These lunatic Republicans are trying to drag us back to the pre-vaccines dark ages when diseases ran rampant through society resulting in staggering numbers of premature deaths and severely ill populace, and mostly miserable lives for a majority of the citizenry:
Link: https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/09/03/desantis-administration-pushes-to-eliminate-all-vaccine-mandates-in-florida/
"School children, college students, and even nursing home residents would no longer have to be vaccinated against infectious diseases and viruses if Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo and his boss, Gov. Ron DeSantis, have their way.
The DeSantis administration rolled out the proposed change on Wednesday and, if they’re successful, the state would be the first in the nation to completely eliminate vaccine requirements that many health experts credit with nearly eliminating some diseases.
“Your body is a gift from God. What you put into your body is because of your relationship with your body and your God,” said Ladapo, attacking the government mandates.
“It’s wrong, it’s immoral. They do not have the right to tell you what you put in your body. They don’t have the right to tell you what your kids have to put in [their] body. They do not have the right. Do not give it to them. Take it away from them. And we’re going to be starting that here in Florida.”"
"They do not have the right to tell you what you put in your body," screeches Joseph Ladapo, the quack Voodoo Doctor that DeathSantis hired as his Florida's top public health official.
Zero lack of recognition of the concept of the collective well-being of society in that statement, considering the subject matter. He is literally boasting about bringing back a host of deadly, preventable (vaccines) diseases to the citizens of his state.
And actually dude, I can think of a pretty long list of stuff that "they" the government has the legal right, whether you, me or anyone else likes it or not, to tell you that you are not allowed to "put in your body." In fact, go peddle that line of bullshit to the hundreds of thousands of Americans who were incarcerated, many for years, for the simple act of ingesting cannabis into their bodies. Isn't that a clinical example of "they" telling you that there are exceptions to that little rule of yours?
Anyhow, I find it odd how there was none of this anti-vaxx, 'QAnon', anti-science, anti-medical
expertise, cockamamie conspiracy ignorance and assholery around that had the power to sway public health policy so perilously until Drumpf and MAGA showed up on the American political scene and dug up that
dried up prune and former heroin addict Bobby Brainworms Kennedy Jr. as their anti-vaccine mascot.
Sadly for the rest of the sanity-based world, the MAGAs promoted Kennedy's anti-vaxx batshittery all the way into getting Drumpf to appoint him to the highest public health position in the nation and to be the person in charge of
safeguarding the public health, and by proxy the individual health of every single
citizen of this country. And now he is trying to take away the remarkably successful Covid vaccines from us and hiring a bunch of conspiracy kooks and charlatans to replace the competent science and medical science-based experts in key government public health positions whom he fired or forced out.
And so frankly, that is why I feel absolutely no
remorse whatsoever when I refer to that whole Drumpf/MAGA/QAnon movement as a 'death cult.'
Everything they stand for, including the pussy-grabbing convicted felon
and rapist whom they anointed as their demigod, is a charade, and
everything their execrable fascist movement touches literally turns to
shit and endangers other Americans.
And there is no more glaring fucking example of that than the
fact that the United States of America, the most technologically and
medically advanced (probably no longer), and wealthiest nation on the planet
suffered the MOST infections and the MOST deaths from the Covid pandemic, most of which occurred on Drumpf's watch, a pandemic btw, which if you haven't noticed, is
still ongoing.
Good lord - they have already brought back measles outbreaks in several US states, which has already killed a couple of
kids. This after vaccines had practically eradicated the disease in the across the country at the turn of the century.
I guess the body count of 1.2 million dead from
Covid (to date) wasn't sufficiently morbid to convince enough voters in this country that their lives and the lives of their children are literally in the
hands of these reactionary, psychologically unfit, morally unfit, conservative Republican pricks who truly and honestly do not care one flying fucking
shit about them, much less theirs or the public's health.
So apparently then DeathSantis, a nickname he adequately earned with his own abysmal performance during the peak of Covid, and his VooDoo Doctor Ladapo want to do the same for Florida that the anti-vaxxers have done for pockets of the country where measles outbreaks have been revived. Ronny wants to facilitate the return of polio, rubella, the mumps, diphtheria, tetanus, etc.... Good luck with that Floridians. No, seriously, good luck with that. 😵
---TFG
