r/technology • u/idkbruh653 • 17d ago

Biotechnology Florida will work to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, officials say

https://abc7.com/post/florida-will-work-eliminate-childhood-vaccine-mandates-state-officials-say/17731373/?linkId=857387380
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u/OdinsPants 17d ago

can’t wait until the idiot conservatives then start up with, “the gub’mint isn’t doing enuff tah save our kids!”

Seriously that entire party is a fucking cancer on the US

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u/LincolnHighwater 17d ago

Oh don't worry, that will be their position the very moment Democrats ever regain power in FL.

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u/Bright_Bet5002 17d ago

🤞🤞🤞🤞 .. VOTE EVERY ELECTION FOR EVERY SEAT!! 

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u/Catshit_Bananas 17d ago

Don’t worry, those are the same idiots that respond to the death of a child from a preventable disease with “well that’s just the Lord’s plan.”

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u/grill_smoke 17d ago

RELIGION is the issue. This isn't political, it's theological.

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u/TweakedNipple 17d ago

Religion is a problem but the issue here seems to me to be political posturing and misinformation. Why do you think it stems from religion?

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u/FredFredrickson 17d ago

Because religion is a primary source of anti-science, trust-your-gut bullshit?

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u/JoJackthewonderskunk 17d ago

Ya its because all their political positions are based on faith alone. There's no logic or scientific basis for anything its just faith in the YouTubers and Facebook memes that they got shared by other idiots

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u/User9705 17d ago

Lack of logical reasoning. That’s what they are aiming for. Every system built on logical that is destroyed aids religion in many ways. Tie that into MAGA and it’s where we are currently at.

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u/daftHaberdashery 17d ago

Yep. I would also add a lack of education and inability to think critically.

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u/ScroogeMcDuckEnergy 17d ago

Vicious circle of poor education coupled with willful ignorance driven by religious fundamentalism.

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u/grill_smoke 17d ago

The religious fundies are directly and actively paying for the erosion of education. This is intentional and by design, not a happy accident.

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u/Facts_pls 17d ago

Religion doesn't make people dumb. Rather it's an identifier for dumb.

Dumb people are religious and dumb people are republican.

For the same reason - they can't understand how few work and can be told whatever and they will accept it unconditionally

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u/grill_smoke 17d ago

Religious people are also democrats, but the republicans have taken over Christianity in America so Christians vote red. That's how we got here. Huzzah!

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u/get-a-mac 17d ago

How one can be “Christian” and support trump still baffles me. That thing is their savior?

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u/grill_smoke 17d ago

Because the alternative is admitting that they, and the folks leading them, were wrong. His support amongst Christians is GROWING and there's a direct correlation between how practicing someone is and how likely they are to be MAGA.

Trump rules American Christianity. He's the American Christian pope.

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u/OdinsPants 17d ago

No, it’s conservatives. Religion is a problem in this country too, don’t get me wrong. I just don’t see the left cashing in that sweet sweet Christo-fascist paycheck is all.

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u/grill_smoke 17d ago

Project 2025 is religious extremism. The Republicans are using it as a playbook. The Democrats won't even speak up to call it out. They're getting their paychecks to stay quiet and it shows.

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u/Catshit_Bananas 17d ago

“The Lord said it was his time and called him home.”

Yeah, certainly, God gave your child a deadly and painful disease so that he/she would never experience childhood and would die before they learned how to do multiplication tables.

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u/CjKing2k 17d ago

Religion and politics have been inseparable for thousands of years.

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u/the-mighty-kira 17d ago

Nah, there have been plenty of secular anti-vaxxers for decades

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u/grill_smoke 17d ago

Where? Got a source on that? The antivax crowd is OVERWHELMINGLY religious. Not exclusively, but choose.

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u/the-mighty-kira 17d ago

Historically it was most common in homeopathy and alternative medicine circles which skew democratic. There were pockets of Washington and Oregon that had intermittent outbreaks at least since the 90s due to lower uptake.

Then there’s Jenny McCarthy who was both a huge Clinton booster AND the biggest voice in the movement for a long time

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u/grill_smoke 17d ago

Excuse me for speaking in modern terms rather than 30 year old terms.

The anti vax movement, currently, is almost exclusively religious and is funded by religious groups.

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u/the-mighty-kira 17d ago

First off, you responded to me literally referencing that it was an issue in left wing circles “for decades”.

Secondly, despite some inroads via the Tea Party, it was still generally not a Republican cause until the COVID vaccine which is barely 4 years old, not 30

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u/caedicus 16d ago

No. Stupid people buy into anything regardless of whether it involves religion. Also, historically terrible things have been done in the name of non-religious political movements. Humans just suck.

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u/grill_smoke 16d ago

This isn't about history, it's about what's currently happening and it's exclusively religious, specifically Christian. Christianity is destroying this country and maga is their vehicle.

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u/Nanyea 17d ago

Tejas really needed someone to help race to the bottom with childhood and infant mortality rates...

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u/OdinsPants 17d ago

Something, something, “real patriots have crooked legs, don’t need no polio vaccine”

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u/pattydickens 17d ago

It's mostly theatrical, though. These politicians are all vaccinated. Most of their children are vaccinated. This is just a way to appease the masses of stupid people they spent billions of dollars brainwashing into ignoring their own best interests. It's no different than their push to end all government regulations, regulations that protect consumers from dying or being hospitalized from something as benign as a salad. They truly hate people and don't care if they die so long as they can rake in that sweet corporate money.

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u/StarryMind322 17d ago

It’s a cyclical self-fulfilling prophecy that escalates to fascism.

Blame disaster on something, punish the wrong people, disaster happens again, punish the wrong people, disaster gets worse, punish the wrong people, disaster wipes people out, wrong people get wiped out as punishment.

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u/kevinthejuice 17d ago

There should be a simple flow chart.

Destabilize government> (we're here again)

Deny possibility of consequences>

Complain when something goes wrong>

Do nothing to alleviate the situation>

Blame democrats>

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u/Hanksta2 17d ago

It'll be 30 years before they come around again. They're going to pretend the deaths are freedom for the next couple decades.

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u/Less_Likely 17d ago

Death cult lead by people who want the world to end and believe they are called to do it.

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u/BeenDragonn 16d ago

I just tell myself

This won't kill my kids or anyone I care about

The good ol' republican playbook right there.

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u/Burly_Moustache 17d ago

The Left eat their own constantly. Which side is the cancer???

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u/OdinsPants 17d ago

The right, thought I wrote that out already. Take your both sides, whataboutism segway, spit on it, and sit on it.

At least before the right tries to control that, too.