Posted on 01/28/2023 6:28:01 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
California’s controversial COVID-19 misinformation law, which bars doctors from providing “misinformation” or “disinformation” related to COVID-19, is an unprecedented effort by those in power to block doctors from sharing their views on COVID-19 topics, including on vaccines, with their patients, an attorney says. And lawmakers had pivoted the initial bill from its true, intended purpose to be able to pass it.
That’s according to Rick Jaffe, an attorney who represents a lawsuit challenging the measure, AB 2098 (pdf), also referred to colloquially as the state’s COVID-19 misinformation law, which became effective on Jan. 1 but has since been put on hold.
A judge granted a preliminary injunction (pdf) late Wednesday, temporarily blocking the law from being enforced pending further litigation in two lawsuits. Jaffe is involved in one of the cases—Hoang v. Bonta. The other case is Hoeg v. Newsom. Both had argued, in part, that AB 2098 is unconstitutional under the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
“This is the first effort to suppress health care practitioners from telling patients what the doctors think,” Jaffe said of the COVID-19 misinformation law in a recent interview with EpochTV’s “Crossroads” program.
“If they get away with this, it’s not going to be the last time they do this … That’s what we’re battling against,” he added, noting that such impunity could result in similar speech-suppression efforts “for the next pandemic...”
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Didn’t Nazi Germany do things like this? Suppress any opposition through arrests, and confiscation of wealth? My father fought the Nazis, only to have them take over our government after his death.
Only difference between California and Nazi Germany is the Nazis allowed more dissent.
And people want Gavin Newsome as President???
Alot of truth to that statement.
I suggest people watch Judgement at Nuremberg. While a bit dramatic it VERY CLEARLY shows how “Laws” can be perverted.
Just damn scary how supposedly good honest people fall in line.
Learn from history or be DESTINED TO REPEAT IT. California, history is calling. What is your response?
California burned the constitution years ago.
Next on the list:
Make it against the law to criticize “green energy” and climate change... including the forced “transition” to electric vehicles.
Make it against the law to use the wrong pronouns when describing someone who is pretending to be something other than their biological sex.
Make it against the law to criticize sending money and weaponry to whatever corrupt regime is providing money laundering services to deep state politicians.
Make it against the law to criticize any form of affirmative action or “reparations” to whatever group of victims are the designated flavor of the month.
And ultimately make it against the law to be critical of anyone in the designated leftist ruling class whether they are elected or not.
Isn’t this like law makers practicing medicine without a license?
Any doctors who accede to this are complicit.
It’s harder to convince educated people that 2 + 2 = 5. Harder, but not impossible.
So much their mantra “government must never come between a patient and her doctor.”
So we are not going to follow the science?
Me thinks the nazis have been in control of our government for a ver long time, quietly running things behind the scenes. In the last few years they have become more brazen and exposed.
Maybe the whole nazi hunt by hoover (was it him? Or another person?) Was likely a ruse, and it ruined a lot of people, something that the left/nazis love doing
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Easy to say, but consider the doctor who loses his/her license for speaking out on the clot-shot.
He/she forfeits 20 to 30 years of life in pursuit of the MD degree.
Having had a conversation with a physician who opposed this California statute in a committee round table at the capitol,
it was apparent that despite his, and other physicians', attempt to dissuade the communist legislature to enact this horror show, the communist commissars were unrelenting.
This is not just about Covid, it is about anything that the Overlords deem "misinformation" so as to strip individuals of rights and freedoms.
The mask wearers, pro-mandates, pro-lockdowns??? Yeah, they absolutely want him in charge.
And really. What is the difference between him and BeijingBiden?
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