It is like the scene in The Wizard of Oz where Dorothy, the Tin Man, and the Scarecrow are fretting about the dangers of “lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” when the actual dangers they will face include, instead, a witch, flowers, and monkeys. Media have been promoting fear of a series of infections in America over the last couple years — measles, hantavirus, Ebola, and, most recently, cyclospora — though these diseases are far from the most significant threats to Americans’ health.
Tag: fearmongering
I first wrote about Joseph Ladapo in September of 2021, soon after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Ladapo to be the state’s surgeon general and run the state’s health department. “The new state surgeon general, in his comments at the Tuesday appointment announcement event,” I wrote in a Ron Paul Institute article, “spoke boldly in favor of freedom and against using health fearmongering, including the overstating of dangers from coronavirus, as an excuse to violate individual rights.”
Since then, Ladapo has acted on a number of occasions to advance liberty and health in the face of coronavirus fearmongering, including instances I have related in further articles. Ladapo refused US government shipment to the Florida government of coronavirus “vaccine” shots for babies and children ages four and younger, advised that men ages 19 to 39 not take the shots, and advised parents “Keep sticking with your intuition and keep those COVID jabs away from your kids” when yearly coronavirus shots were added to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s childhood vaccine schedule.