Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state’s top health department official are directly contradicting federal health recommendations and warning residents against getting a new COVID-19 booster, saying there’s not enough evidence it provides benefits that outweigh risks.
DeSantis, who is running for president, and Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo discussed the vaccine with doctors Wednesday on a Zoom call livestreamed on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. It repeated much of what they said a week ago during a live event in Jacksonville, in which they warned against the vaccine that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended this week.
Ladapo’s previous warnings against COVID-19 vaccines prompted a public letter from federal health agencies saying his claims were harmful to the public.
At this point, it’s just a temper tantrum.
Democrats/scientists/experts/youth are the “annoying older brother” and anything they want is “stupid.”
Lead poisoning (gasoline) really ruined a generation.
We can literally control them via reverse psychology. Like pulling strings on a puppet.
All we gotta say is sleeping in the middle of the street is dangerous and have ONE pink haired lesbian liberal hold a sign saying that and then film ONE guy with a camo hat with a fish hook in the bill to say in the biggest southern drawl that he ain’t gonna let no woke tell him he can’t take a nap on I-10.
Seriously, the easiest way to manipulate a narcissist is to tell them what they want to hear.
“Man, that’s a great idea! Did you think of that yourself? Of course you did, I wish I was as smart as you!”
It’s kind of where that all ends up, isn’t it? They all start off with their own thing/brand/whatever, and as soon as they realize they either won’t beat Trump/are losing votes in their state/district they pivot to being the dumbest and most extreme fascist just to prove that they’re “cool” because ultimately, that’s where this game leads: the lowest common denominator.
Meanwhile, the rest of us sit and suffer.
…. Ya think he realizes, the ones that’ll listen to him…. Are also the ones that will vote for him?
The calculation is as simple as it is disgusting: If he can inspire enough turnout to more than make up for the deaths he causes, then he comes out ahead.
Didn’t work out so well for Republicans in 2022, though.
Their math ain’t adding up.
Probably shouldn’t have spent so much effort damning public education, huh?
He has calculated that the number of votes he would lose from recommending the vaccine is greater than the number hed lose from them dying to covid. Unfortunately for him, hes bad at math.
This guy should not be president under any circumstances.
Nor ahould any of the current republicans.
Anyone who craves power should not be allowed to aquire it.
Don’t interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake
This kind of mistake will cost a lot of peoples lives. On the other hand, those people are most likely older and voting REP, so he is killing off his own base.
Just killing off his voter base.
COVID mostly kills off the elderly.
Good thing Florida’s population is so young and spry.
Perhaps it’s his solution to the housing crisis?
You know, at this point, if you’re listening to DeSantis, go ahead, don’t get the booster. We need less people to vote for DeSantis or people like him in the future. Anyone opposed to him isn’t going to follow his advice, so this should hopefully sort itself out as time goes on.
What an absolute skid mark.
LIFE SAVING MEDICINE IS WOKE.
Interesting, this sort of intentional dangerous disinformation would be illegal here coming from a trusted public figure, what sort of charges will this De Santis guy be brought up on?
If there’s evidence he did it, it should be a pretty open and shut case.
Open and shut against a regular person, sure, but if we’ve learned anything in the last 8 years, it’s that government officials who spread misinformation won’t see repercussions for a long time, if ever.
Memba when Florida went from front of the pack in new COVID cases and new COVID deaths to having no open cases, no new cases and no dsiky deaths literally overnight?
He will get it though as soon as it’s available.
Well this is an excellent reason to get it then.
Dude went to Yale law school, not Yale School of medicine.
I’ll take his advice on things of a legal nature, but not medicine.
Lmao take legal advice from Ronny LetsPokeTheMouse Desanny?
Yo trust me it’s entirely possible to go to law school and learn fucking nothing about justice or rights. Some people go in with preconceived ideas.
And I bet it happens all the time at fancy schools like Yale.
I went in basically a centrist, but with compassion for regular working people. And then you spend three years reading cases day and day out where corporations and government forces have done nothing but fuck people over.
I came out a flaming progressive with complete clarity that the billionaire class uses the law to maintain their power and destroy progress.
Maybe you go in, and you read all that shit that people do, and you think, hey this is great, I could do this too!
Then they go off and work at some corporate white shoe law firm that spends all day defending insurance companies and wage thieves. I got halfway through before I realized I could never work at one of those law firms. Many of my friends did, and they’re all rich now, but I don’t know how they sleep at night.
You ain’t wrong but you missed my point
Hence the name, ‘DeathSantis’
