If almost everyone else gets vaccinated, then you or your child do not have to get vaccinated because the disease won't spread.

Many parents will find it in their interest to skip the vaccine avoiding any cost or possible risks.....banking on everybody else being vaccinated. But, if too many make that choice the disease will spread.

I can see families with young children leaving Florida in the future. (Should bring our school taxes down.) We, oldies, are usually well vaccinated. Won’t make much difference for us, one way or another.

I had schoolmates and family members who suffered through polio. Is this what we want? Do we want to kill, blind and maim our children so you can be "free"? I think this is the most foolish thing this state has done.

And those that choose not to vaccinate their children put themselves and others at risk. Foolish.

What other people do or do not do with their bodies affects others. Please stay away from me if you don't get Covid vaccines. We are well on our way to being a third world country.

Is this based on waiting room head counts or something else

GREAT post. I ran it by my wife, who was born and raised in a third-world country in SE Asia (Thailand), and she got quite a chuckle out of it. She also agrees 100%. People who have not experienced exactly what that means (and I don't mean as a tourist) simply have no clue.

Some of the things she talks about beggar the imagination: like when she got meningitis as a very young girl and her father carried her over ten miles to the only hospital in the area as there was no transportation available. About having no indoor plumbing--or outdoor plumbing: when the urge struck you headed out to the rice paddies and did your business there. About being essentially abandoned as a young child after her mother divorced her father and having to live with her aunt and grandmother who were dirt-poor even by the standards of that time and place. About getting up at 3:00 AM and having to grind rice into flour on a stone mill so her aunt and grandmother could cook the desserts for sale that was the family's only source of income. About getting a job tying re-bar on a construction project in the middle of summer--age 13--so she could afford a school uniform. About being too poor to have a lunch to take to school so she'd "study" in the library while the other kids ate. About the time both her grandmother and her aunt got sick and she had to stay home to take care of them--at six years old. About many other things.

I've spent extended time there with my in-laws and have seen firsthand where she was raised, as well as how a lot of people live particularly in Isaan (NE Thailand) where a primary source of protein are insects. Things are better now, but not all that much for some people. You are totally right. Being poor in America actually reflects a life style that would be the lap of luxury in a great many third-world countries.

Well, I was born in 1947. I had classmates and family members who had been crippled by polio. I was lucky that I was not. I don't want to see it come back and that will happen if parents don't vaccinate their kids.

I don't know how old you are but maybe you don't remember because the vaccines pretty much eliminated them.

Certainly one of many foolish things.

It's bad enough with the Christian names some parents bless/blight their children with, now the same people get to decide which illness their progeny can avoid or catch.
What could go wrong?

Can you link the source that said "Florida is ending modern childhood vaccines"?
Because that is patently false. But spreading fear and panic will certainly get you a lot of replies. Just like the spoon fed masses.

If you click on the OP, the link is there.

You asked for the opinion of doctors on this site. The stupidity and frankly malevolence of this recommendation astounds me. The anti-science conspiracy mongering leaders may not live long enough to see the results of their terrible policies but our nation will suffer.

Vaccines, clean water, sewers, drug testing for safety and efficacy, anti-smoking messaging have all produced overwhelmingly beneficial results for us. So because some people deny science, despise universities and a broad and deep education, and believe that what is on you-tube or tic toc has equal merit to what comes out of Harvard or Duke or the NIH or the NEJM we are at this crossroad.

So many of you posting here have no understanding of how vaccines work, how they benefit both the recipient and the community, and how high the risk is of these diseases returning with a vengeance.

This is not just a choice of parents doing what they think is best. Parents who spend hours on conspiracy websites, watching lying TV networks, and being influenced by demagoguery are not in the best position. Should we start selling lead paint again? Should we get rid of air pollution controls so we can all breathe filthy air? Do we allow smoking on airplanes and restaurants? Do we tell manufacturers that seat belts and air bags must be optional for car buyers? Do we get rid of CPS and tell parents it is ok to beat your kids because it is in the Bible and that's how my grandparents did it?

You know what is going to happen when measles returns. It won't just kill some kids, it will permanently damage others. And the government and health insurance will pick up the cost.. thus everyone. And when Rubella returns and we have damaged newborns.. and when Hemophilus and Pneumococcal meningitis liquify babies' brains you can thank your GOP leaders for their ignorant leadership. When epiglottitis chokes your grandson to death so quickly they don't make it to the hospital for anything but an autopsy, send a nice note to DeSantis.

I have seen these diseases disappear in my career thanks to universal vaccination requirements.