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LA TIMES: Anti-lockdown anti-vaxxers have no right to endanger others
Protesters plan to gather (https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article242491721.html) in Sacramento on Thursday for a second time in less than a week to demand that California governor Gavin Newsom lift pandemic-related restrictions so that people can exercise their God-given right to spread the coronavirus.
If that sounds familiar that’s because it’s essentially the same message pushed by protesters in 2019 during the legislative battle over SB 276, a bill to make it harder to exempt children from mandatory vaccinations. Protesters framed their position as a defence of personal choice, even though the bill didn’t deny parents the choice to leave their children uninoculated against measles and other easily preventable diseases...
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