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Missouri House advances bill to limit nonexistent vaccine microchips—just in case
The bill aims to stop COVID vaccine mandates while promoting conspiracy theories.
In the latest efforts by Republican lawmakers to enshrine into law Americans' right to freely spread deadly infectious diseases to each other, the Missouri House this week advanced a bill that would bar governments, schools, and employers from mandating certain vaccines—as well as things like vaccine microchips, which do not exist.
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The bill specifically bars requirements for people to receive COVID-19 vaccines. But it doesn't stop there. It also bars any requirements for people to receive "a dose of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA)," thus barring requirements for any future mRNA-based vaccines, should they be needed in upcoming pandemics or outbreaks. It also bars requirements for "any treatment or procedure intended or designed to edit or alter human deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or the human genome," and "any mechanical or electronic device" that would be placed "under the skin."
Would Missouri also ban this tooth mounted sensor?
Nothing surprises me any more. We now live in a world where Marjorie Taylor Greene is the face of the Republican party and says that 9/11 was fake but Q-Anon is real, and the 2020 election was stolen.
I hear there is money to be made writing conspiracy theories for certain web sites or telling lies on certain cable news channels. Maybe even lobbying legislators in certain states.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 24, @04:17PM (6 children)
And when the 5G transponders achieve full power, the nanotech embedded in the mRNA vaccines will ensure you "hear" much more about this!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 24, @04:45PM (5 children)
Why bother with nano transmitters when people will willingly pay hundreds of dollars to shove pods into their ears using currently available technology?
Tim Cook could be subliminally broadcasting subversive ideas into people's subconscious. But, no, it's the 5G vaccine, duh.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 24, @05:26PM (1 child)
Indeed. It's also my understanding that there's this guy who also wants to sell you a pillow.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Sunday March 26, @03:17PM
I wonder how many brain control microchips are in those pillows?
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 24, @07:27PM
Mind control over wireless earbuds that people are free to remove? Congratulations, not only is this is the worst conspiracy theory ever but if you were wearing airpods as onmuamua passed by - you'd know the aliens have already denied it!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25, @08:35AM
They're all smokescreens, but believe what you want. The mind control works by modulating the power grid with complex subharmonic orthogonal phase distortions, which in turn modulate our brain waves. Don't believe me? Here's something [jefferson.edu] they're willing to tell you, but again, it's all diversionary smokescreen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25, @12:07PM
Subliminally broadcasting ideas huh? You should be less worried about Tim Cook and more worried about GP's humor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manchurian_Candidate [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiday_in_Cambodia [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 24, @04:33PM (10 children)
Azumi, bless her, has plans for exile in Canoodlia.
What paths the rest of you in a neo-medieval theocrazy?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 24, @05:24PM (2 children)
I'm eyeing possibilities in Central and South America. Desiderata include a somewhat (more) stable government than the USA and good health care. Haven't quite made any final decisions but I am now nervously looking at my possible exit strategies. Just so you know.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25, @08:38AM (1 child)
How's your español?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25, @10:49AM
Currently working on it. My goal is to be (semi-)fluent within a year.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Saturday March 25, @02:39AM (6 children)
Not voting for it.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25, @04:59AM (5 children)
(Score: 2, Touché) by khallow on Saturday March 25, @12:31PM (4 children)
So by this conspiracy theory are you concerned that people are "radicalized" or merely not "radicalized" in a way you prefer?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 26, @01:26AM (2 children)
Hi from not-America.
Are you saying the discourse of the Trump Party (GOP) since 2016 via alleged Q-Anon inspired individuals such as Taylor-Greene, Santos and Boebert is entirely normal?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by khallow on Sunday March 26, @02:58AM (1 child)
Actually yes. US politics has a long and crazy history of crazy. I'll steer you to Millerites and Know-Nothings for 19th Century examples. Salem witch hunts for a 17th Century example (pilgrims were crazy for way longer than that, this is just a near peak crazy). When you can point to examples from well before the US actually existed, then you're not talking about a recent phenomenon!
