The Florida anti vax thing is making me INSANE

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would you want to live in this state?

It's a beautiful state with nice weather. Yes, the government has gone mega-MAGA and people are less safe because of it, but that should help teach people that elections have consequences. Get off your couch and try to help a more sensible candidate get elected to office. My parents live in a relatively blue part of Florida and I went to visit for election day weekend and was shocked at how little campaign activitity was being conducted by the Democratic party.

It doesn't have good weather though. It's too hot for most of the year. Has major hurricanes. Now it isn't cheap either. I don't understand the appeal.

[Anonymous]

Stop going to Disney and stop vacationing there

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are unfortunately very few people still alive who remember what the world was like prior to modern day vaccines. My mom is 94 and remembers when every one had to stay inside during the summer because of polio. My late father had polio as a child and had a limp his entire life (and he was a lucky one). Mom started teaching in the 1950s and had a pregnant colleague who was exposed to a kid with german measles in the classroom and the poor teacher's child was born deaf (German measles exposure being a cause of birth defects). Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

I hope the Florida teachers go on strike over this because dropping vaccination requirements is a significant exposure risk for educators. But MAGA world won't care because they'd rather just use tax dollars to fund the homeschoolers and private religious schools.

My husband grew up in Florida and left for college and never went back except rarely. He hated the car culture etc. there’s a reason the saying is All the Nuts Roll Downhill to Florida.

I think we should have had a national service requirement for everyone so we all had to experience some hardship even if self imposed. Maybe that would have helped to build national community across race and class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stop going to Disney and stop vacationing there

lol as if! I was brought up that Florida was tacky. T-A-C-K-Y.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are unfortunately very few people still alive who remember what the world was like prior to modern day vaccines. My mom is 94 and remembers when every one had to stay inside during the summer because of polio. My late father had polio as a child and had a limp his entire life (and he was a lucky one). Mom started teaching in the 1950s and had a pregnant colleague who was exposed to a kid with german measles in the classroom and the poor teacher's child was born deaf (German measles exposure being a cause of birth defects). Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

I hope the Florida teachers go on strike over this because dropping vaccination requirements is a significant exposure risk for educators. But MAGA world won't care because they'd rather just use tax dollars to fund the homeschoolers and private religious schools.

My husband grew up in Florida and left for college and never went back except rarely. He hated the car culture etc. there’s a reason the saying is All the Nuts Roll Downhill to Florida.

I think we should have had a national service requirement for everyone so we all had to experience some hardship even if self imposed. Maybe that would have helped to build national community across race and class.

That was floated by democrats but not adopted. I can't believe these states think it's more important to virtue signal rather than protect themselves. This after complaining about virtue signaling. Unbelievable. The state with the largest amount of elderly and this is their proposition. And the elderly agree with it. Will never go down there again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would you want to live in this state?

Believe it or not, there are many of us who are not maga, and who are fully vaccinated (dc too).

This is where I live-I have kids in school. A career (that isn't portable). An elderly parent. My church. A home. Have a whole life here. I do love the weather most of the year. I'm not leaving because of those fools.

I don't know anyone IRL here who agrees with this move. I'm in an outer suburb of a large blue city.

[Anonymous]

OP the antivax moms on your community Facebook group sound very similar to the mom packs of exploiting their kids to be social media influencers in SoCal or the mom packs exploiting their daughters in child beauty pageants in the South. The underlying problem is their own vanity, narcissism, anxiety and deep need to be seen, profit and be in a loud tribe. This dysfunction is so strong that they go beyond just putting their needs above their kids, they actively exploit them. It’s a form of child abuse.