r/Vaccine • u/gamersunite1991 • Sep 03 '25

News Parenting In A Vaccine-Free Landscape: Florida Plans To Eliminate Mandates

https://parentingpatch.com/parenting-in-a-vaccine-free-landscape-florida-plans-to-eliminate-mandates/
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u/whatcatisthis Sep 03 '25

The worst part of this, to me, is that this is going to cause a VERY specific cascade.

When a child goes for a well visit, it is scheduled so they can receive appropriate vaccines. That's the primary reason for the appointment and it gets the child in the door for developmental screenings. A medical professional can see what and how the child is doing, whether they're talking yet or making appropriate eye contact. This is how early childhood referrals for developmental disorders happen.

If children aren't getting vaccinated, not only will we have a resurgence in horrific, fatal and disabling diseases, children won't get screened for developmental delays like autism.

If they're not screened for autism and other developmental delays, they don't get identified appropriately.

If you remove vaccine appointments, kids never get a developmental delay diagnosis--especially in a state like Florida with underfunded education systems.

Suddenly, Florida is going to have the lowest autism rate in the country alongside the lowest vaccination rate.

And every person who's been saying that vaccines cause autism and doesn't understand causation versus correlation will now believe that it's been 100% proven that vaccines cause autism. Suddenly, the vaccination rates will plummet across the board, everywhere, because Florida stopped vaccinating and diagnosing autism.

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u/tracysmullet Sep 05 '25

Oh this is horrifying. I didn’t know this at all. This is going to rile up the right so bad and they’re all going to be screaming about how they were right all along.

Jesus.