The Epoch Times – Florida’s surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, announced on Sept. 3 that he was working to eliminate all vaccine mandates from state law.
“The Florida Department of Health, in partnership with the governor, is going to be working to end all vaccine mandates in Florida law,” he said at a press conference.
“All of them. Every last one is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.”
“Who am I, as a government, or anyone else, or who am I as a man standing here now to tell you what you should put in your body? Who am I to tell you what your child should put in their body?
“I don’t have that right. Your body is a gift from God. What you put into your body is because of your relationship with your Body and your God” …
ADDITIONAL COVERAGE FROM THE INDEPENDENT …
For decades, Florida has required a set of vaccines for children attending public or private school from kindergarten to 12th grade – unless they fill out a form invoking a religious or medical exemption.
Those vaccines are mandated to prevent life-threatening illnesses such as measles, mumps, and rubella, polio, tetanus, Hepatitis B, and many more.
State officials’ push to end vaccine mandates accompany new policy announcements that align with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s agenda called “Make America Healthy Again.”
DeSantis said Wednesday that Florida will create a MAHA commission and “recommend state-level integration” of the movement’s policies, which includes “individual medical freedom,” “informed consent,” and “parent rights.”
Experts have raised concerns with RFK Jr’s MAHA initiatives because of his history of promoting health conspiracy theories, such as the false claim that vaccines are linked to autism.
Since becoming HHS chief, Kennedy has sought to undermine vaccines by firing members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory board; hiring fellow vaccine skeptics; reducing the CDC’s communications with the public, and canceling studies on mRNA vaccines … source
