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(50,337 posts)
Mon May 5, 2025, 01:48 AM May 5

MN Bill Would Criminalize mRNA Vaccines, Label Them 'Weapons Of Mass Destruction' (not the Onion)

ST. PAUL, MN — A group of Republican lawmakers introduced a bill in the Minnesota House of Representatives that would classify mRNA vaccines and products as "weapons of mass destruction" and criminalize their manufacture, distribution, and possession.

"It's a shot across the bow of the biotechnology industry, which has taken advantage of its unique liability protections and the fear generated by emergency to fast-track novel gene-altering treatments which are not fully understood," Rep. Walter Hudson (Albertville), one of the bill's authors, told Patch.

"These treatments were coerced under threat of lost employment and social censure, rather than offered under the longstanding ethical norm of informed consent.". Hudson said the bill "would need significant amendment to become law" but described its "bold opening position" as an effort to "provoke productive conversation about these issues" and ultimately "arrive at a reasonable legislative response."

The bill, HF 4991, would prohibit the manufacturing, distribution, and possession of "any product that uses or contains messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) technology" in Minnesota.

In addition to Hudson, the bill was introduced by Republican Reps. Shane Mekeland (Clear Lake), Krista Knudsen (Lake Shore), Jeff Dotseth (Silver Township), Tom Murphy (Underwood), Pam Altendorf (Red Wing), Elliott Engen (White Bear Township), and Isaac Schultz (Elmdale Township).

https://patch.com/minnesota/saintpaul/mn-bill-would-label-mrna-vaccines-weapons-mass-destruction



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Botany

(74,261 posts)
1. Do these shit for brains know this would criminalize COVID vaccines?
Mon May 5, 2025, 02:09 AM
May 5

The C-19 COVID virus does not have DNA but it has mRNA and so a vaccine made to fight the
C-19 virus has to have a segment of the mRNA from the C-19 virus in it so it can program our
body’s immune system to recognize the unwanted virus by spotting it along with the spike protein.

Botany

(74,261 posts)
9. And almost all this anti vaccine gibberish is from Russia in order to hurt America via misinformation.
Mon May 5, 2025, 08:00 AM
May 5

Which is sucked in and spread by mouth breathing idiots on various platforms.
Hey, let’s bring back lock jaw by getting rid of tetanus shots while we are at it too.

AZJonnie

(829 posts)
2. Gotta love the way the article fills the beginning with the talking points of the fascist nutbags
Mon May 5, 2025, 02:19 AM
May 5

behind this bill

It's really pathetic how attached the cultist remain to the long-ago debunked bullshit stories created in their own echo-chamber, that they attached themselves to in the past. What's next, dipshits? You going to pass a law that says China will pay Trump's tariffs instead of Minnesotans? Maybe one that makes it illegal for elementary schools to have cat litter boxes in classrooms, or perform gender reassignment surgeries in the school nurses office without notifying parents?

The GQP are idiots, from top to bottom.

Old Crank

(5,696 posts)
3. Going to criminalize most new vaccines.
Mon May 5, 2025, 03:52 AM
May 5

Not just Covid. People in Minnesota will die or be driving out of state for their shots.

0rganism

(25,084 posts)
5. Does this monstrosity have a chance of passing? I can't imagine Gov. Walz signing it...
Mon May 5, 2025, 04:07 AM
May 5

... unless it had serious super-majority support among the public.

dflprincess

(28,827 posts)
11. No
Mon May 5, 2025, 12:43 PM
May 5

The Democrats have a 1 vote majority in the state Senate & the state House is tied. Even if it passed there wouldn't be the votes to overridde Walz' veto.

Maraya1969

(23,275 posts)
6. I'd love to ask them what "Evidence" they have to back up their claims.
Mon May 5, 2025, 04:52 AM
May 5

Show us some altered DNA in someone you jackasses. This is a dumb as the paedophile pizza place in Brooklyn

Granny Blue

(75 posts)
10. Not Happening
Mon May 5, 2025, 11:53 AM
May 5

This is just the Michelle Bachman branch of the family tree trying to stir up the moribund MAGAs and create some noise as the state budget is debated. This is why intelligent Minnesotans moved to Minneapolis. They couldn’t stand the stupidity of “Greater Minnesota”. This bill will be defeated, but with the new requirements the Worm Brain put in place, we may have to go to Canada/Mexico/Europe to be immunized.

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