California has introduced legislation that will silence doctors who disagree with a state-approved narrative regarding COVID-19.
Reclaim The Net was approved by the California Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee. Now, the bill is headed to Senate Appropriations Committee. If passed, the legislation could punish medical professionals who spread so-called “misinformation” or “disinformation” about COVID-19 and vaccines online.
“This bill would designate the dissemination of misinformation or disinformation related to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, or ‘COVID-19,’ as unprofessional conduct,” AB 2098 states. Physicians or doctors who exercise free speech in contradiction of the California government’s COVID-19 narrative could risk losing their medical license, according to the bill.
California medical professionals would be forbidden to refute the proposed legislation if it is passed. This includes statements about COVID-19 vaccines. Yet this bill comes just after a government health official admitted last week that some vaccination comments that Big Tech aggressively labeled “misinformation” online over the course of the pandemic actually weren’t misinformation at all.
Reclaim The Net reported that Dr. Deborah Birx, former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, said recently in answer to a question from Rep. Jim Jordan (R.OH), that she and other people knew that vaccine recipients could become infected even though the COVID-19 vaccines had just been released.
“I knew eventually that the vaccine immunity would wane like natural immunity waned,” Birx said.
When Jordan pressed her to explain how the government asserted that reinfection of the vaccinated couldn’t happen, Birx said, “It was hope that this vaccine could work.” [Emphasis added.]
Jordan responded: “It wasn’t the truth.”
The California bill defines “misinformation” as “false information that is contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus to an extent where its dissemination constitutes gross negligence by the [medical] licensee.”
He reportedly said that Dr. Aaron Kheriaty had testified to the California assembly panel earlier this week about how some COVID-19 info was discredited in the course of the pandemic. Reclaim The Net reported that Kheriaty also mentioned the fact that the legislation was written by lawmakers earlier in the COVID-19 epidemic.
Even the California Health Coalition Advocacy (CHCA) critiqued the bill, according to Reclaim The Net. “Any attempt at determining ‘contemporary scientific consensus’ will be fleeting,” CHCA said, according to the outlet, noting that many “[t]op doctors” in California do not entirely agree with the California government’s claims about COVID-19 vaccines for children.
Big Tech and Big Government should not be able to compel a certain narrative and claim it’s “settled science.”
The late-found legitimacy of the Wuhan lab leak theory of COVID-19’s origins is another example of a topic where the “misinformation” of yesterday is often the widely accepted information of today.
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