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Related: About this forumDeSantis to make Florida first state to end all vaccine mandates for schools
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.
https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article311956239.html

Bernardo de La Paz
(57,976 posts)emulatorloo
(46,126 posts)Whats with this OTT slavery analogy?
They must have not got the memo that God Trump doesnt think slavery was that bad.
Justice Brandeis
(196 posts)The Trumpers will not.
emulatorloo
(46,126 posts)Irish_Dem
(73,831 posts)Making them quite ill, injured, and some even dying?
marble falls
(67,950 posts)... be made selling nostrums after the damage is done.
Irish_Dem
(73,831 posts)to promote their racism, sexism, etc.
marble falls
(67,950 posts)... how do we come from almost eliminating polio and small pox by mass immunizations to this intentionally ignorant state of affairs.
We've become largely the nation of Dunning Kruger and the innernets.
Timeflyer
(3,382 posts)Call FL Gov. R. DeSantis--ph. 850-717-9337 (but you'll probably have to hold for infinity because "unusually high volume of calls" and the governor's mailbox to leave recorded message is full and hasn't been emptied...
So then, contact your local state senator and state representative--find their contact information at:
FLSenate.gov
FLHouse.gov, enter your address to find their addresses and phone numbers.
Let's not let this bunch of MAGA morons endanger our school kids. Raise hell now, or they'll just rush this through, like they did with Alligator Auschwitz.
Justice Brandeis
(196 posts)well, you know why.
Figure it out.
Hey Joe
(207 posts)Bloodletting for common illnesses?
It will henceforth be known as
The Sundowner State
LetMyPeopleVote
(169,179 posts)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 DeSantisâ administration in Florida targets *all* of the stateâs vaccine mandates, remember:
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-09-03T16:59:56.509Z
If Lapado & Co succeed, Floridians would start exporting contagions and serious ailments to other Americans â and in all likelihood, even to other countries. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/florida-surgeon-general-ladapo-takes-aim-states-vaccine-mandates-rcna228838
With this in mind, the latest news out of Florida is dangerous, but its 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 states 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 Posts 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 mightve sounded ridiculous, but four years later, its an unsettling assessment thats holding up well.