Florida Surgeon General Compares School Vaccine Mandates to Slavery

[surfered]

Yes, protecting school children from disease is exactly like buying and selling humans for forced labor.

Where do they find these people?

https://www.newsweek.com/florida-vaccine-mandate-schools-surgeon-general-ron-desantis-2123982

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Floriduh, the Sun Shinola state, home of Senior Orange and Dunce World. . . . nt

[TommieMommy]

2. This is going to be horrible. These poor kids are going to suffer 😞

[-misanthroptimist]

3. Well...

...just last week some Republican/Pakled informed us that slavery really wasn't so bad.

I'm failing to see the problem.

[WestMichRad]

4. There's your notice, parents of children:

In huge neon letters: If you care about the health of your kids, it’s now time to flee the state, ASAP!

[bluestarone]

5. I really hope these fuckers feel real good after many kids DIE, or become handicapped because of COVID!

Parents that do not get their child a vaccination INCLUDED!!!

[bif]

6. DUPE

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220607560

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Florida Surgeon General Ladapo takes aim at all of the state's vaccine mandates

School districts have required children to be immunized against all kinds of diseases for decades. In Florida, officials hope to roll back the clock.

As DeSantis’ administration in Florida targets *all* of the state’s vaccine mandates, remember:

If Lapado & Co succeed, Floridians would start exporting contagions and serious ailments to other Americans — and in all likelihood, even to other countries. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-09-03T16:59:56.509Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/florida-surgeon-general-ladapo-takes-aim-states-vaccine-mandates-rcna228838

The Washington Post published a memorable analysis in 2022 that noted, “For months, we’ve written in this space about how the Republicans’ pushback against coronavirus vaccine mandates could foment — and apparently has been fomenting — opposition to mandates of other vaccines, including for schoolchildren.”

With this in mind, the latest news out of Florida is dangerous, but it’s not altogether surprising. NBC News reported:

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said Wednesday that the state will work to eliminate all vaccine mandates. ‘All of them. All of them,’ he said during a news conference as the crowd stood and erupted in applause. ‘Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.’ He said the Florida Department of Health will work in partnership with the governor. He said forcing vaccine mandates is ‘wrong’ and ‘immoral.’

No other state has gone nearly this far.......

But that perspective is mistaken: If Florida moves forward with plans to target all of the state’s vaccine mandates, not only will children suffer from preventable diseases, but Floridians will start exporting contagions and serious ailments to other Americans — and in all likelihood, even to other countries.

In 2021, The Washington Post’s Benjy Sarlin noted that it seemed likely that the United States would “end up with fewer vaccine requirements in some places than we started with before the pandemic” that has killed millions of people around the world.

That might’ve sounded ridiculous, but four years later, it’s an unsettling assessment that’s holding up well.