What has happened to America?
We have a narcissistic felon in the White House, destroying our country daily with tariffs and executive orders, eliminating basic human rights (health care, education, jobs), attempting to make himself dictator by any means necessary and demanding the Nobel peace prize.
Now our corrupt governor and his incompetent lapdog Joe Ladapo want to make mandatory childhood vaccines disappear. This is inconceivable, unconscionable and a serious threat to Floridians’ health.
Land of the free? We’ve become the land of the corrupt and the home of the cowards. Our elected officials and Supreme Court justices have shown their cowardice by allowing these unconstitutional actions.
It has to stop before the U.S. is drawn into another war and the felon stays in power by eliminating elections.
Bonita Osowsky, Boynton Beach
Believe in science
We’re living in a crazy world. I’m 60, and can’t believe where we are.
I believe in science. My son is 24, he had all the vaccines required of him when he was a baby. As a young teenager, he made me get him the HPV vaccine. I wasn’t sure of it yet, but I took him to get it.
My skin doctor recently said they’re not eliminating vaccines, they’re just not going to mandate them — what a stupid comment from a doctor! The point is to have most, if not all, people get vaccinated to protect others and themselves.
“People should have the right to know what they’re putting in their body (temple),” Dr. Joseph Ladapo said. Seriously? As if the average person knows what the hell they should put in their body. That’s why we rely on scientists.
Andrea Bamberg, Fort Lauderdale
Is the return of polio next?
Government’s top priority is public safety. That should include our health.
Having recently been informed by my pharmacist that I need a doctor’s prescription for my COVID booster is jarring and it is insane that I felt the need to get a measles vaccine (measles, mumps and rubella) because of the return of that disease that was eradicated in the 1980s.
Are we welcoming back polio as well? Free Florida? I think not. Wake up, folks!
Steven Glassman, Fort Lauderdale
The writer is a Fort Lauderdale city commissioner.
Fingers crossed
Mandatory vaccines have saved millions of lives.
Discontinuing them is pure insanity — a feature of the Trump administration. It’s just another reason for his impending impeachment.
Richard D. Roth, Davie
Just can’t believe it
I grew up in Massachusetts. As a kid, we lived near a lake that my brother and I weren’t allowed to swim in; my mother feared we would get polio from the water.
A few years later, she brought us to get an oral polio vaccine by swallowing a sugar cube. We stood in a long line to get the vaccine. It worked.
Now, highly educated people are saying stupid things about vaccines.
As a retired registered nurse who spent years in emergency rooms, I can’t believe what I’m hearing. Children need to be vaccinated against all childhood diseases.
I also figured it would not hurt for me to get a DPT booster. I will also get my COVID booster and a flu shot, too.
I worry about children whose parents are doubters. I’m sure they were vaccinated when they were children, and I don’t understand why they think their children are safe without vaccines. That is not safe! Children need to be vaccinated.
Janet Lassman, Lauderhill
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