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Just Floriduh?
Why isn`t he telling the world? What`s he afraid of?
Being ridiculed???!!!
Florida?s new surgeon general: A well-educated COVID crank | Editorial
By Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board |
insight@orlandosentinel.com |
PUBLISHED: September 22, 2021 at 1:44 p.m. | UPDATED: September 22, 2021
at 5:44 p.m.
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It was bad enough when Florida had a surgeon general who went missing in
action during a full-blown pandemic.
Now Gov. Ron DeSantis has picked a replacement who thinks COVID vaccines
are overrated.
Could have been worse. Could have been Nicki Minaj.
Dr. Joseph Ladapo, a Harvard medical-school graduate, was introduced by
DeSantis Tuesday as the replacement for outcast Surgeon General Scott
Rivkees.
We don?t know what his thoughts might be about swollen testicles as a side
effect of vaccines, but when asked whether Florida should be promoting
vaccines more aggressively, Ladapo offered this gem: ?The state should be
promoting good health, and vaccination isn?t the only path for that. It?s
been treated almost like a religion, and that?s just senseless.?
Ladapo believes in herd immunity through natural infection. He warns of
unknown risks from COVID vaccinations. He?s argued against vaccine
mandates. He questions the effectiveness of masks to prevent the spread of
coronavirus. He?s touted hydroxychloroquine to prevent and treat COVID.
He?s been associated with a right-wing group of physicians whose members
include a physician who believes infertility and miscarriages are the
result of having sex with demons and witches during dreams.
And on Wednesday, to kick off his tenure, Ladapo signed an order that does
away with mandatory quarantines for students exposed to COVID. Now,
parents ? including those who think the pandemic is a hoax ? get to decide
whether to let their possibly infected kids stay in school and risk
exposing more kids. It makes us wonder what Ladapo would have thought
about quarantining Typhoid Mary.
Yes, Florida, your new surgeon general is a well-educated COVID crank, the
perfect bookend for a governor whose pandemic doctrine amounts to, ?Hey,
stuff happens. So party while you still can!?
We should expect nothing better from DeSantis, who at a recent news
conference stood mutely by as one of his invited guests parroted
misinformation about COVID vaccines altering a person?s genetics, and
while another speaker suggested the vaccine might kill her. This is a
governor who pays more official visits to restaurants than to hospitals,
even as Floridians die from COVID at a breathtaking pace.
Did we mention that Florida?s now up to a nation-leading 376 people dying
from COVID every day during the past week, and that Florida is now No. 10
among states with the highest rates of COVID deaths since the pandemic
began.
How?s that DeSantis Doctrine working out again?
Not great. And we doubt it?ll get much better with a surgeon general who
inhabits the fringes of mainstream COVID and epidemiological science.
For starters, the new surgeon general took part in a news conference in
July 2020 ? organized by a group called America?s Frontline Doctors ? on
the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court building to promote hydroxychloroquine
as a cure for COVID (it?s not).
Ladapo was among those doctors in their white lab coats, as was Dr. Stella
Immanuel, she of the demon dream sex theory. Another participant was the
group?s founder, Dr. Simone Gold, who also has been charged in connection
with the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump?s supporters.
Remember this press conference on the steps of the Supreme Court ?
doctors touting hydroxychloroquine, prompting praise from then-President
Trump and Google, Twitter, and Facebook to take the video down?
Florida?s new Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, was a speaker. ??
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DeSantis was a big believer in hydroxychloroquine, too, buying up big
quantities of the drug early in the pandemic after Trump started gushing
about it.
DeSantis doesn?t talk about hydroxychloroquine much these days, possibly
because the World Health Organization and the U.S. Food & Drug
Administration agree it?s ineffective against COVID.
America?s Frontline Doctors says it?s not anti-vax, but its literature is
laced with skepticism about COVID vaccines, constantly referring to them
as experimental. One passage in its ?medical facts? about COVID vaccines
reads, ?There has never been a situation where a vaccine candidate was
rolled out to millions of healthy people under such a bizarre set of
facts.?
The group is far less skeptical about ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug
the group calls ?a safe and effective medication to prevent and treat
COVID-19,? even though the FDA hasn?t approved it for COVID.
Perhaps the most dangerous part of this new appointment is that, like
America?s Frontline Doctors, Ladapo lacks enthusiasm for vaccines, which
remains our best hope to move past this pandemic.
A reporter lobbed up a softball Tuesday, asking Ladapo whether the state
ought to promote COVID vaccines to keep people from getting sick. The
answer should have been yes, of course it should.
Instead, the new surgeon general ? who gets a University of Florida
professorship as part of his state employment ? pooh-poohed vaccine
enthusiasm as a religion and said Floridians should lose weight and eat
more fruits and vegetables. In other words, survival of the fittest.
If you were wondering how things might get worse in Florida, Tuesday?s
announcement of a new surgeon general provided the answer.
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