They had the new vaccine? Or boosters from this past season?Joe Guy wrote: ↑Sat Aug 30, 2025 2:18 amThat's ridiculous. RFK Jr is just as dangerous as COVID.
I was at CVS on Monday and was told I could get the new COVID vaccine that day if I wanted it. The only reason I didn't is because my doctor said he was going to let me know when he can give it to me. The last time I got it, I didn't even need to make an office visit. He was giving people the shots in the parking lot outside his office.
It is my understanding that it is the new vaccine.
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But since intelligent people, people who believe in modern science and medicine instead of listening to someone whose only qualification for their position is how well they could pucker up, will seek out and get the jab, it will be the knuckleheads who blindly follow King Donald the First who will eschew the vaccine and sucucmb to whichever variant is making the rounds these days. Maybe THAT'S how we will finally free ourselves from the curse of MAGA — like the seemingly invincible aliens in H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds, the smallest bacteria or virus will wreak havoc on their numbers and eventually bring them down and put an end to them.
More articles have since released indicating Walgreens and other pharmacies in MA are not offering COVID vaccine appointments to anybody here because of the absence of ACIP recommendations and compliance with state law. Pretty sure we just won’t be getting it until/unless ACIP recommends, unless our governor can figure out a way around the general statutes as currently written.Burning Petard wrote: ↑Sat Aug 30, 2025 6:38 pmPlease note the details in the post that begins the thread: Not available
1. From CVS 2. in Massachusetts
Read to me as a idiosyncratic business decision on the part of one company.
snailgate.
about this! For me it is mere unnecessary stress and annoyance, but for many others without the means it might mean they end up seriously ill. The man I take care of has in the past gotten his vaccines administered at his home by the local public health nurse - but at present, nobody in Massachusetts can have the vaccine AT ALL. Florida plans to end all state vaccine mandates, including for schools
Sept 3 (Reuters) - Florida plans to end all state vaccine mandates, including for students to attend schools, the state's surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, announced on Wednesday, a move public health experts warned could trigger severe outbreaks among children, tourists and those with compromised immune systems.
Ladapo, along with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, cast the issue of vaccination as one of personal choice.
"Every last one of the them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery," Ladapo said at a press conference in Tampa. "Who am I as a government or anyone else, or who am I as a man standing here now to tell you what to do with your body?"
Ladapo said his agency would roll back mandates for a half-dozen or so vaccines under its authority but will need to work with the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature on a broader package of reforms. He did not specify which vaccine mandates his agency would do away with.
DeSantis, a Republican, made opposing COVID-19 mandates and precautions a central tenet of his first term in office.
"Medical freedom is something we've got to be very conscientious about protecting," DeSantis said.
All U.S. states have vaccine requirements to attend public schools with specific exceptions varying by state.
Vaccination rates for several diseases, including measles, diphtheria and polio, decreased among U.S. kindergartners in the 2024-25 school year, according to federal data.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the new figures in July in the midst of a growing measles outbreak, with confirmed cases that month reaching the highest level since the disease was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000.
Dr. Tina Tan, president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, said Florida's move was "going to be a major disaster."
"You're going to get multiple outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease and spread of these diseases," she said. "These kids are going to bring it home."
If Florida follows through with dropping all vaccine mandates, it could also impact vaccination requirements at daycares or other places that require inoculations, she added.
Vaccination rates for several diseases, including measles, diphtheria and polio, decreased among U.S. kindergartners in the 2024-25 school year, according to federal data.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the new figures in July in the midst of a growing measles outbreak, with confirmed cases that month reaching the highest level since the disease was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000.
Dr. Tina Tan, president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, said Florida's move was "going to be a major disaster."
"You're going to get multiple outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease and spread of these diseases," she said. "These kids are going to bring it home."
If Florida follows through with dropping all vaccine mandates, it could also impact vaccination requirements at daycares or other places that require inoculations, she added.
I suppose this means that it won't be long before Florida also lifts all laws concerning now-illegal drugs, or prostitution, or body piercing and tattoos — or the laws curtailing abortion — because, after all, "who am I ... to tell you what to do with your body?"Scooter wrote: ↑Wed Sep 03, 2025 10:06 pmFlorida plans to end all state vaccine mandates, including for schools
Sept 3 (Reuters) - Florida plans to end all state vaccine mandates, including for students to attend schools, the state's surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, announced on Wednesday, a move public health experts warned could trigger severe outbreaks among children, tourists and those with compromised immune systems.
Ladapo, along with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, cast the issue of vaccination as one of personal choice.
"Every last one of the them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery," Ladapo said at a press conference in Tampa. "Who am I as a government or anyone else, or who am I as a man standing here now to tell you what to do with your body?"
