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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 52 minutes ago

Sounds like Florida is pulling ahead of Texas in their race to the bottom.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 points 32 minutes ago

This is going end tragically for an unthinkable number of children and immunocompromised adults.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 41 minutes ago

Step one. Step two is make vaccines illegal, Step 3 is send MDs to prison for administration.

[–] happydoors@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Up in Minnesota the only hope I have is that the kids don’t create a national/international crisis when they travel and spread various diseases. We are all in this together.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 51 minutes ago

Well on the plus side it's not like they'll ever be able to afford to travel internationally.

[–] toppy@lemy.lol 6 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

No idiot would make this decision. I don't think hitler was even this dumb. Science is real and works. Vaccines, medicines works. Trump and his friends have hidden agenda. Something is brewing in USA.

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 53 minutes ago (2 children)

Trump and his friends have hidden agenda.

Donald Trump isn't a smart man and he has some very concerning beliefs. I mean we know for a fact that Trump slept/sleeps with a copy of Hitler's Speeches in his bedside drawer. He admitted that himself. He also has some very strange views on exercise, claiming the human body is like a battery and too much exercise can kill you. He tweeted that he believes vaccines cause Autism.

A lot of political positions have some weird fucking ideas on health and science, even the "normal" ones (Look up Posadism, right now, drop whatever you are doing and look it up right now, it's ducktits bonkers), but the Right are the ones who are most infamous for them. I mean the basis for OG Nazism involved Supermen with high technology coming to Earth on an Ice Ball (no seriously), but you also have ideas popular on the right like:

  • Socioeconomic factors for health are overblown or non existent (popular with conservatives and libertarians).
  • HIV doesn't cause AIDS/HIV-AIDS doesn't exist/Was made in a lab (Founder of GB news and Epistein book alum Andrew Neil believes this).
  • Immuno-comprimised people deserve to die as to not inconvenience them, personally (popular during Covid).
  • Vaccines cause Autism.
  • Gender identity doesn't exist and trans and nonbinary people are sexual perverts who should be killed (if AMAB or Intersex) or "Brought back to woman hood to save their wombs" (if AFAB, yes, sounds like a handmaid's tale).
  • Intersex people don't exist/don't deserve to live.
  • Contraception is wrong/doesn't work and should be banned.
  • Fertilised Human Eggs are instantly Sentient and Sapient.
  • Menstruation is a disorder (yes, you heard that) caused by toxins.
  • Faith Healing.
  • That certain races have superpowers.
  • That the world is ~6000 years old and the bible is right.
  • That Mobile Phones or phone masts cause Cancer/Autism/Covid.
  • That chemical reactions in people's guts cause Autism.
  • That Autism can be cured.
  • That Queerness can be cured.
  • That eating raw meat or dairy products is good for you.

And many more.

Now I am going to also say that alongside insanity, there's a more "rational"/Machiavellian reason for them doing things like getting rid of vaccines and that is the following:

  1. They don't pay anything to help anyone. Generally they believe the state is there to keep the underlings in line, not help them.
  2. They think that actual healthcare should only be accessible to those who can pay for it, especially if it's out of reach for the average person and thus is for the "elite".
  3. If people are sick, they will have to spend large amounts of money, meaning they can extract even more labour from them to enrich themselves. If they can't, well, they die and aren't a "problem" for them.

The reason why Trump and his ilk having these beliefs are the following:

  1. They're sociopaths who love the idea of NeoFeudalism more than a British MP enjoys Cocaine.
  2. They're not very bright.
[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 points 20 minutes ago* (last edited 20 minutes ago)

Autism can be cured.

We now have a working theory on how autism develops — a genetic predisposition allowing malfunction in cell danger response — and an almost miraculous clinical treatment for it in children that is currently undergoing trials.

https://www.autismparentingmagazine.com/autism-suramin-evolution/

Unsurprisingly the cause and treatment are completely unrelated to the Right’s insane and dangerous conspiracy theories.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 45 minutes ago (1 children)

A LOT of people believe the body has a set total of heartbeats.

