Measles Outbreaks Loom as Florida Scraps Vaccine Mandates
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🗓️ 4 September 2025
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| 0:23.9 | author of The Breakdown. We are here with some breaking news from Florida. |
| 0:29.9 | State, uh, that, are you from Florida? You have ties to Florida? What is your connection to |
| 0:34.9 | Florida? Yeah, I grew up in Florida. I blame it's all on you then. |
| 0:38.5 | Okay. |
| 0:39.7 | Florida's doing Florida things, folks. |
| 0:42.6 | The announcement this afternoon from Governor Ronda Santis and the state's head of |
| 0:47.9 | health, Dr. Joseph Lidapo, Sergeant General of Florida, they are going to try to eliminate |
| 0:54.0 | childhood vaccination mandates in the state of Florida. |
| 0:58.2 | I repeat that. |
| 0:59.3 | They are going to end vaccine mandates, including for schoolchildren, in the state of Florida. |
| 1:04.3 | If they do so, they become the first state to reject that practice, which has been, you know, basically medical doctrine for decades now, |
| 1:15.6 | helping to reduce tons of diseases for children, prevent outbreaks and so on and so forth. |
| 1:20.3 | I'm going to read a few quotes from Lidepo, and then I will get your take on. |
| 1:26.0 | But look, let's just set up the scene here. |
| 1:27.8 | This guy is a vocal persistent vaccine skeptic. |
| 1:32.0 | He has been on a mission to end vaccine usage |
| 1:35.4 | or to diminish it. |
| 1:37.3 | Since COVID, he came out of that COVID backlash era. |
| 1:40.8 | DeSantis appointed him. |
| 1:41.8 | DeSantis himself is a vaccine skeptic. So the |
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