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'Natural Immunity' Bill Meets Expected Demise
State Rep. Mark Baisley is the bizarro Leonardo da Vinci of the House Republican caucus: He knows very little about a wide array of topics, and he takes great pains to convince others that his idiocy is actually genius.
Baisley is the same guy who suggested in January that Colorado wrap its voting machines in tin foil in order to protect them from wireless signals, or aliens, or something. In 2014, Baisley warned us that “Sharia law” was coming to Colorado (as it turned out…not so much).
As The Colorado Times-Recorder reports, Baisley failed in his attempt to turn his theories on “natural immunity” in relation to COVID-19 into actual policy:
Colorado House Democrats have voted down a bill that would have exempted employees with “naturally acquired immunity” from their employers’ COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates.
The Naturally Acquired Immunity COVID-19 bill, backed by state Rep. Mark Baisley (R-Roxborough Park), falsely stated that “natural immunity” – also known as post-infection immunity – offered superior protection against SARS-CoV-2 compared with mRNA vaccines.
“What ultimately defends our bodies from COVID-19 is antibodies,” Baisley said in his opening statement at yesterday’s meeting of the House Health and Insurance Committee. “What we refer to as natural antibodies, natural immunity, is a more direct response to the actual signature of the virus [than a vaccine].”
A bevy of witnesses provided testimony in favor of Baisley’s measure. That lineup included an OB/GYN physician who was fired for refusing a COVID vaccine, a chiropractor, a natural-health advocate, and impassioned representatives from Stand for Health Freedom. Also present was a man who claimed to stand for the “rebels, revolutionaries, resistors, radicals and rainbow healers” of Colorado.
The Naturally Acquired Immunity COVID-19 bill, backed by state Rep. Mark Baisley (R-Roxborough Park), falsely stated that “natural immunity” – also known as post-infection immunity – offered superior protection against SARS-CoV-2 compared with mRNA vaccines.
“What ultimately defends our bodies from COVID-19 is antibodies,” Baisley said in his opening statement at yesterday’s meeting of the House Health and Insurance Committee. “What we refer to as natural antibodies, natural immunity, is a more direct response to the actual signature of the virus [than a vaccine].”
A bevy of witnesses provided testimony in favor of Baisley’s measure. That lineup included an OB/GYN physician who was fired for refusing a COVID vaccine, a chiropractor, a natural-health advocate, and impassioned representatives from Stand for Health Freedom. Also present was a man who claimed to stand for the “rebels, revolutionaries, resistors, radicals and rainbow healers” of Colorado.
Read more: https://www.coloradopols.com/diary/172379/natural-immunity-bill-meets-expected-demise