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A department spokesperson confirmed Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham had ordered his staff to stop engaging in media campaigns and community health fairs to encourage vaccinations, even as the state has experienced a surge in influenza.

Abraham’s announcement occurred the same day vaccine skepticRobert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in by the U.S. Senate to serve as President Donald Trump’s health secretary.

In a separate letter posted on the department’s website, Louisiana’s surgeon general decried “blanket government mandates” for vaccines and criticized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID-19 vaccination push. Individuals should make their own decisions about vaccinations, Abraham said.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (46 children)

Sure, people should be able to make their own decisions. But they'll be able to make much better-informed decisions if you do your job and educate the populace about the life-saving benefits of vaccines. This guy should be stripped of his medical license.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I live in Louisiana. You can't educate about vaccines here. Most people do not believe anything officials say about vaccines.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Simple farmers. People of the land, the common clay of the New West...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can bet they're all vaccinated.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ofcourse!

I mean, you can't pull the ladder up before you climb it.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

Abortion = murder But not vaccinating is freedom of rights? Bruh if you child dies from a preventable disease that's murder. You killed them with your choice just like not putting on a seat belt for them. You failed a parent to protect them by being afraid of what? autism? them turning into a gay frog? Having magneto powers?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Because RFK? because trump? Because conspiracy theory lovers unite and now run the government? Because they're all backward idiots? Because of religious extremists who love to watch the world end so that Jesus may return?

Pick any one of em, all valid reasons

[–] TammyTobacco 7 points 1 week ago

Louisiana is in the bottom 5 in US education. Now you know how dumb they are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Because fuckwits.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Fitting his name is Abraham as he'll be able to count the infected and dead like he would count the stars in the sky.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

In the middle of a measles outbreak? These people are playing with lives! Poor kids

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

We should embargo and blockade the state so their inevitable introduction of preventable diseases doesn't spread to other parts of the union.

Same for any state that wants to walk back decades of medical advancement. They're a stark and Real danger.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Well, I guess we can use fewer Louisianans. This is probably a net gain.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

if you support louisiana now the world is a better place. do not force vaxxination, education or even basic rules on those free people so they can be freebto leave this planet. bird flu, naybe some pox or just Covid2...the US seems to be cleansing itself.

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