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Whooping cough cases in Florida have soared this year, marking an 81% increase from 2024's number.

As of Sept. 27, 2025, there have been 1,295 cases reported to the Florida Department of Health (DOH), compared to 715 cases for the entirety of 2024, according to the department's Reportable Diseases Frequency Report.

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[–] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 166 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why would the Democrats do this?

Also, it's fake news and the numbers are fake.

Coughing is the natural way to get rid of these whooping demons.

No need to wear a mask unless you are ~~kidnapping minorities~~ saving freedom.

/s, of course.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 58 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (11 children)

Why would the Democrats do this?

You can't just come out in favor of vaccinations. That's electoral poison. You need to meet people in the middle. Vaccines for some, little American flags for others.

If you start taking a hard stance in favor of vaccinations, you are going to lose the election and you're going to get more Republicans in office. Florida's a winnable state, but we have to be moderate. We have to respect the longstanding cultural viewpoint that vaccines cause autism. We need to include people who hate vaccines in the conversation and promise to bring them into any future administration, because anti-vaxxers are an influential voting block we are obligated to respect and court.

If anything, the party needs more anti-vax Democrats. This is the path forward, because it is what the people organically and entirely rationally want. Arguing against it is just more Big Government Overreach. It costs tax payers money. And it doesn't respect the views of the working class.

If you're suggesting that the Democratic Party should become the party of vaccination, you are rooting for failure. In fact, you may be attempting to undermine the party from within, because you secretly support Trump. And why would you support Trump? Because you support Russia and China as a Communist. You're a Tankie and you shouldn't be in this conversation.

We need to purge the lingering stench of Communism from the Democratic Party of Florida. And that means taking a hard stance against far-left ideas like vaccination, public education, and potable water. That's why we're going to reach out to our close friends across the aisle and ask Ron DeSantis to carry our banner as the Democratic Nominee for the Governor of Florida in 2026.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 52 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That was completely disgusting. Bravo.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I concur. You should send that to Ken Martin

[–] BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 9 points 4 days ago

oh jesus how did i miss that we literally have Ken M chairing the party now

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Lol all I could think is if we branded masks as little american flags to show patriotism I legitimately wonder if covid would have gone differently. Why didnt you bring this up sooner!

[–] Hazor@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Seriously. If Republicans during covid had framed protecting each other with masks as protecting the country itself and thus a patriotic duty, we'd have had far fewer deaths. But instead they decided to kill their own voters with utter stupidity. Not that it cost them any electoral outcomes, evidently.

This teeters between human comedy and AI slop. I can't quite tell which side of the line it's on. Well done.

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

Beautiful. You can see exactly where liberals turn into conservatives, if they haven't already.

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[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 84 points 4 days ago (14 children)

Just stop reporting the numbers, problem solved.

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 37 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ah, the COVID method of counting!

1 million, 1.2 million, zero million, 3, the libs did it..

[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago

You're hired! -maga everything

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[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago

Really interesting to see the USA become one of the countries on its list of countries that require vaccinations for travel to.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'm a bit torn on this reporting...

On the one hand I'm totally with them on using this as a cautionary tale about vaccine hesitancy and how the administration policies dangerously exacerbate that phenomenon, and a rough indicator of what the consequences may look like.

On the other hand, the headline makes it sound like the Florida rollback has caused this, but that isn't strictly true because:

  • The Florida rollback hasn't happened yet
  • The rollback doesn't include whooping cough (pertussis):

All other vaccinations required under Florida law to attend school “remain in place, unless updated through legislation,” including vaccines for measles, polio, diphtheria, pertussis, mumps and tetanus, the department said.

[–] lunaluster@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

The headline uses the word "amid," which is not specifically causative. But announcements have already been made, and the governor has insisted on moving ahead to eliminate vaccination requirements. People don't need a hard line to follow through on their personal choices to endanger others. They have essentially been given the green light, and they can excuse it in the meantime with "religious beliefs."

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 45 points 4 days ago

Republicans love suffering babies

I wish I could write something different, but that's what it is, they love suffering babies

I mean they love suffering in general, because they is what they always do and applaud, make people suffer one way or the other, but yeah, they especially love suffering babies and children.

They have the numbers too, they too can see the results. They were told this would happen, and now it happens and I guarantee you that they won't turn back to vaccines to stop the suffering and death. Instead they'll go on about God being misterious or some other mental gymnastics.

Republicans love dead babies

Let that sink in

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Imagine dying of a completely preventable disease.

[–] Hazor@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

It's almost like we don't have hundreds of years of data on the efficacy and safety of means to prevent them.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 35 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I don't understand. We've tried everything: prayer, snake oil, complaining, EVERYTHING!

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!

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[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 9 points 4 days ago

The anitvax aka pro-plauge crowd asked for this.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

They still report those numbers? Quick, make them stop so people won't learn about the consequences of voting GOP!

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 days ago

Surprisedpikachu.gif

[–] VeryInterestingTable@jlai.lu 16 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I can't wrap my head around who benefits from astroturfing anti-vax groups so much? Like if ever there are some people on earth who benefit from reduce vacination it has to be a handful. I suppose people who sell fake medicine? Or people who sell real medicine but for preventable diseases (by vaccination).

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 22 points 4 days ago

originally, Wakefield put out his bogus study because he had a patent for a rubella vaccine, and wanted to discredit only the MMR vaccine, so people would buy his vaccine. Once that takes hold people run with it

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

Hospitals - assume a hospital stay costs a lot more than a vaccine.

Also funeral homes and cemetery owners.

[–] Kaliax@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Psyops from hostile nation states. Destabilize.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 5 points 4 days ago

Russia. Their chief exports are misery and death.

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Your healthcare is privatised and predatory in nature, so not just a handful I think

[–] julysfire@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

I cant wait to gat out of this state

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Well, they gotta be #1 in something

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Used to be number 1 in tomato production and number 1 in orange production. Not any more.. don't think they were number one in tourism, but they are wrecking that.

Guess they still have the shark capitol and lightning capitol of the world

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[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Burger King is getting in on the action with a promotional offer called Whooper and fries.

[–] Tenthrow@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Is this another example of the mind blowingly competent left extremists?

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Much like the measles, I've never known or even heard of someone having it. Hell, I'm still not 100% on how those diseases work. Because we had pretty much wiped that shit out. My birth year was the cutoff for the smallpox vaccine, because we did wipe it out.

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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I really can't think of a single dice roll in life with higher stakes than what parents you're born to.

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[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What could possibly have been done? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 7 points 4 days ago

If it was only idiots who died from this kind of thing, it would be funny. Many innocent people will suffer and die, too. But somehow we're supposed to treat republicans like a legitimate political party and their members like reasonable people.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Sunshine cures everything!"

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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's because of transgenders! And Antifa! And people kneeling at the Superb owl!

Anyway, it's all fake news. And the dems' fault. And something something Clinton.

Besides, I'd rather my kids die from 3rd world illnesses than have autism in my house.

(To those who can't detect sarcasm, consider this training material)

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