To the editor: The Florida State Health Department intends to eliminate all vaccine mandates for children, saying that the measure will increase parents' rights in medical decisions for their children (“Florida moves to eliminate all children's vaccine mandates”, “ September 3). Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins said: “We are … taking the government out of their lives.”
And yet in 2023The State approved a law that prohibits the attention affirmed by gender for minors. Too much to get the government out of our personal lives.
Kathy Harty, Sierra Madre
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To the editor: My parents did not believe in vaccines and I was always excused from vaccines at school. Seeing photos of young children in iron lungs and walking with orthopedic devices made me realize that I would not want to get polio, so I got my own vaccine (a sugar cube in a glass of paper) when I was 16 years old.
When listening to the ridiculous diatribe of the surgeon of the surgeon of Florida, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, “immoral”, “slavery”, “They have no right to tell you what to put in your body”) made me think that perhaps I should have a slogan: “hands of my body.” Oh, expect, that is already used by activists for abortion rights. Unlike vaccines, an abortion only affects the person who is receiving it, not their classmates, community or general population.
Kathy Hicker, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Why Florida also does not prohibit your vaccine requirements for pets?
The sad part is that I can imagine more indignation if those vaccine requirements will rise from what Florida's general surgeon is now doing to humans.
Tom Friel, Camarillo
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To the editor: Ladapo's statement that vaccine mandates are similar to “slavery” is the reason why museums and schools must continue to teach what slavery was.
Of course, the measles vaccine is dangerous, if you are a measles strain.
Gary Davis, Los Angeles
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To the editor: When a child dies in Florida due to preventable disease because they were not vaccinated, I am sure that Governor Ron Desantis, Ladapo and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Rex Altman, Los Angeles
