NO, Florida did NOT sign off on forced isolation or quarantine and mandatory vaccination of the new SB 2006 bill. I'm going to explain and correct a false rumor going around based on a misunderstanding at how these bills are written.

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SB 2006 is the emergency powers bill that was signed into law on May 3 by @GovRonDeSantis. It is commonly known publicly as the bill that ban vaccine passports in schools, businesses, and by Florida public agencies, though it also limits emergency powers.

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The controversy begins when someone noticed the following text in SB 2006, p. 39, lines 1007-1111 of the text, "if the individual poses a danger to the public health, the State Health Officer may subject the individual to isolation or quarantine..."

This is not new text.

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When we expand the page down a few more lines, see how a small amount of text is stricken on lines 1113 and 1115? This is because any section of a law that is expanded, edited, or revised, the previous text is included to show how it will look if updated in law.

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Let's take another example of text that was added to section Section 381.00316. This portion is underlined. This denotes 381.00316 is ADDING new text to existing law. This is confirmed at the bottom of the image: "words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions"

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When we look up 381.0315 in 2020 FL statutes, where the text of "if the individual poses" is found, it's 381.0315(4)(b).

At the bottom of the section in "history" we find s. 2, ch. 2002-269. This means the controversial text was actually passed as the 269th law in 2002.

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We can confirm this by looking at laws passed in 2002 in Florida.

Here is a link to Law 2002-269, which was signed into law by Gov. Jeb Bush on May 23, 2002.

laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2002-…

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So once this bill gets to the Governor, he has two choices: veto the bill, where this existing 20-year old law would still be in effect but vaccine passports would be legal, or sign the bill, which doesn't change the narrow law but does ban passports and limit orders.

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Bottom line is the law already existed. It's a bad law, though it's said to be a narrow one that wouldn't be widely applied in a COVID-like situation in the future. But more specifically, this was not a new law. It is old text that appears in a section being revised.

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If you're wondering about the Alachua County School Board situation: A board member ran for the board in November, putting on her oath she was eligible to run for District 2. She wasn't. Her address is in District 4.

See Gainesville Sun

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Kim Barton, supervisor of elections, has reiterated this position.

"As communicated in a previous statement, the address on the candidate’s Candidate Oath from the 2020 election cycle is located within District 4 of the Alachua County School Board."

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Now: @GovRonDeSantis is signing the 'Emergency Orders' bill in St. Petersburg that would limit local orders to 7 days at a time, up to 42 days; would create checks and balances on emergency powers and would prohibit vaccine passports of customers, consumers and students in FL.
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Possible reason why...

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U.S. is following a similar flat line recently as U.K.

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The CDC's own data tracker and look at trends in number of cases using the 7 day average. Literally their own data has 7 day moving case average in decline each of the past four days. They're literally showing one thing and telling another.

covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…
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Here are the 7 day case rates the past 14 days. You decide.

F17 161.77
F18 151.58
F19 144.02
F20 138.34
F21 134.67
F22 134.43
F23 138.07
F24 139.80
F25 141.60
F26 141.72
F27 141.84
F28 140.74
M01 139.48
M02 134.81
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