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The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine.

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A new Idaho law 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." Read the full story: https://propub.li/4oz4JYj

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-- ProPublica (@propublica.org) Oct 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM

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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 2

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 | Newsworthy 1

@#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 | Funny: 1

I'm all for MAGAts removing themselves and their children from the gene pool with their own stupidity.

#8 | Posted by qcp at 2025-10-22 03:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Children.
Waaaaah! I don't want to get my shots. I hate needles. Nobody can tell me what to do. I'm a big boy/girl. Waaaah.

---- children.

#9 | Posted by morris at 2025-10-22 04:12 PM | Reply

My wife of almost sixty years and I hardly go anywhere anymore. We have received ALL of the pokes, jabs, vaccinations, and shots available at the CVS in the Local Target. They gave us a $2.00 certificate for a purchase at Target with each shot. As I recall, Kleenex was on sale. I remember getting MANDATORY shots when I was in the USAF from 1967-73. I got like four or five shots before going off to Thailand for my last year on active duty. 43151E E-5 @ 3.5 years) I even scored an eighty-eight-day SEA Early-Out! Hallelujah! Oh, happy day! Oh! Frabjous Joy!

#10 | Posted by john47 at 2025-10-22 04:47 PM | Reply

#10 | Posted by john47 at 2025-10-22 04:47 PM | Reply | Flag: Good Story from USAF Vet

Hi John:

I am friends with a USAF vet who met both JFK and MLK; he flew EW missions during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

In the run-ups to all the wars after your service, we were given a battery of shots straight out of a sci-fi movie. So far, so good.

So, from an Army guy to a USAF guy, congratulations on six decades of matrimony, John.

(My poor mom died--thanks to United HealthCare-- just before my parents could celebrate 60 years together.

Coriolanus

(named after one of the Immortal Bard's greatest plays)

#11 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-22 05:44 PM | Reply

-My poor mom died--thanks to United HealthCare-- just before my parents could celebrate 60 years together.

If your mom and dad were married almost 60 years before your mom died...then she would have been on Medicare, right?

How was UHC involved? As a supplemental coverage?

#12 | Posted by eberly at 2025-10-22 05:57 PM | Reply

There are still some of us around who remember how happy everyone was when the polio vaccine became available.

#13 | Posted by TenMile at 2025-10-22 06:41 PM | Reply

@#13 ... when the polio vaccine became available ...

If I remember correctly (it's been a while...), the early polio vaccines were pretty gruesome, more like skin cultures than a shot. But the alternative was far worse.

#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-22 07:07 PM | Reply

History of polio vaccination
www.who.int

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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, frequent epidemics saw polio become the most feared disease in the world. A major outbreak in New York City in 1916 killed over 2000 people, and the worst recorded US outbreak in 1952 killed over 3000.

Many who survived the disease faced lifelong consequences. Deformed limbs meant they needed leg braces, crutches or wheelchairs, and some needed to use breathing devices like the iron lung, an artificial respirator invented for treatment of polio patients.

By the mid-20th century, the poliovirus could be found all over the world and killed or paralysed over half a million people every year. With no cure, and epidemics on the rise, there was an urgent need for a vaccine.

A breakthrough occurred in 1949, when poliovirus was successfully cultivated in human tissue by John Enders, Thomas Weller and Frederick Robbins at Boston Children's Hospital. Their pioneering work was recognized with the 1954 Nobel Prize.

Not long afterwards, in the early 1950s, the first successful vaccine was created by US physician Jonas Salk. Salk tested his experimental killed-virus vaccine on himself and his family in 1953, and a year later on 1.6 million children in Canada, Finland and the USA.

The results were announced on 12 April 1955, and Salk's inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) was licensed on the same day. By 1957, annual cases dropped from 58 000 to 5600, and by 1961, only 161 cases remained.

Salk was committed to equitable access to his vaccine, and understood that elimination efforts would not work without universal low- or no-cost vaccination.

Six pharmaceutical companies were licensed to produce IPV, and Salk did not profit from sharing the formulation or production processes.

In a 1955 interview, when asked who owned the patent for IPV, he replied: "Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" ...


#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-22 07:12 PM | Reply

The smallpox vaccine was placed in a scratch in the skin and resulted in a pustule that left a scar. If you don't have a smallpox vaccination scar it is because people like me do. It was worth it to make smallpox extinct.

#16 | Posted by TenMile at 2025-10-22 10:15 PM | Reply

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