PieFedFlorida to end vaccine mandates for children as state’s surgeon general likens them to ‘slavery’
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/03/florida…
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switcherooIt's going to be really gross seeing all the child deaths being reported but then again they probably'll just hide the numbers.
I just don't understand these morons...
I just don't understand these morons...
project 2025. The idea is to kill off as many people as possible, leaving only the rich and those they need to serve them. They posted this on the net long ago, and now they are doing it. How do people still not know this ?
Yup. They already have a history of altering data to fit their narrative. Like, these people in specific, not just Republicans.
They can hide the numbers but they can't hide it from the parents whose children will die because they were lied to about vaccines. Of course some of them will still be against vaccines even after their children die right in front of them and they will blame it on someone else. But at some point, if this is allowed to continue, there will be kids that will go back to school after summer only to find out that some of their friends have died and these parents will have to try and explain why their friends died. And it's absolutely heartbreaking.
I see we're going back to survival of the fittest.
Remember: survival of the fittest is statistical, not individual. So the next time you hear someone with kids say something to that effect, reassure them that since they're such "fit" specimens they do actually have a few percent higher chance for their kids to survive the illness compared to the "unfit"
Exactly. Not objectively good, not fitter, just fit enough to reproduce under the circumstances, whatever they might randomly be in any given place at any given time.
ObiThe editor definitely felt really good about himself choosing this picture lol, his expression says it all.
Endymion_MallornRemoving the mandates means that people have the freedom to decide whether they get it for themselves or their children. If they were banning vaccinations for children, I'd be upset. This is what less government looks like - less mandates, less rules, less organization.
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InfynisI personally hate the misuse of the term skeptic here. He's not a skeptic, he's a denier. Skeptics seek evidence to support or reject a claim. If he was a skeptic, then he wouldn't oppose vaccines.
So…. Can we abolish religion yet? These loons are going to kill so many people with their “light of god” bullshit.
Imagine being a black man in America and calling vaccine mandates akin to slavery...
Nothing says freedom like children dying from preventable diseases
Freeing their souls from their bodies.
He's in so deep he probably calls himself a coon as a compliment
Hey man, you can't say that, that's his word.
He knows someone with the best words
While at the same time watching our museums say that slavery was good for black people
Pick mes are the most frustrating.
Clayton Bigsby
I know, why call it slavery when you could say vaccines are like a plague.
Proof that none of this is about racism as much as it’s about money
Haven't you heard? Trump says slavery isn't so bad.
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"Involuntary Unpaid Interns"
100% employment and low wages.
Jesus fucking a goat.
If this goes on for long there will be so many dead or crippled children. So many dead people. It won't stay constrained to Florida. This will put immunocompromised people at risk all over the country. Herd immunity is fucked.
Also, if it lasts long, expect other willfully ignorant states to do the same.
Fuck, I'm tired.
Somebody in power in this state owns an Iron Lung manufacturing facility....
Bringing back polio is really just to help their profits.
That reads like a bad Bond villain but I can almost guarantee it's true.
weird al has been conspiring to make his mr frump song relevant again
Well see, in the American for profit health system, the system is incentived to keep you sick, not cure you. If you get cured, you don't need them anymore, so they are bringing back polio to make themselves rich at your expense, once again.
A conspiracy like that would require a level of organization that isn't present.
It's willful ignorance and cultic tribalism gone real bad.
They really believe there is a vaccine conspiracy that causes autism and is being used for mind control or whatever.
What conspiracy? Do you know how many people are employed by cancer? If they cured it today, so many people would be out of work. It's not some giant scheme, it's malicious application of the law. People believe that because their favourite politician tells them it is. Why are they telling them that? What possible benefit could exposing your populace to more medical harm bring? There are so many levels of control beyond the idiot puppets you see squaking on the TV and Social Media. People with the real power are pushing agendas. Don't fool yourself into thinking there is no one in control. That's exactly what they want you to believe. They sow chaos so they can reap the benefits.
There really is no one in control. Not really. There are people and groups with spheres of influence and power. I wish there was an evil illuminati out there in control of things, at least it would be organized.
Best I can figure, most everyone is faking it. I've spent time with CEOs, military officers, rich people, big time evangelists. They're mostly faking it, some even feel imposter syndrome like normal people do.
