Aha! no LOL, no surprise -- "Joseph Ladapo, also aligned with a fringe group of medical professionals, called America’s Frontline Doctors"
"What these well known professionals in their field have to do is stand up and call out these quacks like ladapo's for what they are, dangerous deluded individuals wrongly appointed or elected to powerful public positions that they don't qualify for. Appointed or elected to surgeon general doesn't guarantee their qualifications to do the job. Just look at barr and others the last 5 years as AG's. Dude is a paid puppet of desatan. P - Until the COVID-19 pandemic, general clinical practice guidelines from the CDC about things like vaccinations, HIV or tuberculosis, for example, "have been applied locally with minimal adjustments," said Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, a professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia University. She described Ladapo’s comments as "highly unusual and concerning.""
Ron DeSantis’s controversial surgeon general questions safety of vaccines
When opinion pieces in local newspapers this summer blamed DeSantis (R) for not supporting vaccinations enough amid a huge spike in cases, his spokesperson assured Fox News, “The governor has consistently stated that vaccines are safe and effective in preventing serious illness in most people.”
On Thursday came a moment DeSantis had to know might arrive: When his surgeon general offered a message decidedly more skeptical of vaccines and their safety than the governor has indicated he is.
“I mean, you hear these stories, people telling you what’s been happening in their lives — nurses, pregnant women who are being forced to sort of put something in their bodies that we don’t know all there is to know about yet,” Ladapo said. “No matter what people on TV tell you, it’s not true. We’re going to learn more about the safety of these vaccines.”
Ladapo went on to suggest that those anecdotal reports should give us caution.
“This idea that we are foolish for … believing people who are telling us things that we don’t have data for right now is ridiculous,” he added. “And people need to continue and stick with their intuition and their sensibilities.”
[insert: Well, Mr. Ladapo, Sometimes sure, maybe. But as a supposed man of science surely you shouldn't place "intuition" and "sensibilities" ahead of respected expert opinion where approved vaccines are concerned. Surely Mr. Ladapo that is highly dangerous advice from you.]
Again, DeSantis stood by the person saying these things, with no indication he disagreed.
A DeSantis spokesperson, Christina Pushaw, told The Washington Post that she took Ladapo’s comments as “a statement of fact, not an opinion about whether or not the vaccines are safe.”
“The data we have available at this time shows the vaccines are safe and effective for most people,” Pushaw said, while emphasizing “most people.” “But it would be irresponsible to assert that any pharmaceutical product is safe and effective for everyone.”
Pushaw added that “it is possible that we will learn more about adverse effects over time, if there are any adverse effects that show up in the long run.”
At the very least, though, Ladapo’s comments leaned much more into the idea that vaccines might be unsafe than DeSantis has. Ladapo suggestively pointed to what we don’t know and the idea that various unspecified anecdotes — rather than the volume of studies we have — suggest the vaccines’ safety might be called into question.
And again, this kind of thing was probably foreseeable. Ladapo’s recent history when DeSantis hired him included aligning himself with a member of America’s Frontline Doctors, Stella Immanuel,
So we have gone from Ivermectin curing Covid to preventing it for up to a month? [...] May I continue to urge YOU, not to take the vaccine, so that another American can get their vaccine just a tiny bit faster. Instead YOU should buy some Ivermectin horse paste from Tractor Supply. At the first sign of the sniffles gulp it down. Suppose to come in an Apple flavor! If YOU need help in converting precent paste into ug/kg, just contact Dr Stella Immanuel. She's still in good with your cult hero Trumpy - right? Since YOU are still in a serious need for deworming, take a dose just for the hell of it. DragonBear to dropdeadfred - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=162406057]
--- The GOP’s ability to do more about such things is indisputable. Its political will is clearly another matter entirely.
And it’s not just turning a blind eye to what [Sen. Ron] Johnson is up to. It’s ignoring the rampant and consistent vaccine misinformation on prime-time Fox News shows, including Tucker Carlson’s. Republican state legislators have repeatedly provided forums to fringe figures who promote not just criticism of vaccine mandates, but full-fledged anti-vaccine conspiracy theories — with no evident pushback from the broader party. Even medical doctors in the GOP caucus have declined to repudiate vaccine misinformation from the likes of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), while expressing much-stronger views on her suspension from Twitter over it. Claims that the vaccination effort is akin to Nazi-era policies also have been deemed unworthy of repudiation. ---
Ladapo’s comments might not rise to the level of some of these things, but they would seem to have the predictable impact of seeding skepticism about the vaccines’ safety — and from an appointed health official in one of the country’s largest states, no less.
It’s a message DeSantis and even most Republican officeholders (save for those like Johnson) really haven’t pushed. But they’ve allowed for it, seemingly in no small part because there’s a constituency for it.
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Aaron Blake is senior political reporter, writing for The Fix. A Minnesota native, he has also written about politics for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and The Hill newspaper. Twitter
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