A.G. Gancarski
Florida’s Surgeon General is continuing to evangelize against mask wearing like it’s 2022.
His latest theory?
People wearing protective coverings over their faces simply don’t want to be seen, said the state’s Chief Health Officer and doctor of medicine at the University of Florida.
Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said a doctor at the University of California Los Angeles talked to “some of her medical residents, physicians in training who are wearing masks and it turns out it seems like some people, they just like to hide their faces, which is a really sad testament to humanity and where we are right now with just how people have dealt with all the stress and all the social media disconnection and all the craziness.”
“But part of the reason seems to be that some people like to hide their faces,” Ladapo added on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
“Obviously, some people are still afraid and think that masks are going to help them, which is total nonsense. And that’s really sad. But there is this phenomenon now, it seems where people are trying to hide.”
Ladapo continued along this theme throughout the interview, noting that in California “people are still masking in hospitals” and that Uber drivers are “still masking.”
Ladapo was Gov. Ron DeSantis’ second Surgeon General, brought in to replace Scott Rivkees, who was deplatformed by the state of Florida (but still retained on the payroll), after Rivkees suggested in 2020 that people may need to socially distance for the foreseeable future.
61 comments
Embarrassing
April 25, 2024 at 5:25 pm
His medical license should be revoked and Uf should send him packing.
Earl Pitts "RON'S OFFICIAL "UNOFFICIAL VPOTUS CAMPAIGN MANAGER" American
April 25, 2024 at 6:11 pm
Good evening America,
Thank you Doctor Joe for pointing out those still Mask-Wearing folks are suffering from “The Stockholm Syndrom”.
Of course some are still thinking they are “Virtue Singnaling” and some just want everyone to know they are Biden voters.
But its really un-necessary as everyone at Publix saw you getting out of your Subaru SUV (the preference virtue signaling Leftist Club vehicle), and we noticed you bringing in those green reusable Publix bags.
Y’all could have left the mask at home as everyone knows you are a Benidict Arnold Traitor with Evil intent to vote 4 Biden.
Thank you America for taking my “Spot A Lefty in 20 Seconds or Less Free Class”,
Earl Pitts American
Ocean Joe
April 26, 2024 at 6:00 am
If that was for me, I drive a 24 year old Tacoma and a 27 year old Lincoln Town Car which gets about 28 mph highway. But as a clairvoyant psychic you are correct about the reusable bags and I do like Subarus. I am a Winn Dixie shopper as you should have known from my constant complaints about the wealthy and nobody with a brain would pay what Publix wants for beer nor support an outfit whose heir helped fund the Jan 6 attack on our country.
Dont Say FLA
April 26, 2024 at 7:13 am
I tink that was for Joe Ladapo. Earl’s use of “Dr” before Joe certainly confused the situation didn’t it. “Doctor” isn’t the D word that comes to mind for Joe Ladapo. “Dipstick” is the word.
People who don’t want their face to be seen is better worded as people who don’t want their fact be surveilled electronically, and sure there’s some folks in that camp, but folks wearing masks in the heat and humidity aren’t doing it for any reason except not to die.
Masks are effing miserable in the heat and humidity, even the lightest weight lightweight masks are too much own breath steam face in even just 5 minutes.
Here’s a better claim for Disptick Joe to make :
People who still wear masks like it was 2020 are pop smoking groomers that are coming from the abortion clinic to indoctrinate our trans drag queen children
Ron Forrest Ron
April 26, 2024 at 8:06 am
Mr Ladapo is a Harvard guy. Whatcha wanna bet he played baseball?
Would it surprise anyone if Ladapo had been DeSantis’ “catcher” in college ball games?
Given Florida, Harvard should probably shut down. Whatever it used to be that was good, Harvard no longer seems to be that.
MH/Duuuval
April 26, 2024 at 5:45 pm
Nope, he ran track as undergrad.
Ocean Joe
April 25, 2024 at 5:38 pm
Probably the dumbest thing said by a doctor in history.
People with weakened immune systems, people who work in medical facilities, and people who care about others should wear masks and one benefit of the pandemic is that it has made it OK for those who need to.
