The Daily Populous Thursday September 4th, 2025 morning edition
Authored by arstechnica.com and submitted by esporx

Florida is planning to end all vaccination requirements in the state, including requirements for school children to get routine childhood vaccinations that protect them and their communities from severe and life-threatening diseases, such as Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), pertussis (whooping cough), diphtheria, measles, tetanus, RSV, and polio.

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo made the announcement at a press conference on Wednesday alongside Governor Ron DeSantis.

"What I'm most excited about is an announcement that we're making now, which is that the Florida Department of Health, in partnership with the governor, is going to be working to end all vaccine mandates in Florida law—all of them, all of them, all of them, every last one of them," Ladapo said. "Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery."

Ladapo, who has a history of being anti-vaccine and spreading misinformation, went on to argue against the public aspect of public health, saying that there is "no ethical basis" for requiring vaccination to, in part, protect the most vulnerable from infectious diseases. That vulnerable people, such as newborns and the immunocompromised, may be unnecessarily exposed to vaccine-preventable, life-threatening diseases is just "part of the experience of life," Ladapo claimed. He also called mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, which saved millions of lives at the height of the pandemic, "poison."

Badbikerdude on September 3rd, 2025 at 20:30 UTC »

They aren't owning the libs at this point. The libs will get vaccinated. They are trying to prove that science is bad, and God will save you, stupid as hell, but they are desperately trying to prove that being an ignorant dumb racist asshat is all you need to be, to live live a long happy life. They may kill a few thousand but, its better than being a democrat in their eyes.

PrestigiousSeat76 on September 3rd, 2025 at 19:57 UTC »

These fucking idiots are going to end up hurting or killing a whole lot of people, and for what?

ba_nana_hammock on September 3rd, 2025 at 19:46 UTC »

the picture, lol