The grand story of medical science took something of a hit last week when Florida's Surgeon General, Joseph A. Ladapo, announced plans to end all state vaccine mandates, including for school children.
Florida is now the first state to, as the Washington Post put it, "completely withdraw from a practice credited with boosting vaccination rates and controlling the spread of infectious diseases."
Ladapo, at a press conference, said that every vaccine mandate “is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery” and called the rollback “the right thing to do.”
Ladapo, who is African American, didn't get around to comparing mandatory vaccination with something Hitler might have done.
The Post report noted that Ladapo's stances on vaccines and other measures intended to protect Floridians have drawn criticism from public health experts and advocates.
Wow, no kidding!
Standing a few feet from Ladapo was that walking talking humor-free zone Governor Ron DeSantis.
Together, these two were bravely propelling Florida forward into the, eh, eighteenth century.
So let's move forward down the road. You are a passenger on a plane about to take off from Miami for, let's say, a European city.
A kid gets into the seat behind you and starts coughing and sneezing.
And you're wondering if said kid has been vaccinated against what Florida once championed, namely shots to prevent polio, diphtheria, rubeola, rubella, pertussis, mumps and tetanus, chicken pox, hepatitis B, Hemophilus influenzae type b and pneumococcal pneumonia.
Another cough, another sneeze and it's thousands of miles before you arrive in the comparative sanity of your European destination.
Never mind being stuck on a plane with one or more of the unvaccinated, it's hard to understand how Florida voters, not a few of them on the older side, are happy with, or indifferent to, their state being turned into a giant petri dish.
All this, of course, is positive news to the nation's witchdoctor-in-chief, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy - who appeared at what could be described as a lively Senate hearing last week - recently moved to restrict public access to Covid vaccinations and boosters.
Now it doesn't take much in the way of recollection to recall that there was nearly a second American revolution during the Covid pandemic over mandatory mask wearing. This was a big government assault on freedom etc. etc.
Thus far, there seems to be something short of a revolution in the face of Kennedy's very big government idiocy and ignorance. Nobody appears to to be storming government buildings demanding Covid shots.
And nobody took to the barricades when Florida legislators voted to ban fluoride from the state’s drinking water.
Funny thing.
The aforementioned Surgeon General Ladapo, according to the Washington Post, has been widely criticized by public health experts and advocates for opposing mainstream public health guidance.
"He called for a halt to using mRNA coronavirus vaccines last year, citing debunked claims that the shots could contaminate a patient’s DNA. He became the first statewide health official to urge communities to stop adding fluoride to drinking water, a practice widely credited for improving oral health."
Meanwhile, our flight from Miami, operated by Petri Dish Airlines, has landed in its European destination. Passengers, including the coughing and sneezing child, alight and get in line for immigration.
Passport please?
No problem, here you go.
Vaccination card?
Oops!
