Thread by @DrEricDing

DISGUSTING—Florida governor Ron DeSantis, now threatens to block cruise ships 🛳 from resuming if it requires passengers vaccinated—signing into law a fine of $5,000 per person that is ask to show proof of vaccination—DeSantis will not back down. #COVID19
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2) “Cruise ships are, of course, a well-known vector for the coronavirus. They inherently pack a lot of people into a confined space, and have terrifyingly high rates of infection.

3) “Aside from the public-health ramifications, it’s difficult to imagine cruises luring anything close to their pre-pandemic number of customers without being able to give them the assurance that their fellow passengers will be vaccinated.”

4) “The question is whether you can refuse the vaccine and still walk into any room you wish, whether or not other people there want you. DeSantis believes your right to breathe infected germs on other people trumps every other right at issue.”

5) “Suppose you owned a bakery. And instead of refusing to sell a couple a cake because it’s for a gay wedding, you refuse to sell them a cake because they are potentially carrying a deadly virus into your shop that may infect or kill you, your fellow employees, or customers…”

6) “Conservatives say the state can force you to make that transaction anyway. Objecting to their homosexuality is a legitimate basis for excluding them, but objecting to their potential transmission of a deadly virus is not.”