Do They Teach Math in Pennsylvania? First, the State Overcounts Ballots for Joe Biden, Now the Number of People Vaccinated is Overcounted by One Million

Pennsylvania has done it again. First, they did it with excess ballots for Joe Biden, this time with vaccine data. Are there no honest mathematicians in the state?

Penn Live reports:

Pennsylvania on Wednesday said 68.8% of adult residents are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 — far less than the 73.7% cited on Tuesday and numbers highlighted in news releases for weeks.

A news release gave little explanation beyond saying the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday “began to rectify their data to match Pennsylvania COVID-19 vaccine data and we anticipate the CDC to go through a similar process with other states across the country.”

In human terms, it equals 1,076,911 adult Pennsylvanians who were believed to be fully vaccinated on Tuesday and who, as it turns out, are not, according to data from health department spokeswoman Maggi Barton.

Reached by email late Wednesday afternoon, Barton said the change resulted from removing duplicate vaccination records and correcting data related to first, second and booster doses.

This really is no surprise. In the 2020 Election the estimates of votes overcounted for Joe Biden range in the hundreds of thousands.

One million, a half a million, it doesn’t matter in Pennsylvania. It’s all about the outcome.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/math-taught-pennsylvania-first-state-overcounts-ballots-joe-biden-now-number-people-vaccinated-overcounted-one-million/

There Are Now 365 Studies that Prove the Efficacy of Ivermectin and HCQ in Treating COVID-19 — Will Anyone Confront Fauci and The Medical Elites on Their Deception?

There have now been 67 Ivermectin COVID-19 controlled studies that show a 67% improvement in COVID patients.

There have been 298 Hydroxychloroquine studies that show a 64% improvement in patients for COVID-19 patients.

Despite the science, Dr. Fauci and the medical elites have blocked the use of these effective treatments for coronavirus patients.

Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of the mRNA vaccines, accused Dr. Fauci and others of lying and causing the death of over 500,000 Americans by preventing HCQ and Ivermectin, and other treatments from COVID-19 patients.

Dr. Malone is right. It is well documented that Dr. Fauci and top US doctors conspired to disqualify and condemn hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment.

Millions died as a result of this.

As TGP reported earlier — It wasn’t just Fauci but all of the top US medical leaders who were in on the hydroxychloroquine lie.

Dr. Meryl Nass, MD, broke this story in The Defender. According to Dr. Nass, the top health officials were all in on the conspiracy against hydroxychloroquine.

Fauci runs the NIAID, Collins is the NIH director (nominally Fauci’s boss) and Farrar is director of the Wellcome Trust. Farrar also signed the Lancet letter. And he is chair of the WHO’s R&D Blueprint Scientific Advisory Group, which put him in the driver’s seat of the WHO’s Solidarity trial, in which 1,000 unwitting subjects were overdosed with hydroxychloroquine in order to sink the use of that drug for COVID.

Farrar had worked in Vietnam, where there was lots of malaria, and he had also been involved with SARS-1 there. He additionally was central in setting up the UK Recovery trial, where 1,600 subjects were overdosed with hydroxychloroquine.

Even if Farrar didn’t have some idea of the proper dose of chloroquine drugs from his experience in Vietnam, he, Fauci and Collins would have learned about such overdoses after Brazil told the world about how they mistakenly overdosed patients in a trial of chloroquine for COVID. The revelation was made in an article published in the JAMA in mid-April 2020. Thirty-nine percent of the subjects in Brazil who were given high doses of chloroquine died, average age 50.

Yet the Solidarity and Recovery hydroxychloroquine trials continued into June, stopping only after their extreme doses were exposed.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/now-365-studies-prove-efficacy-ivermectin-hcq-treating-covid-19-will-anyone-confront-fauci-medical-elites-deception/

Marine to sue Wal-Mart for REFUSING to fill PRESCRIPTION for life-saving Ivermectin

As a Marine, Bill Salier was shot at by snipers in Mogadishu during his nearly five years serving his country. With an impressive security clearance, earlier he was trusted to guard the Presidency from threats on station at Camp David. For the next 20 years he farmed 250 acres in Iowa producing corn, soybeans and pigs to feed American families.

But his local Wal-Mart pharmacist didn’t trust his judgment to fill a life-saving dose of Ivermectin when COVID attacked his body last month and corporate policy was to deny such medicine based on politics, not science.

