Governor Ron DeSantis and state Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo have announced that Florida will work to phase out all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, making it the first in the nation to do so. Vaccines protecting against once-common and sometimes deadly childhood diseases like polio and measles have long been required for children at schools across the U.S.
DeSantis also announced on Wednesday the creation of a state-level “Make America Healthy Again” commission modeled after similar initiatives pushed at the federal level by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Not.looking forward to this. We live in a part of Canada that has so many selfish idiots still going to Florida every winter. They’ll bring that shit with them cause they hang out in Florida cause they’re Florida man light.
Wonder how long before you have to report trips to the US before giving blood or such.
Grand Old Polio
Doing all they can to increase mortality rates. That’s if they publish them…
Republicans keep killing kids.
Grand Pappy Nurgle is very pleased with Ron DeSantis.
Are there any mechanisms whereby states that actually give a shit can forbid Floridian travelers?
Isn’t it somewhere in the constitutional amendments something states shall not deny movement across borders or something?
Not unless you’re a black man with a white woman
It doesn’t explicitly say it but it’s been interpreted that way and upheld to the same effect a couple of times. What section 1 (the passage in question) of the 14th amendment actually says is thus:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Basically, the prohibition on the abridgement of rights by a State (as in, one of the US 50 states, not the classical political definition of a sate) means that one state can’t prevent you from entering another state. If you can exist in one state you can exist in all of them, and none of the other 49 can say anything about it, and it follows therefore that if you can exist in any state none of them can do anything to keep you out.
This has also been taken to mean that one state can’t prosecute somebody for something done in a different state. I.e. New York can’t prosecute someone in Florida for violating New York’s vaccination laws. It seems at first blush that New York could indeed prosecute somebody if they actually physically went there, but that’s a thorny legal issue that calls into question lots of other already established precedents. For instance, the fact that all 50 states recognize each other’s drivers licenses and license plates as valid, even though the actual requirements for obtaining either can vary widely between states. California probably really hates that you can drive a car that’s not CA smog compliant into their state from, say, Alabama. But ultimately there’s nothing they can do about it since the vehicle was indeed legally registered where its owner lives. You couldn’t register it in CA but CA can’t stop you from registering it in AL.
Yeah i think lots of people can receive it prematurely
ffs someone just stab him already
Florida really trying to be the graveyard of the US
Start with their children first and keep following their records. See how far that goes
Yeah Florida’s not big on . . . keeping records. It tends to work against them.
Idiots
Governor Abbott of Texas is probably kicking himself for not thinking of this nonsense first. Too bad for him that his most recent “special session” is over with. I won’t be surprised to see his cohorts scrambling to add it as an agenda item next time.
No need, they already had measles kill a couple of children and permanently weaken hundreds more. Hell, it’s ol’ Death Santis that missed that boat!
Make polio great again
Does this mean that any Floridians could be infectious disease carriers? In your next meeting in a big city (Washington?, LA?, Chicgo? Etc) the person next to you or in the plane you arrived on, could be a carrier. So gloves and masks will become de rigueur atire!
Hence why they will be outlawed and punishable with immediate extrajudicial deportation to a human-trafficking regime.
See, it’s all about the logistics. And the brainworms.
Some of us do get vaccinated
I say fuck them. Let them Darwin themselves off. Nothing of value is lost when they all die off from easily preventable diseases. If they are okay with killing their own kids with this decision, let them do so. Others can always get vaccinated and still be protected, the idiots will remain stupid and choose not to. Fewer republican idiots around to vote is better for Florida.
That’s not how infectious diseases work.
The CDC says this is fine!*
* Well they will soon enough, anyway.
The ethics of that statement aside, you do understand that lots of people travel in and out of Florida every single day, right?
Others can always get vaccinated and still be protected
That is not actually true.
Vaccination does not confer perfect immunity. You are less likely to contract the disease; you are not perfectly immune.
The primary benefit of vaccination only comes when a critical percentage of the population is vaccinated. Vaccination reduces the risk of propagating the disease. Even though you may not be immune, you won’t contract the illness because nobody around you is carrying it.
