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A wave of lawmakers who oppose vaccine requirements are winning elections for state legislatures amid a national drop in childhood vaccination rates and a resurfacing of preventable deadly diseases.

The victories come as part of a political backlash to pandemic restrictions and the proliferation of misinformation about the safety of vaccines introduced to fight the coronavirus.

In Louisiana, 29 candidates endorsed by Stand for Health Freedom, a national group that works to defeat mandatory vaccinations, won in the state’s off-year elections this fall.

Fred Mills, the retiring Republican chairman of the Louisiana Senate’s health and welfare committee, said he fears that once-fringe anti-vaccine policies that endanger people’s lives will have a greater chance of passing come January when newly-elected lawmakers are sworn in and more than a dozen Republican moderates like himself leave office.

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[–] Lexam@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I used to be pro vax. But the way humanity is going maybe it's best if we let the viruses win.

[–] IHeartBadCode@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago

Because it’s never the perpetrators that suffer. No child is born blind or brain damaged by rubella by a choice they made. They are born that way because of a choice that was made for them.

And those that perpetuate this unto children, when they suffer the consequences for their choices they fail to attribute it to their own misgivings. Instead they absolve their misgivings as the function of some deity who wishes to test their resolve. That this affliction is not of their own making but of some twisted logic test of faith.

No, this does not rid the world of those who would harm but it with absolute certainty harms those who were never given a choice otherwise.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm quite the opposite. Until there are no people out there who can't be vaccinated due to immune system issues or being too young, vaccination should be mandatory with tax penalties levied on anyone that refuses.

And don't give me your "freedom" bullshit. You don't have the freedom to kill babies and organ transplant recipients.

[–] Lexam@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's OK I assure you this is a sarcastic comment. I myself have a kidney transplant (11yrs and going!) and am very pro vax.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Congratulations! I hope you live many more years on that kidney! And understood on the sarcasm. My vitriol wasn't really directed at you, just at the "my freedom!" people.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Try reading the comment you replied to again.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What exactly do you think I misunderstood?

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's not anti-vax, it's anti-people.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Yes, I realize 'it's best if we let the viruses win' is anti-people. And I explained that I am not anti-people and what should be done to protect people. I'm still not seeing what the problem is here.

[–] BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Vax yourself and your loved ones, let the dumb die by their own dumbness..

[–] SynonymousStoat@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

The problem is, the dumb then go on to infect people who medically cannot be vaccinated.