{"id":39719,"date":"2013-11-14T15:30:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T22:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/14\/what-are-they-putting-in-the-water-up-there-in-wisconsin.html"},"modified":"2013-11-14T15:30:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T22:30:29","slug":"what-are-they-putting-in-the-water-up-there-in-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/14\/what-are-they-putting-in-the-water-up-there-in-wisconsin.html","title":{"rendered":"What are they putting in the water up there in Wisconsin?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Really? \u00a0The GOP-dominated state legislature really has nothing better to do than debate a bill that \u00a0would prohibit employers (like, say, hospitals) from requiring their employees to get flu shots, or even to wear face masks?<\/p>\n

'Rep. Jeremy Theisfeldt wrote Assembly Bill 247 after he said a hospital employee lost her job over flu shot mandates. \u201cI'm standing for the freedom of individuals to be able to reasonably determine their own healthcare and not to have sacrificed their livelihood to do so,\u201d Theisfeldt said.'<\/i><\/p>\n

You keep using that word "reasonably" — I do not think it means what you think it means. \u00a0<\/p>\n

In other words, your freedom to determine your own healthcare ends where the germs and viruses you're "freely" carrying around impact the health of others, particularly<\/i> in a healthcare setting where health and \u00a0immune systems are already compromised.<\/p>\n

The eighteenth century may have been a great era for theories about personal liberty. It wasn't a great era for medical care. \u00a0I'm not sure an idealized desire to return to those days in search of the former warrants returning to those days in the sense of the latter.<\/p>\n

Next up: "I'm unconvinced that washing my hands doesn't allow the devil to slip into my body, so …"<\/p><\/div>\n

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Flu shot or fired? Bill prohibits vaccine mandates at work<\/a><\/p>\n

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Really? \u00a0The GOP-dominated state legislature really has nothing better to do than debate a bill that \u00a0would prohibit employers (like, say, hospitals) from requiring their employees to get flu shots, or even to wear face masks? 'Rep. Jeremy Theisfeldt wrote Assembly Bill 247 after he said a hospital employee lost her job over flu shot … Continue reading “What are they putting in the water up there in Wisconsin?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134791,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/20\/unfortunately-days-onion-hits-far-close-truth.html","url_meta":{"origin":39719,"position":0},"title":"Unfortunately, there are days when “The Onion” hits far too close to the truth","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 20-Sep-17 3:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Sigh. GOP Leaders Confident They\u2019ll Have Cruelty Necessary To Pass Healthcare Bill WASHINGTON\u2014Increasingly optimistic that the callousness they required would be locked down by the September 30 deadline, GOP leaders were confident Wednesday that they will have the cruelty necessary to pass their new healthcare bill. 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