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.
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 minoritiessaving freedom./s, of course.
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.
That was completely disgusting. Bravo.
I concur. You should send that to Ken Martin
oh jesus how did i miss that we literally have Ken M chairing the party now
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!
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.
Beautiful. You can see exactly where liberals turn into conservatives, if they haven’t already.
At this point I think most people would be in favor of just letting Florida burn.
Fence it off or something, and in twenty years when they’re all dead from preventable illnesses and accidents, we can just walk in and use the land. It would be so much easier
I mean, the thing about Florida is that its full of genuinely cool, fun, happy people who - on any other day - would be totally normal. But then its also full of the most insane and toxic corporate flacks and hustlers this country can produce. And they have found a way to pump the state for all its worth (which is quite a bit) and suck that limp dick dry.
Just ground zero for what endless waves of the most vile political propaganda can do to the human brain. And Florida (plus Texas and Ohio) have become test sites for what corporate media plans to do to everyone else.
Turn the whole thing into a wildlife reserve.
I threw up a little reading this.
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(you bet your ass this slop was generated)
Have the courage of your convictions and bang that out by hand next time.
I don’t really mind that it’s AI generated, I mind that you waited to tell us 😔
Just stop reporting the numbers, problem solved.
Ah, the COVID method of counting!
1 million, 1.2 million, zero million, 3, the libs did it…
You’re hired! -maga everything
They kinda did. 81% in the headline sounds like a lot. But once you read it, its really only a few hundred in population of over 23m. It should also be noted that in 2023, there was a total of 85 cases for the entire year. So the increase was far more dramatic between 2023 and 2024 than 2024 and 2025.
Good thing diseases don’t have the potential for exponential growth or anything like that.
Also, it isn’t like diseases spread like wildfire during the holidays in November and December or anything. Yup, those 2025 numbers are definitely final!
Phew!
I dont really know how this affects what I said. In 2023, the case count was 85. A year later, over 700. The implication by everyone is that this is because of Trump, RFKjr, and their being fucking morons when it comes to vaccines. But as you can see, the increase in cases started before either of them came to power. So implication that this is happening because of Trump and RFKjr is wrong.
The implication is that they will make things worse. Antivaxx bullshit was already a thing, they are just promoting it even more. People can’t undo the vaccinations that have already been done, but as more and more people choose not to vaccinate the cases will continue to increase.
It isn’t a magical on/off switch, which anyone who understands how vaccines work would know.
That may well be the case, but Im afraid that the implication is exactly as I stated. They are blaming Trump and RFKjr for this when, like you said, antivax bullshit was going on for years before they came to power. So the resolution isnt going to be getting them out of power. Its going to be much, MUCH harder than that.
It’s a tricky case…
Like you say, this a) predates the Trump admin and b) so far TDAP is still required to be in school even in Florida even after the upcoming set of dropped vaccine mandates, so even this disease isn’t the result nor wouldn’t be the result of even Florida’s aggressively lax vaccinne policies.
On the other hand, this shows how far out of hand things can get even without the government dropping mandates and actively restricting vaccinnes and stoking more vaccine hesitancy.
You are right that it wouldn’t fix things by itself, but it certainly greatly exacerbates the severity having the people in power aligned with vaccine hesitancy.
Youre right, they are a factor. I just dont like seeing people fool themselves into thinking that getting rid of them alone will solve the issues. The antivax movement is long in the tooth and need some serious addressing. People are still talking about vaccines and autism, even though that connection has been proven multiple times to be bullshit.
All Im really getting at is there isnt going to be a simple solution to this. Its not going to be as easy as getting rid of the orange man and worm, and all is right in the world.
Getting them out of power is part of the solution because the longer RFK Jr has the ability to destroy the national health care agencies the longer it will take to fix things.
It is like you are against cleaning and dressing a wound because it won’t heal it 100% instantly.
No, Im against over simplifying the solution to get worthless internet points.
The fact is, that theres a war of information. And because of people like you, that war is being lost. Far too many people only look for what fits their narrative, instead of what the actual truth is. Whether you realise it or not, you and those like you are advocating for stopping the bus at Trump and RFKjr. Which I am saying would be a mistake. They can be PART of the problem, but they are not THE problem.
Most of the time I see a statistic in a headline, I assume it’s just trying to sensationalize the issue. And as my dad told me, most of the time you assume, you’re right.
Really interesting to see the USA become one of the countries on its list of countries that require vaccinations for travel to.
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.
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.”
I’m always for the integrity of journalism because the lack thereof is part of the reason we’re where we are today. A more accurate but eaqually as cautionary of a headline would be “Whooping cough cases on the rise in Florida as vaccine skepticism is legally supported by the states lawmakers” or something like that
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
Imagine dying of a completely preventable disease.
It’s almost like we don’t have hundreds of years of data on the efficacy and safety of means to prevent them.
I don’t understand. We’ve tried everything: prayer, snake oil, complaining, EVERYTHING!
We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!
Tried apple-flavored horse paste?
The cause is obvious… It’s those damn vaccines! Optional isn’t good enough, we have to ban them all
The anitvax aka pro-plauge crowd asked for this.
They still report those numbers? Quick, make them stop so people won’t learn about the consequences of voting GOP!
Republicans: Big whoop!
Ing cough
Rookie numbers, herd immunity at work here.
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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).
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
Hospitals - assume a hospital stay costs a lot more than a vaccine.
Also funeral homes and cemetery owners.
Psyops from hostile nation states. Destabilize.
Russia. Their chief exports are misery and death.
Your healthcare is privatised and predatory in nature, so not just a handful I think
I cant wait to gat out of this state
Burger King is getting in on the action with a promotional offer called Whooper and fries.
Who would have thought?
You tell us. Since the increase starts in 2023.
2023 = 85 cases
2024 = 715 cases
2025 = 1295 cases
Something is going on there for a long time.
