Washington State Lawmaker Locked Out of the Capitol

 

Would anyone like to hazard a guess as to why Republican Rep. Jim Walsh, from the Grays Harbor city of Aberdeen, has had his keycard to the Capitol buildings canceled? Anyone?

Yes, the reason is that Walsh has not presented the required papers to the state indicating that he has been vaccinated against the CCP virus. The state health Nazi edict that all state employees must be vaccinated or lose their jobs has resulted in the termination of about 1,800 state employees. Not all those employees were terminated — many quit voluntarily. Do you understand what that means in the state of Washington? It means that many well-paid state employees gave up their cushy jobs and state pensions to resist the Democrat government’s edict that they must submit to an invasive medical procedure to keep their jobs.

Walsh is an elected official, and the state cannot fire him for any reason, but it can make his life difficult by locking him out of his own offices and the legislative chambers where the people’s work is done. Or, normally is done. The official who explained that Mr. Walsh could work remotely like most legislators have for the past 18 months cares not for the people’s business. He answers to a Higher Power, the state health department, which has demonstrated that it is so powerful that with one stroke of the pen, it can deny people livelihoods and freedom of movement. Those who do not yield, will be denied access.

I am ashamed to live in this state.

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  1. Ray Kujawa Coolidge
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    Caryn (View Comment):

    RushBabe49 (View Comment):

    How many lives have been unnecessarily lost around the world, due to the Left’s hold on the medical establishment, and promotion of vaccines that can be deadly in themselves? [snip]

    I know you are and that’s why I was so shocked to see you use it. Perhaps you do not have the correct perspective on what’s going on. I speak from within the Infection Disease research world and have been involved with Covid testing and have done continuing medical education on Covid from the start. The drugs you listed have been used and have shown little to no efficacy against the virus. Those drugs are not even remotely the panacea their proponents make them out to be. If they have any effect, it’s very likely due to their known anti-inflammatory properties (one of the most effective drugs is the–quite inexpensive–steroid, dexamethazone, a strong anti-inflammatory). Aspirin has also shown promise for similar reasons and I suspect motrin would as well. Most people treated with them would have gotten better without treatment; they are not wondrous life-savers. The vaccine is no less safe than any other and, so far, safer than several others that have been in use for decades. I don’t think vaccine mandates are a good idea, but I do think vaccines are. The only way out of this pandemic is through immunity. Same way we get through most every other novel infectious disease that comes along. Immunity comes either through vaccination–the easy way–or through disease, which is associated with a great deal more morbidity and mortality than the vaccine. The numbers are squishy, but some hundreds of thousands of Americans have died from Covid. Even one hundred thousand is more than a bad flu year–with vaccination. We have very few anti-viral drugs. Viruses are best controlled through vaccination. Prevention is always better than treatment. How is that not understood?

    The statistics of the turnaround in India raises questions in your arguments. India had some states that were able to vaccinate. In those states, they had increasing case numbers. In many poorer states in India, they were unable to vaccinate much of their population. They proactively prescribed packages of medication including Ivermectin to all who had tested positive before they became symptomatic. In these states, the Covid surge went away and has not returned, which is why India is doing so much better than the many western countries who decided to vaccinate as a preventive. It is inconclusive which is driving the numbers, but I think it is fair to ask, was Ivermectin an effective treatment as deployed in India, or is it more significant that those poorer regions did not take the vaccine that influenced their numbers? I think it would be fair to say they both contributed, but I would not conclude that the vaccine contributed in a positive way.

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  2. Zafar Member
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    Ray Kujawa (View Comment):
    The statistics of the turnaround in India

    India’s numbers and reporting are suspect. Don’t base any solid conclusions on these. 

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  3. Old Bathos Member
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    Zafar (View Comment):

    Ray Kujawa (View Comment):
    The statistics of the turnaround in India

    India’s numbers and reporting are suspect. Don’t base any solid conclusions on these.

    Agreed. On the one hand the relatively low cases per million number suggests underreporting but on the other, every country in the eastern hemisphere has a far lower reported incidence than Europe and the Americas.

    I would be willing to entertain an inference that Ivermectin was associated with better case outcomes but not that it greatly reduced spread.  

    Indian studies reporting a very pronounced role for vitamin D have not been replicated in the west.

    If it turns out that bājra, turmeric and masoor are the keys to stopping COVID I would be open to that, especially given the fact that our experts not only don’t have a handle on transmission but keep trying to mandate control measures based on the wish that COVID only spreads by sick people coughing and sneezing. Mandated curry dishes would be preferable to lockdowns and those silly masks.

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  4. Flicker Coolidge
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    Old Bathos (View Comment):

    Zafar (View Comment):

    Ray Kujawa (View Comment):
    The statistics of the turnaround in India

    India’s numbers and reporting are suspect. Don’t base any solid conclusions on these.

    Agreed. On the one hand the relatively low cases per million number suggests underreporting but on the other, every country in the eastern hemisphere has a far lower reported incidence than Europe and the Americas.

    I would be willing to entertain an inference that Ivermectin was associated with better case outcomes but not that it greatly reduced spread.

    Indian studies reporting a very pronounced role for vitamin D have not been replicated in the west.

    If it turns out that bājra, turmeric and masoor are the keys to stopping COVID I would be open to that, especially given the fact that our experts not only don’t have a handle on transmission but keep trying to mandate control measures based on the wish that COVID only spreads by sick people coughing and sneezing. Mandated curry dishes would be preferable to lockdowns and those silly masks.

