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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>BillK via extropy-chat<br><br>><br>> Here is part of the Tampa mayor’s order:<br>> <snip><br>><br>>>… This is interesting. The Florida governor doesn’t have a mask mandate in place, the state legislature never passed a law on this. Plenty of people were not wearing masks outdoors. So let’s see what happens next, shall we?<br>><br>> spike<br>> _______________________________________________<br>><br><br><br>>…Or you could wear one of these masks...........<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><<a href="https://maskalike.com/collections/novelty-masks/products/mask-on-bottom-of-chin-illusion" target="_blank">https://maskalike.com/collections/novelty-masks/products/mask-on-bottom-of-chin-illusion</a>><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>BillK<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for that BillK. I don’t know how it works in Jolly Olde, but I am interested in how the voting public is being forced to answer the question of what happens when people and businesses openly defy executive orders. Until the covid pandemic we really didn’t even know what those were exactly. I always heard those were instructions for how the executive branch carries out existing laws. The laws had to be there already however. The chief executive can’t make law. Our legislatures didn’t, none of them made any actual law on masks or social distancing. So… governors kinda tried it, some of them did. So… we now ask the obvious: What happens if people just say no? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So far the answer is… nothing.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In our county, some shops stayed open the whole time. The sheriff’s office offered symbolic 50 dollar fines. As far as I know, no one paid them.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>