People Freaking Out Over Florida Ending Vaccine Mandates
Guess what. You can still vaccinate your child!
Give me a break.
People have been freaking out after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the state will form its own Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission and end vaccine mandates at the state level.
Florida has become the national model for medical freedom. Today we established the Florida Make America Healthy Again Commission to recommend state-level integrations of MAHA principles and expanded protections for parental choice regarding childhood vaccines.
Chaired by First… pic.twitter.com/9daT0SuYM8
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) September 3, 2025
Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo said:
But what I’m most excited about is is an announcement that we’re going to make, 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.
Yeah, yeah, every last one of them, all of them, every last one of them, every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and and slavery. Okay?
Who am I as a government or anyone else, or who am I as a man standing here now to tell you what you should put in your body?
Who am I to tell you what your child should put in your body? I don’t have that right.
Your body, your body is a gift from God. What you put into your body, what you put into your body, is because of your relationship with your body and your God.
I don’t have that right. Government does not have that right. They want you to believe they have that right, and unfortunately, they’ve been successful. They’ve been successful.
Florida just ended ALL vaccine mandates. You HAVE to listen to this. GOD BLESS JOSEPH LADAPO AND RON DESANTIS!!!!! pic.twitter.com/xAchqOohnU
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) September 3, 2025
I think Ladapo acted a bit dramatically, but I agree with the sentiment.
Oh my God, we’re going to have measles outbreaks! We’ll have polio outbreaks!
“The parents are not doctors or scientists. There’s been a lot of research and things over the years for these vaccinations, and they’re in place for a reason,” Greg Gardner, a supporter of vaccine mandates, told WINK News.
No, we will not because Florida did not BAN vaccines.
Guess what. Parents can still vaccinate their children. I hope they will at least.
However, if your child is vaccinated, they’ll be protected.
Unfortunately, not everyone can receive certain vaccines. Some of us, like, have compromised immune systems.
I do not think people should be forced to have vaccines. Why should there be a law to protect a few people?
Those people freaking out share the blame. Their hysteria over the COVID vaccine turned off people towards the shots, even vaccines that have been established for decades.
Let’s not forget celebrities like Jenny McCarthy, who have been screeching about the MMR vaccine and others since the early 2000s, scaring parents into thinking it causes autism.
Vaccinate your children. The established vaccines work. Talk to the doctor. Get them spaced out if you want to.
“I tell all my families that you have to do your own homework, and you have to decide what’s right for your family. You want to make sure that you’re educated, because whether you vaccinate and there’s a problem, or you don’t vaccinate and there’s a problem, you need to be comfortable with the decision that you made,” Pediatrician Brian Thornberg told WINK.
I get the flu shot every year and the pneumonia shot every other year. I refuse the COVID vaccine.
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“Oh no! Now nobody is going to force me to do what I want!”
People whose best and highest use is nourishing vultures.
The NPCs don’t function very well without programming. Unless the incompetent have someone to tell them what to think, what to do, who to like, who to hate, how to vote, when to protest… they just glitch and go wandering around looking for their Mom to get a hug and maybe a hot pocket to.go.with their Capri sun.
Hey! I love Hot Pockets.
Don’t tell us, tell your mom.
LOL.
Personal responsibility? Surely you jest. People can’t function without big government ordering them to do things.
First – I happen to be very pro vaccine for vaccines that work and are effective
While at the same time I am very anti vaccine for ineffective vaccines or vaccines of limited benefit.
Pro polio, measles, etc
Anti vaccines for flu, covid, limited for tenetnis
Professions where possible exposure is significantly increased probably want regular boosters of certain strains. Tetanus for anyone regularly working with metal, rabies for those constantly around animals, etc.
Rabies is a special case because while the fatality rate is almost 100% (barring a handful of lottery winners), the incubation period is slow and predictable enough that post-exposure vaccination is possible.
I didn’t know there was a rabies shot for people. I knew there was a post bite treatment have done soon enough. But, is there a rabies shot for people like one administer to dogs every year or so?
It’s not popularly known, but there is one and it’s not uncommon.
