A majority disapprove of the governor’s stance in banning businesses from requiring proof of vaccination from patrons and employees.
A slight majority of recently polled Floridians agree with Gov. Ron DeSantis that parents should determine if their children should wear masks in school, but a majority disapprove of the governor’s stance in banning businesses from requiring proof of vaccination from patrons and employees.
The school mask and “vaccine passport” issues have embroiled Florida in controversy this summer certain to carry over into the fall and winter in the form of litigation, court rulings and legislative action when lawmakers convene in January for their 2021 legislative session.
On Tuesday, the state’s Board of Education determined the Alachua and Broward county school districts’ mandatory mask mandates violate state law and DeSantis’ June 30 executive order that allows parents to decide if their students wear masks at school.
Both districts face sanctions that may include withholding the equivalent of board and superintendent salaries and the removal of officials from their posts.
The governor’s actions in championing parental rights has garnered more support than opposition, according to an August 12-16 survey of 500 respondents conducted by Aristotle Inc., on behalf of Florida Atlantic University’s Business & Economics Polling Initiative (FAU BEPI).
Slightly more than 51% responded “yes” when asked if they “support allowing parents to decide if their children should wear masks indoors at school.”
In response to the same question, 40% said they oppose allowing parents decide if children should be masked in school and 9% were unsure.
The FAU BEPI survey varies from an Aug. 3 St. Pete Polls survey of 3,952 likely voters, in which 62% of respondents said they support mask mandates in schools and less than 32% said they opposed such measures.
According to the FAU BEPI survey, however, 66% of respondents said they agreed with federal Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) recommendations that all public school students, staff and teachers wear masks in school, regardless of vaccination status, while 30% disagreed and 4% were unsure.
In addition, two-thirds of respondents – just over 67% – said universities should require vaccinations for students, especially those who chose to live in campus housing.
More than 85% of respondents who identified themselves as of parents with children ages 6-11 said they would get their child inoculated when a vaccine is approved for children.
Of respondents who identified themselves as of parents with children ages 12-18, 76% said their children has received at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot or plans to receive it soon; 24% say they do not plan to get their children vaccinated.
During the 2021 legislative session, lawmakers adopted Senate Bill 2006, which bans businesses from requiring proof of vaccinations for entry of services or face $5,000 fines for each violation.
Norwegian Cruise Line challenged the law in a federal lawsuit and secured a temporarily injunction blocking SB 2006’s implementation.
A significant majority of respondents in the FAU BEPI survey say they disagree with the ban on businesses requesting proof of vaccination as a violation of property rights.
For businesses requiring their employees being vaccinated, 65% said they support such measures while 30% were opposed and 5% were unsure.
For passengers on airlines, 68% support “vaccine passports” while 29% oppose and 4% were unsure, according to the survey.
When it comes to cruise ships, 70% said they support vaccination proof while 25% are opposed and 5% unsure.
A slight majority – 53% – said restaurants and other retailers should be allowed to bar the unvaccinated if they chose with 40% disagreeing and 7 % unsure.
Another 61% of FAU BEP survey respondents said they support vaccine mandates for those attending large sports and entertainment events while 33% said they disagreed with such measures.
**By John Haughey
**Source
Always Light, that was absolutely brilliant, thank you.
Thank you Cindy… After Barbara’s strange and nasty reply to my post, I’m happy that someone found it helpful 🙂
I live in Florida and no one asked me the poll questions. There is a percentage of the population that loves to be told what to do because they do not want to think for themselves. They enjoy tyranny because its easy. In the past this has shocked me. Now I’m told I need to have empathy for these people. But…..they make it harder for actual living, thinking people so I DO NOT. There are the corrupt and then their are these people. Anyone who rationally wants to mask their own child AND yours is mentally ill AND makes it harder for nonmentally ill people who don’t want to control anyone, only themselves.
Hi Barbara, you bring good points here and yes, it has been really eye opening to see the dark hidden issues of people that would normally behave with respect and kindness to others suddenly turn into fearful and survival monsters.
