Surgeon general Joseph Ladapo retreats on his plans after the US president says: ‘You have vaccines that work’
It took barely two days, and some huffs of disapproval from the White House, before Joseph Ladapo’s bold plan to eliminate all vaccine mandates in Florida began to deflate.
The action, the fervently religious state surgeon general had asserted at a fire and brimstone press conference in Tampa, came straight from the heavens: “Who am I, as a man standing here now, to tell you what you should put in your body?” he opined, framing the freedom to reject vaccines as a “reflection of God’s light against the darkness of tyranny and oppression”.
Mandates were akin to “slavery”, he said, in comments presumably intended to align with the ongoing anti-vaccination campaign of misinformation and myth of the health secretary, Robert F Kennedy.
Trump is such a fucktard… But he actually did something correct this time.
Ten bucks says because the AG is black, despite being a MAGA whacko.
I think Trump does take a little pride in the vaccines, he always took credit for them after all, and it’s always put him at odds with the antivaxxers in his base. I remember him being booed at his own rally a ways back for gently suggesting that some people should get the vaccine, of their own accord.
It’s funny how pathetic they are.
Trump did something that isn’t terrible? Wow.
Trump is reportedly planning to put an end to all those prescription drug ads on TV, basically reinstating a ban that was rescinded in the 1990’s. I could get behind that.
That would be sweet, I’ll believe it when I see it. I’m assuming big pharma would just bribe him, as is tradition.
Trump says “Crawl”, they say “How low?”
So… Is the orange baboon pro, or anti vaccine now?
Who has he most recently talked to? What do they think?
He’s pro whatever gets him more votes, and people are still mostly pro vaccine
Seems to be a clear case of: Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
The rest of that quote is: “but you still never use it to tell time”
