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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LaunchesKayaks @lemmy.world 2d ago
What a time to be alive and severely immunocompromised. Been nice knowing y'all.
sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2d ago
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!
- SaveTheTuaHawk @lemmy.ca 2d ago
  Come for the cartoon mouse! Stay for the iron lung!
NatakuNox @lemmy.world 3d ago
Drusas @fedia.io 2d ago
Soon they'll be having a bunch of nurses refusing basic vaccinations.
tranes @lemmy.ca
3d ago
That smug smile on this dipshits face really says it all
- Fredselfish @lemmy.world 3d ago
  He is a dumb fuck too. Try to compare vaccines to slavery.
  
  CosmicTurtle0 @lemmy.dbzer0.com 3d ago
  Republicans really do mental gymnastics don't they. Just a few weeks ago Trump was saying slavery wasn't "that bad".
  
  Fluffy Kitty Cat @slrpnk.net 3d ago
  The problem with that comparison is that if it were true then they would be in favor of bringing back vaccines
- Oyml77 @lemmy.today 3d ago
  Ladapo is a gucking quack. The only reason he got the job was dumbass DeSantis.
boaratio @lemmy.world 2d ago
Note to self: never move to Florida.
DrSleepless @lemmy.world 3d ago
Polio makin a comeback
- Marthirial @lemmy.world 3d ago
  Welcome to Floridistan!
Yeller_king @reddthat.com 2d ago
The purpose is really to dismantle public schools by making them so unsafe that parents don't want to send their kids to them.
- PunnyName @lemmy.world 2d ago
  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.
RizzRustbolt @lemmy.world 3d ago
- Sunflier @lemmy.world 2d ago
  
  FTFY
- lowleekun @ani.social 2d ago
  I guess literally is not even enough for repubes
DeathByBigSad @sh.itjust.works 2d ago
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.
- sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2d ago
  Lol coming soon to upgrade the 'Florida Man' meme:
  Fucking Polio!
lukaro @lemmy.zip 3d ago
The end result being less Floridians, at least there is a small upside.
- SpaceNoodle @lemmy.world 3d ago
  Fewer
  
  jol @discuss.tchncs.de 3d ago
  Florida is a swamp thus floridans are a fluid within it.
  
  mrgoosmoos @lemmy.ca 3d ago
  
  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
- TheLowestStone @lemmy.world 3d ago
  The problem is that disease doesn't respect borders.
  
  Photuris @lemmy.ml 2d ago
  Also, children don’t get to choose their parents, or place of birth.
  
  kbobabob @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2d ago
  I guess it'll stop at the vaccinated states then.
- happydoors @lemmy.world 2d ago
  Mostly dead/sick kids that never had a say, though :(
- UltraMagnus0001 @lemmy.world 3d ago
  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.
Sam_Bass @lemmy.world 2d ago
On the plus side, we get to find out exactly how much of the population are incurably stupid
Gates9 @sh.itjust.works 2d ago
The Malaria State
Spacehooks @reddthat.com 2d ago
Win for nurgle cultist everywhere
MTK @lemmy.world 3d ago
Fuck yeah! Go team dead kids!
/s
- Cornelius_Wangenheim @lemmy.world 2d ago
  Maybe that'll be the new name for the Miami Dolphins.
altphoto @lemmy.today 3d ago
Oh so not LOL. Some kids are going to suffer badly because of this.
goodnighttothe_spoon @lemmy.today 3d ago
It's not required, but smart people will still get their kids immunized most likely, right? This will only hurt kids...
- bradinutah @thelemmy.club 3d ago
  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.
  
  goodnighttothe_spoon @lemmy.today 3d ago
  They really fucking hate us, don't they?
- grue @lemmy.world 3d ago
  Not being required is the first step. Not being covered by insurance/subsidized is the second step. Not being available is the third step.
- PunnyName @lemmy.world 2d ago
  This will hurt anyone. Kids will become vectors.
- Bronzebeard @lemmy.zip 3d ago
  Still puts those vaccinated at more risk as that shit will now have a petri dish to evolve in
Liljekonvalj @feddit.org 2d ago
This is incredibly dangerous. No countries should allow Americans to enter.
- this @sh.itjust.works 2d ago
  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?
  
  Liljekonvalj @feddit.org 2d ago
  Of course I wouldn't want to deny them if they had vaccines.
ieatpwns @lemmy.world 3d ago
In the press conference he almost said “your body your choice”
- PunnyName @lemmy.world 2d ago
  
  You could tell he was about to slip up, and then he smiled knowingly.
switcheroo @lemmy.world 3d ago
We should cordon off the whole state and not let anyone in or any of the disease-ridden shithole zombies out.
mrgoosmoos @lemmy.ca 3d ago
Florida really trying to ensure nobody ever vacations there ever again
- syreus @lemmy.world 2d ago
  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.
HalifaxJones @lemmy.world 3d ago
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.
- grue @lemmy.world 3d ago
  It's not the antivaxxers themselves who will suffer; it's the immuno-compromised and innocent children who will suffer.
  
  NatakuNox @lemmy.world 3d ago
  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.
- PunnyName @lemmy.world 2d ago
  Vaccines protect everyone, especially those who are immunocompromised and can't get the shot.
- Kage520 @lemmy.world 3d ago
  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.
  
  Fluffy Kitty Cat @slrpnk.net 3d ago
  Also the qualifications to be a teacher so low that if your husband is a veteran congratulations you can teach public school in Florida
  
  MisterDeutsch @lemmy.world 2d ago
  As a teacher in Florida, my only hope is that those who don’t vaccinate are more often the type to homeschool.
  
  HalifaxJones @lemmy.world 2d ago
  Jesus all jokes aside this is bleak. Public education in all of the US is going to struggle for generations.
- slaneesh_is_right @lemmy.org 3d ago
  Instead of a wall, build a dome around the country and let it sort itself out.
MangioneDontMiss @lemmy.ca 3d ago
hey im all for it. I said it before. I'm actually rooting for another huge, and lets hope, even more deadly pandemic. A lot of republicans are going to finally get their darwin awards.
- Derpgon @programming.dev 3d ago
  A lot of dems as well, sadly.
  
  jaschen306 @sh.itjust.works 2d ago
  A lot of more people around the world. Esp the poorer countries.
peoplebeproblems @midwest.social 3d ago
258,000,000 ain't going to happen with vaccines, that's for sure.

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