In win for infectious diseases, Florida to end all school vaccine requirements
Florida is planning to end all vaccination requirements in the state, including requirements for school children to get routine childhood vaccinations that protect them and their communities from severe and life-threatening diseases, such as Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), pertussis (whooping cough), diphtheria, measles, tetanus, RSV, and polio.
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He is a dumb fuck too. Try to compare vaccines to slavery.
Republicans really do mental gymnastics don't they. Just a few weeks ago Trump was saying slavery wasn't "that bad".
The problem with that comparison is that if it were true then they would be in favor of bringing back vaccines
Ladapo is a gucking quack. The only reason he got the job was dumbass DeSantis.
Polio makin a comeback
Welcome to Floridistan!
The end result being less Floridians, at least there is a small upside.
Fewer
Florida is a swamp thus floridans are a fluid within it.
Florida man is measured in florida ounces, after all.
OOOOHHHHH! So this is what he meant by "drain the swamp!" Maybe he is enacting a campaign promise after all.
not if you're counting by mass
which, let's be real, seems like most of them don't deserve to be recognized as individuals
The problem is that disease doesn't respect borders.
I guess it'll stop at the vaccinated states then.
Unfurtunately vaccines protects us all, so the one who don't get a vaccine just make the diseases worst for the innocent and can make the diseases stronger too.
Mostly dead/sick kids that never had a say, though :(
I guess literally is not even enough for repubes
FTFY
It's not required, but smart people will still get their kids immunized most likely, right? This will only hurt kids...
Immunization really works best when all or most of the population is vaccinated. I feel the worst for those who have a legit medical reason for not being able to be vaccinated who are relying on everyone else getting vaccinated. Those are the innocent bystanders in this terrible public policy.
They really fucking hate us, don't they?
Not really. They just love power and attention. Vaccines became a populist issue, so they're constructing policy based on that instead of facts and science.
Doing what their misguided base wants keeps them in power. And misguiding their base to pay attention to things other than economic policy makes it so they can use their power to further enrich themselves.
And even when they talk about economic policy, most people don't understand that tariffs are taxes on the American people. And if they don't get that, they definitely don't understand that a trade deficit isn't a bad thing in a post-industrial society because we sell information and services that don't rely on expensive physical resources.
And what kinds of people are fooled by that? The lesser educated. So slash budgets for schools and universities, especially those that are prominent and lean left. And slashing those budgets has already led to very significant setbacks in research of new treatments for a wide variety of ailments.
But hey, at least that money is going to... hey, what are they gonna spend all that money on now that the government is no longer paying?
Anyway, what I'm getting at is they don't hate us. They are using us as pawns. They are depraved and indifferent to our suffering so long as they get more money and power.
No, they hate you. Vaccines didn't become a populist issue by random happenstance. They've been pushing it for decades. They put RFK in power for a reason. They think they're better than you, they think they can afford treatment for whatever horrible diseases they encourage to evolve in the general population, they want a weak and sick underclass they can exploit without fear.
You know what. You've changed my mind. There are lots of reasons. Hate can also be one of them.
Not being required is the first step. Not being covered by insurance/subsidized is the second step. Not being available is the third step.
Still puts those vaccinated at more risk as that shit will now have a petri dish to evolve in
This will hurt anyone. Kids will become vectors.
This will surely boost those cratering tourism numbers!
Come visit Disney World, Cape Canaveral, the Everglades, Miami Beach!
We guarantee you'll never be able to forget your visit!
Come for the cartoon mouse! Stay for the iron lung!
Oh so not LOL. Some kids are going to suffer badly because of this.
Remember how in 2020 those comservative dipshits were being racist af calling covid the "China virus",
Well now we can call this the florida virus, and since "floridan" isn't also an ethnicity, its fine to say that.
Lol coming soon to upgrade the 'Florida Man' meme:
Fucking Polio!
In the press conference he almost said “your body your choice”
You could tell he was about to slip up, and then he smiled knowingly.
The purpose is really to dismantle public schools by making them so unsafe that parents don't want to send their kids to them.
Which is part of Project 2025. They want the public school system shut down. They want private schools to flourish, and they want voucher programs to incentivize the growth of that industry.
Fuck yeah! Go team dead kids!
/s
On the plus side, we get to find out exactly how much of the population are incurably stupid
Win for nurgle cultist everywhere
Florida really trying to ensure nobody ever vacations there ever again
Tourism in Florida has been breaking records the past few years. Even with the crazy mistreatment of foreign nationals the foreign tourism is up.
I hate the politicians in Florida. I despise the magats that fester here, but the weather is nice and I like Gulf of Mexico for fishing and beaches.
Middle-aged people remember when Florida was a swing state. I remember the hanging chad. It can be that way again. Climate change may wreck things before then but I'll be here watching it burn for at least a little while longer.
We should cordon off the whole state and not let anyone in or any of the disease-ridden shithole zombies out.
What a time to be alive and severely immunocompromised. Been nice knowing y'all.
If you’re dumb enough to be anti vax then maybe it’s for the betterment of evolution. Weed out the weak. Let them all catch cureable diseases.
It's not the antivaxxers themselves who will suffer; it's the immuno-compromised and innocent children who will suffer.
And their local hospital system. If they all lived off in a far away land, absolutely. Go be idiots over there. But nope. They are literally our neighbors. Our nations rot goes much deeper than one state.
It's another stab at public education. We already pay like 49th in the nation for teacher pay, I think they are trying to get rid of the pension system by making teachers independent contractors or something, and Florida has an $8000 voucher for "private school or homeschool expenses". So they currently pay you to subsidize a bit of tuition elsewhere, and make the quality of the teachers so low at the public option that starts to become more appealing as you see how badly the underfunded public schools are. And now, with vaccines only being like 97% effective, if you can afford to send your child to a private school (or just homeschool), you will. Why take a 3% chance your fully vaccinated child is going to get measles or polio if you can afford not to?
Then you nicely have your wealthy people who get a good education, and for the rest you have a population that consistently votes against their best interests because they are uneducated. Win all around for Republicans. I can't wait to leave this place.
Also the qualifications to be a teacher so low that if your husband is a veteran congratulations you can teach public school in Florida
As a teacher in Florida, my only hope is that those who don’t vaccinate are more often the type to homeschool.
Jesus all jokes aside this is bleak. Public education in all of the US is going to struggle for generations.
Instead of a wall, build a dome around the country and let it sort itself out.
Vaccines protect everyone, especially those who are immunocompromised and can't get the shot.
Soon they'll be having a bunch of nurses refusing basic vaccinations.
258,000,000 ain't going to happen with vaccines, that's for sure.
Note to self: never move to Florida.
This is incredibly dangerous. No countries should allow Americans to enter.
What if they can prove that their vaccines are up to date? Would you deny Americans fleeing the country for their own safety on the basis that they are American?
Of course I wouldn't want to deny them if they had vaccines.
A lot of dems as well, sadly.
A lot of more people around the world. Esp the poorer countries.
The Malaria State