Fla. surgeon general's call for people to stop relying on testing is a 'me first, forget everybody

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

else' approach, health expert says

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo's call for people to stop relying on COVID-19 testing is "consistent with an anti-public health approach to the pandemic" and a "me first, forget everybody else" way of thinking, a public health expert told Insider.

At a COVID-19 briefing Monday, Ladapo and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced the state will be shifting focus to testing "high-value" patients as cases surge due to the Omicron variant.

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Dr. Celine Gounder, an Infectious Disease Specialist and Epidemiologist at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, told Insider she sees this move as a focus on the individual rather than the community.

"Testing psychology is really about caring and looking out for others," she said. "Basically what they're saying is 'You don't need to worry about other people, you can just focus on yourself as the individual. You can make your individual decisions about whether you get infected or not, whether you get vaccinated or not, and you take responsibility for your individual decisions.'"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-surgeon-generals-call-people-215940793.html

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Denial insures ignorance, and ignorance is bliss.

[msongs]

2. his news conference statement was even worse - testing is biden's oppression tactic nt

[Diamond_Dog]

3. Typical selfish repuke reasoning

[blogslug]

4. He's part of that terrible group, America's Frontline Doctors

Which is precisely why Desantis appointed him.

[Piasladic]

5. "high-value" patients

Fuck them all. I am living in this cesspool, and Desantis can go straight to hell.

[FloridaBlues]

6. Unfortunately most Floridians doesn't know he exists as Surgeon general

[Shellback Squid]

7. up is down and down is up, makes perfect evil sense

[rockfordfile]

8. That pos should be locked up

[uponit7771]

9. Looks like Death Sentence is reducing the resources for testing so numbers will get better for him