Florida says it plans to end all vaccine mandates

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Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates
The state would be the first to scrap requirements that children be vaccinated to attend school, among other rules.


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Dr. Ladapo stands at a podium with a microphone wearing a gray suit and red striped tie as Mr. DeSantis stands behind him to his right
Dr. Joseph Ladapo, the state’s surgeon general, has long opposed vaccine mandates.Credit...Chris O'Meara/Associated Press
Patricia Mazzei
By Patricia Mazzei
Reporting from Miami

Sept. 3, 2025, 12:59 p.m. ET

Florida plans to become the first state to end all vaccine mandates, including for schoolchildren, rejecting a practice that public health experts have credited for decades with limiting the spread of infectious diseases.

Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, the Florida surgeon general, made the announcement on Wednesday alongside Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican. Mr. DeSantis rose to national prominence during the coronavirus pandemic, and over time he has espoused increasingly anti-vaccine views.

“Who am I to tell you what your child should put in their body?” Dr. Ladapo, a vocal denigrator of vaccines, said to applause during an event on Wednesday in Valrico, Fla., near Tampa. “Your body is a gift from Go

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/us/florida-says-it-plans-to-end-all-vaccine-mandates.html

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The race to the bottom, littered with the dead and disabled

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Floriduh, the Sun Shinola state, home of Senior Orange and Dunce World. . . . nt

[MontanaMama]

2. The hypocrisy is staggering.

‘Who am I to tell you what your child should put in their body?”] But they can tell women what to do with theirs? Whatever fools.

[moonshinegnomie]

3. if an unvaxxed kid gets sick

the parents should be charged with child neglect. if the kid dies charge them with murder.

charge the surgeon general too..

in addition health insurance shouldnt be required to pay dollar one for treatment of an unvaxxed kid

[Blues Heron]

4. Feels like the fall of Rome, the vandals have breached the citadels and temples of learning and healing

Squads of masked armed secret police roaming the cities, institutions sacked, where will it end?

[twodogsbarking]

5. Official Florida Song.

Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Hey, I'm gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust
Hey!

[DBoon]

6. waiting for countries to advise their citizens to avoid Florida

due to the likelihood of contracting contagious diseases abolished in first world countries

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Duplicate of earlier LBN post

[Ray Bruns]

8. Make Polio Great Again!

[sabbat hunter]

9. We now know

the epicenter of the next measles, mumps outbreak.

[Pas-de-Calais]

10. Petri dishes out in the sun

[Lasher]

11. Locking LBN dupe.

Please continue discussion in this earlier thread.