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 13 minutes ago

That sounds like...something an obscure ancient Greek philosopher would claim, leading Diogenes to start chasing him around the room counting down.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 46 minutes ago

It's part of Project 2025. They need to cull social security recipients. Half of people in Florida are over 42, oldest state in the US. Kids are great at spreading viruses. It's just a version of smallpox blankets used to kill off natives.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

People are dumb in groups

Group membership and beliefs carry way more weigh than anything else.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 46 minutes ago

Well yeah, he's next to a person of color. Any racist would be livid if they had to share the same air with someone that is isn't white.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (5 children)

Even fascists in other countries aren't this stupid. What do they even want to gain in spreading diseases?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 44 minutes ago

The ideal model of the Fascist economy is get poors to pay taxes and then die when they can't work any more.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

There is a ton of fear about vaccines in some areas. I have a feeling some parents are about to learn some lessons in a really terrible way.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 43 minutes ago

See Amish. They won't learn any lessons and just spin death as natural and God's will.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

It started out as mostly pandering to their uneducated anti-vax base, but with fascists being in all levels of government now there are more conspiracy theorist true believers in office. So the dumber ones actually believe it, while the less dumb ones use it as a wedge issue to keep support (while being vaccinated themselves).

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 1 points 2 hours ago

Even the fucking Nazis and Imperial Japanese understood that vaccines worked.

The Japanese in particular with Unite 731 even developed vaccines for the plague, then tested it by deliberating getting one unvaccinated group infected and another vaccinated group infected. The vaccinated group fared far better than the vaccinated group and had a much higher survivability rating.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I seriously think they want to reduce the population. And if you use disease and only allow the richest people to have access to vaccines, the poors and "undesirables" go first.

I truly think that it's that sinister.

[–] Son_of_Macha@lemmy.cafe 4 points 2 hours ago

Seems like a fast way to completely kill your tourism industry.

[–] Zomg@piefed.world 8 points 5 hours ago

Hearing "who am I to say what you can do with your body" while also making abortion illegal is so infuriating. Like, listen to yourself talk...

[–] Imhotep@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

This black guy compared mandatory vaccines to slavery

[–] brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

The last time I was visiting my parents in South Carolina we went to a local art faire thing, and one of the stands was a dude selling art of Confederates. Not just any Confederates, Black Confederates. And the dude selling this art, was a older black man in full fucking Confederate uniform. The best part was the massive bread boards he had full of tiny font Confederate apologia that read like a SovCit manifesto.

Don't think the color of a person's skin naturally dictates their opinions on matters that you think it should, people will surprise you every time.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

That is genuinely a terrible thing to do as a person of color. Seriously though, people suffered extreme abuse and he is out here saying that getting vaccinated is basically the same.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

He and Kanye probably have a lot in common

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

They should run the KKK

[–] Pofski@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

"The rollback could result in fewer school children getting immunized against deadly viruses such as polio and measles."

There is no "could"

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

What do you expect? The media bowed down to Trump. I didn't think fear of lawsuit would lead to this but here we are.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 22 points 10 hours ago

Florida is truly the Florida of Florida.

[–] senchawizard@piefed.world 3 points 6 hours ago

florida man does a florida man move as governor

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Who needs vaccines when you live in a swamp.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Florida is terrible for disease climate wise

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I hope that the sea suddenly engulfs and submerges the whole of Florida.

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

It's okay. A surge of viral and bacterial diseases will turn FL into toxic soup.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 15 points 12 hours ago

US Balkanization when?

[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Need to build a border, for the safety of the other states.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Honestly states should halt flights from Florida

[–] teslasdisciple@lemmy.ca 87 points 18 hours ago

Florida 2026:

[–] TheLastOfHisName@lemmy.world 19 points 15 hours ago

Enjoy your polio, antivaxers.

And don't forget to buy stock in iron lung manufacturers. Gonna be a BIG spike in demand.

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 14 hours ago

Have fun watching your kids die. God bless America and all that jazz...

[–] kowcop@aussie.zone 52 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (9 children)

Seems logical for a country that has a healthcare system that profits off people being sick.. get infectious disease, end up in hospital, go broke

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