Anonymous
09/03/2025 15:45
Subject: Are they crazy in Florida?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I just read that the state of Florida may be eliminating all mandated vaccines including those for children. I guess you can't legislate eliminating stupidity in government.
Vaccinate your kids and stop trying to control what others do. I don't want the Republicans to control my health and body, so I won't attempt to control theirs.
I’m not quite in this camp but close to it. I don’t want my kids to go to school with unvaccinated children or share a doctor’s office with unvaccinated children (who are clearly eligible). On the other hand, if that’s really what they want, go forth and let’s see how it goes. I’m not their mom.
That's not how herd immunity works.
Yes, I had a friend in elementary school who wasn't vaccinated because she had leukemia and couldn't receive vaccines until she was finished with chemo. She got caught up on all vaccines after she was done.
Florida (which is where we grew up) would make kids like her a sitting duck.
Anonymous
09/03/2025 15:45
Subject: Are they crazy in Florida?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yes, they are both stupid and crazy. Perhaps Disney World can add "PlagueLand" to its attractions. I really feel for all the innocent kids whose parents are stupid who will die of polio and measles, and particularly for the medically fragile who are unable to get vaccinated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/us/florida-vaccine-mandates.html
Florida plans to become the first state to end all vaccine mandates, including for schoolchildren, rejecting a practice that public health experts have credited for decades with limiting the spread of infectious diseases.
Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, the Florida surgeon general, made the announcement on Wednesday alongside Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican. Mr. DeSantis rose to national prominence during the coronavirus pandemic, and over time he has espoused increasingly anti-vaccine views.
“Who am I to tell you what your child should put in their body?” Dr. Ladapo, a vocal denigrator of vaccines, said to applause during an event on Wednesday in Valrico, Fla., near Tampa. “Your body is a gift from God.”
He added that the administration would be “working to end” all vaccine mandates. “Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery,” Dr. Ladapo said.
Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates
The state would be the first to scrap requirements that children be vaccinated to attend school, among other rules.
Dr. Ladapo should lose his medical license. "Who am I to tell you what your child should put in their body?" Sir you are literally a doctor. Are you going to tell your patients to drink bleach?
+1
So should Bill Cassidy, the Senator/Doctor who voted to confirm RFK Jr, despite his clear misgivings which have come to pass in a way far worse than most of us envisioned.
Not fond of Cassidy but three other GOP Senators are doctors - Barbados, Marshall, and Paul - and voted for the lunatic as well. Cassidy was merely the only one who publicly toyed with possibly voting no.
Marshall just came out today and said he regrets his vote.
The one for the just-fired CDC Director, not the one for RFK Jr.
We are all so f___ed.
Anonymous
09/03/2025 15:44
Subject: Are they crazy in Florida?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I work in a school in FCPS and we can’t ask the vaccine status esp of those who are not legal, so it’s a problem here too. I recently had a child with the mumps.
It's not your job to ask and single children out. However, the school should not be allowing anyone who is not vaccinated to attend.
There is literally no difference between Florida and FCPS then.
Oh shut up you troll.
FCPS children who are unvaccinated have religious exemptions. They are 99% white Christian nuts.
You are a troll and a liar. Students who are illegal must follow same rules as all other students when they register. They get vaccinated, whether it is at a free clinic or somewhere else.
The point is VA requires it, but there are many ways around it. I teach at a school with the lowest socioeconomic status in the county, we can’t ask vaccine status (so don’t blame the white Christians for that) but then you also have the exemption population which also isn’t vaccinated.
If we mandate it but can’t ask or enforce it, and also we give people a way to become exempt, it isn’t much different than not mandating it.
Anonymous
09/03/2025 15:40
Subject: Are they crazy in Florida?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I just read that the state of Florida may be eliminating all mandated vaccines including those for children. I guess you can't legislate eliminating stupidity in government.
Vaccinate your kids and stop trying to control what others do. I don't want the Republicans to control my health and body, so I won't attempt to control theirs.
I’m not quite in this camp but close to it. I don’t want my kids to go to school with unvaccinated children or share a doctor’s office with unvaccinated children (who are clearly eligible). On the other hand, if that’s really what they want, go forth and let’s see how it goes. I’m not their mom.