That is news to me. Considering how unlikely it is to get rabies, though, I doubt people should get it unless they work with diseased animals on a regular basis.
Oh yeah, after Ozzy bit the head off that bat he had to get rushed to the hospital for the rabies shot.
Rabies is so common in bats, and bat bites are so small and hard to detect, that if one is found in the same room where someone was sleeping, it should just be assumed that person was exposed.
The genome of the flu virus has 8 RNA segments as I recall. As a result, when a host is infected with 2 different flu viruses the segments can mix. This results in a highly changeable virus overall and is the reason why you need a different flu vaccine every year. The make up of the vaccine is changed year to year to match what are projected to be the dominant flu strains from the stew of current viruses. They don’t always get the projection right but they do their best.
Last year’s shot made you MORE likely to get the flu, apparently.
That is why it’s called a flu shot.
It’s about time.
So much evil has been justified with the canard “It’s for your own good.”
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
This is wrong, because no vaccine is 100% effective. Even if your kids are vaccinated, if someone at their school is spreading it there’s a small but significant chance that they’ll get it. That’s why we need herd immunity.
Measles went away because everyone who could be vaccinated was. The few who medically couldn’t be vaccinated, due to allergies or immune issues, were protected by herd immunity. But when Wakefield started spreading his evil lies, and too many people believed him and stopped vaccinating their children, measles came back.
I know someone who was a professor of pediatric medicine, and one day a kid came into the hospital with a mysterious illness that none of the doctors could diagnose. She walked into the room, took one look at him, and immediately said “measles”. None of the younger doctors had ever seen a case.
So no, even if your kids are vaccinated, if someone at their school spreads measles there’s a significant chance that your kid will get it.
Not a “significant” chance. If your kid is vaccinated and some kid at school has measles your kid is pretty darn safe – safer than the actual drive to school each day, no doubt.
And the fatality rate of measles is pretty low, even in the event of someone without vaccination catching it. The danger isn’t in catching it per person, the danger is it becoming epidemic – and even then those who are vaccinated are safe.
And in my day, we’d be sent over to a sick classmate’s house to get inoculated.
“Significant chance”????
Not content to be a legal Prometheus ( in his own mind), he now adds physician, virologist anbd statistician to his repertoire. Boundless narcissism?
Pendants gotta pendant.
The measles fatality rate had gone to almost zero by the time they came out with the vaccine. Most of the measles fatalities 100+ years ago were in children that were in poor health. Poor nutrition, unsanitary living conditions, raw sewage exposure, etc. You had to be tough to survive in <1900, especially in the cities. Kid was near death from other problems, got the measles, died. Death certificate said "measles"–not "general bad health"
I was a child of the 40's/50's. By then most of these underlying problems were much ameliorated, although the overuse of pesticides was, in retrospect, a big problem.
I had the measles–there were a couple (three?) "childhood diseases" that were called "measles". I know I had all of them but cannot remember anything other than staying home from school a few days. Everyone I knew had the measles/mumps/chickenpox. No one got particularly sick and certainly no one died. It was a small town, everyone knew everyone and had some kid died of the measles, the whole town would be talking about it. Even if they were more than mildly sick.
I am not against the measles vaccine, necessarily, but the idea that measles is the Black Plague is simply bovine excrement.
Yeah, the “wholesale slaughter of children because mEaSLeS!1!11” nonsense is getting tiresome. By the mid 20th C, the death rate due to measles was 1:500,000 – well BEFORE the advent of any measles vaxx.
Leftists want to force people to act exactly the way the leftists want. No one should be allowed any freedom of thought and certainly never, ever be allowed to act in any way other than how the leftists decree to be the “right” way.
This all comes on top of extreme leftist gloom since just 2 years ago they thought they would have been able, by now, to mandate 5 acts of anal sex among 8 year old boys in order to graduate and move on to 4th grade.
Leftists also have a special place in their cold, black hearts for forcing people to take medications (they would have everyone on SSRIs, if they could) and puching them into medical experiments.
Some professions will; continue to require vaccinations. the medical community for one since you want to minimize the possibility they can either contract or spread a preventable disease. The other is the military so that you don’t lose troops to a preventable outbreak. By way of reference much of the 1914 flu pandemic occurred among new soldiers who were kept in close proximity to one another during basic training thus facilitating the spread of the virus.
