America’s worst governor: make polio great again
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National Review writers used to be furious if you pointed out that Ron DeSantis was anti-vaxx:
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ state, which vocally resisted mandates during the Covid-19 pandemic, now may scrap all vaccine and immunization requirements — most notably including those for students.
State Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, long a vaccine skeptic, announced that Florida would make the push during an event with the governor designed to show the state aligning itself with the “Make America Healthy Again” movement championed by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery,” Ladapo said about Florida’s vaccine requirements. “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.”
Florida has a mix of immunization requirements for those entering schools and colleges, including shots for measles, polio and chicken pox. The state does allow for exemptions, and the most recent data shows nearly 89 percent of students entering kindergarten are immunized.
“We are against IDENTITY POLITICS and CRITICAL RACE THEORY, and also protecting kids from preventable diseases is exactly like slavery.”
You wouldn’t know it from some of the discourse in 2021 and 2022, but vaccine mandates are totally banal and obviously hugely net positive public policy. But it’s going to be Republican dogma that your kid getting smallpox is a necessary price of “freedom,” while they lock up people for writing op-eds for college newspapers.