That's not how herd immunity works.
Anonymous
09/03/2025 15:39
Subject: Are they crazy in Florida?
I hope this will be reversed soon. Florida is not an island. They are accountable beyond their state borders to other states for spreading infectious diseases. There is a burden of care here that they have to meet for all US citizens, not just Floridians.
Anonymous
09/03/2025 15:38
Subject: Are they crazy in Florida?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I just read that the state of Florida may be eliminating all mandated vaccines including those for children. I guess you can't legislate eliminating stupidity in government.
Vaccinate your kids and stop trying to control what others do. I don't want the Republicans to control my health and body, so I won't attempt to control theirs.
I’m not quite in this camp but close to it. I don’t want my kids to go to school with unvaccinated children or share a doctor’s office with unvaccinated children (who are clearly eligible). On the other hand, if that’s really what they want, go forth and let’s see how it goes. I’m not their mom.
Anonymous
09/03/2025 15:36
Subject: Re:Are they crazy in Florida?
Anonymous wrote:This particular topic enrages me more than any other. Because the stupidity of it could affect any of us and are children. These childhood diseases will come back and impact babies not old enough to be vaccinated yet and older people. It's seriously F-ed up. The hubris and stupidity is astounding.
They are hoping you quit your job to stay home with your newborn out of fear. FEAR mongering is their favorite tactic. That and "blame Biden" are the only strategies the republican party has
Anonymous
09/03/2025 15:32
Subject: Are they crazy in Florida?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How many babies will have to die for them to reverse this?
Well it's not like we have years of data to predict.....oh wait, never mind, we actually do.
Same with gun laws. It doesn't matter.
Anonymous
09/03/2025 15:32
Subject: Are they crazy in Florida?
Anonymous wrote:How many babies will have to die for them to reverse this?
More than will die from guns. They simply don't care. When will you get that?
Anonymous
09/03/2025 15:31
Subject: Are they crazy in Florida?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I work in a school in FCPS and we can’t ask the vaccine status esp of those who are not legal, so it’s a problem here too. I recently had a child with the mumps.
It's not your job to ask and single children out. However, the school should not be allowing anyone who is not vaccinated to attend.
There is literally no difference between Florida and FCPS then.
Oh shut up you troll.
FCPS children who are unvaccinated have religious exemptions. They are 99% white Christian nuts.
You are a troll and a liar. Students who are illegal must follow same rules as all other students when they register. They get vaccinated, whether it is at a free clinic or somewhere else.
Anonymous
09/03/2025 15:31
Subject: Are they crazy in Florida?
Anonymous wrote:I just read that the state of Florida may be eliminating all mandated vaccines including those for children. I guess you can't legislate eliminating stupidity in government.
Vaccinate your kids and stop trying to control what others do. I don't want the Republicans to control my health and body, so I won't attempt to control theirs.
Anonymous
09/03/2025 15:28
Subject: Are they crazy in Florida?
Anonymous wrote:Not mention the absolute devastation of Rubella on a developing fetus. It definitely won't be safe to be pregnant in Florida.
Florida has a lot of tropical diseases. Are they stopping spraying for misquotes and rat control measures also? Hope so!
Anonymous
09/03/2025 15:27
Subject: Are they crazy in Florida?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How many babies will have to die for them to reverse this?
One of Trump’s people will be doing the counting. So we will never know.
But we do know. We know exactly how many were dying when these diseases ran rampant. We have the data on the death rates AND the success of the vaccines. It's called science and we used to value it.
Anonymous
09/03/2025 15:26
Subject: Are they crazy in Florida?
Anonymous wrote:I work in a school in FCPS and we can’t ask the vaccine status esp of those who are not legal, so it’s a problem here too. I recently had a child with the mumps.
Screw off.
Anti vax are home grown American idiots.
Anonymous
09/03/2025 15:26
Subject: Are they crazy in Florida?
Anonymous wrote:How many babies will have to die for them to reverse this?
One of Trump’s people will be doing the counting. So we will never know.