Posted on 11/08/2025 2:15:15 PM PST by Whatever Works
Florida plans to end nearly a half-century of required childhood immunizations against diseases that have killed and maimed millions of children. Many critics of the decision, including doctors, are afraid to speak up against it.
With the support of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo on Sept. 3 announced his plan to end all school-age vaccination mandates in the state.
“Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery,” he told a cheering crowd of vaccination foes in Tallahassee. “Who am I, as a government or anyone else, to tell you what you should put in your body?”
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Yeah for Florida!! Too many damn vaccines for kids nowadays.
Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo on vaccine mandates:
“Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery”
Well said.
I don’t know what some doctors said or wanted to say.
Organizations, at least their bosses, tend to want more power. Generally, big likes big. So, I expect the AMA likes government mandates and big government types favor the AMA - and government mandates.
It’s going to be interesting to see the studies on the health of Florida children ten years or so from now. Will there be fewer cases of allergies, childhood cancers, autism, etc. in Florida than in prior decades? Than in other states?
Don’t you just love the leftist media. Somehow in their reasoning if something is not a government mandate it will never happen. Nowhere have I seen that people can’t consult with their doctor, obtain accurate information, and then make an informed decision to either get it or decline it.
There are too many.
But I would not want to see a return of smallpox, polio, or tb, to name a few.
Drs blew it with COVID and probably suspect that they have a few crediblity problems.
I agree. Now if doctors could get accurate information that would help also.
Doctors are certainly free to recommend vaccinations for their patients. What has changed is that now informed consent must truly be obtained from either the patient or their parents. No longer is it enough to say “The law requires this vaccination.”
Texas Medical Board reprimands Houston doctor over treatment of COVID-19 patient
The article is a little skewed. They ended the mandate, but doctors are not prohibited from recommending them to their patients. So, I fail to see the muffler.
I.LOVE.it
I don’t think vaccines have ever been the issue. It’s how massive the schedule has become including for diseases that are not inherent airborne/contagion threats like Hepatitis B (which is given literally the day of birth regardless of parent’s status or circumstance.)
Not enough doctors are trained to tailor their recommendations, and when the exceptional and rare reactions - including severe ones - do happen, they notoriously gaslight parents and even themselves into Soviet style denialism. 🙄 The frustrations and anger over encounters like this have been boiling over for years. Among both Republican and Democrat families. Regardless of what they tout otherwise in public. I’ve witnessed firsthand.
Luckily, smallpox has been eradicated. It only exists in labs, which is probably not the ultimate comfort. Nevertheless, a vax for that is not required.
People should vax themselves for the “classics”, but it’s ultimately up to them. Myself, I would definitely to DTP and MMR within the first year and, of course the polio. TB vax is not very terribly effective and wasn’t recommend for use in the US to begin with.
SOMETHING LIKE 43 BEFORE THEY ARE 12???
DENGE FEVER???
YELLOW FEVER???
STOP IN COMING FLOW FROM OTHER COUNTRIES & LET OUR KIDS BE KIDS.
Where were these articles when Doctors not keen on masking, COVID shots were also muffled?
Nothing prevents parents from discussing vaccination recommendations with their doctors.
Those studies will probably look something like the results of this study.
An Inconvenient Study
https://www.aninconvenientstudy.com/
Greatly.
In the US, children aren’t generally required to be vaccinated for those three diseases, these days. And if we kept out illegals there’d be an even lower likelihood that they’d ever be needed in the US in general.
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