Minnesota candidate backs move to block COVID shots for kids

[Nevilledog]

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/05/28/minnesota-candidate-backs-move-to-block-covid-shots-for-kids

Minnesota Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen signed onto a lawsuit seeking to stop COVID-19 vaccinations for 12- to 15-year-olds that, among other things, compares such inoculations to Nazi experimentation on imprisoned Jews.

Jensen, a family physician from Chaska who served in the state Senate from 2017 to 2021, is the first named plaintiff in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Alabama by America’s Frontline Doctors, a group that has downplayed the pandemic and pushed misleading and false information, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported Friday.

The group’s leader, Simone Gold, is among those facing charges for allegedly entering the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection that sought to halt the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory over then-President Donald Trump.

The Pfizer vaccine has been approved for everyone as young as 12 and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging parents to get their children vaccinated as soon as possible, saying it is safe and effective.

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[PortTack]

1. Proves a point..they don't want you to have an abortion, but don't give a shit if the child dies

[3catwoman3]

2. Generally speaking, the politicians who were doctors before...

...becoming politicians don't seen to be too bright. Were they as bad at being doctors as they are at being legislators? Rand Paul and Paul Broun spring to mind first. Broun was the one in 2012 who claimed evolution and embryology were "lies straight from the pit of hell." He lost that election.

Embryology, for chrissake! He had to study the slides in med school!

Shit - just Googled him. He's going to run again! Georgia will probably elect him again.

[hedda_foil]

3. At least that seems to be true of those of the rightward persuasion.

Our very own Howard Dean, MD doesn't fit your description.

[3catwoman3]

6. You are correct about Howard Dean, of course.

For whatever reason, republican doctors in Congress far outweigh Democratic doctors. The current congress has 17 doctors in it - 14 are Repubs.

Maybe Democratic physicians keep on being physicians because they are compassionate and good at their jobs.

[3catwoman3]

8. See my post #7 below.

When I hear of a physician being a member of Congress, I tend to think it is probably a Republican.

[zipplewrath]

5. Doctors aren't rocket scientists

They memorize well, that's the primary skill needed to get through medical school. Critical thinking skills aren't all that necessary.

[Ocelot II]

10. Not to mention Ben Carson, reputed to have been an excellent surgeon,

but subsequently proved to be as dumb as a stump in his capacity as deeply-Trumpified HUD secretary.

[Marrah_Goodman]

14. And other dumbasses will vote for him

[dawg day]

4. At what point do the medical licensing boards start taking note of this?

A physician trying to keep teens from getting the vaccine?

He should have his license suspended.

[3catwoman3]

7. For what it is worth, here are the stats for the last 5...

... Congresses (is that a word?) for total number of physicians in Congress and how many were/are Republicans:

113th (2013-15) 20/16
114th (2015-17) 17/14
115th (2017-19) 16/14
116th (2019-21) 17/14
117th (2021-now) 17/14

Pretty skewed.

[Solly Mack]

9. Typical right-winger. They claim they don't want government telling them how to raise their kids

all the while using the structures of government and law to try and tell others how to raise their kids.

You can't tell me to get my child vaccinated!

BUT

I can deny your child a vaccination no matter how you feel about it!


Typical right-wing thinking: You have no right to tell me what to do, but it is my right to tell you what to do.

All the while claiming they are the ones being persecuted and attacked.

[BGBD]

11. Standing?

What harm can this group claim they are getting that can be relieved from blocking vaccines to kids?

[KT2000]

12. A bit full of himself

I would say. Attention hog.

[Marrah_Goodman]

13. Nutter's nutter's everywhere

Human's will end up dying off due to our own willful stupidity at some point.