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Florida to Start Fining Businesses $5,000 for Violations of Covid Vaccine Passport Ban
Epoch Times ^ | 09/03/2021 | Tom Ozimek

Posted on 09/03/2021 8:36:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The Florida Department of Health has issued a notice indicating it will start issuing $5,000 fines to businesses, schools, and government agencies that require Floridians to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination.

The health department rule, which goes into effect on Sept. 16, details the penalties that businesses and other entities, including nonprofits, face for violating section 381.00316 of the 2021 Florida Statutes, which prohibits them from requiring customers or patrons to provide any documentation certifying COVID-19 vaccination or postinfection recovery in order to gain access to their premises or services.

“Each violation of Section 381.00316, F.S., will result in the imposition of a $5,000 fine per individual and separate violation against the business, governmental entity or the educational institution. Fines imposed are due and payable to the Department within 30 days of entry of the final order unless otherwise stated in the final order,” reads the Florida Department of Health notice.

Health care providers are exempt from the fine, which also does not apply to vaccine requirements businesses or other entities impose on their own employees. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order in April that banned vaccine passports.

“No COVID-19 vaccine is required by law,” the governor’s order stated, adding that “vaccination records are private health information” that shouldn’t be shared via a mandate. The passports, DeSantis said at the time, would infringe on personal liberties and harm patient privacy.

“A requirement to show a passport to take part in everyday life such as a sporting event, going to a restaurant or going to a movie theater would ‘create two classes of citizens,'” DeSantis stated.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: ban; covid; florida; vaccinepassport
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1 posted on 09/03/2021 8:36:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

makes good sense. Not much of the news these days makes good sense.


2 posted on 09/03/2021 8:40:06 PM PDT by hoe_cake
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To: SeekAndFind
“A requirement to show a passport to take part in everyday life such as a sporting event, going to a restaurant or going to a movie theater would ‘create two classes of citizens,'” DeSantis stated.

No "only star-bellied Sneeches" at Florida beaches!

3 posted on 09/03/2021 9:01:47 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: SeekAndFind

That effectively ends any chances of gov DeSantis winning presidency in 2024. I base that Purely on numbers. At current rate 250 million Americans are on schedule to be vaccinated by end of 2021. Almost All are over age 18. Which means 75-80% of voting age will be vaccinated.

Who will they prefer to vote for? Pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine candidate?


4 posted on 09/03/2021 10:37:09 PM PDT by entropy12 (President Trump was the best president in my life time of 81 years and counting..)
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To: entropy12

roflmao you never quit.


5 posted on 09/03/2021 10:39:03 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: entropy12

Probably a person that is for individual liberty, as DeSantis clearly is.

Nice try skippy.

CC


6 posted on 09/04/2021 12:35:58 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: entropy12

7 posted on 09/04/2021 1:20:48 AM PDT by knarf (qa)
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To: entropy12; SeekAndFind
That effectively ends any chances of gov DeSantis winning presidency in 2024. I base that Purely on numbers. At current rate 250 million Americans are on schedule to be vaccinated by end of 2021. Almost All are over age 18. Which means 75-80% of voting age will be vaccinated.

Who will they prefer to vote for? Pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine candidate?


A false assumption based on faulty logic.

The public's perception of any one issue changes quite frequently, and sometimes, on a dime based on new information.

The information, facts, studies, and death counts proving not only the utter failure and danger of the vaccines, but also the abject dishonesty and deceit of those pushing this whole SCAMDEMIC are coming out and getting around the MSM/Government wall of disinformation and propaganda with increasing frequency and volume.

Whose side are you really on Entropy12?
8 posted on 09/04/2021 1:37:48 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is how you stop them!

Hit them in the pocketbook.


9 posted on 09/04/2021 1:39:10 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: entropy12

What you say is proof that DeSantis wrote the truth.

“A requirement to show a passport to take part in everyday life such as a sporting event, going to a restaurant or going to a movie theater would ‘create two classes of citizens,’” DeSantis stated.


10 posted on 09/04/2021 1:41:47 AM PDT by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: SoConPubbie

+1


11 posted on 09/04/2021 1:43:17 AM PDT by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: entropy12
That effectively ends any chances of gov DeSantis winning presidency in 2024. I base that Purely on numbers. At current rate 250 million Americans are on schedule to be vaccinated by end of 2021. Almost All are over age 18. Which means 75-80% of voting age will be vaccinated.

How many of them knew they were signing up for 3 booster shots a year? And how many would support a vaccine passport system that bars entry to businesses or events if they're not up to date on their shots?

12 posted on 09/04/2021 3:46:57 AM PDT by Mozzafiato
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To: entropy12

De Santis is up for reelection next year. I’m perfectly fine with him running our state for another 6 years. Assuming Nikki Fried and the Democrat Fraud Machine aren’t cranked up to 11, he should win handily next November.

I suspect by 2024, the divide in this nation and across the globe will be so stark that the Democrats will have no choice but to use every last arrow in their quiver of fraud to bring it home for Kamala.


13 posted on 09/04/2021 3:50:37 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I must have got the wrong vaccine. The one I got didn’t give me the urge to feel superior to the unvaxed or the desire to force everyone else to get vaxed. Could mine have been a placebo?


14 posted on 09/04/2021 3:58:26 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (`)
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To: entropy12

Who will they prefer to vote for? Pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine candidate?

He is not anti “vaccine”, he is anti gestapo. Where do you stand on the issue?


15 posted on 09/04/2021 4:20:52 AM PDT by bubalooie
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To: bubalooie; entropy12
He is not anti “vaccine”, he is anti gestapo. Where do you stand on the issue?

We should see the backlash against mandates in 2022. The Dems are assuming that the sheep will vote them in as shepherds. The libs and leftists who love mask mandates and vaccine mandates were always going to vote Dem no matter what. But they will lose independents and even lose their black vote over mandates.

16 posted on 09/04/2021 4:36:50 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: entropy12

Who will they prefer to vote for? Pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine candidate?

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The pro freedom candidate.


17 posted on 09/04/2021 5:47:30 AM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: entropy12
Who will they prefer to vote for? Pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine candidate?

False premise. I have friends who have taken the shot for their own reasons, but aren't thrilled with the idea of government imposition. I am sure many more have "buyer's remorse".
18 posted on 09/04/2021 6:45:34 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Mozzafiato

If my stage-4 cancer patient wife can handle 3rd booster shot without any adverse side effects, I am more convinced than ever that these vaccines are a big nothing burger, with VAERS reporting death rate after vaccine at 0.006% base on latest numbers. That is 99.994% safe vaccine.


19 posted on 09/04/2021 8:37:17 AM PDT by entropy12 (President Trump was the best president in my life time of 81 years and counting..)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Sure, some people have remorse about everything and anything.
But 250 million getting jabbed by year end? You expect more than 20% with remorse? I don’t. Everyone I talk to who has received the jabs is very happy they got it.


20 posted on 09/04/2021 8:38:54 AM PDT by entropy12 (President Trump was the best president in my life time of 81 years and counting..)
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