What The Hell Is Wrong With GOP DeSantis

San Francisco CA

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Governor Ron DeSantis is continuing his battle against preventing Covid-19, this time by filing an emergency motion to stop school masking requirements from going into effect. A judge on Wednesday overturned the governor’s statewide ban on school mask requirements, ruling that districts could indeed attempt to protect students and their households by mandating masks. DeSantis, a pioneer of pro-Covid policies who banned school mask requirements via executive order back in August, is asking the court to reinstate the stay via an emergency repeal. The court has given plaintiffs in the case — parents of Florida schoolchildren — until 8 p.m. on Thursday to respond. So far, 13 school districts in the state have implemented mask requirements in defiance of DeSantis’s order, only allowing parents to opt their children out for approved medical reasons. Leon County Circuit Judge John C. Cooper’s ruling this week follows a decision he issued on September 2nd that found DeSantis acted outside his constitutional authority when he banned mask mandates in Florida schools. DeSantis justified his actions by claiming he was acting under authority granted by the Parents’ Bill of Rights, a controversial piece of legislation Florida passed in 2021 that gives parents control over certain aspects of their children’s education, upbringing, and health care. “We are not in normal times. We are in a pandemic,” the judge said Wednesday, according to NBC Miami. Cooper also noted that some children are too young to be “protected by vaccination,” as the Food and Drug Administration has only approved the vaccine for people age 12 and up. “Children are at risk and they provide at least some protection by masking,” Cooper said, adding that, despite DeSantis’s claims that masks are harmful, the “greater weight of the evidence did not support the claim that mandatory face masks… would create any meaningful harm to those wearing it.” WHY ARE GOP LEADERS INSANE