Dear Arizona, don’t Florida this up.

The Florida Surgeon General has made headlines for proposing a policy scrapping vaccine mandates, proudly placing politics over Floridians’ health. And while this may sound like just another “Florida Man” story, Arizona shouldn’t shrug off the lunacy—because our state legislature is showing signs of catching the same anti-science cold. Worryingly, some Arizona lawmakers have been busy reposting to their social media Florida’s vaccine rollback announcement like it’s an achievement — not a public health disaster in the making.

Here’s the thing: when one state signals that facts and science don’t matter, others take it as permission to do the same. And Arizona has already proven itself particularly vulnerable to the virus of misinformation about childhood vaccines, which have prevented outbr