Let's say you live in Germany and Spain decides to remove mandatory vaccines. Are you going to travel 1200+ miles (2000+ km) to be ignored by politicians? Or would you just avoid Spain?

Because that is my situation with Florida. The USA is a big place. I'll just avoid Florida and Floridians as best I can.

A big old unprotected family orgy.

Welcome to Floridistan!

I guess literally is not even enough for repubes

FTFY

Immunization really works best when all or most of the population is vaccinated. I feel the worst for those who have a legit medical reason for not being able to be vaccinated who are relying on everyone else getting vaccinated. Those are the innocent bystanders in this terrible public policy.

Not being required is the first step. Not being covered by insurance/subsidized is the second step. Not being available is the third step.

Still puts those vaccinated at more risk as that shit will now have a petri dish to evolve in

This will hurt anyone. Kids will become vectors.

Come for the cartoon mouse! Stay for the iron lung!

The problem is that disease doesn't respect borders.

Unfurtunately vaccines protects us all, so the one who don't get a vaccine just make the diseases worst for the innocent and can make the diseases stronger too.

Fewer

Mostly dead/sick kids that never had a say, though :(

You could tell he was about to slip up, and then he smiled knowingly.

Which is part of Project 2025. They want the public school system shut down. They want private schools to flourish, and they want voucher programs to incentivize the growth of that industry.

Lol coming soon to upgrade the 'Florida Man' meme:

Fucking Polio!

Tourism in Florida has been breaking records the past few years. Even with the crazy mistreatment of foreign nationals the foreign tourism is up.

I hate the politicians in Florida. I despise the magats that fester here, but the weather is nice and I like Gulf of Mexico for fishing and beaches.

Middle-aged people remember when Florida was a swing state. I remember the hanging chad. It can be that way again. Climate change may wreck things before then but I'll be here watching it burn for at least a little while longer.

It's not the antivaxxers themselves who will suffer; it's the immuno-compromised and innocent children who will suffer.

It's another stab at public education. We already pay like 49th in the nation for teacher pay, I think they are trying to get rid of the pension system by making teachers independent contractors or something, and Florida has an $8000 voucher for "private school or homeschool expenses". So they currently pay you to subsidize a bit of tuition elsewhere, and make the quality of the teachers so low at the public option that starts to become more appealing as you see how badly the underfunded public schools are. And now, with vaccines only being like 97% effective, if you can afford to send your child to a private school (or just homeschool), you will. Why take a 3% chance your fully vaccinated child is going to get measles or polio if you can afford not to?

Then you nicely have your wealthy people who get a good education, and for the rest you have a population that consistently votes against their best interests because they are uneducated. Win all around for Republicans. I can't wait to leave this place.

Instead of a wall, build a dome around the country and let it sort itself out.

Vaccines protect everyone, especially those who are immunocompromised and can't get the shot.

We may need to close our border to protect OUR vulnerable populations from the American Plague

The real problem is people from that shithole can still visit us.

There are a lot of idiots at Harvard, they just have more money.

Seriously, though, if I were a public health official in any other country, I would use this as an excuse to demand vaccine records from every visitor to my country from the US. Because you can't really rely on ID to know where someone lives, can you? If one state is doing this, then they need to scrutinize all Americans.

Florida can pretend science doesn't exist, but that doesn't mean other countries have to go along. They should view every US visitor as a contagion unless proven otherwise.