Michael Cohen - DeSantis Makes Disease Great Again
Just when you think Florida can’t sink lower, Ron DeSantis and his surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, hand you a shovel and say, watch this. Weeks into the new school year, Ladapo announced Florida is working to eliminate every single vaccine mandate for kids. His reasoning? Mandates “drip with disdain and slavery.”
Slavery. For making sure kids don’t end up in an iron lung. This is where we’re at.
Every other state in the union requires certain vaccines for kids to attend school. Polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B—you know, the very diseases we fought like hell to wipe out. But Florida wants to be first to toss that playbook in the trash. If you’re keeping score, that means Florida will be the first state in modern history to invite polio and measles back into the classroom like they’re guest speakers at career day.
Doctors, teachers, pediatric associations—they’re all sounding the alarm. Dr. Rana Alissa from the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics spelled it out: classrooms are petri dishes. Kids sneeze, cough, drool, swap snacks, and lick God-knows-what off desks. When vaccines go away, outbreaks come rushing in. Richard Carpiano, a public health professor, put it even plainer: “This is completely public health in reverse… This is really madness.”
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