Ever prepared to appropriate the ideas and rhetoric of the left, DeSantis and his friends are arguing that mask and vaccine mandates, even from private businesses, are a form of “discrimination” against anti-vaxxers. Is there any basis for this position?
No. The essence of unlawful discrimination is that it is directed at personal traits over which the victim has little or no control. Refusing the vaccine is a deliberate action, not a trait, over which the anti-vaxxer has complete control. It would make as much sense to say the law discriminates against thieves and murderers.