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Florida’s governor Ron Desantis continues the attacks on science and child health in his state. His hand -picked top health officer, Dr. Joseph Ladapo announced on Wednesday that Florida would abolish all vaccination obligations for children in public schools. In the future, pupils no longer have to be vaccinated against measles, polio, mumps or chickenpox. Florida would be the first state to take this step.
“Make America Healthy Again” Commission
Ladapo provided an explanation of vaccination obligations. “Each one is wrong and drives with contempt and slavery.” He also said: “Your body is a gift of God. What you put in your body depends on your relationship with your body and God.” Ladapo is primarily known for the spread of misinformation about COVID 19 vaccines. These include the claim that MRNA vaccinations could endanger “the integrity of the human genome”.
Desantis also announced the establishment of a state Maha Commission. Named after the slogan “Make America Healthy Again”, which Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy made Jr. According to Desantis, the aim is to “improve transparency and accounting in healthcare”. And “to restore trust in the medical profession and public health”.
The advance falls during a time when Kennedy’s Trump government is massively against science and vaccination programs. Particularly explosive: measles, a highly contagious disease that has already been eradicated in the United States is currently spreading again.
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Kennedy has been spreading the unused theory for years that some children’s vaccines could cause autism. He once claimed: “There is no vaccine that is safe and effective.” Under his leadership in the Ministry of Health, the Trump government has restricted access to covid vaccines and refreshments. With the concern to take them completely off the market.
Just last week, the White House tried to discontinue the head of the disease protection authority CDC, which caused chaos in the authority. In June, Kennedy also released members of the CDC advisory committee for vaccine security in order to replace them with non-expertly vaccination opponents.
Desantis thus goes the same way as Trump and Kennedy at the national level. In this logic, “making florida healthy again” means to expose people to diseases that vaccines have successfully protected for decades.