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TexasTowelie

(117,533 posts)
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 08:55 AM Jan 2022

Republicans float plans to stop nursing homes and hospitals from restricting visitors

JEFFERSON CITY — Hospitals and nursing homes in Missouri would lose some of their ability to restrict visitors during a pandemic under legislation being considered in the Legislature.

Republican lawmakers have introduced at least four proposals designed to address concerns that patients and elderly residents lost valuable contact with their loved ones when the spread of COVID-19 triggered prohibitions on visitors.

“Isolation kills. Human beings were created by God to interact with each other,” said Rep. Brian Seitz, R-Branson. “Only God can determine life or death.”

Hospitals and nursing homes are against the changes, saying they need to have the ability to control what goes on inside their doors.

Read more: https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/republicans-float-plans-to-stop-nursing-homes-and-hospitals-from-restricting-visitors/article_e9bd4fe3-686f-5285-b280-8331f1f23957.html

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Republicans float plans to stop nursing homes and hospitals from restricting visitors (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2022 OP
These animals are unbelievable Fullduplexxx Jan 2022 #1
My memory works: same one who said he liked black eyed peas, etc. GD Baptist minister CurtEastPoint Jan 2022 #2
Black eye peas? Cracklin Charlie Jan 2022 #8
here CurtEastPoint Jan 2022 #9
I would bet money. Cracklin Charlie Jan 2022 #11
Republicans are nothing but murderers and haters. lark Jan 2022 #3
And they have no shame . . . Lovie777 Jan 2022 #4
I'd edit that line "Only God can determine life or death." to "Only God and the QOP abqtommy Jan 2022 #5
The Kill Grandma bills. We Dems have to get better at painting these Repugs for what they are. dutch777 Jan 2022 #6
Missouri legislature... Cracklin Charlie Jan 2022 #7
This is such government over-reach, I don't get it. How do they do this. Biophilic Jan 2022 #10

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
8. Black eye peas?
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 09:33 AM
Jan 2022

I love black eye peas, but I also treasure children and old folks.

What did this guy say about black eye peas?

CurtEastPoint

(19,226 posts)
9. here
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 09:39 AM
Jan 2022

Missouri State Rep. Brian Seitz, after defending calling coronavirus the "China virus" and slamming Critical Race Theory, says, "For the record, I love dumplings, I love black-eyed peas and I love cornbread."

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
11. I would bet money.
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 09:46 AM
Jan 2022

That he never eats those things, except maybe for new year.

Eating southern food doesn’t make you a racist, but claiming you love to eat them, sounds like you’re trying to prove you’re not racist.

Missouri Republicans are dumb.

lark

(24,339 posts)
3. Republicans are nothing but murderers and haters.
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 09:00 AM
Jan 2022

The more working class/poor people they kill, the more money in the Social Security fund for the rich to steal.

Lovie777

(15,223 posts)
4. And they have no shame . . .
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 09:13 AM
Jan 2022

Saw a group of GQPs on tv blaming President Biden for COVID and my family looked at each other and rolled our eyes.

GQP are anti vaxxers, anti maskers, anti social distancing, etc.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
5. I'd edit that line "Only God can determine life or death." to "Only God and the QOP
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 09:22 AM
Jan 2022

can determine life or death." That's the truth and one of the markers of Fascism.

dutch777

(3,585 posts)
6. The Kill Grandma bills. We Dems have to get better at painting these Repugs for what they are.
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 09:28 AM
Jan 2022

Freedom is a great thing until people end up dead from too much of it in the wrong place.

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
7. Missouri legislature...
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 09:31 AM
Jan 2022

Attacking children and elders.

Forever punching down. I am hanging my head in shame, that these people do this in my state. Their mommas should slap them.

Biophilic

(4,986 posts)
10. This is such government over-reach, I don't get it. How do they do this.
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 09:41 AM
Jan 2022

Their brains have got to be wired weirdly and differently or they would explode trying to reconcile what they say and do. I know it's possible to keep different things compartmentalized but what they are saying and doing these days is far beyond that.

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