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They still report those numbers? Quick, make them stop so people won't learn about the consequences of voting GOP!
I'm a bit torn on this reporting...
On the one hand I'm totally with them on using this as a cautionary tale about vaccine hesitancy and how the administration policies dangerously exacerbate that phenomenon, and a rough indicator of what the consequences may look like.
On the other hand, the headline makes it sound like the Florida rollback has caused this, but that isn't strictly true because:
All other vaccinations required under Florida law to attend school “remain in place, unless updated through legislation,” including vaccines for measles, polio, diphtheria, pertussis, mumps and tetanus, the department said.
The headline uses the word "amid," which is not specifically causative. But announcements have already been made, and the governor has insisted on moving ahead to eliminate vaccination requirements. People don't need a hard line to follow through on their personal choices to endanger others. They have essentially been given the green light, and they can excuse it in the meantime with "religious beliefs."
I'm always for the integrity of journalism because the lack thereof is part of the reason we're where we are today. A more accurate but eaqually as cautionary of a headline would be "Whooping cough cases on the rise in Florida as vaccine skepticism is legally supported by the states lawmakers" or something like that
Really interesting to see the USA become one of the countries on its list of countries that require vaccinations for travel to.
The anitvax aka pro-plauge crowd asked for this.
Burger King is getting in on the action with a promotional offer called Whooper and fries.
Oh noooo what a shame
Just stop reporting the numbers, problem solved.
Ah, the COVID method of counting!
1 million, 1.2 million, zero million, 3, the libs did it..
You're hired! -maga everything
Why would the Democrats do this?
Also, it's fake news and the numbers are fake.
Coughing is the natural way to get rid of these whooping demons.
No need to wear a mask unless you are ~~kidnapping minorities~~ saving freedom.
/s, of course.
Why would the Democrats do this?
You can't just come out in favor of vaccinations. That's electoral poison. You need to meet people in the middle. Vaccines for some, little American flags for others.
If you start taking a hard stance in favor of vaccinations, you are going to lose the election and you're going to get more Republicans in office. Florida's a winnable state, but we have to be moderate. We have to respect the longstanding cultural viewpoint that vaccines cause autism. We need to include people who hate vaccines in the conversation and promise to bring them into any future administration, because anti-vaxxers are an influential voting block we are obligated to respect and court.
If anything, the party needs more anti-vax Democrats. This is the path forward, because it is what the people organically and entirely rationally want. Arguing against it is just more Big Government Overreach. It costs tax payers money. And it doesn't respect the views of the working class.
If you're suggesting that the Democratic Party should become the party of vaccination, you are rooting for failure. In fact, you may be attempting to undermine the party from within, because you secretly support Trump. And why would you support Trump? Because you support Russia and China as a Communist. You're a Tankie and you shouldn't be in this conversation.
We need to purge the lingering stench of Communism from the Democratic Party of Florida. And that means taking a hard stance against far-left ideas like vaccination, public education, and potable water. That's why we're going to reach out to our close friends across the aisle and ask Ron DeSantis to carry our banner as the Democratic Nominee for the Governor of Florida in 2026.
This teeters between human comedy and AI slop. I can't quite tell which side of the line it's on. Well done.
Lol all I could think is if we branded masks as little american flags to show patriotism I legitimately wonder if covid would have gone differently. Why didnt you bring this up sooner!
Seriously. If Republicans during covid had framed protecting each other with masks as protecting the country itself and thus a patriotic duty, we'd have had far fewer deaths. But instead they decided to kill their own voters with utter stupidity. Not that it cost them any electoral outcomes, evidently.
Beautiful. You can see exactly where liberals turn into conservatives, if they haven't already.
But but but my main goal in life is to make floridian lawmakers and lobbyists more powerful than anyone else so who cares about disease and stuff.
Imagine dying of a completely preventable disease.
It's almost like we don't have hundreds of years of data on the efficacy and safety of means to prevent them.
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Let them die. Let’s put together a fund that helps pro-vaccine people move out of the Florida wasteland.
??? The people who are going to suffer and die from this are the children who don't get vaccinated and the immunocompromised who can't. The dingbats who wanted this will be fine because they themselves were vaccinated as children.
The problem is that they're going to take out the immunocompromised who had nothing to do with it. And their mess is going to seep out of the border of their state because it a a vacation hotspot.
I cant wait to gat out of this state
Republicans love suffering babies
I wish I could write something different, but that's what it is, they love suffering babies
I mean they love suffering in general, because they is what they always do and applaud, make people suffer one way or the other, but yeah, they especially love suffering babies and children.
They have the numbers too, they too can see the results. They were told this would happen, and now it happens and I guarantee you that they won't turn back to vaccines to stop the suffering and death. Instead they'll go on about God being misterious or some other mental gymnastics.
Republicans love dead babies
Let that sink in
I can't wrap my head around who benefits from astroturfing anti-vax groups so much? Like if ever there are some people on earth who benefit from reduce vacination it has to be a handful. I suppose people who sell fake medicine? Or people who sell real medicine but for preventable diseases (by vaccination).
originally, Wakefield put out his bogus study because he had a patent for a rubella vaccine, and wanted to discredit only the MMR vaccine, so people would buy his vaccine. Once that takes hold people run with it
Hospitals - assume a hospital stay costs a lot more than a vaccine.
Also funeral homes and cemetery owners.
I don't understand. We've tried everything: prayer, snake oil, complaining, EVERYTHING!
Much like the measles, I've never known or even heard of someone having it. Hell, I'm still not 100% on how those diseases work. Because we had pretty much wiped that shit out. My birth year was the cutoff for the smallpox vaccine, because we did wipe it out.
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