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Sunday March 26, @03:24PM
Great Britain sent their crazies and radical puritan religious nutjobs to the "new world". [fandom.com]
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 27, @04:52AM
Truely, khallow, you are a raving idiot, a moron, a relativist, a moral nihilist, and you argue in bad faith. Preferences have nothing to do with it. We are talking about reality, and knowing it, sort of like science, not some adolescent fantasy like libertarianism or TeaParty/MAGA racism. Or are you actually hemo/fusty in sock drag?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 24, @05:37PM
This is all part of the grand strategy to Make America Grate Again!
I forget: Was it P.T. Barnum who said that there's a sucker born every minute? Anyway, there is apparently lots of money to be made fleecing gullible consumers of Faux "News"!
(Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Friday March 24, @06:12PM (2 children)
This one is pretty funny too:
Back when republicans were pretending to care about freedom from government interference in your healthcare they passed a law to prohibit it.
And now that they have flip flopped again that very same law prohibited their attempt to prohibit abortion!
Wyoming judge blocks state abortion ban, citing anti-ObamaCare amendment pushed by conservatives [theweek.com]
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25, @05:41PM
Modded troll? Guess the rightwing nutters took a few weeks break and are back to shit it up some more! Calling out the hypocrites, how dare you!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 27, @03:58PM
I do so love the smell of freshly hoist petard in the morning!
(Score: 5, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Friday March 24, @06:16PM (13 children)
I was interested to read that, as I suspected, bullying and bullpucky rose sharply during the presidency of a president who practices such things so blatantly and endlessly. It sets or at the least enhances the tone, and many people are suggestible.
"Homo Fascist" I had thought thoroughly discredited and reduced by WWII. In the 1950s, Eisenhower, as the leader of the Republican Party, helped squash McCarthyism, the demagoguery of those days. While that movement did damage, it never attained the power of the mightiest fascist movements of the 1930s and 1940s, and one might have hoped it was fascism's final whimper. Further erosion of fascism came with the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s, then in the early 1970s, Roe vs Wade and the fall of Nixon. Likely Nixon would never have been elected if Bobby Kennedy hadn't been assassinated. But then, things started reversing. Now among many other things, Roe vs Wade has fallen. More book bans are being tried. How could fascism make a big comeback in the late 2010s? Where did we go wrong?
Is it that education gave the matter short shrift? I remember that in the World History class in high school, events were presented as happenings without much connection. Maybe it's that science has been slow to study fascism? And got a lot of things wrong? Many of Freud's ideas are today known to be just plain wrong. But Freud didn't live all that long ago-- died just before WWII. A book such as Altemeyer's The Authoritarians was first published in the 2000s. Does this seriously mean the information and findings presented in that book were unknown before then?
One thing I feel was lacking in my college education was a class for engineers on how to deal with bad management. The attitude was that it was unnecessary, a mere distraction from Real Problems-- that is, engineering problems, because such social problems were trivial, easily handled by anyone capable of engineering. Seemed to believe that the merits would ultimately win out. In high school, I had to watch myself. Keep in mind that there were a lot of jerks who would like nothing better than to beat up the smart kids, and not because the smart kids did anything to them, no, excepting that "ruining the curve" counts in their heads as harm. I was careful never to go to any place the bullying scum hung out. They made it easier by being territorial. There was a central courtyard where smoking was allowed, and they took that area over. The other territory they staked out was the back of the bus, very obviously to be as far as possible from any observation or discipline the bus driver might mete out. In college, they were no longer a concern. Those kinds of loser, unwilling students were nowhere to be found. College shelters students from that perhaps a little too well.
Now I think everyone is much more aware of all the tricks of bullies and fascists. Haven't entirely worked out ways to deal with it, but our knowledge of the problems has, I believe, grown considerably.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday March 26, @03:45AM (12 children)
Rather simply actually: abuse the language (particularly the definition of fascism) combined with hand wringing hysteria. I suggest a dictionary and growing up to solve your weighty problem here.
Why do you think a college education could have helped you with bad management through an explicit class? Bad management 417 - a history of blaming the victim strategies in colonized Africa and evaluating how they could be done better.
