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Children in Florida will no longer be required to receive vaccines against preventable diseases including measles, mumps, chicken pox, polio and hepatitis, said Joseph Ladapo, the state’s surgeon general, on Wednesday in a speech during which he likened vaccine mandates to “slavery”.
This is the surgeon general. Ridiculous.
How many children will die or be maimed by the arrogance of these people?
Countless. Particularly since we're burning down all the agencies that do statistical analysis.
If other people have to die so that these self-righteous jackasses can enact vengeance on everyone else for what had to be done during the height of Covid, they are willing to have that happen.
Some of the more fervent ones are willing to even die themselves....as long as they think Taco and DeSatan get to "own the libz".
These people are so very crazy. I wish we could just designate some bit of land no one else wants and send all the crazies there to live their "best" lives under an extremist right wing regime.
Let them reject reality, science, medicine and basic decency on their own time. They need to stop destroying my country.
I thought we did that. It's Florida.
We need to build a fence around Florida
Better idea.
I love how this still says Gulf of Mexico.
Florida needs to have its residents barred from entering other states.
Yeah like it’s one thing if they wanna antivax themselves to death. It’s another that they can freely travel along state lines and spread diseases.
Bye herd immunity and immunocompromised kids
The same party that wants you to bring babies into the world at all costs, also wants to kill those babies
Good luck with those hurricanes Florida. I’m sure you will blame the disaster on woke, or vaccines, or LGBTQ.
People say the hurricanes are God's punishment for LGBT people. Isn't it equally possible that hurricanes are God's punishment for inhumane treatment of immigrants
In the past few years, there’s been something of a mass migration to the two worst states in the US, and my question is why? I even had a friend who seemed pretty leftist who moved to Florida… and now it seems they’re getting ready to cull their herd.
Sometimes it is taxes. But at this point auto insurance, home insurance and such should outweigh just paying income taxes in Florida. Maybe rent prices don't reflect it though, I don't know.
People really move to a state based on taxes alone?
Varies I assume, but if a company moves from CA to FL they get over a 3% income tax cut. And that boosts jobs in Florida, which would mean higher demand for jobs in Florida and less taxes paid by the person as well.
Texas I think has like no corporate income taxes, so they'd get more than 8% cut. Not sure how they make up their taxes though, so they might offset it elsewhere.
These people are idiots
A shit hole state in a shit hole country, run by assholes elected by morons
Backward degenerates.
Maybe when the children's bodies start piling up, the fix might finally get through their thick skulls.
Naw, because of Jeebus and their gawd. To wit:
"What you put into your body is because of your relationship with your body and God," he added. The government does not have that right."
You hear that, reality-based community? The government has no right to take relevant action for public health. Because JESUS. I'm sure this business about "your relationship with your body and [their g]od" won't preclude the jackasses in this government from interfering in women's rights and trying to harass trans and gays, etc. though. Probably the same thing when it comes to resurrecting the War on Some Drugs, too...
Anyway, if some kids have to die cuz FREEDUMBZ they'll apply the same logic they do for the Second Amendment - if some kids have to die as collateral damage for a bunch of fucking idiots to have a sense of the FREEDUMBZ, the conservatives will abide, because they are sick motherfuckers.
am i gonna have to get a malaria vaccine now?