MARINE DENIED MEDICINE BY MULTINATIONAL RETAILER FOR INVALID REASONS

“I was very concerned I was going to die,” Salier said. “I was falling asleep during my doctor’s medical examinations. They told me I was in the midst of a ‘Cytokine storm’ and 8-9 days in, I was praying for a miracle because my body was failing me. I’ve been active and strong my entire life, but I was in desperate shape and couldn’t form words to even communicate the incredible pain I was feeling all over my body.”

Salier had the worst body pain he’d ever had in his life. He had a sore throat, his hair felt like needles in his head, and he was struck with diarrhea. He couldn’t move. For 9 days, he laid in bed unable to do anything. His wife Karla began to panic, before they both noticed that her symptoms were a few days behind his, she had gotten the dreaded China virus as well.

“We tried to get monoclonal treatment from the Minnesota Department of Health but they never got back to us,” he said. Salier never doubted that COVID was real, a beloved relative of his wife had died from the virus 6 months earlier in a nursing home. Desperate, they sought monoclonal treatment in Osage, Iowa at the Mercy clinic only to be told there was one bag left, and it wouldn’t be for him.

“I kept getting worse. It kept getting worse and we didn’t know what to do.”

His local Doctor would not prescribe Ivermectin because, as Salier retells it, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had not approved it for that purpose, to treat COVID. It wasn’t clear if the Doctor actually believed this, or if they were just following hospital policy.

Ivermectin is perfectly safe for human use, despite what the media says to suppress its use. The media scam on this continues even though the anti-Ivermectin hype has been repeatedly debunked.

Concerned not only for himself but for his wife about to slip into the pain and suffering of the virus, he remembered a contact to Steve Deace, a national talk show host working with the Blaze radio network. From there, Deace put Salier in touch with Dr. Mollie James. Dr. James has been a COVID whistleblower trying to bring the public’s attention to the politicized nature of specific medical treatments: that life-saving affordable drugs exist to stop the effects of COVID and can also turn the tide in dying patients to bring them back from the abyss.

Dr. James diagnosed that Bill was in severe distress, but that wife Karla was also at great risk. She prescribed Ivermectin for both of them and Hydroxychloroquine for Bill. But getting the prescription was not the end of their challenges while their bodies were fighting off the China virus.

“After dropping off the prescription, and I’m passed out cold at this point for nearly the entire day, the Wal-Mart pharmacist calls my wife and arrogantly tells her that he’s not comfortable with this prescription and refuses to fill it. My wife tells him that’s not his right, and he corrects her and says that it is his right, he’s exercising it, and hangs up.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/marine-sue-wal-mart-refusing-fill-prescription-life-saving-ivermectin/

US ignoring client state hack attacks, Russia complains

Western nations are refusing to take action against the Ukrainian computer boffins behind a string of cyber attacks, one of Moscow’s top diplomats has claimed, arguing that Washington is turning a blind eye towards the issue.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova blasted the findings of a probe by the EU’s Europol and Eurojust agencies. The investigation, designed to catch and arrest online ransomware groups, revealed that there were no less than 2,000 victims spanning 71 countries from at least one operation by a cybercrime organization.

According to the official, companies in the US, UK, France, and other Western states were affected. The total damage incurred amassed a whopping $120 million, with the groups said to have been operating since at least 2019.

“But where are the statements by Western partners about ‘Ukrainian hackers’ and the attacks carried out by them?” Zakharova asked.

“Where are the threats of sanctions for Kiev’s ‘years-long failure to combat IT crimes allegedly carried out from the state’s territory with the connivance of national security services?’” she added, echoing Washington’s condemnation of purported Russian hacking.

Zakharova slammed the White House’s silence on the findings, given that the FBI was involved in the joint law enforcement missions, sarcastically proposing that “maybe American intelligence had no idea of the existence of non-Russian hackers?”

Earlier this month, the FBI placed a Russian man on its wanted list after he allegedly orchestrated ransomware attacks worth millions of dollars against numerous victims, as well as businesses and government entities.

The US Justice Department has also announced charges against a Ukrainian national for a string of cybercrimes. The man in question is accused of being behind the July hacking of American software company Kaseya.

Cybersecurity has been a key area of focus for American envoys since President Joe Biden took office. Representatives from Moscow and Washington are said to have held four rounds of discussions on the matter by July. Earlier this year, Biden asked his counterpart, President Vladimir Putin, to “take action” against cybercriminals based in Russian territory.

https://www.rt.com/russia/541330-us-ignoring-hack-attacks/

Israel military ‘pimped’ correctional officers to terrorists – prison chief

Allegations that female Israeli prison guards were left vulnerable to sexual assaults by suspected terrorists in an attempt to gain leverage and coax confessions have been reignited by a prison commander.

