COVID UPDATE & JUDGE WILLIAMS SLAPS DE SANTIS

DELTA VARIANT MAY BE PEAKING IN US  SOON: SEE BELOW.  

According to the John Hopkins Covid website, Florida reported 134, 500 new cases from July 30- August 6. Our cases are up 51% in the last week. Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a professor of Medicine at George Washington school of medicine stated that there were only two places on the planet hotter than Florida for covid cases- Louisiana and Botswana.  (Gov De Santis immediately disagreed with the statistics labeling them "false news."  "We definitely have more cases than Louisiana. Everyone knows Florida will never accept second place to Louisiana." )

Dr. Reiner also stated that if Florida were a country the US should consider banning travel from Florida.  CAUTION: DR. REINER IS AN EXPERT WHO HAS TRAINED DECADES IN SCIENCE AND MEDICINE TO PERFORM HIM WORK. HIS OPINIONS SHOULD BE TREATED WITH CAUTION!

We are number one with a bullet!

Our own Judge Kathleen Williams granted an injunction on Sunday allowing Norwegian Cruise Lines to require vaccinations of all passengers.  Florida, under Governor De Santis, passed a law allowing the State to fine Norwegian $5,000.00 per passenger the cruise line required to show proof of vaccination. 

Of all the reasons Judge Williams could have ruled against Florida, she chose:

[a] The First Amendment;

[b] The Fourth Amendment; 

[c] The Tenth Amendment;

[d] Common sense and the legal doctrine of "just because". 

We would NOT have gotten the correct answer. The opinion is below and if you are a judge and have a policy against reading case law, we will post the answer in the comments section. 

Thwarted in his campaign against vaccine passports, we have inside information of our Governor's next move: requiring restaurants to seat healthy customers with covid-sick diners :"We will not allow liberals to discriminate against sick people. If they want to go out to eat, they have to eat with sick people. Period." 

CIVIL LAWYERS: Howz it going not having a courthouse? Anyone desperate for a civil jury trial?

There is a serious side to this: some people are gravely injured and need a resolution to their case. With no civil courthouse, insurance companies have more ability to play the delay game. There are also people being sued in frivolous cases who need closure and not having  ridiculous cases hanging over them.  The Delta variant has given everyone a little space for a re-set. But FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb sees hope on the horizon: our British cousins. the UK saw Delta being to rise in May and it peaked on July 18 with 47,700 new cases. Since then new infections are falling, with 29, 173 being reported on Sunday. With that template/timeline,  US cases could peak by the end of August. Wouldn't that be nice? 

JUDGE WILLIAMS' DECISION 

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