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In It to Win It

(11,496 posts)
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 03:02 PM Wednesday

DeSantis to make Florida first state to end all vaccine mandates for schools

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.

https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article311956239.html
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emulatorloo

(46,126 posts)
2. Killing Schoolkids to own the Libs.
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 03:08 PM
Wednesday

What’s with this OTT slavery analogy?

They must have not got the memo that God Trump doesn’t think slavery was that bad.

Irish_Dem

(73,831 posts)
3. Who benefits and how from killing American school children?
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 03:19 PM
Wednesday

Making them quite ill, injured, and some even dying?

marble falls

(67,950 posts)
5. They largely don't believe they're hurting their children. It's the ignorance that's dangerous. but there's money to ...
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 03:26 PM
Wednesday

... be made selling nostrums after the damage is done.

Irish_Dem

(73,831 posts)
6. Some people have so much hatred against others they are willing to let their children die
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 03:27 PM
Wednesday

to promote their racism, sexism, etc.

marble falls

(67,950 posts)
4. The law of unintended ignorant consequence will come in force soon enough ...
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 03:23 PM
Wednesday

... 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)
7. Floridians--speak up against this! Protect Florida's children, insist vaccine mandates stay in place.
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 04:12 PM
Wednesday

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.

Hey Joe

(207 posts)
9. What's next
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 04:49 PM
Wednesday

Bloodletting for common illnesses?
It will henceforth be known as
The Sundowner State

LetMyPeopleVote

(169,179 posts)
11. Florida Surgeon General Ladapo takes aim at all of the state's vaccine mandates
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 05:00 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.
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