The Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, ensured that any county or city that requires its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, you will have to pay a $ 5,000 fine for each employee, which challenges the federal plan to accelerate vaccination.
This has the idea of ”defending the men and women who are serving us. Let’s protect Florida jobs“, said the governor regarding the idea of defending free will and the decision of the employees.
This would translate into millionaire penalties for the cities as it would seek to avoid forcing workers in the executive branch, contractors linked to the federal government and private companies with more than 100 people to be vaccinated.
In some places like Gainesville, Orange and Leon people have been warned of layoffs to people who do not get vaccinated, which Ron DeSantis seeks to avoid, defending freedom of choice.
This has been strongly criticized by the government of Joe Biden, since the impulse to vaccination is stopped with this type of messages.
“We have elected officials who are undermining the fight against the pandemic. Instead of encouraging people to get vaccinated and wear masks they are getting mobile morgues for the unvaccinated who are dying from the virus. This is completely unacceptable.”, Biden said at the press conference.
It should be noted that the Governor of Florida has also prevented students from all school districts from being required to wear masks, since like vaccines he considers them an individual choice.
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