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Florida Governor Announces New State Policy Against Vaccinating Healthy Children

And in the very first sentence, this Washington Post “news” piece wants you to believe the idea flies “in the face of recommendations by every medical group in the nation.” Every singe one? That’s quite a hyperbole bath. From later in the story: Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo prefaced the change by deriding the school closures and mask and vaccine mandates issued by many states since the start of the pandemic as “terrible, harmful policies.” “Florida is going to be the first state to officially recommend against the covid-19 vaccination for healthy children,” Ladapo said (Washington Post). From Karol Markowicz: I happen to agree that healthy children don’t need this vaccine as their statistical risk of a poor covid outcome is already zero but the real thing is that the CDC and the AAP are both politicized organizations which can not be trusted anymore. And that’s truly unfortunate (Twitter). From Bethany Mandel: I enjoy this new round of gaslighting on the heels of the news that the 5-11 shot doesn’t even really work (Twitter).