Florida faces 81% spike in whooping cough cases in 2025 amid vaccine rollback

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1. 100% preventable. This should not be happening.

2. That’s so weird. It’s almost like vaccines prevent illness. Who would have thought?

3. Our vaccines worked so well they didn’t think they needed them anymore.

4. have they considered increasing the thoughts and prayers?

5. Wait until polio starts happening

6. Let’s see how long RFK Jr’s survival of the fittest rhetoric lasts when MAGAs start falling like shit flies…

7. Louisiana also having an outbreak.

8. Whoop, there it is.

9. And it won’t just be whooping cough cases. Actions have consequences. Ron meatball and all those Florida Republican leaders took their vaccines, only their dumb followers don’t and WILL pay the prices…

10. If science could only come up with something that could prevent this…

11. Next you’ll be told not to take Tylenol for fevers or headache’s, to just tough it out. Oh wait.

12. This admin has rat fucked every square inch of American life.

13. They’re considering renaming it to the “Whoopsie, this was entirely preventable” cough.

14. Pertussis is *savage* on children.

    Fuck all the adults that benefited from giving the anti-vax movement so much sway.

15. Don’t worry, Trump will claim his administration developed an injection that contains a little bit of the disease so that you that makes you immune to it. He will say he’s never heard of a vaccine before—but that the previous ones were also hoaxes despite never having heard of them—and exclaim that his are the best.

    And just for $1,000,000, you can get one in a golden hypodermic needle.

16. All of the vaccinated adults not vaccinating their children is insane.

17. It’s not really the cough that’s the problem, it’s babies literally drowning to death as they can’t clear their lungs. It’s better to keep things natural though according to Brainworm bobbie and Dementia Don.

18. We’re unfortunately flying back to the US to bring the new baby to meet his grandparents for the first time, he’s not 12 months old yet.
    Doctors here wouldn’t give the MMR vaccine until at least then (which would be after our trip), until we told them we were going to America soon, then they immediately arranged the appointment for the next day haha.

19. My god, if only everyone could see this coming…..

20. The fact that this is a r/politics issue is fucked up on itself.

    But it’s 100% politics.

    The billionaires are getting their vaccines, they just want the rest to suffer.

21. Imagine choosing death and suffering

22. I don’t understand how resurgences in deadly illnesses are supposed to Make America Healthy Again

23. I only wish they could bottle up a minor amount of whopping cough that would build your immunity without putting you at risk of death.

24. My dad almost died of whooping cough in the 40’s. To experience whooping cough is to experience torture, the fear of this breath being your last, the clogging mucous preventing drawing the smallest breath and drowning you while you are trying to breathe. He was a toddler.

25. I think showing children and parents videos of what all the major diseases look like should be mandatory.

    Whooping cough, polio, smallpox, measles. Show them what it looks like to have. What the kids crippled by polio, crammed into iron lungs for much of their lives, looked like. What kids covered in weeping sores looked like.

    People have forgotten why we fought these diseases like hell **and won**. They are welcoming back that hell with open arms.

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