Miami-Dade Lawyers Equate Not Wearing a Mask to Pooping on the Street

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Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.

That old saying is at the heart of Miami-Dade County's argument in a heated court case over whether its mandatory mask order violates constitutional rights.

The case was filed by Miami resident Linda Cuadros, who claims her rights to privacy and due process are trampled by the countywide emergency order requiring people to wear facial coverings in public to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. Alleging violations of the state constitution, Cuadros says the mask order intrudes on the right of Floridians to make personal healthcare decisions and subjects residents to an "overreach of their local government not seen in the history of Florida."

County attorneys last week asked a judge to toss the lawsuit. They claim Cuadros, who owns a travel agency, is putting her disdain for a minor inconvenience ahead of "other people's rights to protect their own bodies" from the virus.

Lest anyone think the court battle has descended into legal tedium, Miami-Dade's lawyers are comparing breathing in public without a mask to crapping in the middle of the road.

Read more: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-dade-mask-order-lawsuit-filed-by-anthony-sabatini-11671019

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1. Great analogy! And that goes for the ones who wear a mask over their mouth but not their nose.

Why bother? I'm still protecting you and you STILL aren't protecting me!