Exposing vulnerable people to vaccine-preventable disease is just part of life, Ladapo said.

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.

  • lukaro@lemmy.zipEnglish
    573·
    5 days ago

    The end result being less Floridians, at least there is a small upside.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    18·
    5 days 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!

  • Yeller_king@reddthat.com
    14·
    5 days 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
      41·
      5 days 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.

  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    5 days 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.

    • bradinutah@thelemmy.club
      59·
      5 days 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.

        • JonEFive@midwest.social
          13·
          5 days ago

          Not really. They just love power and attention. Vaccines became a populist issue, so they’re constructing policy based on that instead of facts and science.

          Doing what their misguided base wants keeps them in power. And misguiding their base to pay attention to things other than economic policy makes it so they can use their power to further enrich themselves.

          And even when they talk about economic policy, most people don’t understand that tariffs are taxes on the American people. And if they don’t get that, they definitely don’t understand that a trade deficit isn’t a bad thing in a post-industrial society because we sell information and services that don’t rely on expensive physical resources.

          And what kinds of people are fooled by that? The lesser educated. So slash budgets for schools and universities, especially those that are prominent and lean left. And slashing those budgets has already led to very significant setbacks in research of new treatments for a wide variety of ailments.

          But hey, at least that money is going to… hey, what are they gonna spend all that money on now that the government is no longer paying?

          Anyway, what I’m getting at is they don’t hate us. They are using us as pawns. They are depraved and indifferent to our suffering so long as they get more money and power.

          • BremboTheFourth@piefed.caEnglish
            8·
            5 days ago

            No, they hate you. Vaccines didn’t become a populist issue by random happenstance. They’ve been pushing it for decades. They put RFK in power for a reason. They think they’re better than you, they think they can afford treatment for whatever horrible diseases they encourage to evolve in the general population, they want a weak and sick underclass they can exploit without fear.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      15·
      5 days 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.