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Originally Posted by Gulfcoast
DeSantis has plainly said that no passengers are going to have to show proof of vaccination before they cruise from a Florida port. That is a 100%, across the board, fair decision that actually makes a lot of sense.
If you want to be safe from the virus either stay home or get yourself vaccinated. Otherwise you will be taking your chances which is also your choice to make.
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The argument (and the point of the lawsuit) is that the governor doesn't have the *right* to impose this, because cruise ships rules and regs fall under FEDERAL law, not state law.
I'm already vaccinated. I don't worry about myself and Covid-19 at all. I worked at Publix the entire year of the worst of the Pandemic. If I hadn't gotten sick then, I ain't gonna get sick. I vaccinated anyway.
But that's not the point. The point is, the governor doesn't have authority over the cruise lines with regards to cruise line safety policy. The governor is not allowed to FORCE a cruise line to loosen its restrictions. Especially since some of the countries that those cruise lines sail to, DO require proof of vaccination before passengers can debark at THEIR ports.
A cruise line that sails to those ports, would not be ALLOWED to sail from Florida, if they were not ALLOWED to require proof of vaccination or immunity.
The governor of the state of Florida has NO jurisdiction over the countries that these cruise ships sail to. So basically the governor is instructing these cruise lines to either stop sailing to those countries, or stop sailing out of Florida ports.
It doesn't matter if EVERYONE is immune because they breathed Florida air for more than 5 minutes in the last 4 years. What matters is these cruise lines have the right to sail wherever the destination port says they can sail to, and if the destination port requires vaccination proof, then the cruise line has the RIGHT to require it - and the responsibility to require it.