New 'medical freedom' law outlaws requiring COVID-19 vaccine to access public spaces

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: ABC News

New Hampshire residents cannot be required to get a COVID-19 vaccine in order to "access any public facility, any public benefit, or any public service" according to a new bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Chris Sununu.

The so-called "medical freedom" bill does not override state vaccine law, which "requires that all children enrolled in any school, pre-school, or child care have certain immunizations to protect them and those around them from vaccine preventable diseases," according to the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services.

The COVID-19 vaccine is not currently listed as a requirement for attending school, nor is it approved for children younger than 12.

Other exceptions to the new law include correctional facilities, such as jails and prisons, where immunizations can be mandated "when a direct threat exists," as well as county nursing homes and medical facilities operated by the state.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-medical-freedom-law-outlaws-requiring-covid-19-vaccine-to-access-public-spaces/ar-AAMApbz?li=BBnb7Kz

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Freedumb!!!!

[DURHAM D]

1. Ok - we need a new federal law before

all those stupid Republicans kill us all.

[maxsolomon]

6. You're not going to get one.

They're only killing themselves, and I'm starting to applaud their idiocy.

[Leghorn21]

7. Same, max, I'm just like

“meh”.

[LiberalLovinLug]

18. I do too, but it must be so difficult for Democrats living in those freedumb loving States.

To go shopping, or anywhere in public.
with an army of unvaccinated maskholes triumphantly spitting in their faces.

[Ocelot II]

2. New Hampshire needs to change its motto to "Live Free And Die."

[NurseJackie]

14. A-a-and...

[LisaL]

3. Typhoid Mary would have appreciated a law like that.

NT

[catrose]

8. They'd give her her job back, make her a hero.

[nattyice]

4. Does this apply to the Governor's mansion?

[jpak]

5. Live Free and Die

Yup

[Ziggysmom]

9. The Guv made a big to do when he got his vaccination in April at the NH Motor Speedway

[Traildogbob]

10. Rand Paul

Just filed for an investigation by the Justice Department of Louis Pasteur for microbiological research trying to create a Pandemic to kill the world.

[C Moon]

11. It's their funerals.

[Mr. Evil]

12. This death cult is just dying to own us libs.

Go ahead, own me. Own away. I promise I'll be (acting) devastated for your pleasure for all of a nanosecond. I live to be owned. I love to be owned. But, we'll have the last laugh when your death cult's slow rapture is complete. Then you'll all be dead and we'll finally have a chance at a decent society.

[twodogsbarking]

13. If your establishment doesn't require a vaccine then I won't go.

Turnabout is fair play.

[Mustellus]

15. The Typhoid Mary Law....

Mary Mallon is the person who stood up for the individual right... the absolute freedom, to continue to spread her disease as family after family died from the food she cooked. The Damned Librls finally imprisoned her for life, just because she was (at the end, knowingly) killing off her employers.

[Blues Heron]

16. Disease Freedumb

Freedumb to spread laws are the result of a serious and deadly mental disorder rampant among the pukes. Mind boggling to see this unfolding this way. SMDH

[BlueWavePsych]

17. Don't care anymore. Let the Repukes get the Darwin variant!

[Zeitghost]

19. Stop, take a step back and think for just a few minutes

About the dangers in the precedent in requiring specific healthcare procedures or medicines to be taken prior to receiving public assistance. Then imagine that precedent being used next time the pendulum of power swings back to the right...

[thucythucy]

20. And yet the law specifies Covid 19 vaccines

and only Covid 19 vaccines.

Something tells me the same people who support this bill would have no problem that people on public assistance submit to random drug testing.

There are also "outpatient commitment" laws that in fact require some individuals--whether on public assistance or not--to submit to medical procedures such as electro-shock or psychotropic medications if a court finds them a danger to themselves or others. People under these laws can be incarcerated if they refuse the required treatment. Can I assume you oppose those laws as well?

When tuberculosis was a public health risk--before the development of effective treatments--people could be quarantined against their will. The same with polio and smallpox. You would also have a problem with that?

Someone upthread mentioned "Typhoid Mary" who--after being responsible for the deaths of multiple people--was ordered into quarantine for the rest of her life. Was she a prisoner of conscience?

The far right doesn't care about "precedents." The precedent argument is the same one used to justify the continuation of the filibuster--a "tradition" Republicans have no problem ditching when it suits their purposes.