Imagine being a black man in America and calling vaccine mandates akin to slavery...
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Florida to end vaccine mandates for children as state’s surgeon general likens them to ‘slavery’
(www.theguardian.com)
Nothing says freedom like children dying from preventable diseases
Freeing their souls from their bodies.
He's in so deep he probably calls himself a coon as a compliment
Hey man, you can't say that, that's his word.
He knows someone with the best words
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While at the same time watching our museums say that slavery was good for black people
Pick mes are the most frustrating.
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Haven't you heard? Trump says slavery isn't so bad.
The Florida education system says slavery was good for them.
The Florida State Board of Education’s new standards includes controversial language about how “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit”
"Involuntary Unpaid Interns"
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Florida: shithole of shitholes.
Just look a map, clearly Florida is America's dickhole. The Gulf Coast is the shithole.
Go there in the summer, proof that it is hell.
Jesus fucking a goat.
If this goes on for long there will be so many dead or crippled children. So many dead people. It won't stay constrained to Florida. This will put immunocompromised people at risk all over the country. Herd immunity is fucked.
Also, if it lasts long, expect other willfully ignorant states to do the same.
Fuck, I'm tired.
Somebody in power in this state owns an Iron Lung manufacturing facility....
Bringing back polio is really just to help their profits.
That reads like a bad Bond villain but I can almost guarantee it's true.
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Well see, in the American for profit health system, the system is incentived to keep you sick, not cure you. If you get cured, you don't need them anymore, so they are bringing back polio to make themselves rich at your expense, once again.
A conspiracy like that would require a level of organization that isn't present.
It's willful ignorance and cultic tribalism gone real bad.
They really believe there is a vaccine conspiracy that causes autism and is being used for mind control or whatever.
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at this point I'm considering starting to just hope that most of america's population dies and only the smart ones are left
and hopefully that's enough of the compassionate smart ones, not the selfish ones
I figure if america has closed borders, there's a chance?
Unfortunately Polio doesn't care about political beliefs. Good people will die right alongside bad.
Ah yes, I once had a vaccine and I remember going home to serve my master and get whipped. But after a few days the slavery side effects went away and I got back to being a white kid in the 2000s.
WTF goes through these people's minds?
I understand PoC being suspicious of vaccines. Tuskegee experiment was real. But it shouldn't be the only guiding policy of public health.
Wait… I thought a lot of people in the South liked slavery. They call it The Confederacy.
Natural selection is great for these idiots.
Poor kids though.
Yeah sadly. And these people will replace it with bleach and raw milk
Thanks to our steady transition from America to Dumb-fuck-istan, the only purpose in life a lot of children will have is to serve as sad, painful lessons for their parents. I just hope they don't have to suffer any more than necessary while teaching them those lessons.
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Polio will return in the Florida Oblast. What a bunch of dumbfucks.
WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump said the Smithsonian museums in Washington are too fixated on "how bad slavery was" and other negative aspects of United States history as he promised to take aim at the "WOKE" elements inside them.
So, is slavery back to being bad?
Those slaves were unvaccinated so they were happy slaves.
It's 2025. '/s' marks for sarcasm are mandatory.
I hate you for being right.
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I think this person doesn't know what slavery is and how vaccines work or what they are for.
One more reason for tourists to stay away I guess.
Florida really is the worst place to travel to. What a fucking shit hole
Oh, so slavery is bad now, is it?
Owning people as chattel: stop focusing on the negativity! Wearing masks and not dying from preventable diseases: literal slavery.
You were always free not to vaccinate your kids if you kept them out of the school system. But you're also gonna say using a child's non-prefered pronouns or non-prefered name isn't anything like slavery at all, when slave owners would never do anything like rename people against their will.
Lol, my family is planning a trip to the keys next summer, won't be joining this one, I don't want to spend a penny in that cursed state.
If you have any working brain cells and you still live in Florida get the fuck out while you can. If this doesn’t kill you the hurricanes will.
Cost of Living in FL has been skyrocketing.
Their idea of freedom is to return to a preindustrial state.
Avoiding spreading disease is a lot like involuntary servitude. What with all the systemic disenfranchisement and, ya know, whipping...
How does Joseph Ladapo sleep at night? Probably soundly on a mattress full of money.
Ah Florida.
I hear they're sewing that state up so tight it'll never even vote again. Goddamn.
Well the beaches are pretty. Or were.
It's tough to be an optimist these days. But like, at least they'll flood first, right?
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