Florida Statute Enabling Quarantine, Isolation, and Forced Medical Treatment, Including "Vaccination" - Title XXIX Chapter 381 Section 00315

Had Nothing To Do With DeSantis or Ladapo. It Oozed Out of the Florida Legislature Over the Course of Nearly 20 Years

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To all y’all, as “they” say here in northwest Florida, Hello! I know it’s been a while — a long while. As I’ve seen admitted to by many, I too have been at a bit of a loss as to what to say about the world’s goings-on.

Today, though, I decided to keep going in the hopes you might find this of interest. While particular to Florida, I think the story I’m about to tell about incremental losses of freedom pertains across the board. It’s how liberty is lost — one incremental, subtle, unseen step at a time.

It’s a story about legislative codes, about statutes, how they grow, expand. An added word here, a new paragraph there…added during multiple legislative sessions. Before you know it?

In the case of Section 00315 of Chapter 381 of the Public Health law in Florida? That began as one paragraph. It now takes up your entire computer screen and involves scrolling. Lots of it.

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Let me set the stage for this post.

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo for CDC Director

As you know, lots of shake-ups this week at the Centers for Disease Control. On “X” today, I saw a post from Dr. Mary Talley Bowden. She suggested that a rumor’s going ‘round about Dr. Ladapo as the next CDC Director.

The corruption and complicity demonstrated during the “COVID” op by that organization? Send Joe Ladapo there? Please…no…

This suggestion raised the following complaint from a commenter:

“Ladapo had ZERO influence on the florida protocols of using madazalam and remdesevir in our hospitals or on convincing Desantis to veto the bill that says Floridians can be quarantined, and force "vaccinated" in a "health emergency"! How much influence will he have as CDC director??

Which brings me to the point of my post. As I made clear in my response, and will share with you here, Governor DeSantis and Dr. Joe Ladapo had nothing to do with “the bill” that enabled quarantine or forced vaccination.¹

There was no “the bill.” That power came courtesy of multiple legislatures and multiple bills that added more language and more power. This happened over the course of nearly 20 years. All before DeSantis and Ladapo.

Title XXIX Public Health Chapter 381 Section 00315

Title XXIX established the State of Florida “Public Health” administrative law. Chapter 381 establishes the “General Provisions” of Florida’s public health oversight. Within that Chapter, we have Section 00315 (the dastardly section that contains “the bill.”)

First, let me tell you that Chapter 381 has — as of 2024 — are you ready — 160 sections, including 00315. Online records go back to 1997. In 1997, Chapter 381 had a mere 65 sections.

Do the arithmetic. Legislative bodies have added — in under 20 years — more than twice as many sections as existed in 1997. Here is what Section 00315 had to say in 1997:

381.00315 Public health advisories. -- The State Health Officer is responsible for declaring public health emergencies and issuing public health advisories. Prior to issuing any health advisory, the State Health Officer must consult with any state or local agency regarding areas of responsibility which may be affected by such advisory.

Upon determining that issuing a health advisory is necessary to protect the public health and safety, and prior to issuing the advisory, the State Health Officer must notify each county health department within the area which is affected by the advisory of the State Health Officer's intent to issue the advisory. The State Health Officer is authorized to take any action appropriate to enforce any health advisory.

That’s it.

No subsection 1, letter a, b, c, d. Subsection 2, letter a, b, c. Nope. One paragraph (I broke it up for ease of reading, but it’s one page on the Florida Senate website.)

And one pertinent word: “advisory.”

2002 Legislative Session — Enter “Quarantine”

In less than five years, additional sections under Chapter 381 had already gone from 65 in 1997 to 138 by 2002. More than double. One paragraph had grown to ten. “Public health advisory” had a new, more serious “partner:” “Public health emergency.”

Upon declaration of a public health “emergency,” (vs. a plain ol’ “advisory”), the State Public Health Director “may take actions that are necessary to protect the public health. (Notice below we’ve gone from one paragraph with no subsections to multiple paragraphs and paragraph subsections!)

Such actions include new things the State Public Health Director can do.) They are, but are not limited to:

4. Ordering an individual to be examined, tested, vaccinated, treated, or quarantined for communicable diseases that have significant morbidity or mortality and present a severe danger to public health. Individuals who are unable or unwilling to be examined, tested, vaccinated, or treated for reasons of health, religion, or conscience may be subjected to quarantine.

a. Examination, testing, vaccination, or treatment may be performed by any qualified person authorized by the State Health Officer.

b. If the individual poses a danger to the public health, the State Health Officer may subject the individual to quarantine. If there is no practical method to quarantine the individual, the State Health Officer may use any means necessary to vaccinate or treat the individual.” (Bold/italics added.)

From “advisory” to “emergency” to “quarantine” to any means necessary to “vaccinate” or “treat” a person. So bye-bye First Amendment protections regarding religious practice or belief?

And what happened in D.C. in late Sep 2001?² By 2002’s legislative session, the Florida legislature is on it, baby!

