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demmiblue

(38,668 posts)
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 12:19 PM Wednesday

DeSantis and Ladapo to 'end all vaccine mandates in Florida law'

Source: Miami Herald

Florida is set to end all state vaccine mandates, state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced at a news conference Wednesday.

For decades, the state has required numerous vaccines for kids attending school, including shots that protect against Measles-mumps-rubella, polio, chickenpox and Hepatitis B.

But Ladapo on Wednesday compared these mandates to “slavery,” and promised that they all will soon end. He did not immediately provide specifics.

Vaccines have saved at least 154 million lives in the last 50 years, according to the World Health Organization. The vast majority of the lives saved were infants.

Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article311956239.html



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DeSantis and Ladapo to 'end all vaccine mandates in Florida law' (Original Post) demmiblue Wednesday OP
Mindboggling Stupidity Battle Blue Wednesday #1
Welcome to DU Battle Blue Lochloosa Wednesday #26
What are all the governors from the stupid states BonnieJW Wednesday #2
With climate change, Florida will be the "tip of the spear" with regards to tropical diseases NickB79 Wednesday #3
More like a liberalgunwilltravel Wednesday #5
This is such a stupid hill to die on. travelingthrulife Wednesday #4
They won't die much, but their kids and grandkids will in greater numbers. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Wednesday #8
The hill, I fear, will be a pile of dead children. Teacher of the Year Wednesday #31
Parents that don't vaccinate their kids... lonely bird Wednesday #6
Let Floridians stay in Florida, then. slightlv Wednesday #21
New Florida motto "Kill the Kids". bronxiteforever Wednesday #7
Floriduh, the Sundowner State. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Wednesday #9
Freedom for virions! Blues Heron Wednesday #10
Ladapo should be in jail, not State Surgeon General. SunSeeker Wednesday #11
But Ron knows science, he was Assistant TO the urinalysis officer in the Navy underpants Wednesday #30
I'll bet the well-to-do will get their children vaccinated. It will be the poor and uneducated C Moon Wednesday #12
Sure, wealth always gets what it wants with few rare exceptions. lonely bird Wednesday #38
Well angrychair Wednesday #13
Make Polio Great Again! Ray Bruns Wednesday #14
It's a world of slaughter, a world of tears. It's a world of dopes and a world of fears. Solly Mack Wednesday #15
Insurance companies Lucky Luciano Wednesday #16
That going to hit Disney, Universal studio and other tourist destinations kimbutgar Wednesday #17
Agree JustAnotherGen Wednesday #19
I guess JustAnotherGen Wednesday #18
Survival of the fittest Puppyjive Wednesday #20
Making America Great Again?? 70sEraVet Wednesday #22
Watch for them Jilly_in_VA Wednesday #23
Stupidest Motherfuckers to ever draw breath mkp Wednesday #24
Dark Ages here we come! nt Exp Wednesday #25
Don't tell me/Let me guess: no_hypocrisy Wednesday #27
Then quite frankly, no Florida citizens should be allowed to leave the state. The risks are too great. You Karasu Wednesday #28
Ron, you groveling pandering ass, Dear Leader doesn't like you underpants Wednesday #29
Live in Florida; die in Florida - of the plague! Wonder Why Wednesday #32
Any parent that refuses a vaccination for their child, is guilty of murder, in my books. bluestarone Wednesday #33
Parents do not want to vaccinate their kids-ok but these Unvaccinated kids mingle with other kids in riversedge Wednesday #34
They should do their building codes next... TrumanTheTiger Wednesday #35
Florida Surgeon General Ladapo takes aim at all of the state's vaccine mandates LetMyPeopleVote Wednesday #36
Those poor innocent children. I wonder if the parents will feel guilty from their part in the death of their child/ren. Oopsie Daisy Wednesday #37
Is there going to be a travel warning? sakabatou Wednesday #39
After this insanity, the state of Florida needs to be effectively quarantined from the rest of the country. Karasu Wednesday #40
Florida's state flag has been updated to show a child's grave. LetMyPeopleVote Thursday #41
BYOV is weird way to lower your budget? Brainfodder Thursday #42
I swear to God if I die from Pollo in 2025... LoveSucky 8 hrs ago #43
He lies a Florida Man... Xolodno 2 hrs ago #44

Battle Blue

(2 posts)
1. Mindboggling Stupidity
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 12:24 PM
Wednesday

There's never a bottom in the race to be show how extreme and idiotic one can be. Sick sick sick to let kids be ravaged by diseases such as polio again.

