今天佛州的法官strike down public transportation mask mandate 让川粉们很兴奋。才知道原来CDC mask mandate 的法律依据是1944年一条联邦法律中'sanitation'的条款。这个法官说mask 无助于sanitation, 所以CDC滥用权力了。
The first part of the judge’s 59-page ruling turned on the meaning of the word “sanitation,” as it functions in the 1944 statute that gives the federal government the authority – in its efforts to combat communicable diseases – to issue regulations concerning “sanitation.”
Mizelle concluded that that the use of the word in the statute was limited to “measures that clean something.”
今天早上上班路上NPR采访的一个卫生专家反对费城恢复 mask mandate 的理由是反复动用效果不明显的行政手段会造成狼来的效果，让公众失去信任。这个理由合理得多。
才发现，这件事和第二修正案一样，含糊不清的过时的老法律会有无穷无尽的大问题。