DeSantis and Ladapo to 'end all vaccine mandates in Florida law'

[demmiblue]

Source: Miami Herald

Florida is set to end all state vaccine mandates, state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced at a news conference Wednesday.

For decades, the state has required numerous vaccines for kids attending school, including shots that protect against Measles-mumps-rubella, polio, chickenpox and Hepatitis B.

But Ladapo on Wednesday compared these mandates to “slavery,” and promised that they all will soon end. He did not immediately provide specifics.

Vaccines have saved at least 154 million lives in the last 50 years, according to the World Health Organization. The vast majority of the lives saved were infants.

Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article311956239.html

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[Battle Blue]

1. Mindboggling Stupidity

There's never a bottom in the race to be show how extreme and idiotic one can be. Sick sick sick to let kids be ravaged by diseases such as polio again.

[Lochloosa]

26. Welcome to DU Battle Blue

[BonnieJW]

2. What are all the governors from the stupid states

going to do when all the airborne illnesses take off? Can you imagine if polio makes a comeback? The two greatest accomplishments people have made in recorded history are vaccines and antibiotics.

I hope all these stupid parents have time to say goodbye to their kids.

[NickB79]

3. With climate change, Florida will be the "tip of the spear" with regards to tropical diseases

Lots of potential outbreaks just waiting to happen in the southern US as the climate warms up.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

5. More like a

Limp dick than the tip of the spear.

[travelingthrulife]

4. This is such a stupid hill to die on.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. They won't die much, but their kids and grandkids will in greater numbers. . . . nt

[Teacher of the Year]

31. The hill, I fear, will be a pile of dead children.

[lonely bird]

6. Parents that don't vaccinate their kids...

Don’t get their kids treated.

Yeah, I know. If the Republican Party is the alleged party of personal responsibility (it’s not but let’s move along) then they have to face the consequences for their actions.

Beyond that.

Break up the U.S.A.

[slightlv]

21. Let Floridians stay in Florida, then.

I'm sorry blue Floridians. I empathize... I really do, living in a red state, myself. And just as hampered by the red state laws as you are. But if Floridians are to become the new harbingers of disease in the United States, then the only answer is for the rest of the States to quarantine Florida.

Frankly, I'd prefer quarantining every maga or conservative leaning repub... give them a handful of states to call their own. Rip out the military/civilian infrastructure that the democratic nation built for them and let them handle their problems on their own.

Like I said, I have great empathy for the dems in Fl, and in TX, and in KS, and in any number of the other "Red" states that are fighting a civil war the other side won't acknowledge. And I know the dearest wish of Putin is to see us broken up as a nation. At this point, I don't care WHAT putin wants or doesn't want... I want the damned cave people back under their rocks or far away from the rest of us.

[bronxiteforever]

7. New Florida motto "Kill the Kids".

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Floriduh, the Sundowner State. . . . nt

[Blues Heron]

10. Freedom for virions!

Let them live, man!
/s

[SunSeeker]

11. Ladapo should be in jail, not State Surgeon General.

He is an evil lunatic whose actions will and are causing death and disease.

[underpants]

30. But Ron knows science, he was Assistant TO the urinalysis officer in the Navy

[C Moon]

12. I'll bet the well-to-do will get their children vaccinated. It will be the poor and uneducated

who won't bother with it.

[lonely bird]

38. Sure, wealth always gets what it wants with few rare exceptions.

If unvaccinated people aren’t permitted treatment then any doctor/provider automatically loses their license.

Party of personal responsibility must shoulder responsibility.

[angrychair]

13. Well

Silver lining is there will be a lot less future Republicans in Florida.

[Ray Bruns]

14. Make Polio Great Again!

[Solly Mack]

15. It's a world of slaughter, a world of tears. It's a world of dopes and a world of fears.

So many diseases to share, that it's time we dare

It's a smallpox world after all

It's a smallpox world after all

[Lucky Luciano]

16. Insurance companies

If I were running a health insurance company, I would make it very clear that unvaccinated people who get sick are NOT covered. It is their fault. Parents are still required to get medical care for their kids and then they can go bankrupt.

[kimbutgar]

17. That going to hit Disney, Universal studio and other tourist destinations

Do you want your kids exposed to diseases that were eliminated by vaccines while vacationing ?

[JustAnotherGen]

19. Agree

I wouldn't want to be the parent of a not yet vaccinated infant.

[JustAnotherGen]

18. I guess

It comes down to State's Rights - eh?

Two can play that game. And I dare Fed Gov to stop the Northeast or Western Alliance (Newsom announced WA, OR, and CA going it alone).

I fully support my State (NJ) working with other states in the Northeast for the greater good of public health.

[Puppyjive]

20. Survival of the fittest

One way to get rid of MAGA.

