“Justice Stephen Breyer denied a request … from a Maine church that sought to block the state from enforcing or reinstating Covid restrictions in the wake of the Delta variant surge,” CNN reported on Monday, August 2, 2021 (read story here). To be clear, the church was appealing re[...]
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If people don’t trust vaccines, what do they trust?
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Cartoonists have a field day with anti-vaxxers
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“Governor Death” allows parents to defy school mask rules
Gov. Ron DeSantis expanded his war against public health by declaring “he will sign an executive order to ‘protect the rights of parents’ and allow them to choose whether their children should wear masks even if their school requires them to do so,” The Hill reported on Frid[...]
“I’m sorry, it’s too late”
“I’m admitting young healthy people to the hospital with very serious COVID infections. One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late,” an Alabama doctor wrote o[...]
Federal judge blocks new Arkansas anti-trans law
Earlier this month, the GOP-dominated Arkansas legislature overrode the GOP governor’s veto of a bill that bans gender-confirming medical treatments for trans youths. A federal judge blocked that law on Wednesday, July 21, 2021, pending an ACLU lawsuit to strike it down as a violation of those[...]
Federal judge refuses to block college’s vaccine policy
A federal judge rejected a lawsuit by students objecting to Indiana University’s fall semester vaccine requirement, AOL News reported on Monday, July 19, 2021 (read story here). The school offers exemptions, but requires exempted individuals to “follow separate COVID-19 mitigation strate[...]
July 19th, 2021 - 1:00 pm § in Health
Self-portrait of a fool
Unfortunately, this is all too typical of a certain mindset and group of people. I certainly don’t wish illness or death upon him. I hope for the opposite — that he doesn’t get Covid-19-delta — for his sake, his family’s sake, our sake. The odds seem stacked against him[...]
A short lesson in federal supremacy
Florida Governor Death Vader’s anti-mask, anti-vaccine policies are squarely at odds with the pro-survival approach championed by the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and the conflict came to a head in a battle over cruise ship regulations in a federal courtroom where a Bush-appointe[...]
GOP governor forces students to mingle with infected people
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (photo), a Republican, just approved a law prohibiting that state’s public schools and universities from requiring Covid-19 vaccinations (see story here). There’s a case to be made. Making people get vaccinations is intrusive. While that’s not exactly what bus[...]