The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” for the rest of the country.
  • Makeitstop@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    3 days ago

    Sooner or later this problem will solve itself. It’s just a question of how long it will take and how many people will have to suffer and die needlessly before that happens.

    • Adubya@feddit.onlineEnglish
      101·
      3 days ago

      Isn’t the issue that a small percentage of people who get vaccinated are not protected (or the vaccine doesn’t take effect), AND there is a small population that cannot get vaccinated due to compromised immune systems or other health issues? Then, by maintaining a large pool of susceptible hosts, we just create a “mutating wonderland” for these viruses to evolve further.

      It becomes a lot of people’s problems after that. They are already obstinate people refusing common sense health practices that could become refugees when their state system collapses.

      • Makeitstop@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        Oh absolutely, this is everyone’s problem. If it only affected the knuckle-draggers that made the decision it wouldn’t be an issue. If it only affected them and their unvaccinated kids it would be sad but at least contained. If it was limited to their own community it would be similar to a lot of other egregiously bad policies that make life worse for the people living under them. Instead, what we have is a policy that will radiate harm into the world around it.

        All I was pointing out is that vaccines (and masks, and self-quaratining, etc) still help and in the long term, natural selection will favor those who choose vaccination. That may happen slowly over many decades, especially as the current generation of nurgle worshippers gradually age out and die. Or it may happen rapidly due to some particularly nasty strain of something sweeping through the population. You never know when the next pandemic will hit, and if something particularly deadly comes along while these asshats are still adamantly opposed to literally anything that reduces their own risks, we might see that timetable accelerate considerably.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    6·
    3 days ago

    These women, crying happy tears over their victory, are mass murderers who, I can only guess, love watching children suffer.

    By sheer statistics, their decisions, their actions will cause men, women, and children to suffer and die from preventable illnesses

    And you are happy with that.

    So as far as I’m concerned, one day you should be strapped up from the highest tree we can find.

    Extreme? It sure fucking is, but not even close to what they did to thousands, or who know, over time, maybe even millions of victims.

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    It would be ironic if the passage of this law resulted in a flood of (vaccinated) trans people moving to Idaho. As I read the law, it looks like it also bans forcing anyone into conversion therapy…