When all you really care about is yourself I guess spewing germs along with anti-vaxxer propaganda goes with.
Nothing like those deathbed conversions by southern preachers who wanted the vaccine after telling others not to get it.
Hung Wiil
April 25, 2024 at 8:19 pm
OJ,
You are doubling down on wrong. Predictable.
Fauci said many, many things that were verifiably incorrect like myocarditis does not increase in the vaccinated. Wrong. Like natural immunity is inferior to the vaccine. Wrong. Like there was no funding for gain-of-function research. Wrong.
Go read the Cochrane Report, the most definitive scientific review board in the world . . . mister science.
Michael K
April 25, 2024 at 10:02 pm
Experts — and the Cochrane Library — say this is an inaccurate representation of what the review found.
“Many commentators have claimed that a recently-updated Cochrane Review shows that ‘masks don’t work’, which is an inaccurate and misleading interpretation,” Dr. Karla Soares-Weiser, the editor-in-chief of the Cochrane Library, said in a March 10 statement.
“It would be accurate to say that the review examined whether interventions to promote mask wearing help to slow the spread of respiratory viruses, and that the results were inconclusive,” she continued. “Given the limitations in the primary evidence, the review is not able to address the question of whether mask-wearing itself reduces people’s risk of contracting or spreading respiratory viruses.”
WGD
April 25, 2024 at 11:09 pm
It’s so funny when conservatives try and talk like they are smart. It’s like when a monkey wears a suit.
Ocean Joe
April 26, 2024 at 5:54 am
My overall comment should have been directed to the use of masks to prevent the spread of all disease including the common cold.
Glad to see a right winger believes in science.
Dont Say FLA
April 26, 2024 at 7:18 am
Fauci and Afghanistan both belonged to Donald Zzzzz Trump. He left them both for Biden. Biden kept them. Zzzzzz then attacked Biden for both messes Zzzzzz left for Biden. Here in 2024, you still do the same, Lil. Like it was 2020.
Cochrane. LOL. They just read Wikipedia and then rewrite stuff, making it sound medical and official.
Dont Say FLA
April 26, 2024 at 9:04 am
Which is better, natural immunity or the vaccine?
That is very easy to test.
Both natural immunity and the vaccine help a lot in preventing an individual from contracting Covid
How do you know you had the vaccine? You made an appointment and you went and got jabbed. And then if you got Covid and it was mild-to-nothin’.
How do you know you had natural immunity? You did definitely get Covid and it was mild-to-nothin’ despite your not having been jabbed.
How do you know you didn’t have the vaccine? You did not make any vax appointment and you did not get jabbed.
How you do know you didn’t have natural immunity? You got Covid that resulted in spending weeks in the hospital and/or dying alone on a ventilator.
Due to the wild variation between measurable outcomes across the above paths of evaluation, the vaccine wins, hands down.
The vaccine is better than natural immunity because you can know you are vaccinated without having to get Covid.
You can only find out you had, and the key here is that’s past tense by the time of discovery, you had (and still do still have, going forward for a second and subsequent bout with Covid) natural immunity. The only way to find out is get Covid, and because it turned out to be mild-to-nothin’ for ya, you can presume (pretty safely and accurately, imho) that you had and have natural immunity.
IOW if you’re anti-vax but if you’re interested in car safety, do you go crash cars to find out which car is the one that injures you the least when crashed? If not, why not? Obviously cares are expensive, but what if you could do that for free? Would you? The only risk of loss is your own health, so why not test crash cars yourself before buying a car?
MH/Duuuval
April 25, 2024 at 5:39 pm
This rascal has never been on a ventilator which, when one awakes, is like having a large wooden popsicle stick deep in your throat. No thanks, quack, I’ll wear the mask anywhere I please in public. You go ahead and get on the ventilator — might put more oxygen in your empty head.
Michael K
April 25, 2024 at 5:46 pm
What a disgrace. He’s just a political quack – not a serious healthcare professional.
Hung Wiil
April 25, 2024 at 8:22 pm
You’re disgraceful, Michael. You are the political quack. Looks like your projecting again.
