DeSantis Puts Personal Liberty Above Cruise Industry

DeSantis Puts Personal Liberty Above Cruise Industry

Al Ritter

It‘s an interesting dispute to say the least. The State of Florida comprises about 600,000 employees in the Cruise Industry. Through 3 major ports. Gov. DeSantis signed a bill into law that fines any business from asking patrons if they have been vaccinated $5000 per occurrence. This bill covers EVERY business, not just the cruise industry. He also sued the CDC in April to force the reopening of the Cruise Industry with no restrictions, that case hasn’t been settled.

On the surface his bill is correct, to ask anyone about their personal medical history is a Violation of the HIPPA law. For over a year now the Federal Government has been encouraging businesses to do their dirty work because it’s against the law for the government to ask their employees or anyone for that matter to divulge whether or not they have had the vaccination, but not against the law for businesses to force their employees to get the vaccine under threat of termination of employment. This has posed a real catch 22 between the laws about health privacy acts and personal freedom.

On one hand nobody should be forced to take an experimental drug merely to participate freely in society, but on the other hand the Cruise Industry is caught between a rock and a hard place, to try to find a way to offset liability for the safety of their passengers, and they feel that customers that voluntarily supply this information on vaccinations is a way to do that. But in doing so they are requiring a “vaccination passport” of sorts which the Federal Government can’t require.

The deadline is looming on the first cruise to depart Port Everglades in over a year in just 2 weeks. The Cruise Industry is battling back on the law stating that they are a foreign business flying a ship under a foreign flag and therefore should be exempted from the law. Because they want to do the testing for Covid or asking for proof in the terminal that brings them under Florida Law. They also are trying to push the idea that if Vaccination Documents aren’t voluntarily given to them then testing will be demanded before travel and masks will be demanded along with social distancing, which is merely an end run around the Florida Law.

A recent cruise ship had 2 positive Covid cases, even though in both cases had their Covid Vaccinations. There are no certain things in life especially with vaccines, but one thing for sure is that when personal liberties are surrendered they can never be gotten back.

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