BonnieJW

(3,001 posts)
2. What are all the governors from the stupid states
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 12:30 PM
Wednesday

going to do when all the airborne illnesses take off? Can you imagine if polio makes a comeback? The two greatest accomplishments people have made in recorded history are vaccines and antibiotics.

I hope all these stupid parents have time to say goodbye to their kids.

NickB79

(20,080 posts)
3. With climate change, Florida will be the "tip of the spear" with regards to tropical diseases
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 12:32 PM
Wednesday

Lots of potential outbreaks just waiting to happen in the southern US as the climate warms up.

lonely bird

(2,507 posts)
6. Parents that don't vaccinate their kids...
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 12:50 PM
Wednesday

Don’t get their kids treated.

Yeah, I know. If the Republican Party is the alleged party of personal responsibility (it’s not but let’s move along) then they have to face the consequences for their actions.

Beyond that.

Break up the U.S.A.

slightlv

(6,516 posts)
21. Let Floridians stay in Florida, then.
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 02:23 PM
Wednesday

I'm sorry blue Floridians. I empathize... I really do, living in a red state, myself. And just as hampered by the red state laws as you are. But if Floridians are to become the new harbingers of disease in the United States, then the only answer is for the rest of the States to quarantine Florida.

Frankly, I'd prefer quarantining every maga or conservative leaning repub... give them a handful of states to call their own. Rip out the military/civilian infrastructure that the democratic nation built for them and let them handle their problems on their own.

Like I said, I have great empathy for the dems in Fl, and in TX, and in KS, and in any number of the other "Red" states that are fighting a civil war the other side won't acknowledge. And I know the dearest wish of Putin is to see us broken up as a nation. At this point, I don't care WHAT putin wants or doesn't want... I want the damned cave people back under their rocks or far away from the rest of us.

SunSeeker

(56,539 posts)
11. Ladapo should be in jail, not State Surgeon General.
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 01:17 PM
Wednesday

He is an evil lunatic whose actions will and are causing death and disease.

C Moon

(13,139 posts)
12. I'll bet the well-to-do will get their children vaccinated. It will be the poor and uneducated
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 01:20 PM
Wednesday

who won't bother with it.

lonely bird

(2,507 posts)
38. Sure, wealth always gets what it wants with few rare exceptions.
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 06:21 PM
Wednesday

If unvaccinated people aren’t permitted treatment then any doctor/provider automatically loses their license.

Party of personal responsibility must shoulder responsibility.

Solly Mack

(95,567 posts)
15. It's a world of slaughter, a world of tears. It's a world of dopes and a world of fears.
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 01:28 PM
Wednesday

So many diseases to share, that it's time we dare

It's a smallpox world after all

It's a smallpox world after all

Lucky Luciano

(11,723 posts)
16. Insurance companies
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 01:30 PM
Wednesday

If I were running a health insurance company, I would make it very clear that unvaccinated people who get sick are NOT covered. It is their fault. Parents are still required to get medical care for their kids and then they can go bankrupt.

kimbutgar

(25,917 posts)
17. That going to hit Disney, Universal studio and other tourist destinations
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 01:43 PM
Wednesday

Do you want your kids exposed to diseases that were eliminated by vaccines while vacationing ?

JustAnotherGen

(36,873 posts)
18. I guess
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 02:08 PM
Wednesday

It comes down to State's Rights - eh?

Two can play that game. And I dare Fed Gov to stop the Northeast or Western Alliance (Newsom announced WA, OR, and CA going it alone).

I fully support my State (NJ) working with other states in the Northeast for the greater good of public health.

70sEraVet

(4,832 posts)
22. Making America Great Again??
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 02:23 PM
Wednesday

Doing research on local cemeteries in a rural area of Tennessee, I've been astounded by the number deaths of children a century or more ago. In the decades between 1880 and 1920, a family was lucky if HALF of their chilren reached the age of 10! It's heartbreaking to see the same father's signature on death certificates, over and over again.
THAT'S the America trump and his ghouls want to bring back!

Jilly_in_VA

(12,889 posts)
23. Watch for them
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 02:39 PM
Wednesday

to now have epidemics to outdo Texas! But isn't that DeSatan's plan...to be "bigger than Texas"? FloriDUH. SMDH

Karasu

(1,956 posts)
28. Then quite frankly, no Florida citizens should be allowed to leave the state. The risks are too great. You
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 03:57 PM
Wednesday

Last edited Wed Sep 3, 2025, 08:05 PM - Edit history (3)

don't get to fucking mindlessly endanger other people's lives (particularly those of us who still believe in science) as a result of personal and/or ideological stupidity on the part of your government. Period.

