Kansas Senate Is Anti-Vaccine, Pro-Horse Paste

As in ALL vaccines.

Hand in blue medical gloves holding a syringe and vaccine vial with Covid 19 Vaccine Booster text, for Coronavirus booster shot.This post is brought to you by the Heartland Institute for the Preservation of Measles and Mumps, AKA the Kansas Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, which just approved a bill to making it easier for parents to opt out of all vaccinations and still enroll their kids in school and daycare.

A prior version of the bill granted exemption from vaccine requirements if the parent was an “adherent of a religious denomination whose teachings are opposed to immunizations.” The new version specifies that “‘religious beliefs’ includes, but is not limited to, theistic and non-theistic moral and ethical beliefs as to what is right and wrong that are sincerely held with the strength of traditional religious views,” and specifically bars educators and day care providers from asking if the Church of the Poison Mind really does preach against tetanus shots.

“It gives parents discretion as to whether or not they want their kid to take a vaccine that is actually dangerous, and has been proven to be so,” Sen. Mike Thompson, R-Shawnee, insisted, mischaracterizing both the danger from the vaccine and from the virus itself. “These kids are not at risk.”

The legislation is being championed by state Sen. Mark Steffen, an anesthesiologist who is under investigation by the Kansas Board of Healing Arts for his public advocacy of the drug ivermectin as a treatment for coronavirus, despite a total lack of evidence that the anti-parasitic works to treat COVID-19. By sheer coincidence (or not) Steffen is also the driving force behind a bill that would force pharmacists to fill off-label prescriptions for ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus — or even to ward it off prophylactically.

“A prescriber may prescribe and a pharmacist shall dispense a prescription drug pursuant to this subsection even if the patient has not been exposed to or tested positive for COVID-19,” the proposed language reads. Pharmacists can refuse to fill a prescription for the “morning after” pill, but they better hand over the horse dewormer or else.

The law, which passed out of committee, would also block state agencies, like, say, the Kansas Board of Healing Arts, from punishing doctors and pharmacists who prescribe drugs with serious side effects that do not include the prevention or cure of coronavirus.

“We are moving a bill forward that decreases suffering and death,” Steffen told the Kansas Reflector. “We’re moving a bill forward that allows the true standard of care in the early treatment of COVID to reign supreme. This notion that doing nothing is the standard of care is false, inappropriate and has led to crimes against humanity. The bottom line is we took a step forward in helping our Kansas citizens today and protecting our children.”

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So no immunity for school kids, but doctors can pump patients full of horse dewormer at will.

Gimme a P. Gimme an O. Gimme an L. Gimme an I. Gimme an O.

Kansas senator wins support for off-label drug use, vaccine exemptions for children [Kansas Reflector]
Anti-vax, pro-ivermectin measures advance in Kansas Senate [AP]


Liz Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.

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