“Idaho lawmakers are looking at criminalizing the use of mRNA vaccines, the technology in most COVID-19 shots. A bill introduced last week in the Idaho House Health and Welfare Committee would make it against the law for anyone to provide or administer vaccines using messenger RNA “for use in an individual or any other mammal in this state.”
Other Republican states are considering the same… So where would that leave the elderly - and all those with an increased risk of severe COVID and death - who truly need vaccination to help protect them??? Remember 2020 before there was any vaccine against COVID-19???
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"Messenger RNA, or mRNA, vaccine technology was discovered in the early 1960s, according to Johns Hopkins University. Following the SARS pandemic in the early 2000’s, mRNA vaccines have been well studied over the past two decades and have shown great promise for both infectious diseases and cancer. MRNA vaccines have several benefits over the traditional vaccines that many of us have taken for years, that are made using a piece of a dead or weakened virus.
"One of the benefits of the mRNA vaccines over these traditional vaccines is safety. Because mRNA vaccines are not using a live virus, there is no potential risk of being infected with the condition (in this case, Covid-19). Another benefit of mRNA vaccines is effectiveness. mRNA is efficient and can be taken up and used by the body quickly. Finally, mRNA vaccines are quicker and easier to produce than traditional vaccines, because they are produced in a laboratory instead of in an egg or other mammalian cell. Therefore, mRNA vaccine production can be controlled more closely, and is less expensive and faster to produce in large quantities. MRNA vaccines have significantly lessened COVID hospitalization death rates. "
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Unfortunately, all things relating to COVID-19 in the USA seem to continue to be a political football. As a result, mRNA vaccines (COVID shots) could soon be outlawed in some “conservative” US states.
Then, it would NOT be a matter of personal choice to get the vaccination or not. It would instead be a matter of completely removing - for everyone - something that may save American lives. If the law passes in Idaho, other Red States are expected to follow. This is very scary for those who may not have the immune system of a healthy, 22 year old and wish to stay healthy.
COVID is still out there and will needlessly continue to take lives. Vaccination can save lives.
Looking forward, wouldn’t it be great if a future mRNA vaccine could also protect humanity from some Cancers and other deadly diseases? Many think that may be possible. However, Idaho seems to be saying “no”. A ban on mRNA technology means a limit to future research & potential positive use.
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“While the state of Idaho is attempting to make MRNA vaccinations illegal, Republican lead US Congress also “is venturing into unknown and potentially explosive territory with the first House GOP-led investigation into COVID-19 vaccines. Why it matters: It’s expected to be a showdown across the spectrum of views on vaccine safety and efficacy, from attempting to undermine public faith in them to trying to bolster confidence.
“Close ally to House Majority Leader McCarthy, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said she wants to hold hearings with people who experienced side effects and look at VAERS reports — a public database of unverified reports of post-vaccination health effects often seized on by anti-vaccine groups. What we’re watching: Greene, who is known for her ability to capture public attention, has already made clear how she wants to use the public perch the panel will afford her.”
• "It’s Time To Investigate the COVID Vaccines," reads the subject line of an email her campaign sent out on Jan. 25, the day the panel's members were announced, linking to a tweet raising unfounded speculation about a conservative influencer's death.
• She’s not alone. Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), upon being appointed, tweeted: "Every LIE about the vaccine will be revealed."
• The CDC, which could be a target of the panel's investigations, has published data from multiple studies that shows the COVID’s vaccine safety and effectiveness against severe illness, hospitalization and death.”
Bottom Line: Idaho banning mRNA COVID vaccines (if it really happens) could just be the beginning. The voices of COVID and vaccine deniers are getting louder and louder.
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Meanwhile, vetted & confirmed 2-21-23 news out of Florida
“The Lee County Republican Party Executive Committee passed a 'Ban the Jab' resolution Tuesday night, asking the Florida Legislature to ban the COVID vaccine and the Attorney General's Office to confiscate all doses within the state. The resolution passed by a voice vote of the attending committee membership. ‘Ban the jab’ resolution will now go to the desk of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) This is yet another chapter in the “let’s politicize Covid-19 precautions” saga that has been going on in the Sunshine State. Joe Sansone, the guy who drafted the resolution, said, ‘The Lee County Republican Party is going to be on the vanguard of this campaign to stop the genocide because we have foreign non-governmental entities that are unleashing biological weapons on the American people.’”
What does this mean? I guess we’ll all eventually find out as this trend continues across the USA.
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Note
“The U.S. ranks dead last among its peer nations, with the most COVID deaths per capita.”
This fact obviously says something. Perhaps US citizens’ lives should be more important than politics…
Unfortunately, because of politics, the future again seems to be looking darker and darker. Some politicians even want all vaccinations (for all diseases) totally abolished. Fear-mongered-falsehoods claim that vaccinations (of any sort) are more dangerous than any illness. MRNA and COVID vaccines are what are in the spotlight at the moment because these vaccinations seem to represent (in closed minds) what separates “Red & Blue”. IMO, human welfare should come before any political or social division. Sadly, in the case of the USA today, it seems to be the other way around. Politics are now more important than human lives. Vaccines save lives.
"A new study published in the medical journal JAMA analyzed state-by-state vaccination and public health data. Alarmingly, researchers noted that if every state in the United States had the same COVID vaccination rates as those states with the highest vaccination rates, more than 100,000 lives would have been saved."
Future prohibition of the use of life saving vaccines seems to be taking things back to the Dark Ages
when, if you lived to be 35, you were lucky.
