Florida’s Rates of Both Covid Infection and Covid Deaths Falls to Lowest Levels In Country, Leaving Media Stumped: Have We Finally Found a Covid Story For Which DeSantis Is Not to Blame?

Florida’s COVID-19 death rate per 100,000 is the 13th highest in the country.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/us-coronavirus-deaths-by-state-july-1.html

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Seeds Of Our Own Destruction

Our policy toward handling the COVID-19 pandemic has been fatally flawed from the outset. It has turned what should have been a manageable event into a disaster. Now it threatens to kill a very large portion of the people on the planet.

COVID-19 emerged as a fairly mild disease. It was easily communicable but rarely lethal unless the victim was already suffering from serious comorbidities. The U.S. seems to work overtime to conceal the exact average age of people dying of COVID here, but the United Kingdom says the average for people dying there is 82. About 78% of people who have been hospitalized, needed a ventilator, or died from Covid-19 have been obese. The survival rate is for most people is well in excess of 99%.

There are a number of available and effective therapeutics for COVID. Had we focused on effective early care of the sick and safeguarded vulnerable populations like nursing home residents the pandemic would be largely over. We would have achieved herd immunity and moved on.

It was not to be. The pharmaceutical industry recognized an opportunity to make unprecedented profits. Government bureaucrats and ambitious politicians saw a chance to crush individual liberties and gain undreamed-of power. Hydroxychloroquine and other drugs were shoved aside. Early treatment was effectively forbidden. Our entire national plan for handling a pandemic was scrapped in favor of lockdowns and forcing the entire population to take still largely experimental vaccines.

The futility of the exercise has been increasingly evident for some time:

The Irish County of Waterford has a vaccination rate of 99.7%. That county now has the highest per capita case rate of COVID in all of Ireland. That rate is three times the national average.

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Israel has a vaccination rate in excess of 85%. Its COVID cases have skyrocketed. Four out of five people in the hospital with COVID have been fully vaccinated.

Britain is seeing a similar development. Cases are exploding. Three-quarters of the people dying of COVID are fully vaccinated.

China is reeling. The nation that brought us lockdowns is seeing a wave of new cases. The nation has vaccinated 1.07bn of its 1.41bn population against COVID, and cases are rising by the day. Lockdowns are back. Disneyland in Shanghai is once again closed.

The vaccines forced on the public worldwide are worthless. At best they give immunity against the original strain of the virus, which is now effectively extinct. The virus has mutated. It has moved on. The vaccines do not protect against the new variants, because unlike natural immunity they convey at most a very narrow, limited kind of protection.

We cannot vaccinate our way out of this pandemic. That much has been clear for some time. What is now becoming apparent, however, is that we are not only prolonging the pandemic and delaying the achievement of herd immunity. In the process, we are spurring the virus to become more lethal.

“In parallel with universal vaccination, more infectious strains have rapidly expanded in prevalence…Contrary to live vaccines, vaccines produced by modern vaccine technologies fail to induce sterilizing immunity. Failure to do so inevitably leads to selection and adaptation of more and more infectious variants and eventually forces the virus into resistance to neutralizing Abs [antibodies] in order to survive.”

GEERT VANDEN BOSSCHT, PHD
DVM, PHD)

Just how lethal COVID may become is terrifying. According to a recent report from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) in the United Kingdom, the virus could evolve into a disease comparable to the Black Death in its lethality. SAGE believes it is a real possibility that COVID will evolve into a disease that kills one out of every three people it infects.

“Scenario one: The Delta variant mutates to a point of increased lethality. Under this scenario, the virus has the potential to kill between 10 and 35% of people infected, as did SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, up from the 1 to 2% lethality, characteristic of the current strains.”

Unfortunately, the indications are that this is already happening. Dr. Kirsten Patrick had this to say recently in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ).

“New research shows that SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs) are more virulent than the native strain, in addition to being more transmissible. Fisman and Tuite used Ontario’s COVID-19 case data to estimate the virulence of the Alpha/B1.1.17, Beta/B.1.351, Gamma/P.1 and Delta/B.1.617 variants compared with the initial wild-type strain of SARS-CoV-2. They found higher risks of hospitalization, admission to intensive care, and death with VOCs, particularly the Delta variant.

Canada is battling a different pandemic from the one it faced in early 2020. The virus has become smarter and more dangerous, which means that we need to be smarter too. Canada’s governments can keep people safe by enacting policies that wisely combine all the measures that have been shown to be effective.”

DR. KIRSTEN PATRICK, INTERIM EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, CMAJ

To date, our grotesque mishandling of the COVID pandemic has been a matter of individual liberty, economics, and government overreach. None of that is inconsequential. When we are faced with a government, which seeks to strip us of our constitutional rights, the situation is grave.

