Not the PP, but I was a social worker for our preschool special ed program. I did intakes with families including gathering enrollments docs. Vaccination records were mandatory unless there was a religious exemption. |
Yes, but some states have exemptions for personal belief reasons. Minnesota is one of them. |
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It’s really a shame - Mississippi and West Virginia have had a long history of being the only two republican led states to stand firm on no exemptions for childhood vaccines except for medical reasons. The other states are California, Maine, Connecticut, and New York. As an MD who worked in Alabama, there were many public health leaders who were envious of the non partisan support for vaccine mandates in those states, which had similar challenges in terms of health access, poverty, and lack of education. The leaders of West Virginia and Mississippi knew that their citizens were particularly vulnerable to preventable childhood diseases if not for vaccines.
Now, the mandates that have stood for 40-50 years are being dismantled. Mississippi has already struck down a ruling from 1979 to disallow personal or religious exemptions. Despite the efforts of outgoing republican governor Jim Justice to save the mandate, the succeeding republican governor, Patrick morrisey signed an executive order to allow them. West Virginia’s and Mississippi’s positions at the top of the table for rates of childhood vaccination are about to tumble. Anti vax legislators, who are all republican, do not seem to care about childhood morbidity and mortality due to preventable infections. Perhaps when women get rubella and suffer miscarriages/give birth to deformed, blind, and intellectually disabled children, they will reconsider. https://www.kff.org/state-health-policy-data/a-look-at-recent-changes-to-state-vaccine-requirements-for-school-children/ And if you need another reason not to move to Florida, the Florida surgeon general whole heartedly supports a bill to get rid of all childhood vaccination requirements. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/07/joseph-ladapo-florida-surgeon-general-vaccine-mandate/86028111007/ |
And apparently now MAHA is about escaped aggressive monkeys that are infected with hepatitis, herpes and covid
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Without peeking, are you able to name those vaxes? |
Follow up stories indicate they were not infectious. However, if they did have herpes, in rhesus macaques get herpes B, which is fatal to humans, so no joke. |
More Owning of the Libs! Invest in headstones now!
Louisiana surgeon general who stopped promoting vaccination will be second in command at CDC https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/25/health/cdc-deputy-director-ralph-abraham |
To be clear, he is not a surgeon but surgeon general. His says he is a family practice doctor, but is not board certified. His only board certification is in radiology. |
DP to add, for the MAGA party to say they believe in meritocracy yet push a guy who appears to be unable to pass a board exam for family practice, to the 2nd in command of the CDC? Oh the hypocrisy. |
No one said he's a surgeon. He's an anti-vax MAGA idiot, now 2nd in command at CDC. Libs owned again!
Bring back polio: wheelchairs build character! Dr. Ralph Abraham, who as Louisiana’s surgeon general ordered the state health department to stop promoting vaccinations and who has called Covid vaccines “dangerous,” has been named deputy director (second in command) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |