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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Mar 9, 2022, 09:53 PM Mar 2022

Mississippi advances COVIDIOT's bill of rights

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Anyone in Mississippi could cite “a sincerely held religious objection” to avoid a public or private employer's COVID-19 vaccination mandate, under a bill that advanced Wednesday at the state Capitol.

COVID-19 vaccine mandates have not been widespread in Mississippi, but Republican Sen. Brice Wiggins of Pascagoula, said President Joe Biden’s attempt to set a mandate for federal contractors could have caused big problems for Mississippi’s largest private employer, Ingalls Shipbuilding. Wiggins said he is “proudly vaccinated” but believes getting the vaccine should be a personal choice.

“To me, this is about government overreach,” Wiggins said.

The spectators' galleries were packed Wednesday, and people applauded as some senators denounced vaccine mandates.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mississippi-advances-bill-against-covid-vaccine-mandates/ar-AAUR5yN

"Mah religion says be fruitful and multiply any and every disease"

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Mississippi advances COVIDIOT's bill of rights (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2022 OP
Let's Check In On How Mississippi Is Doing Per Capita On Covid Deaths SoCalDavidS Mar 2022 #1

SoCalDavidS

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1. Let's Check In On How Mississippi Is Doing Per Capita On Covid Deaths
Wed Mar 9, 2022, 10:41 PM
Mar 2022

Yep, WAY out in 1st Place, with 4,110 Deaths Per Million.

That's 1 out of every 243 persons in the state.

So put 48,600 people in a Baseball Stadium. With this rate, 200 of them died of Covid.

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