Orlando urges reduced water usage due to Covid-19 related liquid oxygen shortage

orlandosentinel.com

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Full title, which is too long to submit: Orlando urges reduced water usage as liquid oxygen used to purify water goes to COVID patients

> Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer asked residents to immediately stop watering their lawns, washing their cars and using pressure washers. Landscape irrigation consumes about 40% of the water provided by OUC.

Isn’t this like asking people to get vaccinated?

He doesn't necessarily have the legal authority to require anyone to reduce their water usage without additional legislation, so he's doing what he can do and asking. That seems like a rational thing for him to do in my mind. Do you not think so?

They can’t change the price of water if supply gets cut?

Isn't that another case of asking people to reduce rather than requiring it?

Yes, and by asking people to get vaccinated more than 50% of the population did it.

Lets not start pretending that fascism is the only viable path simply because they are the only ones who achieve 100% compliance through killing everyone who steps out of line.

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