According to an article in Zero Hedge, the state of Florida is taking steps to remove all the imposed mandates concerning the Covid so-called “vaccines”. Yes, that’s right, all of them. To which I can only say, “It’s about time. They never should have ordered them in the first place.” But, credit where credit is due, and this is a positive development.
That being said, I am not pleased with Florida’s Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo’s philosophical argument in his announcement as he fudges what the real issue is.
“Who am I, as a government, or anyone else, or who am I as a man standing here now to tell you what you should put in your body? Who am I to tell you what your child should put in their body?
“I don’t have that right. Your body is a gift from God. What you put into your body is because of your relationship with your Body and your God.”
Ladapo manages in just a few short sentences to shift the argument from one of imposed mandates by a power-grabbing, totalitarian wanna-be State to one more to the liking of “libertarians” everywhere, namely, the sovereignty an individual has over his or her own body. Indeed, who is Ladapo (or anyone else, for that matter) to tell anyone at all how they SHALL treat themselves? Isn’t the base principle of libertarianism the concept that everyone can decide for themselves how they live? With respect to this, he is saying nothing new and, really, nothing at all.
The point that he avoids, however, is not one of individual, sovereign choice but the fact that injecting the shots has not been voluntary, but forced on people by the very same government which Ladapo is a part of. If he was entirely truthful, his words would have looked like this: “Who am I, as a government,…to tell you what you WILL put into your body?” No, no, even that is not correct. Let’s try again. “Who am I, as a government,…to tell you what someone else WILL put into your body, completely overriding any objection you might have?” Furthermore, “Who am I to tell you what your child WILL have injected into their body, against their (and your) will and consent?”
This has nothing to do with bodily autonomy or personal freedom and everything with understanding that the anti-Covid tide is running strong against TPTB and the scam which was foisted on the world. In some areas, it still has life but the monstrous beast which destroyed liberty over the course of a few years can be seen struggling and thrashing about, trying to maintain its viability. Ladapo recognizes the trend and is trying to get ahead of the curve by throwing out a bone, but I am willing to bet that if the Establishment had won the battle, we would never hear anything like this…from anyone. Instead, the only thing which would have been voiced is the injunction to–“Get Your Booster!”, and the giddy, gleeful (or not) pronouncements by the Bought and Paid For “news media” that Donald “Cap’n Warp Speed” Trump has won again.
I’m glad to see the state of Florida taking the lead on this issue but, please, please don’t muddy the waters. Either individual people are secure in their own rights or the State can tell them what they will do. There are no other alternatives. There is no other option.
Poor Roger's Almanac 
““Who am I, as a government, or anyone else, or who am I as a man standing here now to tell you what you should put in your body? Who am I to tell you what your child should put in their body?“
Mmmm. Does this mean Florida will soon eliminate laws regarding regulated (“illegal”) drugs?
Ladapo’s statement could have just as easily been, “Who am I, as a government, or anyone else, or who am I as a man standing here now to tell you what you should NOT put in your body? Furthermore, who am I to tell you what you WILL NOT?” This is only the latest twist in the “war on drugs” which goes back at least as far as Prohibition, the 18th Amendment, when government driven by a lot of busy-body do-gooders determined that, “By Government, you will NOT drink alcohol!”
C.S. Lewis’s quote is apropos.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”