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Covid-19 - Treatments & Vaccines

Covid-19 - Treatments & Vaccines

Science tells us there’s no difference between meeting a colleague whose vaccination/testing status you know about and trust and meeting a vocally anti-vax anti-mask person who you don’t know personally.
 
wakephan09 said:
Lol this dude is no surgeon. Trained in internal medicine, maybe did some research, then transitioned to policy
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Oh, ok…we’ll, he probably chose internal medicine over surgery because it’s hard to communicate with a mask covering half his face.
 
wakephan09 said:
Lol this dude is no surgeon. Trained in internal medicine, maybe did some research, then transitioned to policy
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I think he’s a cardiologist, right? If so, he did 3 years of internal med and then 3 years of cardiology, during which he had a lot of masked conversations in the cath and EP labs.
 
[h=1]Joseph Ladapo is unfit to be Florida’s surgeon general, and the Senate needs to reject him | Editorial[/h]

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opi...0211025-4komctq4wfconhzopzduj5lxy4-story.html

We’ll soon find out whether politics still has any boundaries for bad behavior.
The Florida Senate still has to confirm Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo who, barely a month after his appointment by Gov. Ron DeSantis, has already committed one of the most egregious breaches of professional etiquette we can recall.

The news site Florida Politics reported over the weekend that, while meeting with state Sen. Tina Polsky in her office last week, Ladapo refused to wear a mask even after Polsky asked him to.
Such a refusal from a doctor — during a pandemic — would be shocking enough, but Ladapo refused even after Polsky informed him that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.

Polsky, a Democrat from Boca Raton, has already had surgery and is scheduled to begin radiation treatments for her cancer. She was trying to take precautions since a positive COVID test could delay her treatment, Florida Politics reported.
Ladapo, according to Polsky, didn’t care, refusing to put on a mask despite her requests. She finally asked Ladapo to leave her office. Ladapo’s parting shot to Polsky: “Sometimes I try to reason with unreasonable people for fun.” Hilarious.

What kind of person — what kind of physician — refuses such a simple request from a cancer patient in the midst of a pandemic caused by a highly contagious and deadly airborne virus?
An arrogant, self-absorbed crank, that’s who.

There used to be a day when this incident would have doomed a political appointment.
We understand that day is mostly gone, and outrageous, unacceptable behavior has become the norm. But Florida’s state Senate, which still must approve Ladapo’s appointment, has to draw the line and reject this indecency.

There must be a bottom to the kind of conduct the Senate is willing to tolerate. It must reject Joseph Ladapo’s appointment and send him on his way, because one thing’s for sure: This guy isn’t going to resign even though he should.

We were encouraged that Senate President Wilton Simpson had the integrity to denounce Ladapo’s behavior, sending a memo to his fellow senators that said in part, “What occurred in Senator Polsky’s office was unprofessional and will not be tolerated in the Senate.”

The coming days may reveal whether Simpson’s fellow Republicans can muster the courage to speak out against Ladapo’s behavior. What they do, or fail to do, will tell us whether there are any behavioral boundaries left in Florida politics.
Senators already have plenty of reasons to reject the appointment of Ladapo, whose skepticism about masks as a means of slowing viral transmission is well documented.
Even more dangerous is the surgeon general’s increasingly radical position on vaccines. At a recent news conference he cast doubt on the effectiveness of vaccines and seemed eager to talk about “adverse reactions” to the them. He seems willfully oblivious to the countless lives vaccines saved during the delta outbreak, compared with the tiny number of “adverse reactions” of any consequence.
There’s more. Right out of the box after his appointment, Ladapo signed an irresponsible order that ended mandatory quarantines for school children who have been exposed to COVID, leaving it up to parents to decided whether a child should return to school to potentially infect other kids.

We knew all of that weeks ago. Now we also know that the physician who DeSantis chose to shape health policy in Florida can’t be bothered to mask up at the request of a person with breast cancer.
We wonder what DeSantis, whose wife Casey recently announced a breast cancer diagnosis of her own, would feel if someone refused her request to put on a mask or otherwise respect her health-care wishes. We hope that as a caring spouse he’d be appalled and furious.
Everyone should be furious about Ladapo’s boorish behavior. If he’s willing to put a cancer patient at risk to satisfy his ego, how can Floridians possibly trust Ladapo to act in their best interests?
The state Senate needs to turn Ladapo away, and insist that DeSantis appoint someone with at least an ounce of empathy for others.
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…She finally asked Ladapo to leave her office. Ladapo’s parting shot to Polsky: “Sometimes I try to reason with unreasonable people for fun.” Hilarious.

What kind of person — what kind of physician — refuses such a simple request from a cancer patient in the midst of a pandemic caused by a highly contagious and deadly airborne virus?
An arrogant, self-absorbed crank, that’s who.

There used to be a day when this incident would have doomed a political appointment.
We understand that day is mostly gone, and outrageous, unacceptable behavior has become the norm. But Florida’s state Senate, which still must approve Ladapo’s appointment, has to draw the line and reject this indecency…
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Yep.

The doctor is not a good doctor.
 
deac_tracy said:
lol at Angus falling for that. Doctors regularly have conversations with their patients with masks on. Even pre-pandemic.

Angus's gotcha posts in gif form.

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Covid-19 - Treatments & Vaccines

People also have conversations people whose faces are covered at Halloween parties.
 
Damn. That was quick. I took the personal shot out.
 
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