It's an extreme, albeit predictable, irony that the years of imperious, novel public health mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic are giving way to a backlash against once-routine, noncontroversial vaccination requirements.
This was evidenced yesterday when Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo said at a press conference with Gov. Ron DeSantis that he would work to end all vaccine mandates in the state, including the default requirement that children be vaccinated in order to attend public schools.
"Who am I as a government or anyone else or…[as] a man standing here right now to tell you what you should put in your body?" said Ladapo, making the extreme libertarian case for what was until a few years ago a seemingly fringe libertarian policy.
