Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said Wednesday that the state will seek to eliminate all vaccine mandates — including for schools.
“All of them. All of them,” he said during a news conference. “Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.”
Ladopo said the Florida Department of Health will work with Gov. Ron DeSantis on getting rid of mandates, calling them “wrong” and “immoral.”
“Who am I as a government or anyone else, who am I as a man standing here now, to tell you what you should put in your body?” Ladapo said. “Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body? I don’t have that right.”
Florida law currently requires students in public schools to be vaccinated.
Ladapo emphasized that the state is not banning vaccines.
“You want to put whatever different vaccines in your body, God bless you. I hope you make an informed decision,” he said. “You don’t want to put whatever vaccines in your body, God bless you. I hope you make an informed decision. That’s how it should be.”
Ladapo’s announcement coincided with Gov. Ron DeSantis unveiling the Florida Make America Healthy Again commission, to be chaired by First Lady Casey DeSantis and Lt. Gov. Jay Collins.
