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A Florida attorney plans to sue his county over its nighttime coronavirus curfew order, arguing, “It’s not like the virus is Count Dracula,” according to a new report.

Tampa lawyer Patrick Leduc said an executive order issued Monday by Hillsborough County — instituting a curfew from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. — is “unenforceable” and doing more harm than good, WFTS reported.

“People should not just sit idly by and say, ‘Oh, this is OK.’ It’s not OK,” Leduc told the station. “Our elected officials are not showing good judgment. This ordinance does not pass constitutional muster, and it must die the death it deserves.”

Leduc argued that the stay-at-home order previously issued by Gov. Ron DeSantis already made it a crime to violate CDC and Department of Homeland Security guidelines for social distancing and prohibited large gatherings.

“You’ve already got a safer-at-home order that does all that, and now you pass a curfew that basically says do the safer-at-home order, so there’s an absurdity,” the attorney said. “It’s not like the virus is Count Dracula. The virus isn’t just going to come out at night; the virus is 24/7.”

The curfew was announced during an emergency policy group meeting with a 5-3 vote.

“The only way we’re going to stop this right now is to have the curfew,” Board of County Commissioners Chairman Les Miller said, according to the report. “We tried the safer-at-home, in many instances, not working. Yes, there are those abiding with what the safer-at-home says. We appreciate that, we really, really do … But there are a lot of people out there that are not. And those ones that are not could put those that are in jeopardy.”

Tampa Mayor Jane Castor advised residents Tuesday not to “get excited about the curfew.”

“All we are saying is if you can stay at home, stay at home, that’s it,” she said, according to the station. “Officers aren’t going to be out stopping individuals unless you are gathering in large groups, and they are going to break those up. That’s it. Officers aren’t going to stop you; you are not going to have any kind of paperwork.”

Hillsborough County implemented a stay-at-home order last month, but since then, police have received at least 350 complaints about individual businesses and people gathering in large groups, Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister told the outlet.

But Leduc, who plans to file his suit sometime this week, told the station that the curfew does nothing but add more fear for those struggling the most.

“It’s a hot mess,” he said. “We are crushing everybody. The people who are most hurt like this are living paycheck to paycheck. And, we just did more to crush people yesterday with this curfew, and they need to knock it off.”