When I first saw this story I had to double-check to make sure I wasn’t reading The Onion. Sadly I wasn’t.
Two state legislators in Idaho, Sen. Tammy Nichols (R) and Rep. Judy Boyle (R) have introduced a bill, HB 154, making it illegal to administer an mRNA vaccine. From the text:
A person may not provide or administer a vaccine developed using messenger ribonucleic acid technology for use in an individual or any other mammal in this state.
According to Idaho’s KTVB: “Nichols said there is no liability, informed consent, or data on mRNA vaccines.” I’m not even sure how to respond to this, all three points being nakedly false, and trivially proven so.
It seems nuts to even have to say this, but it’s batshit insane to try and make lifesaving vaccines illegal. It even seems nuts for any intelligent person to have to repeat that the risk/benefit equation of vaccines, be they for COVID-19 or be they mRNA, is astronomically in favor of taking them. It is not possible to spend even the slightest amount of time studying vaccination without learning this, so it’s clear that both Nichols and Boyle have some kind of serious cognitive dissonance going on.