    Mmm.  Curry.

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  5. kedavis Coolidge
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    Flicker (View Comment):

    Old Bathos (View Comment):

    Zafar (View Comment):

    Ray Kujawa (View Comment):
    The statistics of the turnaround in India

    India’s numbers and reporting are suspect. Don’t base any solid conclusions on these.

    Agreed. On the one hand the relatively low cases per million number suggests underreporting but on the other, every country in the eastern hemisphere has a far lower reported incidence than Europe and the Americas.

    I would be willing to entertain an inference that Ivermectin was associated with better case outcomes but not that it greatly reduced spread.

    Indian studies reporting a very pronounced role for vitamin D have not been replicated in the west.

    If it turns out that bājra, turmeric and masoor are the keys to stopping COVID I would be open to that, especially given the fact that our experts not only don’t have a handle on transmission but keep trying to mandate control measures based on the wish that COVID only spreads by sick people coughing and sneezing. Mandated curry dishes would be preferable to lockdowns and those silly masks.

    Mmm. Curry.

    Fine with me as long as I can have chicken curry.  Never cared for beef.

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  6. Flicker Coolidge
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    kedavis (View Comment):

    Flicker (View Comment):

    Old Bathos (View Comment):

    Zafar (View Comment):

    Ray Kujawa (View Comment):
    The statistics of the turnaround in India

    India’s numbers and reporting are suspect. Don’t base any solid conclusions on these.

    Agreed. On the one hand the relatively low cases per million number suggests underreporting but on the other, every country in the eastern hemisphere has a far lower reported incidence than Europe and the Americas.

    I would be willing to entertain an inference that Ivermectin was associated with better case outcomes but not that it greatly reduced spread.

    Indian studies reporting a very pronounced role for vitamin D have not been replicated in the west.

    If it turns out that bājra, turmeric and masoor are the keys to stopping COVID I would be open to that, especially given the fact that our experts not only don’t have a handle on transmission but keep trying to mandate control measures based on the wish that COVID only spreads by sick people coughing and sneezing. Mandated curry dishes would be preferable to lockdowns and those silly masks.

    Mmm. Curry.

    Fine with me as long as I can have chicken curry. Never cared for beef.

    What?  Not curried goat?  It’s one of my lifelong favorites.

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  7. kedavis Coolidge
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    Flicker (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Flicker (View Comment):

    Old Bathos (View Comment):

    Zafar (View Comment):

    Ray Kujawa (View Comment):
    The statistics of the turnaround in India

    India’s numbers and reporting are suspect. Don’t base any solid conclusions on these.

    Agreed. On the one hand the relatively low cases per million number suggests underreporting but on the other, every country in the eastern hemisphere has a far lower reported incidence than Europe and the Americas.

    I would be willing to entertain an inference that Ivermectin was associated with better case outcomes but not that it greatly reduced spread.

    Indian studies reporting a very pronounced role for vitamin D have not been replicated in the west.

    If it turns out that bājra, turmeric and masoor are the keys to stopping COVID I would be open to that, especially given the fact that our experts not only don’t have a handle on transmission but keep trying to mandate control measures based on the wish that COVID only spreads by sick people coughing and sneezing. Mandated curry dishes would be preferable to lockdowns and those silly masks.

    Mmm. Curry.

    Fine with me as long as I can have chicken curry. Never cared for beef.

    What? Not curried goat? It’s one of my lifelong favorites.

    You can have mine.

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  8. Zafar Member
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    Old Bathos (View Comment):
    Agreed. On the one hand the relatively low cases per million number suggests underreporting but on the other, every country in the eastern hemisphere has a far lower reported incidence than Europe and the Americas.

    First: can you trust that country’s figures?

    Secondly: places like Taiwan and Japan default to masks as common courtesy when someone gets a cold. (I don’t know about Korea.)

    I remember hearing someone on an Indian talk show wistfully hope that a certain kind of brinjol and turmeric would turn out to be natural cures, but….

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  9. Flicker Coolidge
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    kedavis (View Comment):

    Flicker (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Flicker (View Comment):

    Old Bathos (View Comment):

    Zafar (View Comment):

    Ray Kujawa (View Comment):
    The statistics of the turnaround in India

    India’s numbers and reporting are suspect. Don’t base any solid conclusions on these.

    Agreed. On the one hand the relatively low cases per million number suggests underreporting but on the other, every country in the eastern hemisphere has a far lower reported incidence than Europe and the Americas.

    I would be willing to entertain an inference that Ivermectin was associated with better case outcomes but not that it greatly reduced spread.

    Indian studies reporting a very pronounced role for vitamin D have not been replicated in the west.

    If it turns out that bājra, turmeric and masoor are the keys to stopping COVID I would be open to that, especially given the fact that our experts not only don’t have a handle on transmission but keep trying to mandate control measures based on the wish that COVID only spreads by sick people coughing and sneezing. Mandated curry dishes would be preferable to lockdowns and those silly masks.

    Mmm. Curry.

    Fine with me as long as I can have chicken curry. Never cared for beef.

    What? Not curried goat? It’s one of my lifelong favorites.

    You can have mine.

    Thanks.  I’ve never had a bad plate of curried goat on basmati rice.  I even introduced it to a family at church who I think used few spices at all at home, and even they liked it.  But, you’re right, it doesn’t taste like chicken.

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