"The Florida Department of Health, in partnership with the governor, is going to be working to end all vaccine mandates in Florida law," he said at a press conference. "All of them."Every last one is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.
"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."
The surgeon general reiterated that neither he nor the government had the right to force vaccines upon people and urged those listening to take that power away from the government and make their own informed decisions.
Ladapo said the Florida Department of Health was able to start the process by striking down rules established by his predecessors that mandated several vaccines, and then his department would work with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state’s lawmakers to eliminate the rest of the mandates.