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Bad ethics is at the rotten core of MAHA vaccine policy - C C - Sep 17, 2025
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/117484?trw=no
EXCERPT: As you probably know by now, state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD, wants to make Florida the first U.S. state to cancel all of its school vaccine mandates for kids. Not just mandates for COVID shots, but also vaccines that have been in use for decades like measles, polio, and mumps. At a press conference declaring this goal, Ladapo likened existing mandates to government-imposed "slavery."
[...] This dangerous plan to eliminate vaccine mandates has been drawing sustained fire from the public health and scientific communities. They have homed in on the fact that Ladapo freely admits he did no projections about the impact of his anti-mandates campaign on kids or other Floridians caught up in the epidemics likely to follow... (MORE - missing details)
RE: Bad ethics is at the rotten core of MAHA vaccine policy - Syne - Sep 18, 2025
The States are testbeds for different policies. So while there could be bad consequences from removing all vaccine mandates, these would likely reinforce volunteer vaccination, if not mandates elsewhere. If vaccines are so vital, they should survive such a test... and participation in this test is voluntary.
RE: Bad ethics is at the rotten core of MAHA vaccine policy - confused2 - Sep 18, 2025
Google AI Wrote:In the United States, the life expectancy at birth in 1900 was around 47 years, though some sources state it was closer to 50. This figure represented a significantly shorter lifespan than today's, largely due to high rates of infectious diseases and infant mortality, which were major causes of death at the time.The AI might be bullshitting of course .. there's only one way to find out.