To the editor: Florida’s state Well being Division intends to eradicate all vaccine mandates for youths, saying the transfer will enhance parental rights in medical choices for his or her children (“Florida strikes to eradicate all childhood vaccine mandates,” Sept. 3). Lt. Gov. Jay Collins mentioned, “We’re … getting authorities out of your lives.”
And but, in 2023, the state handed a regulation banning gender-affirming look after minors. A lot for getting the federal government out of our private lives.
Kathy Harty, Sierra Madre
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To the editor: My dad and mom didn’t imagine in vaccines and I used to be at all times excused from vaccinations in school. Seeing pictures of little children in iron lungs and strolling with leg braces made me notice I actually wouldn’t need to get polio, so I acquired my very own vaccine (a sugar dice in a paper cup) once I was 16.
Listening to Florida Surgeon Normal Dr. Joseph Ladapo’s ridiculous diatribe — “immoral,” “slavery,” “they don’t have the proper to inform you what to place into your physique” — made me suppose that possibly, he ought to have a slogan: “Palms off my physique.” Oh wait, that’s already utilized by abortion rights activists. Not like vaccines, an abortion impacts solely the one that is getting it, not her classmates, neighborhood or common inhabitants.
Kathy Hicker, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Why doesn’t Florida additionally outlaw its vaccine necessities for pets?
The unhappy half is, I can think about extra outrage if these vaccine necessities have been lifted than what the Florida surgeon common is doing now to people.
Tom Friel, Camarillo
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To the editor: Ladapo’s declare that vaccine mandates are akin to “slavery” is why museums and faculties should proceed to show what slavery was.
After all, the measles vaccine is harmful — when you’re a pressure of measles.
Gary Davis, Los Angeles
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To the editor: When a baby dies in Florida from a preventable sickness as a result of they didn’t get vaccinated, I’m certain Gov. Ron DeSantis, Ladapo and Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will take instant motion by “providing our heartfelt prayers for the household.”
Rex Altman, Los Angeles
