DeSantis announced today that there would be no vaccine mandates in schools....NONE!

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

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Tweet text:
Lindy Li
@lindyli
Regeneron shill Ron DeSantis announced today that there would be no vaccine mandates in schools

The following are about to mount a raging comeback:
Mumps
Polio
Smallpox
Rubella
Hep B
HPV
Diphtheria

His no vaccine mandate policy will render Florida the killing fields of America
5:01 PM · Oct 31, 2021 from Philadelphia, PA

[PortTack]

1. If someone would bring a suit he would lose!

SCOTUS 1905 precedent...Jacobson vs Massachusetts

“The rights of the individual do not outweigh the rights of many when it comes to public health.”

[Crunchy Frog]

14. I'm not sure that our current SC has much regard for precedent.

I wouldn't count on them for anything at this point.

[MiniMe]

2. You left measles off the list

[DURHAM D]

3. I have family living there with kids in school.

They have been thinking about moving for awhile. This will likely get them moving inland.

[spanone]

4. This is sentencing children to death...pure insanity

[moondust]

5. "This is a decision that belongs to parents."

That's just fine, Ronbo, as long as those children whose parents have refused to have them vaccinated NEVER LEAVE HOME where they may endanger the public.

It's unbelievable that the so-called "governor" of any U.S. state would not understand his/her duty to do everything within his/her power to protect and defend the public's health. "Serving the people" does not include needlessly endangering them with potentially fatal consequences.

[Celerity]

6. if you have school-aged children, it is time to get the hell out of shithole Florida

[liberal_mama]

7. The Florida cemeteries will be filled with the graves of children, just like they were before

vaccinations. DeSantis is out of his mind! Kids will be dying of measles and whooping cough again!

[tanyev]

8. The Florida tourism industry can promote Third World Tourism adventures.

[liberal_mama]

9. Sane people won't even want to visit Florida, once there is all those outbreaks going on!

The anti-vaxxers will love this as a lot of them don't want to vaccinate their kids for anything.

[obamanut2012]

10. This is only referring to the Covid vaccine

Which is bad enough, but this tweet saying all vax are not mandated is false. I live here, and what DeSantis does is bad enough without spreading incorrect info.

[Ms. Toad]

11. I believe that quote is taken out of context.

It seems clear to me that he is referring only to the COVID vaccine. He referenced (paraphrasing) "that's what was in the law that was passed recently."

Florida has not passed a new law recently - but there was a September threat to review the currently mandated vaccines, spearheaded by Republican Manny Diaz.

Diaz's most recent comment:

But in a statement to Florida Politics on Friday, Diaz said: “I in no way, shape, or form intend to change the existing vaccination statutes for Florida schoolchildren.”

Diaz made it clear that he remains firmly opposed to mandates associated with COVID-19 vaccines: “However, I will stand on the side of freedom and the state retaining its power to review any emergency vaccination use imposed by the federal government.”

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/460306-after-firestorm-manny-diaz-wont-review-school-vaccine-mandates/

DeSantis is bad, but we need to be accurate about the specific ways he is bad or we lose the high ground in which alternative facts are just lies.

#truthmatters

[obamanut2012]

12. It was

I live here in SOFL, and he meant only the Covid vax.

The OP needs to delete -- this is literally fake news.

[Crunchy Frog]

13. I wish they wouldn't overstate their case. Smallpox is eradicated, and we haven't vaccinated

against it since the early 70s. Hep B doesn't circulate widely or easily among school children, and HPV mostly manifests as cervical cancer in sexually active adult women.

They are very likely to see a resurgence in measles and chickenpox, and probably babies born affected by rubella. Probably increases in pertussis amongst babies and young children for whom it's a serious illness. Maybe see more cases of kids with tetanus, if Florida parents begin completely rejecting vaccination en masse.

It will be interesting to see how long it takes diphtheria and polio to make a comeback.

This likely won't stay confined to Florida, but may become the new big thing in multiple red states. Eventually the South will reemerge as a plague pit.

Anyone with kids would be well advised to avoid that region, as vaccinated kids are still vulnerable. If not enough people are vaccinated, you lose herd immunity, and will start seeing outbreaks that affect everyone.

[obamanut2012]

15. This.Is.Not.True.

It is false.

DeSantis meant Covid vaccines.

[Crunchy Frog]

16. Yes, I saw that. Even if it were true, the OP would still be inaccurate.

[drexelkathy]

17. Why spread outright

lies?

He's not banning vaccines. He banned mandating the Covid vaccine.



And FYI - the last regularly given smallpox vaccine in the US was 1972...and HPV is not a mandatory vaccine for school-aged children and I do not believe it is even required to attend a university.

[Ms. Toad]

18. Ihope you'll do a little research and self-delete.

This statement refers exclusively to COVID 19 mandates, not other vaccine mandates.