Florida’s Surgeon General has announced that the state is moving toward banning all vaccine mandates. Not just COVID vaccine mandates, but mandates for all vaccines, including those on the CDC childhood schedule. Dr. Joseph Ladapo received a standing ovation when he made the announcement on Wednesday. Dr. Ladapo argues that governments have no authority to dictate what individuals put into their bodies.
The medical freedom movement is growing by leaps and bounds in the MAHA era. The most surprising thing about Dr. Ladapo’s announcement was the crowd’s reaction to it. Listen to this applause:
All 50 states currently have vaccine mandates in place for children to attend public school. It’s a cumbersome process for parents to be able to opt their children out of this. Some states, like California, won’t even allow Christians to declare a religious objection to it.
The Florida legislature will still have to outlaw vaccine mandates through a series of new bills. Those are being worked on right now, and Gov. Ron DeSantis has indicated he’ll sign them into law.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya agrees with Dr. Ladapo’s decision. He notes that countries like the UK, Sweden, and Denmark don’t have any vaccine mandates. Children aren’t required to have any shots to attend school in those countries. Vaccine uptake is still very high in those places, despite the lack of any mandates.
“What they do have is public health that doesn’t lie to their people,” notes Bhattacharya. “The problem in the United States has been, public health hasn’t been trustworthy, especially during COVID.”
That’s a polite way of putting it.
This will not be a ban on vaccines in Florida. People can still jab as much government goop into their arms as they want. What it will do is provide medical freedom and a choice for parents who were smart enough to do their own research and realize that vaccines can be incredibly dangerous to their children. That’s a huge win.
Florida already allows religious and medical exemptions from vaccines. As a result, it has some of the lowest autism rates in the country. Only 1 in 64 children in Florida are diagnosed with autism, compared to 1 in 34 nationally, and 1 in 20 in the vaccine mandate-happy state of California. Florida doesn’t have more disease outbreaks than any other state, despite having a vaccine uptake rate as low as 80% in places like Duval County.
It will be interesting to see what happens to the vaccine uptake rate once the public is allowed a choice in Florida. All the evidence points to vaccines causing autism in children before their immune systems can fully develop. Unless you plan on dragging your child around in some disgusting foreign country, they’re unlikely to ever encounter most of the diseases on the CDC childhood schedule.
Here’s a number to watch in the coming years, and it should definitely tell us whether or not it’s safe to vaccinate children starting at birth: SIDS deaths.
Florida averages around 100 SIDS deaths per year. Japan all but eliminated babies dying in their cribs in 1994, when they passed a law that children shouldn’t be vaccinated before 24 months of age. It’s optional, but the vast majority of parents now wait until at least age 2, because the Japanese government was honest about the fact that vaccines cause SIDS deaths.
SIDS deaths are now a statistical anomaly in Japan, while we lose 1,700 babies a year in the US. The CDC’s official position is that we have more SIDS deaths because American women are a bunch of lazy drunken slobs who smoke cigarettes and don’t know how to care for their babies. It couldn’t possibly be because all crib deaths occur within 2 to 14 days after a pediatric vaccination visit, right?
If parents delay vaccination in Florida and SIDS deaths immediately drop from 100 per year to a much lower number, that would be a happy confirmation, wouldn’t it?
Dr. Joseph Ladapo might be the greatest Surgeon General that any of the 50 states has ever had. Florida is very fortunate to have him. Medical freedom advocates say this is a long-overdue restoration of bodily autonomy and parents’ rights. They’re correct.