A bill that would ban the use of mRNA vaccines, including for Covid-19, is on its way to the House floor after passing out of committee in a party-line vote Wednesday.
Sponsored by Rep. Greg Kmetz, R-Miles City, and co-sponsored by Northwest Montana Reps. Tracy Sharp, R-Polson, and Lukas Schubert, R-Kalispell, House Bill 371 would prohibit administering vaccines developed with mRNA, or messenger ribonucleic acid, technology on humans. The bill deems the technology, which was employed to create the Covid-19 vaccines, a hazard.
If you can, get a booster now. These motherfuckers will kill you for political gain.
Edit: Just to be clear, this is a state bill. But if they succeed at the state level, they’ll move on to the national.
What’s wrong with mRNA vaccines, politically or medically?
Politically: it‘s evil because it’s new and was first used for the covid vaccine.
It stopped what Trump couldn’t.
Because the guy in the meme got one and got a windows logo shaped rash
I don’t think the pharmaceutical companies would ever let this happen. Their greed may actually work in our favor for a change.
This is so fucked up on so many levels.
The Republicans already aren’t taking covid vaccines. They want to ban it for other folks because they don’t like that there side is dying and getting sick in higher numbers.
I mean, there’s an alternative route, but admitting you were wrong is crime number one in the Republican mind.
Americans toss cancer cure tech out window because they love Trump and had to wear a mask.
Not all of us… I, and many others voted and organized against this.
They don’t give a shit about immunocompromised people. They’d like to see us die.
FYI, it looks like this is the Montana state House, not the US House of Representatives
Thery are using the states as a testing ground for less popular and less justifiable policies to judge the reactions. This has nothing to do with vaccines being unsafe and everything to do with keeping the population scared and sick.
Vaccination rates are already quite low in Montana (30% got covid boosters) , and it’s hard to know just how many infections there have been because medical care is not very accessible in most of the state. The nyt reported one of every 289 Montana residents had died of covid by 2023.
should check who owns hospitals… sick people love going there
That Carl Sagan quote about the service economy is fucking slapping right now.
Here’s the quote, for those like me who had never heard of it:
"I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance."
–Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
I’ve always wondered what is the significance of mentioning the transition from a manufacturing-based to a sevices-based economy.
Aside from the old-fashioned notions about how the only real work is done with your hands, or how “Good times make soft men…”, I don’t quite follow the link.
It’s the power structure in question.
When labor makes the money, labor has the power.
When services and information make the money, oligarchs will quickly consolidate power and use their control over services (like Twitter?) and information (like WaPo?) to control the narrative.
Now that isn’t to say that a services and information based economy can’t be equitable, but there needs to be an educated and informed public, and a governing body capable of making intelligent, expert informed regulations. Something the US surely lacks.
Thank you!
These people are dumb as fuck and don’t even slightly understand what they are legislating. They are just politicizing scientific developments, drawing arbitrary lines, and attacking things on “the other side”. mRNA vaccines could be a game changer for creating vaccines with fewer risks, but these stupid assholes can’t be bothered to even learn how they work, why they are better, or they do “learn” but they listen to crackpot conspiracy theorists like RFK Jr. who lie about what it does or the dangers associated. This anti-intellectual bullshit has got to stop.
If this goes through (I hope it doesn’t, but don’t know enough about Montana to say), folks should be aware that there’s a third FDA-approved covid vaccine that doesn’t use the mRNA technology. It’s a more traditional protein subunit vaccine and it’s called NovaVax. It’s slightly less effective than the mRNA vaccines, but there’s data showing that the resistance lasts a bit longer.
The stupid, it burns
Any drug that might be used for abortions, a broad class of vaccinations……
I mean this is how it starts. This is how eventually they tell you what you can and can’t do with your own body.
Before you know it they’ll come after SSRIs, vaccines that have “lead”, any vaccine that might cause injury, elective surgeries that deal with reproduction, and so on.
Because when they know they can get away with this, it makes them bolder in their schemes.
I find it unsurprising but fascinating that the group routinely known for yelling slippery slope is nowhere to be found. It’s like they didn’t give an actual shit to begin with.
Small govt! RNA small.
Government small enough to fit inside a needle.
Montana State legislature but damn.
Vaccine trip to other states will be good business.
Letting pandemic killing the poorer and the weaker part of population is essentially building an open air gas chamber.
Flipping through the first few chapters of “The Masque of the Red Death” and all I can think about is how Prince Prospero can fuck around forever and will never ever find out.
Jesus fucking christ. Soon we’re going to be fleeing to other countries as climate and healthcare refugees.
