RIGHT SPEAK: Florida Will Eliminate ‘immoral’ Childhood Vaccine Mandates: ‘People have a right to make their own decisions’; Florida Gets Closer To Being a 'Free State' With Plan To End School Vaccine Mandate, and other C-Virus related stories

Florida will eliminate ‘immoral’ childhood vaccine mandates: ‘People have a right to make their own decisions’:

Florida will work to phase out all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, building on the effort by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to curb vaccine requirements and other health mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic.

DeSantis also announced on Wednesday the creation of a state-level “Make America Healthy Again” commission modeled after similar initiatives pushed at the federal level by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

On the vaccines, state Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as an “immoral” intrusion on people’s rights bordering on “slavery” that hampers parents’ ability to make health decisions for their children.

“People have a right to make their own decisions, informed decisions,” Ladapo, who has frequently clashed with the medical establishment, said at a news conference in Valrico, Florida, in the Tampa area.

“They don’t have the right to tell you what to put in your body. Take it away from them.”

The state Health Department, Ladapo said, can scrap its own rules for some vaccine mandates, but others would require action by the Florida Legislature. He did not specify any particular vaccines but repeated several times that the effort would end “all of them. Every last one of them.”

Florida would be the first state to eliminate so many vaccine mandates, Ladapo added. --->READ MORE HERE

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Florida Gets Closer To Being a 'Free State' With Plan To End School Vaccine Mandate:

It's an extreme, albeit predictable, irony that the years of imperious, novel public health mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic are giving way to a backlash against once-routine, noncontroversial vaccination requirements.

This was evidenced yesterday when Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo said at a press conference with Gov. Ron DeSantis that he would work to end all vaccine mandates in the state, including the default requirement that children be vaccinated in order to attend public schools.

"Who am I as a government or anyone else or…[as] a man standing here right now to tell you what you should put in your body?" said Ladapo, making the extreme libertarian case for what was until a few years ago a seemingly fringe libertarian policy.

Ladapo said he would use what rule-making power he had as surgeon general to eliminate vaccine mandates. He said he'd also work with lawmakers to amend the state law that currently requires school children to be vaccinated.

In response to reporters' questions at that press conference, DeSantis said he'd also push lawmakers to adopt a "medical freedom" package that would extend antidiscrimination protections to the unvaccinated.

"I think you should not ever be discriminated against regardless of these choices," said the governor.

Despite the radical language Ladapo used (he referred to vaccine mandates as "slavery") and some of the panicked reactions from critics, the surgeon general's proposed policy is somewhat more modest than meets the eye.

Should lawmakers pass Ladapo's proposed policy, Florida would in fact be the first state to have no vaccine mandate for school children. --->READ MORE HERE