You had bad professors, right?
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Sunday March 26, @12:28PM (11 children)
> I suggest ... growing up
A good example of the very sort of gaslighting to which bad managers subject engineers.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday March 26, @01:01PM (10 children)
And yet, you're the problem, and the fix. I wish more people would learn from the spectacle of recent Russian propaganda: one can get a lot of propaganda mileage out of talking up fascist threats - even other fascists! No one has shown that there is a significant fascist threat in the US. It's just over the top drama.
I suggest the following: look at real world historical fascism - for example, Germany and Italy before the Second World War, or say the Ba'athists of the Middle East (who were a combination of fascism and communism) after the end of the Second World War. Look at the problems they caused even before they rose to power - deaths, disruptions of society, etc. And those were real fascists, not merely authoritarians mislabeled as fascists.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 27, @01:49PM (9 children)
Jan 6th, secret police grabbing people in unmarked vans, "freedom of speech zones", voting suppression, protest suppression, the list goes on. Only propagandists like yourself pretend the truth is wildly diffefent from reality, aka propaganda.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday March 27, @03:17PM (8 children)
In other words, one protest of the wrong sort, federal shenanigans in Portland in 2020, "freedom of speech zones" which do allow protesting, gerrymandering, protest suppression which wasn't very suppressing. Some of that isn't great, but it's not significant either. My take is that if that's what you have to complain about, then we're doing ok. Not great, but ok.
You will no doubt come up with the reality of which you speak at some point. In the meantime, is this all you got?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 27, @07:22PM (7 children)
So we're at the step of "ok so it happened but wasn't thay bad so why are you whining"?
Arguing in bad faith is such a conservative staple. Interesting how everyone else has to take your statements at face value while you get to ignore reality and play innocent.
Until you acknowledge Trump's failed insurrection you have zero credibility. You are not actually an idiot, so clearly you are a rightwing propagandist downplaying the Republican's attempt to seize control of the US to implement a religious ethno state. The GOP has been very clear on their goals, and you carry water for them, so don't get mad when people point out your lies. Maybe try not being pro-fascism? At the very least you are more Murrican than Russian, so maybe there is hope for those like you not t o t a l l y corrupt just ideologically.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday March 27, @07:32PM (6 children)
We were already at that point at the start and you've presented nothing to change that. Sorry, you're making mountains of molehills.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 27, @11:27PM (5 children)
Fascist continues to downplay fascism #ShOcKeR
First they came for the transexuals.......
Seriously, you are an immoral shitbag.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday March 27, @11:55PM (4 children)
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28, @06:17PM (3 children)
Fascist apologist now tries to make label meaningless. Y'all did that with nazi and got some traction since the GOP had not yet started using nazi symbolism at CPAC and Trump had not yet displayed the GOP's naked fascism.
Only libertarian morons that spew 'both sides' rhetoric think there is no problem with fascism in the US. ACKSHUALLY that is not true. You types are happy to accuse liberals of being fascist, as always your hypocrisy is set to full.
So get fucked fascist! Once you stop defending fascism we can entertain the possibility that you are more than a corpirate boot licking stoogeagandist.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday March 28, @07:18PM (2 children)
Indeed. There's a lot of projection here.
"You types". So we're no longer talking about me or my behavior. I catch on to these games fast.
Give me a reason why I should care.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 30, @09:53AM
C'mon, khallow! Buck up, boy! You are not worthless. You are kinda fascist, or at least fascist adjacent or fascist supporting. Are you Bi-curious or have you ever wanted to be a Proud Boy? Perhaps enlist in the Navy? Do you like Gladiator movies?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31, @03:30PM
Ain't no game son! Save your soul, reject Randian self-flaggelation!
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 24, @08:17PM
Bill Gates says:
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by deimtee on Saturday March 25, @05:40AM (12 children)
I actually agree with most of those laws. Note that they are not laws against RNA vaccines or microchips or editing your DNA. They are laws against forcing anyone to have RNA injected or microchips implanted or have their DNA edited.