Now, though, we are faced with a threat even more elemental. We are faced with the possibility that we are, in effect, training the virus to kill us. We are driving it to evolve, become more lethal and more uncontrollable.

The Black Death killed one-third of the people in Europe in the 1300s. Cities were depopulated. Entire streets were torn up to be turned into mass graves. Civilization itself teetered on the edge of destruction.

We are facing the possibility of turning COVID into a monster of comparable proportions. We are sowing the seeds of our own destruction.

https://andmagazine.com/talk/2021/11/01/seeds-of-our-own-destruction/

Nov. 11, 2021 – Ron DeSantis’ surgeon general got his medical license approved in just two days
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It’s been just a few days since Florida Surgeon General was attacked by former colleagues at UCLA for inflating his resume and lying about his work during the COVID-19 crisis in Los Angeles hospitals.

The Florida Ledger reported Wednesday that Dr. Joseph Ladapo’s medical license was approved in just two days, a process that normally takes 2-6 months, the board’s website says. The fact was also confirmed by medical and legal professionals who know the process. The report also noted that all of the members of the 15 person Board of Medicine were approved by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL). The governor has been criticized for more than a year for his handling of the pandemic, concealing data about how many people in the state got the virus or died from it and other concerns.

“As a physician, this revelation raises further grave concerns about Dr. Ladapo,” said Dr. Mona Mangat, a St. Petersburg allergist and immunologist in an email to paper. “Fast-tracking of his medical license and placement in the University of Florida as a professor additionally undermines our trust in this man.”

(So why would THIS guy be chosen? Read on.)

Ladapo, who is currently anti-mask, anti-vaccine for children, and a supporter of the drug Hydroxychloroquine and the animal dewormer Ivermectin, previously taught at UCLA’s medical school where he claimed he was with the COVID-19 task force. While UCLA won’t answer questions about Dr. Ladapo, colleagues of his disputed the claim.

“I was part of the team that was taking care of COVID-19 patients in the beginning of the pandemic, and Dr. Ladapo was not part of that team,” said one UCLA doctor who worked on the UCLA COVID-19 Task Force. “There were two separate groups, General Medicine and ICU, plus a volunteer program to take care of COVID-19 patients. Dr. Ladapo was not part of either. It was a small group of people, a task force. Everyone knew everyone. He wasn’t there.”

Faculty at the University of Florida’s College of Medicine have complained that Ladapo “sidestepped” the normal process for getting tenure at the state-funded institution. In that case, his tenure process was approved in just two weeks with the help of a large Republican donor to Ron DeSantis, Mori Hosseini, who serves on the Board of Trustees.

“Ladapo submitted his medical school license Sept. 8, records show, just days after Hosseini forwarded his resume to Dr. David Nelson, senior vice president of health affairs for the University of Florida and president of UF Health,” said The Ledger.

Dr. Mangat, who serves on the board of the Committee to Protect Health Care signed and submitted a letter along with 350 other Florida physicians who asked for vetting of Ladapo at the next legislative session.

“We urge you to exercise your authority to ask questions of this nominee, given your role in confirming them, to clarify Dr. Ladapo’s commitment to the health and safety of all Floridians during the pandemic,” the letter said.

(But WAIT! There’s MORE!)

It also calls into question Ladapo’s membership to the controversial America’s Frontline Doctors, a right-wing conspiracy group of medical workers who have pushed everything from alien DNA being in all U.S. medicines to the Magic 8-Ball toy being an example of witchcraft.

“I imagine Dr. Ladapo’s association with the fringe group ‘America’s Frontline Doctors’ … and his past incorrect comments about COVID-19 vaccines and masks should disqualify him from a medical license, let alone becoming surgeon general,” Mangat said. “Unfortunately though, it seems these dangerous, quacky views are the precise ones Gov. DeSantis was looking for in a surgeon general, to support his politics-over-public-health approach to the pandemic.”

(America’s Frontline Doctors are hardcore Trumpistas. They’re also the people who set up a telemarketing apparatus to prescribe and sell hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin by telephone at a huge markup, with a percentage of profits going into their own pockets.)
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DeSantis is positioning himself for a presidential run in 2024. He’s the same sort of bullshit artist as Trump himself. They peddle the same snake oil and exploit much of the same nonsense. You can practically read DeSantis’s mind, no Magic 8-Ball required. He thinks he can try for the top slot of the Don doesn’t run, or maybe slip into the VP slot as heir apparent.

https://www.rawstory.com/florida-surgeon-general-medical-license/