In a move for health freedom that is sure to gin up heretofore unseen levels of hysteria from the corporate state media and Democrats — the ones who otherwise repeat the “my body, my choice” mantra with no sense of shame or irony — Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo announced yesterday the demise of all vaccine mandates for schoolchildren attending Florida public schools.
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Via CNN (emphasis added):
Florida will move to end all vaccine mandates in the state, Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo announced Wednesday.
The move would make Florida the first state to end a longstanding – and constitutionally upheld – practice of requiring certain vaccines for school students.
The state health department will immediately move to end all non-statutory mandates in the state, Ladapo said at a news conference. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who was also at the event, said state lawmakers would then look into developing a legislative package to end any remaining mandates.
Ladapo said that every vaccine mandate “is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.”
BREAKING: "ALL" vaccine mandates in Florida to be ended by Florida Department of Health, Surgeon Gen. Joseph Ladapo announces
— Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) September 3, 2025
"Every last one is wrong and DRIPS with disdain and slavery! Who am I, or anyone else, to tell YOU what you should put in your body? Who am I to tell you… pic.twitter.com/1wDVzS18q3
The legal justification for vaccine mandates is a pair of early 20th-century cases in which the Supreme Court ruled that the state’s interest in preventing the spread of communicable illness trumps the individual’s prerogative to refuse unwanted medical procedures.
Via New England Journal of Medicine (emphasis added):
In a 1905 landmark case, Jacobson v. Massachusetts, which has since served as the foundation for public health laws, the U.S. Supreme Court endorsed the rights of states to pass and enforce compulsory vaccination laws. In 1922, deciding a case filed by a girl excluded from a public school (and later a private school) in San Antonio, Texas, the Supreme Court found school immunization requirements to be constitutional. Since then, courts have been generally supportive of the states' power to enact and implement immunization requirements.
Difficulties with efforts to control measles in the 1960s and 1970s ushered in the modern era of immunization laws in the United States. In 1969, a total of 17 states had laws that required children to be vaccinated against measles before entering school, and 12 states had legally mandated requirements for vaccination against all six diseases for which routine immunization was carried out at the time…
By the beginning of the 1980s, all 50 states had school immunization requirements.
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The human interest story behind the foundational case, Jacobson v. Massachusetts, is particularly disturbing.
Swedish immigrant and pastor, Henning Jacobson, presumably arrived in America believing he was immigrating to a land of unprecedented individual liberty, only to learn that the government had granted for itself the power to mandate the single most invasive procedure imaginable — the injection of foreign substances under the skin, for the purported greater good.
Via Wikpedia (emphasis added):
Cambridge pastor Henning Jacobson had lived through an era of mandatory vaccinations back in his original home of Sweden. Although the efforts to eradicate smallpox were successful in Sweden, Jacobson's childhood vaccination had gone badly, leaving him with a "lifelong horror of the practice". Jacobson refused vaccination saying that "he and his son had had bad reactions to earlier vaccinations" as children and that Jacobson himself "had been caused great and extreme suffering for a long period by a disease produced by vaccination". Jacobson believed that his family may have some sort of hereditary condition that made the smallpox vaccine particularly dangerous. Because of his refusal to get vaccinated, Jacobson was prosecuted and fined $5. Over the next three years until his case reached the Supreme Court of the United States, Jacobson argued that subjecting him to a fine or imprisonment for neglecting or refusing vaccination was an invasion of his liberty, the law was "unreasonable, arbitrary and oppressive", and that one should not be subjected to the law if he or she objects to vaccination, no matter the reason.
Fueled by anxiety — and rightfully so — that this kind of reclamation of freedom might spread like a virus to other states in the union, legacy media and #Resistance Twitter has already poured on the histrionics thick.
No matter what justifications the public health authorities cook up — and they expend enormous energy and resources doing so — the inescapable truth is this, to which there is no legitimate retort: if you are not in control of what gets injected subcutaneously into your body, you are not free in any meaningful sense of the word.Full stop.