Other major tourism states (CA, HI, NY) should ban them from entering at all.


underpants

(192,608 posts)
29. Ron, you groveling pandering ass, Dear Leader doesn't like you
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 03:58 PM
Wednesday

he used you and cast you away. You took over Alligator Alcatraz to cover his ass and it blew up in YOUR face.

Just stop it for whatever kind of self respect you could possibly have left.

bluestarone

(20,200 posts)
33. Any parent that refuses a vaccination for their child, is guilty of murder, in my books.
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 04:28 PM
Wednesday

The leaders of the state that are doing this, are also GUILTY of murder.

riversedge

(77,539 posts)
34. Parents do not want to vaccinate their kids-ok but these Unvaccinated kids mingle with other kids in
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 04:34 PM
Wednesday

schools. Sure, they are vaccinated but there is a need for what they call herd immunity for a given population to be considered safe. damn. Sometimes I don't believe in the USA that I grew up in!!

TrumanTheTiger

(51 posts)
35. They should do their building codes next...
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 04:57 PM
Wednesday

…while they’re doing beyond stupid 💩.

I mean they could/would pass it off as decreasing the costs of new housing, making housing in Floriduh more affordable since those pesky regulations are telling people what to do with their houses (“gOvEnMeNt CaN’t TeLl YoU hOw To BuIlD!”)

And do it next week right at the peak of hurricane season just to be even more tone deaf.

LetMyPeopleVote

(169,179 posts)
36. Florida Surgeon General Ladapo takes aim at all of the state's vaccine mandates
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 05:03 PM
Wednesday

School districts have required children to be immunized against all kinds of diseases for decades. In Florida, officials hope to roll back the clock.

As DeSantis’ administration in Florida targets *all* of the state’s vaccine mandates, remember:

If Lapado & Co succeed, Floridians would start exporting contagions and serious ailments to other Americans — and in all likelihood, even to other countries. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-09-03T16:59:56.509Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/florida-surgeon-general-ladapo-takes-aim-states-vaccine-mandates-rcna228838

The Washington Post published a memorable analysis in 2022 that noted, “For months, we’ve written in this space about how the Republicans’ pushback against coronavirus vaccine mandates could foment — and apparently has been fomenting — opposition to mandates of other vaccines, including for schoolchildren.”

With this in mind, the latest news out of Florida is dangerous, but it’s not altogether surprising. NBC News reported:

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said Wednesday that the state will work to eliminate all vaccine mandates. ‘All of them. All of them,’ he said during a news conference as the crowd stood and erupted in applause. ‘Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.’ He said the Florida Department of Health will work in partnership with the governor. He said forcing vaccine mandates is ‘wrong’ and ‘immoral.’


No other state has gone nearly this far.......

But that perspective is mistaken: If Florida moves forward with plans to target all of the state’s vaccine mandates, not only will children suffer from preventable diseases, but Floridians will start exporting contagions and serious ailments to other Americans — and in all likelihood, even to other countries.

In 2021, The Washington Post’s Benjy Sarlin noted that it seemed likely that the United States would “end up with fewer vaccine requirements in some places than we started with before the pandemic” that has killed millions of people around the world.

That might’ve sounded ridiculous, but four years later, it’s an unsettling assessment that’s holding up well.

Oopsie Daisy

(6,669 posts)
37. Those poor innocent children. I wonder if the parents will feel guilty from their part in the death of their child/ren.
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 05:29 PM
Wednesday

Or will they dismiss their personal responsibility by claiming it was "God's Will" and "they're in a better place now" because "Jesus called them home to sit by His side." 🤢🤮

Karasu

(1,956 posts)
40. After this insanity, the state of Florida needs to be effectively quarantined from the rest of the country.
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 07:04 PM
Wednesday

Certainly from blue states.

Brainfodder

(7,712 posts)
42. BYOV is weird way to lower your budget?
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 12:45 PM
Thursday

FOLLOW THE MONEY same as always on these crooked people?

Xolodno

(7,143 posts)
44. He lies a Florida Man...
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 09:54 PM
2 hrs ago

...he refused to be vaccinated from a preventable virus.

But he did get to own the libs.

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