Posted on 08/11/2021 9:50:50 AM PDT by John Semmens
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill) has inserted a clause that would shift dietary supplements from over-the-counter availability to "prescription only" into an upcoming appropriations bill. While Durbin has tried this before and failed, he cited the pandemic as "another opportunity to strike while the iron is hot. A lot of the resistance to the government prescribed vaccination protocol for dealing with COVID comes from people who think they are qualified to manage their own health. The easy availability of supplements encourages these deviants to reject the medicine that science says they need."
"By requiring that a doctor's prescription must be obtained before a person can get dietary supplements we can get more control over the situation," the Senator explained. "First, doctors can earn money for writing prescriptions. They can't earn money when laymen can buy supplements at their own volition. Second, since doctors are licensed by the government the threat to withdraw their licenses ensures that they will abide by government directives on what to prescribe. This threat has been very effective in diminishing the use of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin despite indications that these prescription drugs could have saved the lives of many COVID patients. Finally, people who need their supplements to treat other diseases like high blood pressure or atherosclerosis can be pressured into taking the jab if they want to get a prescription for those supplements."
"We will be replacing the anarchy of free choice with a superior system that allows a broader scope for government management of the people's health," Durbin boasted. "Resources that might've been wasted on the ignorant choices of untrained individuals will be concentrated in the hands of the scientific experts. Decisions on who is treated and who is not, what medications are given and which withheld will be efficiently centralized."
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Durbin needs an ENEMA.........
Because he is Full Of SHIT!!
Dick -Dick, Before, Dick dicks YOU!!
Please tell me this has no chance of passing.
From BOTH ENDS.........................
Durbin is a mean-spirited, arrogant, condescending socialist.
Ease up people…. It’s semi-satire news source….
However lately, it’s getting hard to tell anymore…
Only embarrassment prevents me from admitting how far I read before I caught on.
My comments still STAND and have NOTHING to do with the article!
DID YOU NOTICE, I live in Illinois. And I live in Springfield, Where he lives.
Talk about Not Reading. I see him at the Grocery store.
John Semmens semi-satire usually takes a real event and then adds satirical quotes. I tried to find the real event and it looks like Durbin tries this crap every session of Congress. Is he on big pharma’s payroll or did his mother beat him with a bottle of vitamins?
Keep praying that the Lord intervenes and saves us from these evil people. God is in charge and we know how it eventually goes down. In the meantime our nation has a lot of repenting to do!
The “prescription only” clause is very likely to pass. It is just a few pages in a multi-thousand page appropriations bill that can be enacted via “reconciliation.”
Many countries in Europe already require prescriptions to obtain supplements. The claim is that government supervision of doctors will allow authorities to suppress “dangerous” and “untested” natural substances that cannot be patented.
We have seen a slide toward a similar mode of thinking in the US during the pandemic. Supplements like vitamins C, D, & E, quercetin and zinc have been bad-mouthed. People who don’t want the COVID vaccines are routinely characterized as “foolish” and “unpatriotic” persons who must be coerced into taking this medicine at the threat of losing their jobs and/or being denied access to public places. Some have even suggested internment camps, injection squads, and covert methods of getting the vaccines into the body,
What part is semi satire? Because Durban is going to make sun exposure (Vit D) prescription?
But the context is real. They want to do this and if stuck in an appropriations bill it might just pass.
Lately satire seems often just 6-12 months ahead of the news cycle . . .
It’s not really satire if that is what is being done. Even the quotes reflect their internal thinking, IMO.
Definitely on big pharma payroll. A lot of them are.
Meanwhile, my doc, whose from Nigeria and went to med school there NOT funded by BigPharma, does indeed prescribe supplements for me.
That’s TRUE!!
I accept the challenge. Start with me first Lord.
Am I going to have to buy my anxiety relief pills off the back of a damned truck???
There’s no bread/
Let them eat cake/
There’s no end/
To what they’ll take
Take it down a notch...
Your comments about Durbin still stand separate from the article, we agree...he’s a scumbag......
BTW, how am I supposed to know you live in Springfield? Your call sign is Chicagolady?
LOL! I guess you didn’t know Dick Durbin is Senator for ALL OF ILLINOIS! Springfield, Chicago, Decatur etc etc, no matter where you live in Illinois He’s your Senator.
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