In the last few years I revealed that I have been exploring Florida. Last year, I mentioned my low-rent office, inland from Cape Canaveral. While near the marsh, I can still see Musk's endless rockets taking off, crowding space with satellites.
Florida is governed by Trump wannabe Ron DeSantis. His Nigerian born Surgeon General wants to ban childhood vaccine mandates, like Measles and Smallpox. Yesterday, he compared those vaccines to slavery. I would think that in reality, slave children were denied the medical advances of their era.
Last year, I posted about the Death Train, which speeds through sleepy towns, killing slow reacting seniors. I am of course now one of those seniors. My friends of the liberal persuasion should restrict themselves to the blue enclaves when here. Otherwise, you might find the alligators friendlier than my neighbors.
I believe that they have not banned vaccines but made them non mandatory or voluntary. There is some evidence that some vaccines are better to be administered to children when a little older, rather than as newborns, whose immunity is not yet formed. This will give parents the ability to make those decisions.
ReplyDeleteAll federal mandates were ended in 2023, but states have their own rules. at least 15 vaccinations are on the schedule for children, but there are over 40 possible.
I would be apprehensive about giving 15 vaccines in a short time for infants. I expect we will now see a debate about which are appropriate at what age. I suspect that parents all want to do the best for their children.
First of all, you need to get your facts straight. Nobody is proposing banning childhood vaccines. They are proposing to end the government mandate for parents to do so.
ReplyDeleteMy own feelings on this are influenced by what I saw during Covid. The government mandated unproven and untested (for side effects) vaccinations for adults AND children, even though children had little danger of serious consequences from Covid.
Also, I don’t know if you checked lately but kids are having a lot more vaccinations forced upon them than they did before
While I would certainly choose to vaccinate my kids for certain diseases, others I’m not so sure about or would prefer to wait until I have more info on them.
But I do think the decision should rest with the parent. Every child is different and parents will always know their kids better than government bureaucrats.
The conspiracy theorists who choose not to vaccinate their kids for serious illnesses, such as polio, endanger their kids and the rest of us. Vaccines only work if the vast majority of people get them. Amazing how selfish and moronic our society has become.
ReplyDeleteVaccines work on an individual's body chemistry. They are not subject to group acceptance or rejection.
DeleteNow given that, I believe I had every childhood illness possible before I was 10 Measles, German measles, chicken pox... I remember taking the sugar cube of polio vaccine and shots for one thing or another. However what is required for schoolkids today is far more than what I was required to have.
I believe that you should take a minimum of vaccines and take a mimum amount of drugs. Unless you have a compromised immune system, humans are remarkably resillant to disease. When I was in the armed forces and being deployed to overseas areas, I was given vaccines for illnesses common in those areas. However if you are not travelling, there is really no need to be a hypocondriac with getting vaccine after vaccine after vaccine.
I never got the COVID-19 shots, although my employer pressured everyone in the company to get them under threat of termination. My local supermarket pharmacy offered free vaccines, and I went there and recieved the card, but then walked out without getting the jab.
Given what we know now, that was the best decision to make.
Ray@6:51 and anon@7:14: You are correct in that it is the mandate which would end. I have corrected the post. However, Florida has distinct populations, wealthy retirees and poor families with children. Pediatricians are warning that eliminating the mandates will endanger the children and public health.
ReplyDelete“We are the least healthy nation in the world.”
ReplyDeleteRFK Jr.
7:39 - By all means, get every vaccination you choose to so you can protect yourself as you see fit. Make the same decision for YOUR kids.
ReplyDeleteBut keep your hands off of MY kids. There is nothing selfish or moronic about that.
The lies of everyone needing to be vaccinated for another (vaccinated person) to be safe were debunked after Covid.
If your vaccine is truly effective you will be safe from whatever it’s supposed to protect you from. If your vaccine isn’t really effective, then you suffer the consequences, not me or anyone in my family.
I’m not anti-vax by any measure, but I am against forced vaccinations. I’m also done with putting my family at risk because of someone else’s mental illness and paranoia.
You are free, healthy, and alive to spread your quackpot theories, for now, because the other 92% of us have been vaccinated. You’re welcome.
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DeletePlease listen to a Youtube video of RFK,Jr. recent testimony before Congress. Also, there is now documented evidence to justify claiming the Covid vaccine, for millions of people, caused more harm than good. Particularly note the sharp rise in infant deaths, as well as dramatically increased heart problems in young adults.
For my readers who see no issue with the new Florida plan, there are two possibilities... either they're more knowledgable than the pediatricians who strongly endorse the standard childhood vaccines, or they're politically motivated. While those politically motivated may be williing to gamble with their children's health, there is another large group... Low information, low income parents, who will not be made to have their children inoculated..
ReplyDeleteMM - When did it become political to believe that parents should be the decision makers for what is best for their child? That seems as American as can be.
ReplyDeleteAlso, you seem to equate low income with being “low information” or being less “knowledgeable” about one’s child. I don’t.
If anything is political, it’s the insidious lie that was fed to us during Covid that someone was putting another’s life at risk by not doing what the government wanted.
We should all be ashamed of that and should have learned from it. Instead, many seem hellbent on repeating the same mistake.
Anon@6:38: When did it get political? Just 6 months ago, up to then it was science and medicine. Vaccines are mandated for entering school children in every state since before you were born, still including Florida as of now. Covid shots were never mandated, if your employer insisted, you could resign.
ReplyDeleteThis post is about mandated vaccines for entering school children. They generally include DTaP, Polio, MMR, Hepatitis B. No further comments about Covid vaccine and other adult recommended vaccines will appear.
ReplyDeleteI don’t see the issue here. If you vaccinate your kids, they’re safe, right?
ReplyDeleteIf you don’t vaccinate your kids, and they catch something, it’s on that parent.
What troubles me is the recent fear of some that others not being vaccinated has an impact on them. Could it be that they’re actually worried that their (or their kids) vaccines don’t work?
And nobody seemed the slightest bit concerned just last year when hundreds of thousands of unvetted people - many of them kids - were walking across our southern border with no vaccinations at all.
I’m sure you know that until about 1840 half of all people born did not live past the age of 35 - since the beginning of mankind!
DeleteVaccines only eradicate a disease after a high enough proportion of the population is vaccinated to stop the disease from spreading. If not, the disease continues to spread and mutate, eventually rendering the vaccine ineffective.
There is no vaccine for TDS but professional help is readily available.
Delete9:44 (9/7/25): What you are describing is "herd immunity".
ReplyDeleteHerd immunity refers to enough people being immune to a disease that the infection can’t spread from one person to another. This lack of movement protects those who aren’t immunized.
That has nothing to do with a threat to someone who has chosen to be vaccinated.
The vaccinated are safe from the disease, as long as their vaccination is actually effective.
Again, where was this concern in the previous four years as millions of undocumented, unvetted, and unvaccinated people walked across our southern border?