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‘The devil’s laws’: Florida Christians fight mask rule at wild meeting
coronavirus, but they couldn’t slow the spread of several viral conspiracy theories at a county meeting this week in Florida, where locals showed up to air their unscientific grievances over a new mandatory mask rule.Palm Beach County commissioners voted unanimously on Tuesday to make masks mandatory in indoor public spaces amid a spike in COVID-19 cases throughout the state. However, officials first had to sit through several angry speeches from locals who cited God, the devil and various far-right, baseless conspiracy theories surrounding masks and the virus.