PeterH
April 25, 2024 at 5:47 pm
What is wrong with Ladapo? Is it selfish narcissistic behavior?
Americans use of face masks during COVID had a direct impact on contagion! Americans wear face masks when they go grocery shopping SO THEY DON’T EXPOSE OTHERS TO A HEAD COLD THEY MAY HAVE!
I wear a face mask when I go to a packed theater …. so I don’t catch a cold before a 8 hour flight to Europe!
Think of others and you will also be well
April 26, 2024 at 1:58 am
Years ago I worked with the Tokyo office and some people came to visit during the swine flu epidemic. They all wore masks the entire time and practiced safety protocols. People asked about it because they were not ill. They said, “we are wearing these primarily for others’ benefit. That is how it works in Japan. Think of others first and you are made better as well.” I never forgot it and wish more people here would recognize this great truth.
Ocean Joe
April 26, 2024 at 6:03 am
THIS IS THE WHOLE POINT.
Used to see Japanese tourists wearing masks on airplanes decades ago, wondered what was wrong.
Selfishness is the calling card of the GOP.
Think of others and you will also be well
April 26, 2024 at 4:28 pm
They also had some choice things to say about American hygiene but I left that part out, lol. One person told me, for a culture that is so obsessed with how they look and smell, why do people not practice the most basic hygiene and considerate measures when it comes to not spreading diseases? Your people are always sick and missing work. In Japan that is considered a matter of shame. THAT was on point.
jean solomon
April 29, 2024 at 9:34 am
amerians are more concerned about how they smell than they are about personal cleanliness..here is a clue..take a shower, npw and then, and you won’t stink; amerians generally are dirtiest people..i’ve stopped going to public places as the odor of the ‘perfumes’ americans use to cover their stink.,is very hard on alllergies…DR’ la DOPEY was ‘asked’ to leave CALIF., becuse he is a germ-spreading fool…people ran when they saw hm coming into a biulding; so of course, Desantis hired him/
Richard D
April 25, 2024 at 6:15 pm
Dr. Ladapo is a smart man, and he’s a legitimate authority on viruses because he has a medical degree. He knows that, since viruses don’t exist, there’s no valid reason to wear a mask (nor to get any vaccine). Since he refuses to uphold the virus myth, they’ll get rid of him sooner or later, one way or another. He’s a whistleblower.
MH/Duuuval
April 25, 2024 at 10:42 pm
MAGA science — it’s not science.
Rick Whitaker
April 26, 2024 at 5:52 pm
richard, you’ve got to be a bot. no one is THAT deluded.
Speedy Gonzalez
April 26, 2024 at 8:13 pm
My cousin SloPoke says your right Mr. Whitaker. And Mr. Richard is a butt as SloPoke agreed to Mr. Rick who is good friends to SloPoke and Speedy too.
SG
Speedy Gonzalez
April 26, 2024 at 8:21 pm
My cousin SloPoke says Mr. earl misses mr. Rick and wants Mr. Rick to come back home.
SG
ScienceBLVR
April 25, 2024 at 7:24 pm
Day after day
Alone on a hill
The man with the foolish grin
Is keeping perfectly still
But nobody wants to know him
They can see that he’s just a fool
And he never gives an answer
But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning round….
Speedy Gonzalez
April 26, 2024 at 8:17 pm
My cousin SloPoke says he wants some of Mr. ScienceBLVD majic mushrooms SloPoke wants to take a trip and not ever leave the farm like Nr. ScienceBLVD too.
SG
Monday news
April 25, 2024 at 7:29 pm
He must be thinking about overpopulation therory. This creating a gaslighting (fib) to stay on top.
Hung Wiil
April 25, 2024 at 8:24 pm
Have you looked in the mirror, Monday?
Gaslighting? It was really stupid the first time, it is more lame the 10 billionth.
the truth
April 25, 2024 at 8:11 pm
masks do not protect you, get over It, the covid vaccines was created to cull the Hurd, to kill people on purpose…
My Take
April 25, 2024 at 8:39 pm
What a maroon.