This isn't to say that they don't perpetrate great evil, but they're also not superhuman or super intelligent. Many of them are of average intelligence at best. They're just lucky or lack morals as we know them, reframing their moral system to excuse their actions. Everyone is the hero of their own story even when they are corrupt to the core. Hitler was a dog lover and vegetarian.
All this to say, there is no silver bullet for cancer. There is no magic carburator invented in the '70s that gets 100mpg. There is no over unity generator that will provide free power. Somebody would steal those secrets and sell them for millions.
I half expect that the insurance companies will run the numbers on end of life costs and maintenance costs of disability and still cover the standard schedule of vaccines. Deaths/crippling get expensive enough and they may even require vaccinations to keep insurance.
The wingnuts in question here likely believe the antivaxx shit, or see enough politcal advantage in parroting it that it has resulted in this. In some sense, the GOP has been too successful, now they are married to the lunatic fringe and have members from that fringe. They're stuck on this ride as well. Hope they choke on it.
I never said anyone was in control. I did say they reap the benefits of sowing chaos though.
at this point I'm considering starting to just hope that most of america's population dies and only the smart ones are left
and hopefully that's enough of the compassionate smart ones, not the selfish ones
I figure if america has closed borders, there's a chance?
Unfortunately Polio doesn't care about political beliefs. Good people will die right alongside bad.
Wait… I thought a lot of people in the South liked slavery. They call it The Confederacy.
Ah yes, I once had a vaccine and I remember going home to serve my master and get whipped. But after a few days the slavery side effects went away and I got back to being a white kid in the 2000s.
WTF goes through these people's minds?
I understand PoC being suspicious of vaccines. Tuskegee experiment was real. But it shouldn't be the only guiding policy of public health.
Florida: shithole of shitholes.
Go there in the summer, proof that it is hell.
Just look a map, clearly Florida is America's dickhole. The Gulf Coast is the shithole.
Polio will return in the Florida Oblast. What a bunch of dumbfucks.
Natural selection is great for these idiots.
Poor kids though.
Thanks to our steady transition from America to Dumb-fuck-istan, the only purpose in life a lot of children will have is to serve as sad, painful lessons for their parents. I just hope they don't have to suffer any more than necessary while teaching them those lessons.
Yeah sadly. And these people will replace it with bleach and raw milk
These were all once the poor kids you speak about. They grow up and half of them do this in the absence of Darwinism of regressive culture.
WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump said the Smithsonian museums in Washington are too fixated on "how bad slavery was" and other negative aspects of United States history as he promised to take aim at the "WOKE" elements inside them.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/19/trump-complains-smithsonian-focused-bad-slavery-woke/85730652007/
So, is slavery back to being bad?
Those slaves were unvaccinated so they were happy slaves.
It's 2025. '/s' marks for sarcasm are mandatory.
I hate you for being right.
Not really
I think this person doesn't know what slavery is and how vaccines work or what they are for.
One more reason for tourists to stay away I guess.
Florida really is the worst place to travel to. What a fucking shit hole
Oh, so slavery is bad now, is it?
Owning people as chattel: stop focusing on the negativity!
Wearing masks and not dying from preventable diseases: literal slavery.
You were always free not to vaccinate your kids if you kept them out of the school system. But you're also gonna say using a child's non-prefered pronouns or non-prefered name isn't anything like slavery at all, when slave owners would never do anything like rename people against their will.
Lol, my family is planning a trip to the keys next summer, won't be joining this one, I don't want to spend a penny in that cursed state.
If you have any working brain cells and you still live in Florida get the fuck out while you can. If this doesn’t kill you the hurricanes will.
Cost of Living in FL has been skyrocketing.
Ah Florida.
I hear they're sewing that state up so tight it'll never even vote again. Goddamn.
Well the beaches are pretty. Or were.
How does Joseph Ladapo sleep at night? Probably soundly on a mattress full of money.
Their idea of freedom is to return to a preindustrial state.
Avoiding spreading disease is a lot like involuntary servitude. What with all the systemic disenfranchisement and, ya know, whipping...
It's tough to be an optimist these days. But like, at least they'll flood first, right?
My state is cooked and Joseph is a POS.
So freedom is getting an infection?