[70sEraVet]

22. Making America Great Again??

Doing research on local cemeteries in a rural area of Tennessee, I've been astounded by the number deaths of children a century or more ago. In the decades between 1880 and 1920, a family was lucky if HALF of their chilren reached the age of 10! It's heartbreaking to see the same father's signature on death certificates, over and over again.
THAT'S the America trump and his ghouls want to bring back!

[Jilly_in_VA]

23. Watch for them

to now have epidemics to outdo Texas! But isn't that DeSatan's plan...to be "bigger than Texas"? FloriDUH. SMDH

[mkp]

24. Stupidest Motherfuckers to ever draw breath

Fuck them.

[Exp]

25. Dark Ages here we come! nt

[no_hypocrisy]

27. Don't tell me/Let me guess:

Introducing a string of commercial Trump Cemeteries on I-95.

[Karasu]

28. Then quite frankly, no Florida citizens should be allowed to leave the state. The risks are too great. You

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don't get to fucking mindlessly endanger other people's lives (particularly those of us who still believe in science) as a result of personal and/or ideological stupidity on the part of your government. Period.

Other major tourism states (CA, HI, NY) should ban them from entering at all.

[underpants]

29. Ron, you groveling pandering ass, Dear Leader doesn't like you

he used you and cast you away. You took over Alligator Alcatraz to cover his ass and it blew up in YOUR face.

Just stop it for whatever kind of self respect you could possibly have left.

[Wonder Why]

32. Live in Florida; die in Florida - of the plague!

[bluestarone]

33. Any parent that refuses a vaccination for their child, is guilty of murder, in my books.

The leaders of the state that are doing this, are also GUILTY of murder.

[riversedge]

34. Parents do not want to vaccinate their kids-ok but these Unvaccinated kids mingle with other kids in

schools. Sure, they are vaccinated but there is a need for what they call herd immunity for a given population to be considered safe. damn. Sometimes I don't believe in the USA that I grew up in!!

[TrumanTheTiger]

35. They should do their building codes next...

…while they’re doing beyond stupid 💩.

I mean they could/would pass it off as decreasing the costs of new housing, making housing in Floriduh more affordable since those pesky regulations are telling people what to do with their houses (“gOvEnMeNt CaN’t TeLl YoU hOw To BuIlD!”)

And do it next week right at the peak of hurricane season just to be even more tone deaf.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

36. Florida Surgeon General Ladapo takes aim at all of the state's vaccine mandates

School districts have required children to be immunized against all kinds of diseases for decades. In Florida, officials hope to roll back the clock.

As DeSantis’ administration in Florida targets *all* of the state’s vaccine mandates, remember:

If Lapado & Co succeed, Floridians would start exporting contagions and serious ailments to other Americans — and in all likelihood, even to other countries. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-09-03T16:59:56.509Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/florida-surgeon-general-ladapo-takes-aim-states-vaccine-mandates-rcna228838

The Washington Post published a memorable analysis in 2022 that noted, “For months, we’ve written in this space about how the Republicans’ pushback against coronavirus vaccine mandates could foment — and apparently has been fomenting — opposition to mandates of other vaccines, including for schoolchildren.”

With this in mind, the latest news out of Florida is dangerous, but it’s not altogether surprising. NBC News reported:

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said Wednesday that the state will work to eliminate all vaccine mandates. ‘All of them. All of them,’ he said during a news conference as the crowd stood and erupted in applause. ‘Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.’ He said the Florida Department of Health will work in partnership with the governor. He said forcing vaccine mandates is ‘wrong’ and ‘immoral.’

No other state has gone nearly this far.......

But that perspective is mistaken: If Florida moves forward with plans to target all of the state’s vaccine mandates, not only will children suffer from preventable diseases, but Floridians will start exporting contagions and serious ailments to other Americans — and in all likelihood, even to other countries.

In 2021, The Washington Post’s Benjy Sarlin noted that it seemed likely that the United States would “end up with fewer vaccine requirements in some places than we started with before the pandemic” that has killed millions of people around the world.

That might’ve sounded ridiculous, but four years later, it’s an unsettling assessment that’s holding up well.

[Oopsie Daisy]

37. Those poor innocent children. I wonder if the parents will feel guilty from their part in the death of their child/ren.

Or will they dismiss their personal responsibility by claiming it was "God's Will" and "they're in a better place now" because "Jesus called them home to sit by His side." 🤢🤮

[sakabatou]

39. Is there going to be a travel warning?

[Karasu]

40. After this insanity, the state of Florida needs to be effectively quarantined from the rest of the country.

Certainly from blue states.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

41. Florida's state flag has been updated to show a child's grave.

[Brainfodder]

42. BYOV is weird way to lower your budget?

FOLLOW THE MONEY same as always on these crooked people?

[LoveSucky]

43. I swear to God if I die from Pollo in 2025...

[Xolodno]

44. He lies a Florida Man...

...he refused to be vaccinated from a preventable virus.

But he did get to own the libs.