Erik Arroyo.
According to the Herald, Because the mandatory mask ordinance was an emergency order, the commission needed four affirmative votes. Arroyo, Mayor Hagen Brody and Commissioner Kyle Battie all voted against extending the ordinance for 60 days. Commissioners Liz Alpert and Jen Ahearn-Koch voted for the extension. The mandatory order will expire Feb. 25.
The city will draft a resolution that would encourage residents to a wear a face covering. That ruling passed 5-0.
Ahearn-Koch wanted to extend the mask mandates citing letters from medical doctors and other health experts expressing concerns over lackadaisical mask wearing practices, and noted a growing number of infections and fears of the reported strains of Covid.
We strongly urge the extension of local mask ordinances to help minimize the spread of the coronavirus. What concerns us the most is that people are letting their guard down in a critical time.
The medical community is faced with the daunting task of educating a divided public to do their part and take the vaccine while still many refuse to wear a mask. The virus has had a head start, but with the help of community leaders, precautions and local mask ordinances, we can put this pandemic behind us.
Hospital President CEO David Verinder. James Fiorica and Manuel Gordillo. Letter from Sarasota Memorial Health Care System
My personal feeling is that everyone should wear a mask. Masks do work, and I think the science is pretty clear that they help. But people are choosing to wear them or not, regardless of our ordinance.
Mayor Hagen Brody
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
Proverbs 21:1
Florida has been under a lot of hot water in 2020 and so far in 2021. The media continually blasts Florida for not having tight lockdowns and for being very loose on masking. Florida is third for cases in the United States, but the other states in in the top five (California, Texas, New York, Illinois) have had some of the strictest mandates concerning masks, testing, curfews, and lockdowns; and the data is very similar which demonstrates the lockdowns, masks, and stringent mandates are ineffective. But as Fauci would say, this is just “common sense” – that is foreign to the media.
We have reported about the Covid chaos in Florida in several other reports. From a Florida nurse dying from a vaccine, a doctor arrested for not tampering with the Covid statistics, and shops mocking the masks.
I have not confirmed this but I wonder how many Floridians actually use cash and how many of them embrace crypto and digital transactions, along with biometric and AI scanning technology? This could be a similar scenario to Sweden as we have noted.
Even though the mask mandates have been lifted in that area, they still could just as easily put them back down on the people. It is a similar song and dance with the Iowa governor that is giving back the freedoms her and the government took. Do not buy into the hype that these people are some how saviors and heroes in government, as the conservative media will certainly praise them as such.
The WinePress needs your support! If God has laid it on your heart to want to contribute, please prayerfully consider donating to this ministry. If you cannot gift a monetary donation, then please donate your fervent prayers to keep this ministry going! Thank you and may God bless you.
Fire the doctors and take America back from the villains.
This so called doctors and the mayor need to be fired and voted off there positions. There is no evidence thats masks work. This is a total breakdown of human rights.