SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Ohio lawmakers want to abolish vaccine requirements:
[...] Lawmakers are working on legislation to call off the lottery immediately. They're also trying to head off any plans for "vaccine passports." And last month, they introduced a sweeping antivaccination bill that would essentially demolish public health and vaccination requirements in the state—and not just requirements for COVID-19 vaccines, requirements for any vaccine.
[...] State Rep. Beth Liston (D-Dublin) blasted the bill, telling The Columbus Dispatch, "Not only would it prevent schools, businesses and communities from putting safety measures in pace related to COVID, it will impact the health of our children... This bill applies to all vaccines—polio, measles, meningitis, etc. If it becomes law we will see worsening measles outbreaks, meningitis in the dorms, and children once again suffering from polio."
[...] "At its core, this proposal would destroy our current public health framework that prevents outbreaks of potentially lethal diseases, threatens the stability of our economy as it recovers from a devastating pandemic and jeopardizes the way we live, learn, work and celebrate life," the letter said.
[...] "HB 248 would put all Ohioans at risk while increasing the cost of health care for families, individuals and businesses," spokesperson Dan Williamson said. "This proposal applies to all immunizations, including childhood vaccines. If passed, this legislation could reverse decades of immunity from life-threatening, but vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles, mumps, hepatitis, meningitis and tuberculosis."
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 28 2021, @02:41PM (12 children)
Great idea. Let's also make it where you can't get medical care if you're over 180lbs (or a certain BMI). After all, these individuals poor health habits are costing society billions if not trillions of dollars. I think we should also probably create a "health passport" that prevents these individuals from being able to buy fast food, soft drinks, or other beverages that are likely to further expand their cost on society.
Can you imagine how much greater society will be? Dramatic reductions in healthcare costs, dramatic improvement in overall health. I mean what's not to like?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by EJ on Friday May 28 2021, @02:46PM (9 children)
It's almost like the liberals want to set up some kind of system where people with undesirable traits are weeded out of society. I wonder what they could call it. Eugenics is already taken.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 28 2021, @03:39PM (5 children)
Let's list, shall we, the kind of people with "undesirable" traits conservatives would like to weed out of society:
Blacks;
Hispanics;
Non-english-speakers;
Muslims;
Atheists;
Gays;
Non-binary gendered;
Non-submissive women;
Liberals;
Etc.
In other words: Anyone that is not an english speaking, strait, christian, conservative white male, or submissive female.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 28 2021, @04:19PM (2 children)
Republicans will gain millions of votes from Blacks and Hispanics over the next decade.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday May 28 2021, @07:06PM (1 child)
Heh. Except Republicans are trying to outlaw that.
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 29 2021, @02:31AM
Maybe that is the long game. If they say they will vote Republican, maybe Republicans will allow them to vote.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 28 2021, @04:23PM
it's almost as if two different groups of people can be bad at the same time!
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by epitaxial on Friday May 28 2021, @06:29PM
Damn you aren't wrong. Too many black people voted in Georgia and look at the laws the republicans pushed through to prevent it from happening.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 28 2021, @04:09PM
> I wonder what they could call it
That's easy, call it China. Feel free to move there if you like that style of government.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 28 2021, @05:01PM
"Build the wall!"
"Ban muslimsl!"
"It wans't us it was antifa!!"
"Legalize running over BLM!!"
"Who cares if law enforcement kills unarmed minorities?"
"Gay people can't marry!"
"Attack chinese people cos *KuNg*FLu*"
... often hilariously followed by...
"OnE BaD ApPuL DuZnt SpOiL TeH BuNch"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 29 2021, @12:16AM
lol it is almost like you're a total fucking moron! Put the Qool-aidz down my brother.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by VLM on Friday May 28 2021, @05:28PM (1 child)
That's so complicated. Start simpler.
Think how much cheaper and simpler it would be to implement a caste system where skin colors that commit more murders than their demographic percentage indicate, could be forced to be separate but equal to the good non-murderous skin color people. We could force them to use separate schools, bathrooms, and water fountains and sit at the back of the bus and enforce laws against them a little more strongly and similar.
These modern Jewish Liberals sound so familiar somehow, but I just can't place it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 28 2021, @07:10PM
Why stop there, why not create economic and public service scenarios that force people based on skin color so they stay trapped in their neighborhoods?
Betrayed by your own sarcasm.