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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 120 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you do not live in Louisiana, you should be asking your state to require anyone from Louisiana, or who has visited Louisiana in the last four months, to pass a rapid flu test and rapid covid test before being allowed to enter your state.

Your state should not be made to bear the consequences of idiotic public health decisions made in other states.

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but I'm in Texas so....

Our gvt is probably giving them free rides into the state.

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if Abbot was crop dusting the major metropolitans with the flu.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think the states are allowed to prohibit interstate travel

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 31 points 1 year ago

Traditionally, you are correct. But nothing matters anymore, so

The doctrine of the right to travel actually encompasses three separate rights, of which two have been notable for the uncertainty of their textual support. The first is the right of a citizen to move freely between states, a right venerable for its longevity, but still lacking a clear doctrinal basis.

https://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment14/annotation11.html

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not like we have border checkpoints between states. Maybe you can do something at the airport level, but roads no chance.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I really don't understand the actual party pushing these conspiracies

Surely they're just gonna disproportionately kill off their voters?

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yes, but not immediately, and before then there's profit to be extracted!

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yes, we all do better when we all do better in the long run. But they want to do even more better for themselves now. Because they know how delayed the find out part of them fucking around can be. They'll likely be dead. And it might be their children's problem. But it certainly won't be theirs.

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[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I think they might actually believe what they are saying even though all the facts suggest otherwise

[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I honestly think southern states haven't shaken off the notion of mudsill theory.

They might not call it that anymore, but god damn does their entire platform seem to push it.

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

i’m getting increasingly convinced by the argument that goes as follows. for the past several decades, the republican party was composed of people who gave tax breaks to all their wealthy friends and fucked over the working class, but those people knew those positions would be wildly unpopular so they used the culture war bullshit as a distraction. and it worked. the culture war bullshit ended up being super popular with their base. but now, their previously young base that bought into that nonsense has grown up, and they have internalized all of it. this generation of republicans fully believes all the nonsense they’ve been fed for the past 40 years. or at the very least, they are competing with people who legitimately believe it, so they need to put on a convincing performance.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What will the dipshit RFK say about Louisiana?

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You need to be drinking more raw milk, and this wouldn't have happened.

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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

Well done MAGA morons.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago

It feels more and more like the US is a problem that will solve itself in the near future.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My heart goes out to the good people of Louisiana.

revealAll 7 of them.

Keep it the fuck down there and die quietly please

[–] ramsorge@discuss.online 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Ahhh, dead reds, tears. Thoughts and prayers for ya.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Everyone knows the flu only targets republicans and there aren’t massive health disparities among people of color in the south as a whole, but especially among black people, who are nearly 1/3rd of the population of Louisiana. Guess they should have had the good sense to be born somewhere else.

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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

There are plenty of innocent people who will be hurt by this. Yeah, thoughts and prayers for the immuno-compromised who willed be murdered by these fucks. The south isn't fucking a monolith and you treating it like one helps them get away with shit like this

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