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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Tuesday that hes chosen Joseph Ladapo, a Harvard-educated physician who has questioned whether Covid-19 vaccines could help end the Covid-19 pandemic, will be the states top public health official.
Last year, Ladapo called masking a distraction. He cited certain randomized clinical trials and said, Most have shown that wearing a mask has little or no effect on respiratory virus transmission. Like DeSantis, Ladapo is also against mandating masking and vaccinations. Florida will completely reject fear, Ladapo declared. Fear is done.
At one point, he was asked a question (that was inaudible) about vaccines.
Vaccines are up to the person, responded the new surgeon general. Theres nothing special about them compared to any other preventive measure. People get to make a choice about what they want to do with the information.
Ladapo was then asked if the state should be promoting the vaccine.
The state should be promoting good health, and vaccination isnt the only path to that. Its been treated almost like a religion, and thats just senseless, right? There are lots of good pathways to health, and vaccinations not the only one. So we support measures for good health.
https://www.mediaite.com/news/joseph-ladapo-named-florida-surgeon-general/
Bev54
(10,051 posts)Right up DeSantis's alley.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Lulu Latech
(29,098 posts)Perhaps his brain is being eaten by worms or the Reptilian alien embryo implanted in his heart is getting ready to emerge. Or he just may be a garden variety psychopath. All are disasters of an epic proportion.,
Mary in S. Carolina
(1,364 posts)Some people earn their degrees, others buy them.
FloridaBlues
(4,008 posts)edhopper
(33,575 posts)Have to publically condemn this asshole.
mcar
(42,307 posts)and ships him to FL to share his lunacy as our Attorney General.
Like there aren't enough crazy people in FL already?
Girard442
(6,070 posts)Any doubt he's totally vaxxed?