And as a message to any who ‘think’ that there is any situation that garners the right to control or force others to put poison in their bodies, or put on a slave muzzle, so you can have the illusion of safety, I would suggest taking a good hard look at yourself and why you’re so afraid of living.
Take a look around, if people weren’t wearing slave muzzles and constantly having propaganda thrown in their faces, would you really be aware that anything bad was happening? For example, which group of people would be the very first indicators of a real world wide illness issue? Which group of people have poor nutrition, lowered immune systems, a high level of population contact and no proper access to cleaning facilities? People who are on the streets. Do you see masses of homeless people laying deceased on the streets? No, nowhere. And perhaps while you’re at it, compare the total numbers of people passing in 2020 to 2019 (in the US for example), you’ll discover a shocking secret, the numbers are no different!! How can that be, you might ask? Surely if there was a real additional component causing the mortality rate to increase in addition to already existing ones, you would indeed see a jump in this number. Well it’s because this is all made up. For example, common flu numbers, on average in the US, are nominally about 38mil cases per year. How many in 2020? About 17 thousand (that’s a drop to about 0.04% of where it is year after year – let that sink in).
So if you’re thinking where did all those regular flu cases go, well, they didn’t go anywhere. You don’t catch the flu, it’s in your system already (you typically have thousands if different virus particles floating around in your system, dormant), you simply get the symptoms if your immune system takes enough of a dip to no longer take proper action. So this didn’t magically solve itself, the numbers from this grouping where simply put into the great scam camp.
And unfortunately the huge raise in fear in people who are not yet capable of thinking for themselves, fall for it every time.
So as a kind suggestion for those STILL buying into this, please go inside and ask yourself, what are you afraid of?
And as a last note, if you’re one of those people acting in such ways to your fellow human beings and are looking to develop and ascend. Well, I suspect that may not be an option for you as you cannot take such tyrannical and dishonoring attitudes with you past the flash that’s just around the corner.
In peace and kindness…
I worked in a covid lab for 10 months so I know where the flu went. I know of corruption in the “health care” system and it made me sick. People are stupid and corrupt and will support corruption with their last dying breath. It’s disgusting. Why are you replying to me? Because you think you know me? You do not. As a last note, you don’t know shit save your smugness.
He was being supportive of your point. LOL
Seriously Barbara, did you even read my comment? I was actually supporting your points. Wow, that’s the most triggered and hateful response to a supporting comment I’ve ever seen. I can’t for one moment rationalize your reply here, did you hit your head on the computer screen on the way to reading it, got lost on line one, and then decide to take it out on me? That was meant in jest, but seriously, read my comment, I’m agreeing with you and adding further points that others may find helpful – by the way I hold five degrees including a PhD, so from that, I will use your attacking sentiment back to you and say, what do you think you know about me, to fire such nasty words and accuse me of ‘not knowing shit’ – hypocrisy is the least word I’m going to use here. Maybe you’re having a seriously bad day, that’s the best I can figure.
‘…two-thirds of respondents – just over 67% – said universities should require vaccinations for students, especially those who chose to live in campus housing.
More than 85% of respondents who identified themselves as of parents with children ages 6-11 said they would get their child inoculated when a vaccine is approved for children.’
Wow, rest in peace America. We had a good run
‘For businesses requiring their employees being vaccinated, 65% said they support such measures while 30% were opposed and 5% were unsure…
More than 85% of respondents who identified themselves as of parents with children ages 6-11 said they would get their child inoculated when a vaccine is approved for children.’
Wow, Floridians really are dumb as dogshit. America has fallen to communism
‘More than 85% of respondents who identified themselves as of parents with children ages 6-11 said they would get their child inoculated when a vaccine is approved for children.’
‘For businesses requiring their employees being vaccinated, 65% said they support such measures while 30% were opposed and 5% were unsure.’
Wow, Floridians really are dumb as dogshit. The damage has been done, America has fallen to communism.