Last month I introduced you to Joseph Ladapo, the new surgeon general of Florida.

An immigrant from Nigeria, Ladapo holds his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. from the Harvard School of Public Health.

So when he says lockdowns are a public health disaster, and vaccines should not be mandated, he sends the guardians of allowable opinion into a special kind of frenzy.

Here's what he said yesterday, stitched together from remarks to the media:

"As we now know, these vaccines are not preventing transmission. Sure, they reduce the likelihood of transmission — and even that is sort of questionable depending on how far out you go — but they're not preventing it. I've heard some leaders say things like, 'We'll create safe workplaces by mandating these vaccines.' Well, they're really decoupled. Because the infection can still happen whether people are vaccinated or not. I mean, that's very obvious.

"You remember, these people were also telling you that all these breakthrough infections were rare. Well, they're obviously not rare. In fact, they're common.