Back in May, which objectively wasn’t that long ago but feels positively sepia-toned at this point, Florida not only had no plans to cancel the July administration of the bar exam, they were bragging about their plans for packing 2000+ people into the test without spreading the disease everywhere.
The Florida bravado was everywhere!
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Since then, let’s see what happened according to the Worldometers daily new cases graph for Florida:

Oh.
Today, the bar examiners and the state supreme court have seen enough. They announced that the July bar exam is off and will be replaced by an August online exam.
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Now if only the rest of the holdout states would get the memo.
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