COMMENTARY | COVID-19 vaccine mandates do not threaten our liberty
Floridians' freedom is not at stake, despite what fear-mongering politicians say
My family, including my parents and grandparents, fled Cuba in the 1960s because of Fidel Castro’s communist dictatorship and the authoritarian prohibitions and requirements he was imposing on Cuban life. They had seen enough and with only what they could fit in a single suitcase fled their homeland for freedom in the United States.
I am forever grateful for their sacrifice, and forever vigilant against anything that might threaten the liberty my family has enjoyed here for more than 60 years.
So forgive me if a reasonably educated, freedom loving and suspicious of government person like myself, is confounded by the hysterical fear-mongering and political pandering, from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on down to the Manatee County Commission, on whether businesses should be allowed to require their employees to be vaccinated.
Next week, there’s even going to be a special session of the Florida Legislature to take on vaccine mandates and related issues that DeSantis and legislative leaders somehow believe threaten Floridians’ liberty.
“We’re going to strike a blow for freedom,” DeSantis said.
But against the freedom of businesses who might want to protect customers from a potentially deadly virus, or at least assuage them of some of their fears.
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