Speaking on Wednesday to an Israeli government panel, Gilboa Prison commander Freddy Ben Shitrit appeared to confirm reports from 2018 that women serving in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were put at risk of sexual assault in an effort to extract confessions from Palestinian terrorism suspects.

The commander said the prison bosses had “pimped soldiers” and “handed over female soldiers to terrorists for sexual purposes.”

“The pimping incident was a massive incident,” he added.

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The alleged ‘pimping’ of female soldiers for the purpose of obtaining information from prisoners happened before Ben Shitrit served as warden in the prison. The commander was speaking to a government committee on the failures that led to a jailbreak by six Palestinian prisoners from Gilboa prison earlier this year.

Channel 20 brought the allegations to light in 2018. At least three women soldiers were allegedly subjected to the abuses.

One soldier who came forward said she had been ordered to accompany a Palestinian terrorist named Muhammad Atallah around the facility, giving him opportunities to assault her, including groping her buttocks, while the prison bosses turned a blind eye.

Reacting to Ben Shitrit’s comments on Thursday, Public Security Minister Omer Bar Lev asked the attorney general to open an investigation into the claims. According to Bar Lev, Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai has launched an inquiry into the matter following Wednesday’s testimony.

https://www.rt.com/news/541342-israel-prisons-women-terrorists/

https://www.rt.com/news/541342-israel-prisons-women-terrorists/

Southern California Utility Cuts Power To Customers On Thanksgiving As Wildfire Risks Surge

The largest utility company in Southern California cut power to thousands of customers across higher elevations of Los Angeles, leaving many households without electricity for Thanksgiving.

Edison International's Southern California utility cut power to 32,036 residential and commercial building structures in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura counties to prevent wind storms from toppling power lines that would stoke fires in the drought-stricken region. The utility projects up to a quarter-million customers could lose service around Los Angeles and San Diego.

Dry winds and drought-stricken conditions in Southern California are a product of a La Niña weather pattern which usually brings drier conditions to the region during the winter.

https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/southern-california-utility-cuts-power-customers-thanksgiving-wildfire-risks-surge

Sex change hormone treatment injured Swedish children – media

As many as 13 children have suffered side effects from hormone therapy while receiving treatment for gender dysmorphia in Sweden, according to national broadcaster SVT.

In a report published on Wednesday, Swedish broadcaster SVT revealed that doctors at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm stopped new hormone treatments for children suffering from gender dysmorphia in May amid concerns of “potential side effects.”

The hospital noted in new guidelines that the treatments are controversial and that there is a lack of scientific support for it. Data concerning the extent of the side effects and the number of children impacted was not made public.

After an internal review by the hospital, SVT conducted its own investigation. They say that a total of 13 children have been in some way injured by the treatments they received at the hospital. One child, Leo, had started a treatment of hormone blockers at the age of just 11. Almost five years later, Leo has been diagnosed with osteoporosis and doctors have recorded changes within his vertebrae. His growth has also been severely stunted.

“Injuries that have been caused by treatment with us, we obviously have a responsibility for,” Svante Norgren, head of Astrid Lindgren's children's hospital at Karolinska University Hospital told the national broadcaster.

Other injuries incurred as a result of the treatment include suspected liver damage and a severe deterioration of mental wellness. One child was also diagnosed with reduced bone density after two years of receiving the hormone blockers.

The hospital said it was unaware that 13 children had been injured by their treatment. “We are two different units. The children's hospital handles the pediatric part - the investigation and psychiatric follow-up is on the KID team [Gender Identity Investigations of Children and Adolescents],” Norgren stated.

https://www.rt.com/news/541314-sweden-trans-gender-hormones/

Time to consider mandatory jabs in Europe, WHO official says

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) executive director for Europe has urged nations on the Covid-stricken continent to ponder compulsory vaccination.

Robb Butler told Sky News on Wednesday that it was “time to have that conversation from both an individual and a population-based perspective. It’s a healthy debate to have.” The WHO official said, however, that such “mandates have come at the expense of trust, social inclusion” in the past.

In early November, the WHO warned that Europe was “at the epicenter” of the Covid-19 pandemic, while earlier this week, the global health authority said the continent accounted for 60% of the world’s Covid-19 infections and deaths in the last week. The WHO believes the pandemic’s death toll in Europe could reach 2 million by March 2022, if the spread of the virus continues unchecked.

However, the former director of the WHO’s Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Department, Anthony Costello, advised governments to tread carefully on making vaccination mandatory for fear of “repelling a lot of people who lack trust in government and vaccines.” Instead of mandates and sweeping lockdowns, he advocated for measures like mask-wearing and working from home.

Across Europe, only 57% of people are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, according to statistics provided by the Our World in Data website.

Last Friday, the Austrian chancellor, Alexander Schallenberg, announced vaccination would be mandatory for all residents bar those eligible for a medical exemption starting from February 1, 2022. Those refusing the shot could expect hefty fines, according to media reports. However, there has not yet been a decision on the exact age from which Austrians will be required to get inoculated. Austria is the first country in Europe to impose the sweeping mandates, with most other nations on the continent so far making vaccination mandatory for certain employees only, with healthcare and public workers being first in line.

However, there are a handful of countries further afield which have also mandated Covid-19 inoculation for all their citizens. Indonesia took the step in February, and Micronesia and Turkmenistan followed suit in the summer.

https://www.rt.com/news/541306-who-recommends-mandatory-vaccination-europe/

Watch: MSNBC Declares Thanksgiving About White People Celebrating "Genocide And Violence" Against Blacks

MSNBC took five minutes out of its race baiting coverage of the Rittenhouse case to remind its extremist viewers (there can’t be many left) that Thanksgiving is coming up and that it is a celebration of… you guessed it, white supremacy.

Tiffany Cross, who earlier had called Kyle Rittenhouse a “murderous white supremacist,” handed over a segment of her show to Gyasi Ross who declared that the holiday is part of the “pathology of white America” believing that they have improved the country.

“But I’m still trying to find out what indigenous people received of value,” Ross proclaimed, adding “Instead of bringing stuffing and biscuits, those settlers brought genocide and violence.”

He further declared “That genocide and violence is still on the menu as state-sponsored violence against Native and black Americans is commonplace. And violent private white supremacy is celebrated and subsidized.”

“Black people are still being murdered by those paid to protect us,” Ross added in a rant against police.

He continued, “white Americans are still killing Native and black Americans with no fear of reprisal. They brought chattel slavery to Africans and Native people that still happens through the prison-industrial complex that imprisons the descendants of enslaved Africans and Natives at far disparate numbers.”

“That is the reality of Thanksgiving,” he concluded.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-msnbc-declares-thanksgiving-about-white-people-celebrating-genocide-and-violence

With Low Vaccination Rates, Africa's Covid Deaths Remain Far below Europe and the US

Since the very beginning of the covid panic, the narrative has been this: implement severe lockdowns or your population will experience a bloodbath. Morgues will be overwhelmed, the death total toll will be astounding. On the other hand, we were assured those jurisdictions that do lock down would see only a fraction of the death toll.

Then, once vaccines became available, the narrative was modified to "Get shots in arms and then covid will stop spreading. Those countries without vaccines, on the other hand, will continue to face mass casualties."

The lockdown narrative, of course, has already been thoroughly overturned. Jurisdictions that did not lock down or adopted only weak and short lockdowns ended up with covid death tolls that were either similar to—or even better than—death tolls in countries that adopted draconian lockdowns. Lockdown advocates said locked-down countries would be overwhelmingly better off. These people were clearly wrong.

Undaunted by the increasing implausibility of the lockdown narrative, the global health bureaucrats are nonetheless doubling down on forced vaccines—as we now see in Austria—and we continue to be assured that only countries with high vaccination rates can hope to avoid disastrous covid outcomes.

Yet, the experience in sub-Saharan Africa calls both these narratives into question: Africa's numbers have been far, far lower than the experts warned would be the case.

For example, the AP reported this week that in spite of low vaccination rates, Africa has fared better than most of the world:

[T]here is something “mysterious” going on in Africa that is puzzling scientists, said Wafaa El-Sadr, chair of global health at Columbia University. “Africa doesn’t have the vaccines and the resources to fight COVID-19 that they have in Europe and the U.S., but somehow they seem to be doing better,” she said….

Fewer than 6% of people in Africa are vaccinated. For months, the WHO has described Africa as “one of the least affected regions in the world” in its weekly pandemic reports.

Yet disaster for Africa has long been predicted for several reasons even beyond the availability of vaccines. For instance, it is known that lockdowns are especially impractical in the poorest parts of the world. This is because populations in places with undeveloped economies can’t simply sit at home and live off savings or debt. Rather, these people must go out into the world and earn a living on a day-to-day basis. Starvation is the alternative. Moreover, much of this work is done in the informal economy, so enforcing lockdowns becomes especially difficult.

https://mises.org/wire/low-vaccination-rates-africas-covid-deaths-remain-far-below-europe-and-us

Professor who seeks to ‘destigmatize’ pedophilia resigns

An American university professor whose research on pedophilia kicked off a firestorm of controversy, including threats of violence and charges that the academic defended child abuse, is set to resign their position at the school.

In a joint statement issued on Wednesday, Virginia’s Old Dominion University said that sociology professor Allyn Walker would step down when their contract expires next May, and that they would remain on leave until that time. The professor, who identifies as transgender, also defended their research in the joint missive, insisting it had been misconstrued by the public.

“My scholarship aims to prevent child sexual abuse,” Walker said, claiming that their work was “mischaracterized by some in the media and online, partly on the basis of my trans identity.”

As a result, multiple threats were made against me and the campus community generally.

Walker kicked off a major public scandal earlier this year after publishing a book entitled ‘A Long, Dark Shadow.’ Parts of the work attempted to distinguish predators and child sex offenders from so-called “minor-attracted persons” (or MAPs) who do not act on (what Walker posits are) inborn sexual tendencies.

However, in addition to that controversial premise, the book also argued for the need to ‘destigmatize’ MAPs, and discussed their “pursuit for dignity” – a line that appears in the work’s subtitle – creating a massive backlash, including accusations that Walker had defended pedophilia.

The professor was placed on leave earlier this month amid the outrage, with the university stating that “the controversy over Dr. Walker's research has disrupted the campus and community environment and is interfering with the institution’s mission of teaching and learning.”

Though Walker has found a veritable army of detractors online, some fellow academics have come to their defense, with more than 70 researchers and professors signing a joint letter in support of their work. The cosigners argued that understanding complex issues like sexual abuse “requires [the] dissemination of research findings even when they contradict popular assumptions,” and even echoed Walker’s claim that “Not everyone who is attracted to children abuses children.”

A petition to reinstate the professor was also launched online earlier this month, garnering just shy of 2,500 signatures so far.

https://www.rt.com/usa/541256-professor-pedophilia-stigma-resigns/

Bill Gates partakes in building new experimental nuclear reactor

A new experimental nuclear reactor will be built in the US state of Idaho, with the participation of a company co-founded by billionaire Bill Gates.

The project, estimated to cost $170 million, will be partly funded by Gates’ nuclear power firm TerraPower, while most of the money will come from the US Department of Energy (DoE). Led by one of US’ largest gas and electric utility companies, Southern Company, it will also use technology from the businessman’s company, which works on experimental nuclear reactors.

The small Idaho fast reactor is said to be the first of its kind, using molten chloride, according to Southern’s statement, quoted by US media. It is aimed at researching and developing a carbon-free energy source, operating at higher temperatures than traditional nuclear reactors.

Scheduled to go into service in five years, the reactor is reportedly targeting heavy industry consumers, rather than generating electricity for the public.

Earlier this year, TerraPower, co-founded by Gates in 2006, announced it would build its first nuclear power plant in Wyoming. The facility, with an anticipated cost of $1 billion, will have a unique kind of reactor that uses Natrium as its power source. The sodium-fuelled reactor was initially planned for construction in Beijing, but the project never materialized there.

Bill Gates has long been known as a vocal proponent of nuclear power, saying his next-generation reactors will harm the planet much less than fossil fuels, which all contain carbon. He has recently defended nuclear reactors against alternative energy sources as well, arguing they are more reliable, as they “produce electricity even when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine.”

https://www.rt.com/usa/541312-gates-nuclear-reactor-idaho/

FDA Says It Needs Until 2076 To Make Pfizer Vaccine Info Public

"The entire purpose of the FOIA is to assure government transparency"

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requesting federal courts to give them up to 55 years to review and release Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests about the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to the public.

A joint court filing, filed by the Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency, a group of 30 professors and scientists, hope to reveal more than 300,000 pages of information about the vaccination that has become mandatory to more than 84 million workers and two-thirds of the nation’s private-sector workforce.

“It took the FDA precisely 108 days from when Pfizer started producing the records for licensure on May 7, 2021,14 to when the product was licensed on August 23, 2021,” the court document notes.