“It’s an emergency!” (BTW, the “emergency” can last 60 days…What? A 60-day “emergency?” And can get extended by the Governor if the Public Health Director asks…)

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By the 2012 legislative session, the elected guys and gals have added rules language related to quarantines and the powers related to them. Part of this new language refers to “The movement (Italics added) of persons or animals exposed to or infected with a communicable disease.”

New language also authorized law enforcement to charge those who violated quarantine with a misdemeanor.

So “exposed to” or infected. Either/or.

Movement.

This is important because by 2015?

2015 Legislative Session — Enter “Isolation”

In 2015, the Florida Legislature went further. For the first time (that I could find) we see the word “isolation.” This word comes under 381.00315 (1) (a)

“Isolation” means the separation of an individual who is reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease from individuals who are not infected, to prevent the possible spread of the disease.

This additional language moves “public health advisory” and “public health emergency” down a notch to (1) (b) and (c), respectively. “Isolation” gets top billing in § 1.

Little by little, the slow creep…

Meanwhile, the language regarding “quarantine” remains. Under § 4 (a) and (b) we still have this:

“4. Ordering an individual to be examined, tested, vaccinated, treated, isolated, or quarantined for communicable diseases that have significant morbidity or mortality and present a severe danger to public health. Individuals who are unable or unwilling to be examined, tested, vaccinated, or treated for reasons of health, religion, or conscience may be subjected to isolation or quarantine.

a. Examination, testing, vaccination, or treatment may be performed by any qualified person authorized by the State Health Officer.

b. If the individual poses a danger to the public health, the State Health Officer may subject the individual to isolation or quarantine. If there is no practical method to isolate or quarantine the individual, the State Health Officer may use any means necessary to vaccinate or treat the individual.

Any order of the State Health Officer given to effectuate this paragraph shall be immediately enforceable by a law enforcement officer under s. 381.0012.

(d) “Quarantine” means the separation of an individual reasonably believed to have been exposed to a communicable disease, but who is not yet ill, from individuals who have not been so exposed, to prevent the possible spread of the disease.”

So. In two places in this same section of code (00315), the legislature has provided the power to remove an individual (isolate or quarantine) based on a “reasonable belief” that he or she has been exposed to a communicable disease.

Said person doesn’t need to actually be ill. They might never get ill; that is, they could remain “asymptomatic” despite their “exposure.”

Does all this sound creepily familiar? Remember…this is 2015. The corner office in Tallahassee is still not even a twinkle in DeSantis’s eye. And nobody’s ever heard of Dr. Joseph Ladapo.

And 2015…that’s the year before a certain someone was supposed to win the Presidency, but somebody else came down his escalator…Hubs thinks that this legislation reflects the same crap that was going on at the federal level…but he’s a “conspiracy” guy. Making the unlawful legal — at the State level.

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2021 Legislative Session — Out Goes “Vaccinate”

Now DeSantis is in. Has been for three years at this point. Oddly, in this 2021 session under Section 00315, the word “vaccinate” gets removed from the code. If you remember, the 2002 legislative session added the power to force “vaccinate” an individual. In 2021? It’s gone.

Yet? In 2021, this section still has this language: “If there is no practical method to isolate or quarantine the individual, the State Health Officer may use any means necessary to treat the individual.”

OK…so which is it? Did these guys forget — when they took out “vaccinate” — to take out “any means necessary” further down in the same section of code?? Any means necessary, but “vaccination?”

Foul language alert: In short, they’re all screwed up.

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Tacitus: “The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”

I thought I’d add that in addition to the 165 subsections under Chapter 381 of Title XXIX, Title XXIX itself has 25 chapters. All with their own Sections, which have their own subsections. One title, 25 chapters with sections and subsections. And subparagraphs.

And we think the Legislature knows what it’s doing or what its legislation requires for “enforcement” or that the people working in Tallahassee can make heads or tails of this stuff? Or that “law enforcement” can? Or that even DeSantis knows the half of it? Or Dr. Ladapo — a person completely new the cluster called “government?”

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This is why I always resort to the Natural Law,³ our natural rights. They’re simple. Maybe not easy to live by, but they are simple. No one anywhere at any time has the power or lawful authority to force medicate you, force inject you, force isolate you without violating these basic rights.

Even if they “reasonably believe” you might have been exposed to something. And are now “diseased” even if you’re “not yet ill.” Even if goobers “elected” to a legislative body all sit around and write up stuff they have no real idea about, call for a vote, and then have enough goobers that yell, “Yea.”

Not even then.

If you follow She Thinks Liberty on “X,” please know that that’s my evil twin. She takes no prisoners and has been known to curse like a sailor. Just fair warning.

1. Neither did either have anything to do with the federal guidelines on approved medicines — and only those medicines — used in hospitals on the federal dole.

2. The first known victim of the attacks, Robert Stevens, who worked at the Sun tabloid died on October 5, 2001, four days after entering a Florida hospital with an undiagnosed illness that caused him to vomit and be short of breath. Surely, that’s anthrax. Except. Except the letter allegedly containing the anthrax that was alleged to be the cause of Stevens’ death was never found.

3. Definition of the Natural Law: The belief that certain laws of morality are inherent by human nature, reason, or religious belief, and that they are ethically binding on humanity.