In Bold Move, Ron DeSantis Appoints Actual COVID Virus As Florida Surgeon General

[Nevilledog]

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Remember how a year ago we were all aghast that Donald Trump was getting most of his guidance on coronavirus policy from Dr. Scott Atlas, a radiologist with no expertise in public health or infectious disease? Atlas was convinced that all we had to do was let the virus spread through the healthy population unchecked, while miraculously protecting old people and anyone at heightened risk (he never explained how we'd do that — moon colony maybe?), and eventually, most Americans would probably survive the illness and we'd have "herd immunity" even before the vaccines were developed.

The eensy tiny downside, real infectious disease experts pointed out, was that it would kill a few million people. Thank goodness, the vaccines were rolled out, Trump was voted out, and Scott Atlas went away too. By early summer this year, it looked like the pandemic was finally under control, at least until the super-infectious Delta variant brought it roaring back among unvaccinated people. In red states like Florida and Texas and Montana and Tennessee, governors insisted that mandating masks or vaccines was the devil's work, and then the mobile morgue trailers started being ordered for all the bodies.

Now, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed a new state surgeon general in the Scott Atlas mold, one Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who has written multiple Wall Street Journal op-eds casting doubt on the effectiveness of masks and vaccine mandates, and even suggesting that the COVID vaccines themselves might be dangerous. (They are not. The disease is dangerous; the vaccines are remarkably safe and effective.) He's also touted the favorite Trumpworld quack cures hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, neither of which have been show in clinical trials to be of any benefit against COVID-19.

As a professor at the UCLA Medical School, Ars Technica notes, Ladapo "focused on cardiovascular diseases and the cost-effectiveness of diagnostics," so like Atlas, he has all the public health and immunology specialization a Florida governor could want. But he did graduate from Harvard Medical School, so he's a real ad for the Ivies, like Ted Cruz or Tom Cotton.

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[Lovie777]

1. They are on a mission to kill and maim as many . .

Floridians as they can.