The former Florida surgeon general is rebuking claims by the DeSantis administration that updated COVID-19 vaccines have “not been proven to be safe or effective” and that the shots should not be recommended for individuals under the age of 65.
The COVID vaccines remain “very, very safe, and have a really proven efficacy, particularly against preventing severe disease,” Dr. Scott Rivkees, the former Florida surgeon general during the initial years of the pandemic, told ABC News.
“If they say that COVID vaccines are not safe and that they are not effective, the onus is on them to show those data,” Rivkees said.
Isn’t it so convenient that all these politicians and government officials grow a spine after they retire and are no longer relevant.
Exactly. If you’re getting a straight answer from a Republican politician, you can damn near guarantee there’s a “former” in their title.
Obviously false claims that can lead to deaths made by popular, famous or political people should be punishable by jail time.
Fuck DeSantis, of course, but he isn’t the only one. Too many people out there that happily do whatever, even if it kills babies, as long as it gets them votes.
We should start holding people accountable for their actions. If a large group of people like you to you and you say some stupid shit that gets them killed, you SHOULD be on the hook for that.
The local polls here in Florida say that the majority of people think vaccines work but also believe in all sorts of conspiracy theories
The official hat of Florida is made of tinfoil and shaped like a sailboat
Half of Americans believe in at least one conspiracy theory.
I’m not one to believe a bunch of tinfoil hat conspiracies, but I absolutely believe in the theory that Musk and Spez are being paid by dark/right-wing big money to run Xwitter and Reddit into the ground. Both platforms had large amounts of liberal free speech, but many left after Musk’s purchase and Spez’s shenanigans. I do believe that it’s a clandestine effort to reduce the public speech of Democrats and left-leaning individuals off of two of the largest platforms. Both are hemorrhaging cash, but, if they’re being paid more under the table, it would make perfect sense.
Some of them are actually likely to be real, like the CIA being involved in the Kennedy assassination.
Like the rest of the world doesn’t? Lol
They sure do but we don’t have survey data proving it like we do for US.
I have a fear, that it might be pretty high in my country, Hungary.
Killing off members of your society and making women uneasy to get pregnant as a society is like shooting yourself in the lung. It’s bad and will only get worse with time.
Pfizer lawsuit incoming in 3…2…
The reason why the far-right hates vaccines is, that it gets rid of “nature’s eugenics program”. They want the people that are most affected by the virus (people with immune problems) to die from it, because that will surely make all of us look like people from Nazi propaganda. They might not directly say it, bit if you’re clever, you can get it out from them.
I don’t think they are that sophisticated in their thinking.
They are scared and ignorant. Fear is a big factor in right wing thinking. Conservative means fear of change. Ignorance means they don’t understand the world around them. A simple explanation of vaccines don’t work means you don’t have to understand anything. In fact you feel smart because you know something the smart people don’t. For once you have the knowledge. This correlates with the far rights action against education and schools. Education was a humiliation for them and they want vengeance.
