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 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is reportedly planning to put an end to all those prescription drug ads on TV, basically reinstating a ban that was rescinded in the 1990’s. I could get behind that.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.
Me, too. They are literally about 25% of the ads I see, and they run them during on most expensive channels during the most expensive time segments. They must be adding sognificant marketing costs to the prices of drugs.
Only 2 countries allow prescription pharma advertising - America and New Zealand.