Idaho House attempt to ban vaccine mandates in the state fails after only 16 lawmakers show up

[jmowreader]

https://apnews.com/article/business-health-laws-legislature-brad-little-e095a39ae527602524b73635818fc6f6

There are 70 members of the Idaho House. The 16 farthest-right ones decided on Wednesday to try to force the Legislature to reconvene and pass laws to prohibit vaccine mandates in this state. No one else showed up.

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2. I'm impressed...

I didn't think there were 54 Idaho elected officials that were that smart.

[marybourg]

3. They were probably all in the hospital

With Covid or in quarantine.

[jmowreader]

5. Make that 42 Idaho elected officials

We have twelve Democrats in the House, and all 12 stayed the hell away. So...42 Republicans were either out sick or suddenly had a twinge of conscience.

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8. I'm still finding it incredible there where 42 intelligent Repuqs in Idaho.

Disclaimer: my sister lives in Idaho Falls, taught in the public schools for over 30 years, BUT leans slightly left.

I love her, she's my only sister.

[Hugin]

4. I won't say what I'm thinking.

It's not civil.

[LeftInTX]

6. It's also on the Texas lege's special session agenda

[cadoman]

7. CONservatives saw the writing on the wall w/the Newsom result

Mandates are a winning issue and you'll likely see them starting to hop on board with their own variations of the concept.

[peppertree]

9. This is the same state where hospitals in a state of collapse

They're on a "we'll get to you when (and if) we can" basis - and clogged with the unvaccinated.

[jmowreader]

11. Kootenai Health had to bring in Army doctors to help with the case load

Coeur d'Alene is THICK with doctors, as you'd expect in a city with so many retirees. The vast majority of them have privileges at Kootenai Health, but we still needed military caregivers to handle the problem.

I got it figured like this: We have Democrats in Idaho. We're all vaccinated. We have enough Democrats that after the unvaxxed finish killing themselves with this damned virus, we should be able to flip the state blue pretty easily.

[peppertree]

12. It's a bit harsh - but I hear you

Here we are, 18 months into this disaster; hardly anyone doesn't know of at least someone who's died from this anymore.

And yet...there they are, these Republicans (mostly), going on as if they wanted to choke to death. They certainly couldn't care less if anyone else does.

The power of brainwashing never ceases to amaze me.

[ShazzieB]

10. Republican lawmakers in many states seem to have lost their freaking minds.

I can't even work up the energy to get outraged right now. Just too. Damed. Tired. Of this crap.