“Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they’re dangerous,” said the Republican leader, who is a polio survivor.

“Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they’re dangerous,” said the Republican leader, who is a polio survivor.

This is apparently the point where the “moderate” Republicans are willing to start pushing back — where they’ve got personal experience with just how evil a policy is.

      • subignition@fedia.io
        8·
        7 hours ago

        All the more unfathomable that he could have seen those horrors and still turned out to be so evil.

      • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org
        101·
        7 hours ago

        The funny part is, with how wacko things have been in the last 2 months, it would not surprise me one iota for him and the balance of the last dozen old guard repubs to defect to the dems over something like this.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
      25·
      8 hours ago

      He’s old enough that he had polio before their were vaccines to prevent it, and had a leg paralyzed for an extended period of time. Probably saw other kids forced to live in an iron lung and maybe even die