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posted by mrpg on Friday May 28 2021, @11:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-could-go-wrong dept.

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."

Also: Ohio GOP lawmakers, citing 'need to protect' from vaccines, seek to expand exemptions, nix COVID passports


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by eravnrekaree on Friday May 28 2021, @03:21PM (2 children)

    by eravnrekaree (555) on Friday May 28 2021, @03:21PM (#1139658)

    Remember back when COVID was starting Trump would say the death rate is "very, very, very very low" and "most survive", "99% survive". This also applies to Measles and Polio, its within that same 0.5%-2% death range. So apparently this is the new standard in the GOP, if a virus kills 1% of the population, or 0.5% of the population, its not a problem, just let it spread and kill and dont worry, You can sort of tell, they might actually think killing off 1% of the population is a good thing, something they laugh about, more on that later. This is part of the numbers fallacy of their idiotic dumb as rocks base to whom 99% sounds "very very safe, very big number", forgetting this means millions of deaths with high contagion diseases. Would people get on an airline where 99% of passengers survive? The 99% thing shows you are not dealing with very bright people, you are dealing with "big number sounds good, duh" Homer Simpson people.

    I find the whole thing to be baffling and it looks like the anti-vaxxer groups, operating from the fringe whacko Ayn Rand type libertarian groups, such as Hoover Institution and AIER, the Great Barrington Declaration people, have gotten a grip on the GOP, You would think It will destroy the party because this is some fringe, backwards, crazy, lunatic stuff. Youd think They can't win on pushing such an asinine and wacko platform.

    I also suspect that Anti-vaxxer groups are run by a virus darwinism eugenics cult who think that viruses running amok killing people off is a good thing because it reduces in their minds overpopulation and prunes "dead wood", people they view as being weak and defective. So they think the virus killing people is a good thing.,

    The GOP policies such as opening schools with unvaccinated children, with no rapidtesting even though daily rapidtesting is doable, to ensure that the virus can continue to replicate and use that as a reservoir to then ensure the community is exposed. Its perfect because children "don't get sick" so its a perfect spread vector where they can bank on the ignorance of the public that since children don't get sick its no danger, ignoring the fact they expose their elders. Also telling people that ONLY the people who want vaccines can get them, since they are 100% effective, the people who don't want a vaccine don't have to get one and are not hurting anything else. This ignores the fact that vaccines are not very effective with immunocompromised. By blocking vaccine passports, they ensure the anti-vaxxers can spread the virus freely in public places while pretending to be vaccinated. The big irony is the people who need protection the most get the least protection from vaccines. This is why the healthy need to get vaccinated to protect the weak. The GOP is convincing the healthy to not get vaccinated, so the weak are exposed, to reduce the effectiveness of vaccines protecting the weak. After preaching herd immunity through natural infection (HITNI), now when it comes to vaccines, the anti-vaxxers are completely ignorant of herd immunity. Its like, the whole goal is to kill the weak, so herd immunity did that with natural infections, but it prevents that with vaccination. So with natural infections, they like herd immunity, but with vaccines, they do not like it.

    Evil psychos.
     

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 28 2021, @03:57PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 28 2021, @03:57PM (#1139681)

    if a virus kills 1% of the population, or 0.5% of the population, its not a problem, just let it spread and kill and dont worry, You can sort of tell, they might actually think killing off 1% of the population is a good thing, something they laugh about, more on that later. This is part of the numbers fallacy of their idiotic dumb as rocks base to whom 99% sounds "very very safe, very big number", forgetting this means millions of deaths with high contagion diseases. Would people get on an airline where 99% of passengers survive? The 99% thing shows you are not dealing with very bright people, you are dealing with "big number sounds good, duh" Homer Simpson people.

    They also do web design. Hence dumb shit like "Your browser is used by less than 1%. = NOT SUPPORTED!".

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 29 2021, @12:26AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 29 2021, @12:26AM (#1139896)

      Should put you in a dehydrator.

      MmmmMmmMmm, salted and spicy jerky