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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans push to ban "discrimination" against unvaccinated people
https://www.axios.com/republicans-coronavirus-vaccines-discrimination-law-states-533503fb-fa83-43d0-bd51-2d614483d241.html
State Republican lawmakers around the country are pushing bills at least one of which has become law that would give unvaccinated people the same protections as those surrounding race, gender and religion.
Why it matters: These bills would tie the hands of private businesses that want to protect their employees and customers. But they also show how deep into the political psyche resistance to coronavirus vaccine requirements has become, and how vaccination status has rapidly become a marker of identity.
The big picture: On a national scale, well-known GOP figures have recently escalated their rhetoric about the vaccination effort, comparing it to Nazi Germany and apartheid.
* At a state level, there's more bite to the bark. Many Republican-led states have enacted some kind of restriction on vaccine mandates or vaccine "passports."
* And some state lawmakers are trying to make it illegal for employers, governments or private businesses to treat unvaccinated people any differently than vaccinated people, using the same language found in federal civil rights law.
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LonePirate
(13,416 posts)Typical Republican bullshit.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Kind of a reverse-Idiocracy situation.
The world needs these sorts of Darwinian lessons, frankly.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)This is insane. Especially in situations where they are dealing with vulnerable populations such as hospitals, nursing homes and other health care facilities. Other people have rights too! These people are just fucked in the head. I am so sick of this bullshit.
KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)Allow people to go unvaxed after they view a video of people dying from covid and get permission from a judge.
Then they can travel to the other side of the state to apply for a trans bronchial ultrasound. After the 2 day waiting period in hotels and missing work they can their ultrasound then sign swearing they understand if anyone dies that they passed covid to, it is an automatic sentence to a firing squad for murder.
Yes, I am being a jackass. No I in no way expect it to happen, nor should it.
Nevilledog
(51,066 posts)Renew Deal
(81,855 posts)Are they doing that?
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)deal with this?
You threatened my life being unvaxxed, so I'm gonna shoot your ass.
struggle4progress
(118,274 posts)Thunderbeast
(3,406 posts)Send them away as soon as the positive test result arrives.
Your choice....Your consequence.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,489 posts)That would throw the entire GOP into a tizzy.......
KY
Aristus
(66,316 posts)does the baker have to make it now?
Just asking...
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)spanone
(135,816 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)They prefer to be called the Covid vaccine defiant, a minority in this country that had endured discrimination for several weeks now.