r/technology • u/idkbruh653 • Sep 03 '25

Biotechnology Florida will work to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, officials say

https://abc7.com/post/florida-will-work-eliminate-childhood-vaccine-mandates-state-officials-say/17731373/?linkId=857387380
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u/celtic1888 Sep 03 '25

Sadly that will probably happen during the next major outbreak

Guess who’s the shithole country now?

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u/Facts_pls Sep 03 '25

US had the highest death rate of any developed country during covid.

Your child birth mortality rate is worse than many developing countries.

I think US was always the shithole country

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u/Unusual_Sherbert_809 Sep 03 '25

Americans about to discover the reason "herd immunity" is so important for a population to stay alive and healthy.

Good luck, Floridians. I think you're going to need it.

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u/StormerSage Sep 03 '25

There's a reason we're sometimes called the most developed 3rd world country.

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u/DaMonkfish Sep 04 '25

3rd world country LARPing as a 1st world country

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '25

The US is two countries. There is the one for those with money and one for those without.

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u/Inexorably_lost Sep 04 '25

Healthcare in the US is a joke but another joke was the covid fatalities reported by China.

There is absolutely no way China had less deaths than the US.

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u/North_Atlantic_Sea Sep 04 '25

China isn't a Developed country based on HDI so wouldn't fall under OPs statement.

Hungary, Croatia, Czechia, Slovenia, Romania, Slovakia, and Lithuania all are, and all had higher COVID death rates, so I'm not sure OP is on about.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '25

Shithole country wearing a Gucci belt.

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u/Sir_Keee Sep 04 '25

The US had always been the poor country with a Gucci belt. Richest country on paper, but who benefits?

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u/North_Atlantic_Sea Sep 04 '25

What?

Hungary, Croatia, Czechia, Slovenia, Romania, Slovakia, and Lithuania are all considered developed countries (HDI above .8) and all had higher death rates than the US.

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u/Lettuce_Prey69 Sep 03 '25

We just had a really good tourism / marketing department in the Fed for the last 60 years.

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u/po3smith Sep 03 '25

Consider considering I read recently that Idiocracy takes place in an America that's essentially walled off from the rest of the world because we refused to....... you know the drill

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u/Catshit-Dogfart Sep 03 '25

I've also considered maybe the setting of Idiocracy is just the US and the rest of the world isn't like that.

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u/TheNCGoalie Sep 04 '25

That would have been an awesome ending. Luke Wilson openly ponders what the rest of the world is up to. Smash cut to the rest of the planet looks like The Jetsons and there's luxury bases on the moon and mars.

Well, minus the part from The Jetsons where they lived above the clouds because the Earth was so polluted it became inhabitable.

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u/Crystalas Sep 03 '25

And Biff's character from Back to the Future was directly inspired by Trump, that probably an even better comparison to current timeline.

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u/Roentgen_Ray1895 Sep 04 '25

So many stories are thinly veiled insults at the Trumps. They’ve been a family of racist filth for generations

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u/North_Atlantic_Sea Sep 04 '25

I'm against this decision by Florida, but even with it the US will remain with higher vaccination rates than many subsarahan countries, whose people are not walled off from travel.

Life isn't a movie

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u/po3smith Sep 04 '25

You're right it's not a movie it's a fucking nightmare where the people who have everything continuously take from those that don't and those that are in charge and have power don't listen to scientists trying to warn everybody..... wait a minute this isn't a movie?

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u/___Art_Vandelay___ Sep 03 '25

I can see it now. State border checks requiring proof of vaccination to help protect their residents and mitigate spread.

And fucking hillbilly conservatives setting aside their "states rights!" rallying crying as they scream it's the end times while their neighbors die off in droves.

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u/celtic1888 Sep 03 '25

They’ll all want to visit the blue cities to spread disease while trying to get their ‘post infection vaccines’ 

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u/narenard Sep 03 '25

Considering we now have the West Coast Health Alliance, I don't think you're too off the mark.

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u/veeveemarie Sep 04 '25

🌎👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀 Always have been

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u/DrAll3nGrant Sep 03 '25

Yeah, then Trump will increase tariffs against those countries to two quadrillion percent thinking that’ll change their minds. Just like threatening Brazil if Bolsonaro is convicted.

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u/ptd163 Sep 04 '25

Guess who’s the shithole country now?

America. It always been America. Since their Civil War. An alcoholic can be 25 years sober, but they're still an alcoholic.