No, but based on the above laws they might ban forcing everyone to have it installed.
No problem is insoluble, but at Ksp = 2.943×10−25 Mercury Sulphide comes close.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25, @06:30AM (2 children)
Yep. Vaccine mandates are tyranny. Make way for Measles 2: Electric Boogaloo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25, @11:05AM (1 child)
We can vaccinate against measles morbillivirus, we cannot vaccinate against influenza or coronavirus. What would your position be if a neo-malthusian elite went full agent Smith?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday March 26, @03:47AM
Except, of course, with influenza and coronavirus vaccines. Or maybe it's illegal in your country to vaccinate against those particular diseases? The bill above is a bill not a law.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25, @08:50AM
First they want to be shown.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Sunday March 26, @03:45PM (7 children)
I don't want to force you to get vaccinated. I only want you to force you to stay home and not go out in public if you are not vaccinated and not wearing a mask or social distancing.
We seem to think it is okay to have laws requiring you to wear clothing in public or to stay in private when nude. Requiring you to stay home to protect public health seems like it should be easier to swallow than laws to prevent you from displaying your naughty bytes.
How about a law to prevent doctors from surgically transplanting animal brains into people's bodies. This common but secret practice should be outlawed.
Or prevent doctors from giving you a shot that transforms you into a reptillian creature.
These things seem at least as likely as DNA editing or microchips being injected. What size needle do you need to inject microchips?
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 26, @07:42PM (5 children)
You seem to be unable to distinguish between a law that says "You must not do this" and a law that says "you cannot be forced to do this".
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 27, @01:52PM (4 children)
Woosh
I think we need a law against banana smoothies, I'm tired of being forced to drink banana smoothies. Someone needs to do something!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 27, @03:56PM
Forget about banana smoothies! I need a law to prevent people from forcing me to eat my vegetables! Let's get our priorities straight!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 27, @07:18PM (2 children)
Based on the above, Missouri would happily pass a law that said you cannot be forced to drink banana smoothies.
You really have sunk into the authoritarian mindset where anything not forbidden is compulsory haven't you?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 27, @11:35PM (1 child)
"You really have sunk into the authoritarian mindset where anything not forbidden is compulsory haven't you?"
What? Seriously, wtf is wrong with your brain? Maybe turn of Fox, it'll rot your soul. I guess the ridiculousness of politicians passing performative legislation over non-existent problems is beyond your ability to comprehend. Seems you rightwing authoritarians are happy to force people to do or not do what you want, but then you turn around and scream like giant babies when asked to follow medical advice during a pandemic. Horrible, horrible people these MAGAts, filled with hate and bigotry that prefer their feelings over facts. Horrible, and we're done pretending you are just misguided.
You've made it clear how much you hate everything different, very WWJD /s
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29, @07:01AM
You clearly show you cannot tell the difference between a law that says you must not do something and a law that says you cannot be forced to do something.
That is the definition of an authoritarian. Anything not forbidden is compulsory. Anything not compulsory is forbidden. You have no freedom of choice. You will do what you are told.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28, @01:24PM
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/us-woman-headed-to-jail-for-refusing-tb-treatment-for-over-a-year/ [arstechnica.com]
I understand your frustration. Perhaps this woman should have been jailed immediately? Letting her out in public for 13-1/2 months AFTER identifying her condition was definitely not in the best interest of the public at large. SARS CoV-II however, is endemic. That's a different animal altogether. It is not going away, ever.
Look at the bright side. I noticed quite a few people packed in together at the sumo tournament in Osaka last week, who were not wearing masks.
(Score: 3, Informative) by hendrikboom on Monday March 27, @11:37PM (1 child)
The quoted portion of the summary is against requiring microchips to be implanted in people.
It's not specifically against having them in vaccines.
It's already common to put RFID chips in animals -- it my chipped pet dog is found astray, it can easily be identified and returned to me, even if its collar is has broken and is missing.
I suspect it's this kind of chip they're against requiring in people.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Tork on Wednesday March 29, @03:00AM
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