A portion of deaths during the “Spanish” flu pandemic were almost certainly iatrogenic. Patients, many of them young soldiers, were treated with what we now know were fatally toxic doses of the miracle drug of the day – aspirin. Modern analysis of the day’s post mortems show many deaths displaying characteristics of salicylate poisoning – pneumonia-like wet and hemorrhaging lungs.
Interesting. I havent gotten that far in the book I;m reading.
Supported by the “Spanish flu” fatality rates in children and the elderly being consistent with those of regular influenza.
Bingo.
I read that they were absolutely pounding aspirin. 20g/day or more.
Mary
“Let’s not forget celebrities like Jenny McCarthy, who have been screeching about the MMR vaccine and others since the early 2000s, scaring parents into thinking it causes autism.”
Jenny is probably right. You don’t have a child that changed completely over night after a vaccination apparently
I was 1000% vaccine protection, my cousin got polio at 16, the most virulent, after the vaccine had been out 2 years.y siblings and I all had polio as toddlers and preschoolers, at the same time, but a very weak form of it. Still we got the vaccine…
Her uncle does of polio at age 14, I couldn’t understand why her mother did not vaccinate her
Well, my daughter had a reaction to the Whooping cough vaccine as an infant, but seemed to tolerate others until she was 12 had was forced to get the Hep B, 3 shots, in middle school.
I almost lost her and to this day, 20 years later she suffers the effects of that f-king vaccine, that she certainty need and most certainly new born infants don’t
So the sarcasm about Jenny coming forth about her child … what’s your problem?
And the flu vaccine is pretty worthless and if your Dr is giving you a pneumonia vaccine e every other year, you need another Dr.
More recently, surveys of Amish communities, which largely eschew vaccines, found zero cases of autism in unvaccinated children. The only autistic children identified in the community had been vaccinated. Considering that the vast majority of Amish are unvaccinated (and therefore should have had a greater chance of having autistic children in this cohort than in the smaller cohort of vaccinated Amish children), and that we accept fairly high rates of autism to be “normal,” this is an especially concerning finding.
That is bulldust. The majority of Amish do vaccinate their children, and there is plenty of autism in Amish communities.
Autism is caused by a lot of factors, most of which are unknown, but it’s likely that genetics play an important role. So you would expect a community that is genetically different from the general community to have different rates of autism.
Jesus
An edit button please
My uncle died of polio at 14
And my daughter definitely didn’t need that Hep B vaccine at 12
I can remember measles parties
where moms would bring their
kids for play dates with kids that
had measles and mumps ….
this is before the shot was effective
I lived in small town .. lots of farms
we didn’t get the vaccine when
it first came out.
after the play date … sure snuff …
we all got sick … and (knock on wood) everyone got better …
that didn’t always happen.
I can remember getting the polio shot every year in school … lined up
and got the shot … and later
got the sugar cube … ( I liked the sugar cube better :D)
I can see the schools still require
people get polio and measles and mumps protection …
dont like it … home school your kids
or find a private school that doesn’t require it….
my 2 cents .. take it for what you want.
You spend too little time in graveyards.
Too little among the dark things of the world.
You do not see the cemeteries with children’s sections. Where stone toys are carved to bring small cheer to the still bodies in the small coffins.
So will Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo be taking personal responsibility for every child that dies from an easily preventable childhood disease because they didn’t get vaccinated? Will Florida Governor Ron DeSantis do the same? Will they both attend each and every funeral for every child that dies from an easily preventable disease and express their sympathy to the dead child’s parents? No? Didn’t think so. Bunch of fecking hypocrites. Hypocrites all.
This isn’t the 19th century any more. Improved sanitation and nutrition has done more to reduce if not eliminate contagious disease than any shot.
why … they are not outlawing vaccinated your kids … they are outlawing mandatory vaccinations
OMG that means YOU have to take responsibility for your kids … bring out the fainting couches and
bring some pearls to clutch.
never forget
andrew cuomo has a plan for this