Florida’s firebrand surgeon general is calling for use of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to be stopped.
Joseph Ladapo, M.D., wrote a letter to Robert Califf, M.D., commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Mandy Cohen, M.D., MPH, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), last month. He cited a preprint study from October, which was not peer reviewed or published in a medical journal, claiming there are “nucleic acid contaminants” in both the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines.
Dr. Ladapo claims, without sufficient backing, that these contaminants can lead to the development of cancer, and damage a person’s blood, heart, lungs, liver, kidney and other organs.
The FDA replied to the surgeon general that there was no evidence the shots posed these types of danger, according to a statement from the Florida Department of Health on Wednesday.
That doesn’t change what I said, though. Not voting is effectively a form of voting. Just choosing “none of the above” instead of choosing one of the options.
Unfortunately it’s typically the least effective choice one can make.
Not voting isn’t even choosing “none of the above”, that would at least be informative as a protest. I could even imagine a system where it’s a meaningful choice, for example if “none of the above” gets the majority of votes then the election is re-run and none of the previous candidates are eligible for the second attempt.
Not voting is choosing “I want what everyone who is actually voting picks.”
I mean, yes, choosing a literal “none of the above” options would be more motive. Typically there’s not that option, though. The point was that people who don’t show up to vote, whether it’s motivated by disinterest or desire to protest the system, are effectively the same thing.