“We assume, as the FDA has stated, that it conducted an intense, robust, thorough and complete review and analysis of those documents in order to assure that the Pfizer vaccine was safe and effective for licensure.”

“The FDA knew the intense public interest in that data and information,” the document continued. “It should have been preparing to release it simultaneously with the licensure. Instead, it has done the opposite.”

“The entire purpose of the FOIA is to assure government transparency,” the plaintiffs argue. “It is difficult to imagine a greater need for transparency than immediate disclosure of the documents relied upon by the FDA to license a product that is now being mandated to over 100 million Americans under penalty of losing their careers, their income, their military service status, and far worse.”

https://nationalfile.com/fda-says-it-needs-until-2076-to-make-pfizer-vaccine-info-public/

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri to testify before Congress amid damning allegations

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri is expected to testify before Congress for the first time ever on the week of Dec. 6 — after a series of damning allegations were leveled against the company by whistleblowers in recent months.

Mosseri’s appearance will come more than two months after an executive at Instagram’s parent company, Meta — which also owns Facebook — testified before lawmakers in the wake of bombshell leaks showing that the company’s own internal research found its apps are harmful, especially for young people.

“After bombshell reports about Instagram’s toxic impacts, we want to hear straight from the company’s leadership why it uses powerful algorithms that push poisonous content to children driving them down rabbit holes to dark places, and what it will do to make its platform safer,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn), chair of the Senate Commerce subcommittee on consumer protection, said in a statement.

“I appreciate Mr. Mosseri voluntarily coming to the Subcommittee and hope that he will support specific legislative reforms and solutions, particularly in its immensely potent algorithms.”

Mosserri announced over Instagram that he’ll be appearing, emphasizing all the steps Instagram has taken to protect kids on the app.

“There’s an important discussion happening right now about keeping young people safe online,” he said in the video’s caption.

https://nypost.com/2021/11/25/instagram-ceo-adam-mosseri-to-testify-before-congress/

Kansas Governor Signs Bill Allowing Broad Exemptions to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has signed a bill that allows workers to be exempt from COVID-19 vaccine mandates if getting vaccinated would endanger their health or violate their religious beliefs.

The Republican-controlled Legislature passed the bill in a special session on Monday.

The Democrat governor signed it on Tuesday.

Kelly is one of the few prominent Democrats to voice opposition to President Joe Biden’s private employer vaccine mandate and reiterated her stance in a statement after she signed House Bill 2001.

“I have been clear that I believe it is too late to impose a federal standard. States have been leading the fight against COVID-19 for nearly two years. I know there are Kansans who believe this legislation goes too far, and there are others who believe this legislation doesn’t go far enough. But I was elected to lead, and leadership means seeking compromise,” Kelly said.

“This bill is the result of compromise in action. Now that it is signed, we need to turn our attention towards pressing issues like growing our economy and passing my plan to Axe the Food Tax, so we can put money back into everyday Kansans’ pockets,” she added.

The legislation specifies that an employer who imposes vaccination requirements must exempt a worker if the worker submits a written waiver request stating that getting vaccinated would endanger their life or health or an individual residing with them, backed by a statement from a physician or other health professional; or that getting vaccinated would violate “sincerely held religious beliefs.”

Employers who violate the law could be sued in court by the state’s secretary of labor, with fines totaling up to $50,000 per violation, depending on the size of the business.

It also lets people who were fired or not hired over a refusal to get vaccinated gain unemployment benefits, provided they submitted a waiver request and it was denied.

“This is a straight forward law that clarifies for Kansas employers that they need to accept medical and religious exemptions for the COVID-19 vaccinations. These exemptions are the same exemptions allowed under federal law. We just took the ambiguity out of the federal law and created an enforcement mechanism,” state Rep. Stephen Owens, a Republican and one of its sponsors, said in a statement.

“I’m proud of the work we did to help Kansans keep their jobs,” added state Republican Rep. John Barker, another sponsor.

Only two Democrats voted for the legislation, and many voiced criticism of Kelly, who is facing a reelection challenge from Republican Attorney General Derek Schmidt, for signing it.

“I think that the governor has made a bad bargain,” Democrat state Rep. John Carmichael told the Kansas City Star.

“This bill is unconstitutional and places an unreasonable burden on Kansas businesses,” added state Rep. Cindy Neighbor, a Democrat, on Twitter.

https://www.ntd.com/kansas-governor-signs-bill-allowing-broad-exemptions-to-covid-19-vaccine-mandates_706224.html