Sometimes doing what’s right isn’t necessarily what’s easy, but it is right nonetheless. That’s the lesson being provided out of Florida after a major announcement on COVID-19 vaccinations.
Few Republicans have the courage to speak out on behalf of children when it comes to vaccination. No doubt, a lot of peer pressure exists to go along with the “Vaccinate everything that moves” narrative being pushed by the federal government. Gov. Ron DeSantis, and Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo took a completely different approach.
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Today, Ladapo made it clear at a roundtable that his state was going to recommend against the COVID-19 vaccinations for children. This makes Florida the first nation state to have done so.
According to @FLSurgeonGenFlorida is the first to oppose the COVID-19 vaccination for children who are healthy. #desantisroundtable
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) March 7, 2022
These numbers prove that this decision is right. Not more than 1000 children died of COVID-19 during the entire pandemic. In the United States, there are 75 millions children between 0-18 years. You can also see that almost all of the COVID-19-related deaths in children were caused by preexisting conditions. Why would the government not choose to only give vaccines to children who have significant immunocompromised status, rather than focusing on the coronavirus?
I don’t cite the above numbers to downplay the death of any child. Any child who is killed or maimed for any reason is an act of tragedy. Yet, we have never, in all of our history, blanket-vaccinated children against a virus that poses such little, if any, risk. The emotion of vaccinating a child six years old from COVID-19 is not a good way to make public policy. This is absurd, particularly considering the absence of longitudinal data about the effects of vaccines on a child’s development.
Triple-vaxxed hypochondriacs believe vaccination of schoolchildren is another way to spread disease. There’s simply no data to back that up, and even if there were, we should not be using children to placate the irrational concerns of adults. Florida’s move to recommend against that is the right one. Yes, hair will be set on fire as a result, and DeSantis will once again be called “anti-vax.” Doing the right thing overrides public relations concerns, though.
The collective left and the media will trash Florida regardless of what. They view the state free as a distraction and foil to the abject failures occurring in their respective states. DeSantis or Lapado are to be commended for being able to tune out all the noise and do what is right. That’s been Florida’s path through the pandemic since the beginning.
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