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'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.
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo made the announcement at a press
conference on Wednesday alongside Governor Ron DeSantis.
"What I'm most excited about is an announcement that we're making now, which is
that the Florida Department of Health, in partnership with the governor, is
going to be working to end all vaccine mandates in Florida law—all of them, all
of them, all of them, every last one of them," Ladapo said. "Every last one of
them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery."
Ladapo, who has a history of being anti-vaccine and spreading misinformation,
went on to argue against the public aspect of public health, saying that there
is "no ethical basis" for requiring vaccination to, in part, protect the most
vulnerable from infectious diseases. That vulnerable people, such as newborns
and the immunocompromised, may be unnecessarily exposed to vaccine-preventable,
life-threatening diseases is just "part of the experience of life," Ladapo
claimed. He also called mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, which saved millions of lives
at the height of the pandemic, "poison."
If Florida moves forward with the plans, the state will become the only state
in the country to not have vaccination requirements for public school
attendance, though many, including Florida, currently offer exemptions for
non-medical reasons. Nationwide, non-medical exemptions are at an all-time
high, and kindergarten vaccination rates have fallen to the range of 92
percent, below the 95 percent target needed to prevent community spread.'
Via Steven Vaughan-Nichols, who wrote "Do we really want to kill our kids?
Because this is how we kill them."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
