GOP Lawmakers Take Stand Against Polio Vaccine

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GOP Lawmakers Take Stand Against Polio Vaccine

April 21, 2024 at 4:06 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 330 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/21/gop-lawmakers-take-stand-against-polio-vaccine/

"SNIP...........

Mother Jones: “New Hampshire could soon beat Florida—known for its anti-vaccine Surgeon General—when it comes to loosening vaccine requirements. A first-in-the-nation bill that’s already passed New Hampshire’s state House, sponsored only by Republican legislators, would end the requirement for parents enrolling kids in childcare to provide documentation of polio and measles vaccination.”

“New Hampshire would be the only state in the U.S. to have such a law, although many states allow religious exemptions to vaccine requirements.”

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[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Such stupid fucking people...why do voters elect them?

[atreides1]

26. Why?

Because the voters are also such stupid fucking people...

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Making them ignorant and diseased will drive them to religion.

[applegrove]

5. Make sure people don't make it to entitlements. The GOP

is vile.

[elleng]

3. LOST their 'minds!'

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. I don't mind Russiapublicans self-destructing; I just object to them trying to kill everyone else.

[republianmushroom]

6. They never live where polio was and epidemic ever summer. I did.

Screw these people. Talk about dumb.

[Poiuyt]

10. My mother got polio when she was young back in the 1920s

She made damn sure we all got our polio shots. This was before the sugar cubes and those shots really hurt!

[gopiscrap]

28. same here

my mom had polio as a child aso. When I was growing up, she was absolute insistent that I get any and all vaccinations available, not just for polio, but also for any other disease

[Celerity]

7. iron lung sales soon to go up in NH if this madness passes into law

[dflprincess]

8. Perhaps someone can add an amendment to the bill to change the state motto to

"Live free AND die"

(If "free" is the definition these anti-vax nuts give it.)

[kiri]

19. Live free and let the kids die.

Live free and let the kids die.

[kimbutgar]

9. I hope everyone of these repuke politicians have a child, grandchild or family member get the karma of getting

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Polio. Then when they want the care for their loved ones they’ll be denied because they did away with the ACA when they had power.

karma can sometimes be a good thing for these sobs’s!

[Maru Kitteh]

17. I'm cold and cynical, but I can't wish that on kids.

No kid deserves polio, which is why we have to save them from these nutjobs.

[republianmushroom]

32. Agree

[lindysalsagal]

11. Right. Let's return polio. Of course. Idiots think they're doctors, scientists,

But they're just whiny children.

[ashredux]

12. This is just crazy people... very dangerous. Idiots.

I guess some of them are going to corner the market on iron lungs… make a lot of money.

They really lost their minds

[chouchou]

13. In other good news, those brave GOP Lawmakers are going to ban Stop signs and Stop-lights.

"People will be free to drive how their hearts want them to drive"

[kiri]

20. "religious exemption"?

Isn't that a "religious exemption", for a sincerely held belief about which laws I accept and which I don't like?
Freedom!

[Hugin]

23. Or make them driving suggestions.

“This might be a good place to stop” signs and flashing yellow lights everywhere.

[William Seger]

14. Just admit that trumpism is a cult, and they can claim religious exemptions

[kiri]

21. god's laws are superior to man's laws

The laws I don't like are the same ones god/Jesus doesn't like, too.

I get to decide which are some god''s laws. Freedom of religion. You don't.

cf. (non)Establishment

[jmbar2]

15. Give them their own state

Then build a wall around it.

[TeamProg]

16. Time to print up more Darwin Awards for handing out. nt

[NanaCat]

31. Not how the Darwin Awards work

You have to off yourself in a stupid way before you reproduce.

Since this is a law that pertains to the results of anti-science nitwits reproducing, then no Darwin Award.

[TeamProg]

35. Um, that is taking a joke award rather serously! However, SINCE the "law" ( heh heh) is about removing one's DNA from

society, it makes sense that the offspring of the idiots who prevented a vaccination are UNLIKLEY to have kids, then the idiot PARENTS' DNA STOPS. It will go no further, end-o fact-o, no more, see ya later, cioa!

[myohmy2]

18. GOP...

...lawmakers love to interfere with our health and well-being causing pain, suffering and death of Americans...

...it's part of what makes them the unAmerican fascists they are...

...it's sad that this is what we have to live with...

...republicans...

[electric_blue68]

22. Stupidity? Wilfull Ignorance? Cruelty? All of the above?!

How stupid can you be...

And do they think their children would totally be spared?

[Mysterian]

24. What kind of disaster has to happen for people to realize republicans are stupid and crazy?

If there is a polio outbreak because of this, they will blame the libs and the sheep will believe it.

[brooklynite]

25. From the source.....

“ but that isn’t a guarantee that the bill will be signed into law, ”

[Emile]

27. What immunizations do you need to travel internationally?

[lark]

29. Sometimes I'm glad I'm old and won't be living in the world these scumbags are creating.

They are trying to kill off the middle class and make us all poor while the rich get richer than God off of all our underpaid labor. I used to be sad that my daughter had decided not to have children, now I'm ok with that. Our family has problems with birth on both sides, including me. I had 2 miscarriages and my mother and sister both had fetuses die in the womb, so she could have issues too and in todays environment, that could actually risk her life. Not being a grandmother is not nearly as hurtful as having my beautiful daughter die.

Of course, I hope the laws change back and we and our daughters can return to making our life decision free of the threat of death.

[malthaussen]

30. Because what? A few kids in iron lungs improves the herd or something?

The GOP in a nutshell: who cares if a few other people suffer a lifetime of abject misery, so long as I get my way.

-- Mal

[PCIntern]

33. Maybe I should invest in iron lung manufacturing

And leg brace manufacturers and maintenance.

[TSExile]

34. My grandmother is spinning in her grave right now.

It absolutely broke her heart in the late 1940s to see her son suffering so badly with polio. She cried when the vaccine came out - partly because she was so happy that others wouldn't suffer, but partly because it was too late for her own child. I would have loved to see anyone TRY to tell Grandma that polio was a hoax, fake, all the crap that is being spewed now.

Pro-life party???? They don't give a crap about life. I hope all this disease and vaccine denial and the conspiracy theories that come with it seriously come back to bite them HARD.

[twodogsbarking]

36. It wasn't prayer that made Polio go away. It wasn't stupidity either.