After success in Idaho, anti-vaccine activists want to export their idiocy nationwide
arstechnica.com
The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine.
  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    She transitioned to work as a homeopath and advocate, ultimately returning to her home state of Idaho.

    Well, if she’s a homeopath, then surely she must have informed medical views.

    Manookian has said publicly that she thinks vaccines are “poison for profit,” that continuing to let daycares require vaccination would “put our children on the chopping block,” that measles is “positive for the body,” that the virus protects against cancer, and that it can send people “into total remission”—an assertion she made on an Idaho wellness center’s podcast in April.

    Manookian told ProPublica she believes infectious diseases have been made “the bogeyman.”

    Well, I guess that claiming that measles are good for you and that infectious disease has been made a boogeyman is consistent with opposing vaccines.

    I do have to say that “COVID-19 cures cancer and is fantastic” is a new one on me, though.

    EDIT: Wait, sorry. It sounds like she’s claiming that measles cures cancer, not COVID-19. Still a new one on me.

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 hours ago

      Almost makes me wish I wasn’t vaccinated. I’d get the measles and spend the whole time walking through every Walmart and Waffle House in Idaho.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        5·
        21 hours ago

        Well, probably.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks

        Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951)[2] was an African-American woman[5] whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line[B] and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific conditions, and the HeLa cell line continues to be a source of invaluable medical data to the present day.[7][8]