The bill specifically bars requirements for people to receive COVID-19 vaccines. But it doesn't stop there. It also bars any requirements for people to receive "a dose of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA)," thus barring requirements for any future mRNA-based vaccines, should they be needed in upcoming pandemics or outbreaks. It also bars requirements for "any treatment or procedure intended or designed to edit or alter human deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or the human genome," and "any mechanical or electronic device" that would be placed "under the skin.
Those last two stipulations reflect ridiculous yet widely spread conspiracy theories related to the COVID-19 vaccines—namely the entirely false ideas that
mRNA vaccines alter people's DNA and that COVID-19 vaccines somehow contain microchips. These imaginary microchips are often said to be placed in vaccines by global elites, including Bill Gates, to track people's locations and "
force compliance." The absurdly bogus idea ties to other, equally nonsensical conspiracy theories that the vaccines
connect people to
5G networks and literally make
human flesh magnetic. The latter hogwash led to a deeply disappointing number of online videos of people sticking metal objects to themselves.
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