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Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Three women become choked up as they deliver news in a video posted to social media. "We did it, everybody," says Leslie Manookian, the woman in the middle. She is a driving force in a campaign that has chipped away at the foundations of modern public health in Idaho. The group had just gotten lawmakers to pass what she called the first true "medical freedom" bill in the nation. "It's literally landmark," Manookian said. "It is changing everything."

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... With Manookian in the video are two of her allies, the leaders of Health Freedom Idaho. It was April 4, hours after the governor signed the Idaho Medical Freedom Act into law.

The act makes it illegal for state and local governments, private businesses, employers, schools, and daycares to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive any other "medical intervention." ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-21 12:39 AM | Reply

"It is changing everything."

Specifically: Life Expectancy.

#2 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-10-21 12:50 AM | Reply

Dammed fools.

#3 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-10-21 01:04 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Dammed fools.

#3 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-10-21 01:04 AM | Reply | Flag: Accurate

If Americans want to kill each other with firearms or diseases, so be it. But Canada doesn't have to tolerate that. British Columbia (Canada) and Idaho share two border crossings. I would not be surprised if CBSA officers deny American truck drivers or tourists entry into Canada if they are unable to provide proof of vaccinations against MMR, COVID, etc etc.


#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-21 01:16 AM | Reply

@#2 ... "It is changing everything."

Specifically: Life Expectancy. ...

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
- - - Isaac Asimov

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-21 01:36 AM | Reply

"It is changing everything."

Polio is like that.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-21 01:40 AM | Reply

You da ho.

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-10-21 10:06 AM | Reply

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