'We do not have a constitutional right to infect others.' Judge upholds Palm Beach Co.'s mask orders

[TexasTowelie]

Palm Beach County’s mask rules are constitutional, a judge said Monday in the first ruling in South Florida over COVID-19 controls at the center of the debate over public safety and personal freedom.

“We do not have a constitutional right to infect others,” Circuit Court Judge John Kastrenakes said in his order.

Requiring a mask in some places is within the county’s rights to protect the general public during a deadly pandemic and people those who challenged the mandate failed to show that their constitutional rights were violated, the judge said.

“The right to be ‘free from governmental intrusion’ does not automatically or completely shield an individual’s conduct from regulation,” Kastrenakes wrote in his order.

Read more: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/coronavirus/fl-ne-palm-beach-county-court-denies-mask-lawsuit-20200727-vewnsi2p3rb35du55zrzjtklie-story.html
(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)

[underpants]

1. Devil's work!

That board meeting was something else.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Good...how did we get here? Having to have judges rule that it is legal to tell people

to NOT kill themselves...

Fuck, I have no hope, glad some of you do.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Or Not Kill Others

Like you said, should it take a court decision to confirm we don't get to put others at risk of death?

[DonaldsRump]

3. Stop the presses! Newsflash! Breaking: Florida Man actually say/does something sensical

(sorry, all Floridian DUers!)

[lpbk2713]

5. That's good.

It's good to know a judge is not a DeSantis/Trump puppet.

And Palm Beach County is one of the country's hot spots.

[Towlie]

6. I've been saying that for months! It's simple: "There's no right to spread disease."