(Connecticut) Bill ending religious vaccine exemption now heads to Senate

A contentious bill that would end Connecticut’s long-standing religious exemption from immunization requirements for schools, beginning with the 2022-23 school year, now awaits action in the state Senate.

The legislation passed on a 90-53 vote in the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives just before 3 a.m. on Tuesday, following more than 16 hours of sometimes combative debate. No date has been set yet for when the Senate, which is also controlled by Democrats, will vote on the same bill.

The House vote marked the furthest the legislation has progressed in Connecticut, where lawmakers have debated the concept over the past several years. Some Republican opponents argued the bill was unnecessary, an overreach by state government, and an attempt to impede the religious liberties of potentially thousands of children. Yet mostly Democratic supporters said it was a necessary step to prevent future outbreaks of disease.

“We’ve seen a slow and steady increase in exemptions from required childhood vaccinations. We do not know when community immunity might be compromised,” said Democratic House Majority Leader Jason Rojas of East Hartford, who compared the situation to the early days of the coronavirus pandemic when “far too many elected officials denied or didn’t acknowledge that there was a pandemic underway,”

He said any exceptions to the state’s mandatory vaccination rules “must be limited and based on science and public health guidance. And that is why we are here today.”

About a half-hour before finally passing the bill, House members passed a Republican amendment that makes it clear that students who are now exempt from immunizations because of religious reasons to continue to be exempt if they transfer from one public or private school in Connecticut to another, or to a different school district in the state.

I have received so many vaccines over a lifetime especially with military servuce that I lost count and an probably stronger as a result or NOT.

But some things are disturbing that it makes me give some persons who warn of dangers in vaccines-a second look. These are not anti-vaxxers bu tthe media certainly portray them as such. Those warning against vaccines usually point out it’s not the notion of vaccine that is a danger but the people and industry behind the vaccines.

Two that have earned my respect are:

Dr. Judy Mikovits: an expert vaccine researcher who warned the world and exposed the corruption of Fauci.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who is wrong on Climate Change but who makes sense on vaccine dangers.

What I find disturbing is there is no concerted effort to really track side effects unless too many people die obviously in reaction to vaccine injections.

There is the fact that vaccines are not always effective as reported and incidents in the past have revealed billions of dollars of vaccines that went bad because of poor or no refrigeration in their storage under government possession.

Another disturbing fact is that vaccine makers carry ZERO LIABILITY granted them by Congress and the result is a cavalier attitude of accountability.

Yet another disturbing fact is that vaccine officials in government can patent vaccines and make a boatload of money in this way. Fauci is in on this. It’s a blatant open door to conflict of interest and how it came into existence can be a mystery. But actually it’s not so much a mystery. Dr. Judy Mikovits explains well how officials like Fauci lobbied Congress for patent ownership. It was slipped in under the radar.

Folding in with these regulatory weaknesses permitted for the vaccine industry and their government official lackeys, is that vaccines are enormously profitable and that causes a pressure to mandate more and more vaccines.

Like America’s election system, the coddled vaccine industry is out of control because no one was watching.

Yes I know. I grew up 14 miles from his family. Have never net him, he was a little younger than me.

I have my own opinions about that, and his wife was a nurse. She nursed my grandfather. She was a good nurse. Not sure about her politics. The family were Dems, my family were. I never was. From the time I finished college I could see that I was not a Dem. At the time 21 was the age to vote. My first ballot was cast for Richard Milhouse Nixon.

Would do it all over the same. The Lefties and DC hated Nixon like they hate Trump. Both parties turned on him. (I'm not defending what he did, but it was a coup too.)

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