Hung Wiil
April 25, 2024 at 8:59 pm
Were you alive between 2020-2023?
Michael K
April 26, 2024 at 12:34 am
The expression is “cull the herd,” a crude reference to livestock. Always best not to trust spellcheck. It sometimes says “maroon” when the writer intends to refer to someone as a “Moron.”
My Take
April 26, 2024 at 1:47 pm
“What a maroon.”
A classic American Bugs Bunny quote and expression.
My Take
April 26, 2024 at 1:51 pm
Bugs Bunny :
What a gulla-bull.
What a nin-cow-poop. What an im-bess-ill. What an ultra-maroon.
My Take
April 25, 2024 at 9:07 pm
I’ve never herd of the Hurd..
Hung Wiil
April 25, 2024 at 9:14 pm
Hurd was the first district court judge to rule Biden’s stupid vaccine mandate was unconstitutional. Hurd immunity rules!
My Take
April 25, 2024 at 9:11 pm
Laquacko or Lysenko?
Either one works.
MH/Duuuval
April 25, 2024 at 10:44 pm
Yesterday was the anniversary of DJT inviting folks to bleach themselves free of the virus.(Hey, works on kitchen surfaces and in the bathroom.)
Dont Say FLA
April 26, 2024 at 7:30 am
While Trump’s bleach ramble was astoundingly ignant, it felt like Trump was participating in what they thought was a brainstorming session like they used to do on the TV show that made Donald: Zzz Apprentice.
The Donaldzzzz apparently still hasn’t deduced how all those brain storming sessions and board room meetings on that TV series revealed old dude George as the only bright one
Too bad old dude George couldn’t have been a Trump Administration cabinet person. If George had been on Trump’s cabinet, Trump’s administration might have seen success. But old man George was not a cabinet member.
MH/Duuuval
April 26, 2024 at 5:47 pm
George Costanza?
KathrynA
April 25, 2024 at 9:16 pm
I guess if one hasn’t come close to dying from Covid or have immune deficiencies or other health issues–you wouldn’t understand. After losing 16 relatives and close friends in 18 months and almost dying myself, there is a reason to wear them. We have a neighbor who has been on dialysis for months from covid and still in a nursing home since contracting covid in January. This is not just any virus!
It could happen to you
April 26, 2024 at 2:25 am
K, So sorry you have suffered so much loss and those you know. It’s sad people don’t understand until they are in your shoes. The same people who say it’s not ok to ask them to do anything safety wise are also the ones who want to shame and force people not to do the things they need to to survive or care for their loved ones, even when it doesn’t affect them and it’s none of their business.. At this point if I need to mask because I’m caring for my dying family member, it’s no more business of yours than what tennis shoes I wear. I have loved ones with permanent damage and those cases happened in later waves not 4 years ago. Nobody gets it until it happens to them. The only reason we are still arguing about it as a nation is because it’s been weaponized by politicians and all it does is tear people apart. Who cares. I think we’ve had enough of so called doctors turned politicians. It never goes well.
Richard D
April 25, 2024 at 10:24 pm
Remdesivir, not COVID, kills. The alleged COVID virus has never been isolated. Scientists can’t isolate the virus because it doesn’t exist. Same with HIV, which is treated with deadly AZT. Standardized medical treatment of the alleged virus-infected victims is what kills them. Dr. Fauci is reported to own patents on some of the virus medications, such as Remdesivir. That’s how he exploited his government job and the American people to become a multi-millionaire.
MH/Duuuval
April 25, 2024 at 10:45 pm
This is the point overlooked by MAGA junior scientists — wearing a mask around vulnerable people helps the latter survive, such as your grandparents or favorite uncle and aunt.
My Take
April 25, 2024 at 11:09 pm
What MAGAteer would do anything the slightest inconvenient to help someone else?
Dont Say FLA
April 26, 2024 at 8:03 am
MAGAs will endure a slight inconvenience that produces a result of helping somebody else just as long as the MAGA gets the biggest, as perceived by them, the MAGAs, benefit for their efforts.
