FL's new Surgeon General is anti-mask and anti-vaccine

[Nevilledog]

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Ron Filipkowski
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Ron Desantis today appoints UCLA professor Joseph Ladapo as FL’s new Surgeon General. He goes across the country to bring in an anti-mask, anti-vaccine guy who is required to start every interview with “my views are my own and not those of UCLA.”


10:34 AM · Sep 21, 2021

[flamingdem]

1. Oh great!

At least DeSatan will bomb as a Presidential candidate... well unless the repukes count the votes!

[ProfessorGAC]

2. This is So Not Cherry Picking

It's perfectly logical & normal to give a high government appointment to a guy who now has 2 jobs, 3,000 miles apart.

[CurtEastPoint]

3. vaccines are not the solution? They pray tell, 'doctor,' what the fuck is? Eating vegetables?

“We are done with fear,” Ladapo said. “That is something that, unfortunately, has been a center point of health policy here in the United States since the start of the pandemic. It’s over here.”

Ladapo also contended that science has been misused and that vaccinations are not the only answer to handling the pandemic.

“The state should be promoting good health,” Ladapo said. “Vaccination is not the only path to that. It has been treated almost as a religion. That is just senseless. There are lots of good pathways to health, and vaccination is not the only one.”

[mcar]

4. He goes to UCLA to get a Surgeon General?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Is he even a medical doctor? I see he is. If he is, he is betraying his training.

I'm listening to the video, and I see that he is a genuine MD. Good god.

[mnhtnbb]

7. Yes, but think Stanford pathologist hired by Trump

His field is not public health or epidemiology or infectious disease.

Here's his CV

https://www.uclahealth.org/providers/joseph-ladapo

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Thanks! Your analogy is right on the money. n/t

[mnhtnbb]

6. He definitely does not speak for UCLA nor is representative of the research

being done at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. I did my Masters in Public Health at UCLA in the mid-70's, so it's embarrassing to see someone--albeit from the Medical School-- NOT the School of Public Health--be hired in a position to undermine the work of the School of Public Health.

Research published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that near-universal adoption of nonmedical masks in public, combined with complementary public health measures, could reduce spread to essentially zero.

“This research makes clear that even as vaccines are developed and new variants, like B.1.7.7, are being discovered, the power to protect ourselves remains in our hands, as individuals,” said co-author Anne Rimoin, UCLA Fielding School professor of epidemiology. “Wearing a mask is one of the simplest, most effective, and cheapest ways to do exactly that – and it’s been proven by the history of epidemiology over the past century, going back to the 1918-19 influenza pandemic and even before.”

https://ph.ucla.edu/news/press-release/2021/jan/ucla-fielding-school-public-health-researchers-say-mask-mandates-could

And UCLA policy

a new L.A. County Department of Public Health order (PDF) has been issued and will go into effect on Saturday, July 17 at 11:59 p.m. that requires everyone — regardless of vaccination status — to wear a face mask when in all public indoor settings and businesses.

At UCLA, this means that all individuals, whether fully vaccinated or not, will be required to wear face masks in all public indoor spaces. Additional guidance is as follows:

Personal indoor spaces

• Face masks are being recommended while in personal living environments and closed-door offices when in the presence of people from outside of one’s household.

Eating indoors

• When eating indoors, masks may be removed just prior to eating and must be worn again as soon as individuals are finished eating.

Outdoor spaces

• Although this new mandate does not include an outdoor masking requirement, it is still recommended, especially for unvaccinated individuals, to wear a mask when outside in large groups.

Summer youth camps

• Face masks are also required for those working and participating in summer youth camp activities — both indoors and outdoors — except when eating, in which case masks may be removed as long as physical distancing is maintained.

In tandem with this new mandate, starting Monday, July 26, UCLA will be resuming mandatory weekly COVID-19 testing for all UCLA students, faculty and staff members who are coming to campus and other UCLA properties, regardless of vaccination status, which includes those who were previously approved to opt out of testing. We strongly encourage resumption of testing before the 26th to become familiar with the new testing method.

https://covid-19.ucla.edu/indoor-masking-to-resume-at-ucla/

[harumph]

9. Yes, but what does a sturgeon know about makes anyway?

[RicROC]

10. at this point, he is pro-virus

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. This idiot is Deathsantis' new surgeon/quack general

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