After winning a decisive appellate court battle that required the Florida Department of Health to turn over COVID-19 data withheld from the public during the height of the pandemic, the legal battle over the records has ended with a settlement agreement.
“The Department lied about the existence of these public records in court…”
To me, this is a tremendous issue. This is perjury. Government agencies showing disrespect for court oaths is wholly unacceptable. Perjury at this level justifies prison time.
Not to mention: they targeted a state health official and her family with a SWAT raid because she was making DeSantis look bad by calling out the falsification.
THAT is the authoritarianism that everyone is warning against. It’s not coming. It’s already here, and it has been for years.
They shouldn’t be allowed to settle.
The settlement appears to force them to produce all the missing records, which is all the suit was about. No point in continuing a suit if the settlement gives you everything you want.
Honestly this is just as much about them working through the court system for me as it is about their opposition getting the intended result. Florida’s Governor and his administration have cost a lot of lives and I want things to be costly for them and the tax payers who support them.
This helps so much now that so many died…. So much justice /s
Produced the records they had. Does nothing for all the covid deaths that were deliberately ascribed to some other issue.
It makes me sad that this is how it ends. They just settle and go on their way. Won’t bring back any of the dead or curb any future bullshit.
