California repeals COVID misinformation law, bowing to legal pressure

That was one of those things where there was no consistent grounds to enforce it on.

California (in past efforts to pander to some of the hippy dippy "new age" "everything has to come from mother earth and be natural" crowd) is one of the handful of states that has official recognition of Naturopathic and Homeopathic medicine. (and even allows the former to be recognized as PCPs under their Medi-Cal plans)

Their Medi-Cal program also offers to cover two Acupuncture visits per year. As well as covering a variety of alternative medicine approaches like hypnosis and Chiropractor visits.

Given that many of those subsets of alternative medicine actively advocate against vaccines (and not just the covid vaccines...pretty much all of them), it's kinda hard to justify having a "misinformation policy" at that point in the game.

If your state has forked over large sums of cash to pay for people to be told that they should treat their cancers with valerian root, colloidal silver, and ginger extract...or that they just need "adjustments" to help their body "unlock the healing power that will reverse the diabetes", it's a little difficult to all of the sudden take a hard line on "you can't tell people anything that doesn't go along with the official medical consensus" at that point.

At the very least, it's mixed messaging on the part of California.

The official scientific consensus is that GMOs are safe and necessary, that didn't stop California from implementing "GMO free zones"

At that point, Cali should just adopt the slogan "Follow the scientific consensus, as long as it doesn't go against what people want to believe" or "Adhere to the medical scientific consensus, as long as it strictly pertains to covid and nothing else"

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