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The AG of my state has lost his mind - PeterB - 08-03-2021
My state's Governor has reinstated a state-wide mask mandate as of a day or so ago -- the city of New Orleans had done so days before that.
The AG has just released two form letters that he's suggested people to use, if they don't want to have their children wear masks or be vaccinated... effectively, to help them evade the requirements. (He very carefully states that he is NOT giving legal advice... yeah, right.)
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/coronavirus/article_b1f7da00-f476-11eb-be31-03893adafb93.html
The two letters are to make objections on either religious or philosophical grounds. Here's info about the religious letter:
"Landry’s religious exemption form letter comes from a Christian perspective. It cites several passages from the New Testament of the Bible — which is not significant for Jews, Muslims or people in most other faith traditions.
'I believe that Christians are called to communicate God’s words and message of love to the world. See Luke 9:2,' reads one portion of the form letter.
'I do not consent to forcing a face covering on my child, who is created in the image of God,' reads the form letter Landry suggests his employees use. 'Masks lead to anti-social behaviors, interfere with religious commands to share God’s love with others, and interfere with relationships in contravention with the Bible.'
In the letter, Landry said parents and grandparents should also object to children being forced to take a COVID-19 vaccine on the grounds that the nation’s vaccine program is a 'medical experiment.' The letter also states people should object to vaccine mandates because the vaccines available in the United States were developed using 'fetal stem cell lines' derived from abortions decades ago."
(... this despite the fact that the Pope has told Catholics that they SHOULD take the vaccine, even though it may have been developed using fetal cell lines, because the church believes in saving lives... which the vaccines do.)
And here's info about the philosophical letter:
"In the philosophical exemption form letter, Landry takes a different approach. He argues that federal disability laws allow parents or guardians to object to a school’s mask or vaccine mandate — though it’s not clear how. The letter doesn’t explain why a child whose family doesn’t want him or her vaccinated would be entitled to the same treatment as a child with a disability.
The philosophical exemption letter goes on to say that families could object to school mask mandates on the grounds that face coverings impose 'risks on my child’s mental and emotional health by hindering verbal and nonverbal communication.'
Landry also suggests in this form letter that cloth masks do not help cut down on transmission of the virus. The statement goes against what months of research has suggested about the spread of COVID-19. The Centers for Disease Control is recommending people wear cloth masks in public spaces."
(More info here: http://lailluminator.com/2021/08/03/louisiana-ag-jeff-landry-advises-his-employees-on-how-to-circumvent-school-covid-19-restrictions/)
Ugh. Just ugh.
(He's also threatened to sue VCOM, one of the state's medical schools, over their mandating that students must be vaccinated to attend...)
:facepalm:
Re: The AG of my state has lost his mind - Ombligo - 08-03-2021
Looks like someone is hoping to run for a higher office.
How killing your constituents accomplishes that is beyond me.
Re: The AG of my state has lost his mind - PeterB - 08-03-2021
Ombligo wrote:
Looks like someone is hoping to run for a higher office.
How killing your constituents accomplishes that is beyond me.
Exactly. All these politicians (I'm looking at you, DeathSantis) who are encouraging their constituents to ignore the rules ... which is likely to lead to their constituents' (and their childrens') hospitalization and possibly death... they're effectively reducing the pool of people who will vote for them. I know that's an awful way to look at it, but that's what they're doing. Landry's claim that really kids don't need to be so worried about corona is especially disturbing.
Re: The AG of my state has lost his mind - C(-)ris - 08-03-2021
PeterB wrote:
[quote=Ombligo]
Looks like someone is hoping to run for a higher office.
How killing your constituents accomplishes that is beyond me.
Exactly. All these politicians (I'm looking at you, DeathSantis) who are encouraging their constituents to ignore the rules ... which is likely to lead to their constituents' (and their childrens') hospitalization and possibly death... they're effectively reducing the pool of people who will vote for them. I know that's an awful way to look at it, but that's what they're doing. Landry's claim that really kids don't need to be so worried about corona is especially disturbing.
The number of people who die of COVID is extremely low compared to the overall number of voters they gain with their policies.
Re: The AG of my state has lost his mind - PeterB - 08-03-2021
C(-)ris wrote:
[quote=PeterB]
[quote=Ombligo]
Looks like someone is hoping to run for a higher office.
How killing your constituents accomplishes that is beyond me.
Exactly. All these politicians (I'm looking at you, DeathSantis) who are encouraging their constituents to ignore the rules ... which is likely to lead to their constituents' (and their childrens') hospitalization and possibly death... they're effectively reducing the pool of people who will vote for them. I know that's an awful way to look at it, but that's what they're doing. Landry's claim that really kids don't need to be so worried about corona is especially disturbing.
The number of people who die of COVID is extremely low compared to the overall number of voters they gain with their policies.
I don't know; I don't think they're gaining any new voters with these policies, it's the diehards who will vote for them. In cities/states where there's a very fine dividing line during an election, I wonder how this'll tilt things.
Re: The AG of my state has lost his mind - Marc Anthony - 08-03-2021
Religious or philosophical exemptions to vaccination are coming from a place of irrational fear and willful ignorance. If you won't vaccinate because a fetus was aborted in 1985 and led to some cells that advanced science, then you might want to abstain from receiving medical care of any kind, because there's a sordid history involving some past medical discoveries, and those advances led to other advances.
Re: The AG of my state has lost his mind - SteveG - 08-03-2021
Jesus will answer by striking Louisiana with even more hurricanes again this year.
Book of Jerks 13:24
Re: The AG of my state has lost his mind - space-time - 08-03-2021
Steve G. wrote:
Jesus will answer by striking Louisiana with even more hurricanes again this year.
Book of Jerks 13:24
miley-laughing001:
Re: The AG of my state has lost his mind - PeterB - 08-03-2021
space-time wrote:
[quote=Steve G.]
Jesus will answer by striking Louisiana with even more hurricanes again this year.
Book of Jerks 13:24
miley-laughing001:
I would laugh at this too, except for the fact that the last major hurricane to hit us (last year, Zeta) caused property damage to my house (blew out a window and damaged some computer equipment), as well as personal injury to myself (from the broken glass).
Re: The AG of my state has lost his mind - space-time - 08-04-2021
I was laughing at the "Book of Jerks", not the hurricanes.
Sorry to hear you got hurt and suffered property damage, that is not fun at all.