I can immediately think of three MAGAs who did something inconvenient to help someone else, a property owner they had never even met, but the thing they did was very fulfilling for their life’s hopes and dreams and that was the important part that got them off their couches.
Those guys are Travis McMichael, his father, Gregory McMichael, and their neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan of Satilla Shores, a residential area of Brunswick GA. What they did to “help” the proprty owner they’d never even met was hop in their pick up trucks and chase down a jogging Ahmaud Arbery and murder him to death.
They claimed Mr Arbery was stealing from that property and they was just helping the property owner Never mind the total absence of any stolen property on or near Mr Arbery’s corpse.
Dont Say FLA
April 26, 2024 at 7:21 am
Last time I had the Covid, I wore a mask anytime i HAD to go anywhere for about 2 weeks after my very mild symptoms were gone.
If that makes a stupid hay hole, then a stupid hay hole I shall again be next time I get the Covid and need to go anywhere (that alone being the grocery store) after my symptoms are gone.
the Devil
April 26, 2024 at 7:50 am
omg haha i had no idea this was our surgeon general – thanks PETE for informing me. he’s grreat. still disgusted by our governor though.
LOLZ
Dancing Outlaw
April 26, 2024 at 7:54 am
I would very much like for Joseph Ladapo to hide his face, but not with any mask. Mr Ladapo, just stay home and shuddup arready with all of your nonsense.
KathrynA
April 26, 2024 at 9:14 am
I guess most of the time, that’s what he’s doing? We only hear from him once in awhile with “stupid” comments and not anything where he is promoting public health in any way at all. I wonder if the University of Florida medical faculty have seen him yet, but he sure gets paid a big sum for the very little he does.
MH/Duuuval
April 26, 2024 at 10:05 am
The MAGA rule for media is to always be out front, hence MAGAs rotate creating chaos. This is Ladapo’s turn at the wheel. (How he gets along with his UF colleagues — if he ever gets around to being in the office — is a mystery, so far.)
Citizen
April 26, 2024 at 9:35 am
Ladapo has about as much integrity as AHCA Secretary Jason Weida, which is to say he has none at all.
MH/Duuuval
April 26, 2024 at 5:52 pm
You mean the MAGA bully boy who cut off so many children from Medicaid in Florida?
“Since the start of disenrollment last year, nearly 460,000 kids have lost Medicaid coverage. Only about 49,000 have successfully migrated to Florida KidCare, the state’s Children’s Health Insurance Program, also known as CHIP.
“It is unclear what has happened to the vast majority of children.”
https://health.wusf.usf.edu/health-news-florida/2024-03-25/thousands-florida-kids-lost-medicaid-now-some-have-no-coverage
My Take
April 26, 2024 at 4:09 pm
Today’s proudly ignorant conservatives.
Don’t believe in evolution or germs because they heard they were “theories.”
JD
April 26, 2024 at 4:50 pm
Lapado isn’t a conservative. He’s a f@cking opportunist grifting $640K from public money for doing next to nothing.
He’s a shill for DeSantis when he needed to find someone with “creds” to try and normalize the anti-masker retorhic.
F@ck him and DeSantis. Lapado is a token docter and should be ran out on the rails.
How about I use the stand my ground law against a sick unmasked coughing, shouting idiot at the next school board meeting, like the ex-cop did in the popcorn stadium in Tampa a bit back to the kid that threw popcorn at him?
“It’s not the heat, it’s the stupidity”
Jojo
April 27, 2024 at 8:51 pm
The sound you hear is me banging my head against the wall. Could we get a more stupid surgeon general???
Rick Whitaker
April 28, 2024 at 11:56 am
JOJO, maybe earl pitts wants the job.he’s wacko enough to serve desantis well, and he don’t know a thing about healthcare, another plus for desantis.
Joe
April 29, 2024 at 2:48 pm
This ridiculous person must be the dumbest doctor in America. Probably the most embarrassing of Tiny D’s many unqualified toady appointments.
rick whitaker
April 29, 2024 at 4:22 pm
JOE, keep it up lapdog, you’re making your handler look bad. i want desantis to look as bad as he possibly can.