Dr. Strangelove Lives! Jack D. Ripper is Surgeon General!

"Your body is a gift from God," Dr. Ladapo tells us. 

Vaccine mandates, which is to say vaccines (which cannot work unless nearly 100% are vaccinated) are evil. "Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery."

So, there we have it. The surgeon general of the state of Florida has staked his claim to make Florida patient zero for the entire country. 

Texas was giving them a run for the most medieval stance on public health, but Florida will not be undone.

 Lunatic Fringe: Jack D. Ripper & Gov Strangelove

It will take some years, but we will surely see rising influenza and COVID 19 deaths in infants and young children and measles killing kids, gestational rubella presenting with deaf and deformed babies--rubella is part of the measles/mumps/rubella vaccine, the MMR, so no measles vaccine and you get the other two as a bonus.

 

Here's the best story in public health, though. It has nothing to do with vaccines, but it's all about sacrificing an individual's rights for the public health, the common good.

2025: Mad Cow  2040: Jacob Creutzfeld 

A farmer in Oregon has a cow who tested positive for Mad Cow disease. He owns 300 head of cattle and it is unclear how his cow got Mad Cow Disease, but likely it was feed contaminated with the causative agent, which is something called a prion, which is not a virus, not a bacteria. 

You cannot do a blood test for Mad Cow Disease--only see it on autopsy of the brain. So there's no way of selecting which cows of the herd of 300 have it; you have to sacrifice all 300. 

If one cow ate the wrong feed, they may all have done that. So all 300 have to be killed. 

If the cows are not sacrificed, there might be 30,000 hamburgers made from their infected meat. If their infectious agent is transmitted to human beings, the result is something called Jacob-Creutzfeld disease. But that doesn't happen for 15-20 years. It will definitely happen, just not immediately

This is the farmer's livelihood. You are violating his property rights. You are telling him to do something he does not want to do for the sake of the community, for the sake of all those 30,000 Americans out there who will eat hamburgers made from his mad cows. Not every single hamburger eater will get Mad Cow/Jacob Creutzfield disease, but nobody can say how many. 

Prion disease causes Mad Cow disease in cattle, but when human beings eat hamburgers or other stuff from infected cattle, 15-20 years later they get  Jacob-Creutzfeld  disease which presents as a person who develops rapid onset of dementia and spasmodic muscle movements and quickly become bedridden and dies, drooling and twitching in bed. A horrific death. Caused by an infectious agent. Undetectable by blood tests. Potentially thousands of unsuspecting victims.

But that doesn't happen for 15-20 years.

All our current politicians will be dead or gone by then. (Including Dr. Ladapo and Gov. Desantis.)

But if public health officials insist on culling that herd, is that "slavery" as Dr. Ladapo calls it? Is this a violation of civil rights as Governor Desantis calls it? 

We are clearly insisting this individual, this farmer do something he does not want to do--kill all his cows. We call that acting for the common good, but we are trampling all over individual rights to do it.

Or is it protection for the nation?

That thing we call "public health?"