ChatGPT:
Countries like Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the UK, and most of Scandinavia do not condition public school attendance on vaccination status. Japan – Vaccines are strongly promoted, but school entry is not denied for unvaccinated children. Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland – All Nordic countries besides Iceland follow voluntary vaccination policies for school entry. Switzerland – Vaccination is voluntary, and school entry does not depend on vaccine status.
“Which countries have mandatory childhood vaccination policies?” (Our World in Data):
A Democrat on Facebook:
What’s the punchline to this post? The author lives in… Japan, where childhood vaccines are optional. My response to him:
When do you expect the wave of unvaccinated death to hit Palm Beach, Coral Gables, Bal Harbour, Wellington, and Key Biscayne?
Note that Florida has a free “Vaccines for Children” program in which $200 million/year of injections are administered every year. Florida doesn’t have the highest vaccinate coverage rates for kindergartners, but nonetheless Florida has higher rates than the Orthodox Democrat states of Minnesota and Colorado (CDC).
The trailblazing 2SLGBTQQIA+ governor of Maskachusetts:
I personally doubt that the reduction in vaccine bureaucracy will have a large effect on standard childhood vaccination rates in Florida. People already had the option of opting out for religious reasons. Maybe the vaccination rates will go up if the lack of a legal requirement results in some additional creativity among the public health experts, e.g., free medical marijuana to any parent who brings his/her/zir/their child in for shots, convenient shot clinics at places where children are likely to gather. The Righteous assume that the only way to get humans to do something is to threaten them, but economists have found that very small financial incentives can create dramatic behavioral changes.
If we accept that the government has the right to coerce humans in the name of public health what I would do is force Americans to exercise and maintain a government-monitored BMI. Philip’s Shut-Yo-Pie-Hole System would use cameras and AI to make sure every American gets on a scale in the morning. If over 25 BMI then he/she/ze/they can’t get food other than broccoli at either a supermarket or a restaurant (control with a phone app and step tracker). Add one chicken nugget for every 5000 steps. There would be a chocolate ration of 20 grams (increased from the former value of 30 grams) for anyone with a BMI of under 21.
Loosely related, a friend in a discussion group in Maskachusetts let everyone know that he’d moved to Florida and a Democrat responded:
look on the bright side. At least you will live worry free in Florida: no state taxes, no climate change, no vaccines, and no one to tend to your lawns or clean your pools.
The emphasis on cheap/slave labor via low-skill immigration is fascinating to me. The American Righteous decided to fully open our borders to low-skill migrants almost exactly coinciding with the Age of AI/robots. (Of course, it is actually much easier to get labor in Florida than in Maskachusetts because chillin’ on taxpayer-funded housing, health care, food, etc. doesn’t pay as well in Florida as in Maskachusetts (see Table 4 in Cato’s Work v. Welfare Trade-off.)
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> what I would do is force Americans to exercise and maintain a government-monitored BMI. Philip’s Shut-Yo-Pie-Hole System would use cameras and AI to make sure every American gets on a scale in the morning. If over 25 BMI then he/she/ze/they
Damn, oppress much? I might retract my endorsement for Phil as POTUS ’28.
https://www.calculator.net/bmi-calculator.html
30 BMI, sHe/questioning. here, short and stocky peasant. I walk 2-3 miles per day, work out with free weights 5 times a week. No red meat–too many radlers:
https://www.americancraftbeer.com/what-the-hell-is-a-radler/
and pretzels though. I once had a doctor who described herself as a teacher of doctors. She said I was a fatso with my 30 BMI, sitting at her desk with her own spare tire gut, and I said:
“BMI is a simplistic, scalar measurement. What about the density of my muscle? Even a skinfold measurement would be better.”
She accused me of being a pompous twit, and probably would have put me on your force-fed broccoli list, which I already eat as a snack. I’m fully vaccinated, and wish they would make one for the severe dermatitis the 18 Covid shots I received seem to have caused.
Americans proved during coronapanic that there was no limit to the government control they’d accept in order to save a handful of life-years. As President Philip, therefore, I’d give the American people what they say they want! A tremendous reduction in life-years lost by electronically limiting all cars to a max speed of 35 mph, for example.
Any reason so many people are moving from Florida into more northern South Atlantic states? I just finished a 3 mile walk, and a Honda Accord from Florida nearly ran me over doing 55 in a 25 MPH zone–35 sounds like a good speed to hardwire into cars. Our rental car this year was a one-way from Florida–they left their checkbook and a credit card in it. They were fleeing from something… Floridians also come in and use our HOA lake, leave fishing line and hooks near the grill, then flip us off when we are in the cross walk. DeSantis doing some deporting of his own?