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With COVID rates spiking and intensive care units once again pulsating with the sound of respirators, Yvette Herrell is perpetuating vaccine lies to appease the QAnon Caucus. Yesterday, the Las Cruces Sun-Times described Herrell and QAnon Queen Marjorie Taylor Greene’s push to essentially ban businesses from providing a “safe environment and safe access” for their employees and those with compromised immune systems. Herrell is putting right wing extremists with a penchant for conspiring with insurrectionists above the health and economic well-being of New Mexicans.
Will adding more time to our pandemic sentence motivate voters to turnout for anti-vax propagandists like Herrell and QAnon Queen Taylor Greene?
Read the highlights from “As COVID-19 vaccine mandates gain support, N.M. Rep. Herrell cosponsors ‘We Will Not Comply Act‘:
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Despite a new wave of cases over the past month, driven chiefly by the highly contagious delta variant and rapid infections and hospitalizations among unvaccinated individuals, southern New Mexico congressman Yvette Herrell is co-sponsoring a bill pushing back against vaccine mandates.
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The bill would extend the protections of Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to individuals who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 disease. The bill also restricts federal funds from being used to enforce vaccine requirements, and prevents public schools and higher education institutions from making the vaccinations a condition of attendance or participation in activities.
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Dr. David Keys, an associate professor of criminal justice at New Mexico State University, said the bill as drafted conflicts with the Americans with Disabilities Act as well as state and federal laws guarding public health.
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“We have an obligation … to provide a safe environment and safe access to people with disabilities,” he said, pointing out that many people with disabilities were also extra vulnerable to complications from COVID-19 disease.
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“It presents a conflict where obeying one law means breaking another,” Keys said. “That’s not good legislation. … Somebody didn’t do their work.”
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