A.G. Gancarski
The Governor’s Office is speaking out after what it calls “disproportionate attention for political reasons” on Florida’s recent measles outbreak compared to 16 other states dealing with the disease this year.
“Once again, Florida has shown that good public health policy includes personal responsibility and parents’ rights,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. “While the national medical health establishment and media have lost the public’s confidence, Florida continues to restore sanity and reason to public health, and will always do so under my leadership.”
“It’s important that public health leaders consider all available data and make decisions that promote health while respecting the rights of individuals,” said State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo. “Under the leadership of Governor DeSantis, I will always serve with integrity and prioritize a holistic approach to public health that tunes into the needs of Floridians – and tunes out the noise.”
The celebratory quotes are just part of a larger email in which the state claims vindication over the protests of politically-motivated critics.
“The national medical health establishment and the media lost the public’s confidence with their botched response to COVID-19. Conversely, Florida under the leadership of Governor Ron DeSantis has set the standard for public health with evidence-based leadership,” a press release from the Florida Department of Health recirculated by the Governor’s Office claims.
The release is a response to controversy over how the office Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo handled a February measles outbreak at Manatee Bay Elementary.
Ladapo offered guidance suggesting community immunity meant that those with measles could make up their own minds about attending school, given “people with a history of prior infection or vaccination of the full series of the Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR) immunization are 98% protected and are unlikely to contract measles.”
“Because of the high likelihood of infection, it is normally recommended that children stay home until the end of the infectious period, which is currently March 7, 2024. As the epidemiological investigation continues, this date could change. However, due to the high immunity rate in the community, as well as the burden on families and educational cost of healthy children missing school, DOH is deferring to parents or guardians to make decisions about school attendance,” Ladapo wrote last month.
Now that 21 days have passed, no additional cases have passed, and in the event of another “sporadic outbreak,” Florida will treat it the same.
16 comments
Dont Say FLA
March 9, 2024 at 9:08 am
“Gov. DeSantis, SG Ladapo take measles “victory lap,” proudly declaring how shutdowns, isolation of the infected, and vaccinated of the unvaccinated fixed their little outbreak for them?
I’ll concede: Good job, fellas. BUT…
What happened to your Free State of Florida? Where did those lines go?
And the botched federal COVID-19 response that lost the confidence of half the public. Uhhh, wasn’t that the Trump Administration? Or do we have a case of TASS, Trump Amnesia Sycophancy Syndrome?
Biscuit
March 9, 2024 at 10:04 am
NewsFlash out of Florida: Governor Ron DeSantis and Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo put lipstick on a pig and call it the prettiest little thing ever.
Arf.
MH/Duuuval
March 9, 2024 at 10:34 am
These two MAGAs are faithfully following the DJT playbook: Declare victory before the game is over, then take your ball and go home.
The main thing here is that they are on record when the chickens return to roost –as they did for W when he declared victory in Iraq. NOT!
Kenneth L Gallaher
March 9, 2024 at 1:02 pm
Now many will DUHSadist murder this year?
Victory laps for bringing back the plague
March 9, 2024 at 1:38 pm
The age old established vaccines for measles, mumps, and rubella, polio, etc…These were huge breakthroughs for human kind and have prevented generations of suffering and pandemic spread. My mom had polio. Before the vaccine. It wasn’t that long ago, and she was lucky to live but suffered the rest of her life. This is not a joke and affects everyone. Politicians playing political games and discouraging proven life saving vaccines and safety protocols that have been in place since the Middle Ages. There are already cases of polio snd bubonic plague (look it up) cropping up again in the country because people don’t want to get vaccinated. The kids don’t get to choose and that’s messed up.
Mark Hogan
March 9, 2024 at 1:57 pm
LOL. What knuckleheads! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/03/florida-measles-outbreak-preventable
Harold A Maio
March 9, 2024 at 2:31 pm
Politics and medicine— is that not precisely what we had with segregation?
mike
March 9, 2024 at 4:04 pm
What a pile of MeasleS**T
Craig Quirolo
March 9, 2024 at 4:42 pm
They found a way to stop the spread of infectious diseases very easy, just don’t report new cases in fact dont
report anything related to transmission of diseases.
Phil Morton
March 9, 2024 at 8:32 pm
Meanwhile, 411 Floridians died due to covid in those 21 days. Not the victory lap you think it is.
Shakirah
March 10, 2024 at 12:19 pm
They won’t tell us the real numbers . DeSantid is no Dr and the SG is a quack. His name is lapdog. I’ll follow the direction of my health care provider.
John George
March 10, 2024 at 8:59 am
Onward christian soldiers? Wait a minute, I am not a christian! I have problems with all this however! Florida’s Surgeon Gen. Joseph Ladapo went on Bannon’s show and called covid shots the work of the devil! He said COVID vaccines were ‘the Antichrist of all products”! Our Governor is picking fights with Micky Mouse over who is woke, (we don’t know what wake is), running for president, fighting with the border guys in Mexico, etc! He does nothing about our Florida problems like insurance, taxes, and water encroachment?
MH/Duuuval
March 10, 2024 at 12:32 pm
Dee has wasted millions of tax dollars defending and losing in court numerous lawsuits, especially concerning individual rights.
Elmo
March 10, 2024 at 9:46 am
Those sick bastards.
Marcus Saitschenko
March 10, 2024 at 4:42 pm
You call this journalism? It’s just the Governor’s press release, with you cheering him on. That’s propaganda. Florida’s anti-science policies with respect to public health are shameful and make the state the butt of jokes nationwide. Vaccines have helped control diseases like measles, mumps, rebella and polio for decades, until DeSantis and his lapdog politicized medicine to appeal to an ignorant base.
We are experiencing a preventable outbreak. Cheering on those responsible is shameful.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/03/florida-measles-outbreak-preventable
Nope
March 12, 2024 at 7:17 pm
??? It’s straight up reporting on what these jokers say and do, no editorial required. Victory lap is exactly what they’re doing, because they’re sociopaths, and that’s pretty obvious to anyone with an 8th grade education and the most basic sense of right and wrong. Why would you blame the paper because you’re upset their voters are more than a few bananas short of a cream pie. We know.
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