After receiving “violent threats,” a state rep from suburban Cook County won’t pursue a proposal requiring unvaccinated Illinoisans to pay their health care expenses — including hospital bills — out of pocket if they contract COVID-19.
State Rep. Jonathan Carroll, D-Northbrook, said in a statement Thursday that he decided not to pursue the legislation he filed earlier in the week because of the “unintended divisive nature” of the proposal. He has since filed a motion with the clerk of the Illinois House to table the measure.
He added that based on feedback and further reflection on the legislation “we need to heal as a country and work together on commonsense solutions to put the pandemic behind us.”
Weird how he thought that forcing people who are opposed to Big Pharma’s most profitable product ever to pay massive medical costs was going to “heal the country,” or a “commonsense solution.” Did he think that fining BLM rioters for Covid-19 superspreader chimpout events was a “commonsense policy?” I guess he must not have, or else he would have proposed that, right?
In an interview with the Sun-Times, Carroll said the violent threats from a “bunch of different people” included death threats and racial slurs and mentioned Carroll’s wife and children. Someone even sent an email to Carroll’s rabbi, threatening the synagogue he attends. Carroll said he reported the threats to the Illinois State Police, who declined to comment.
Someone also published his home address on Twitter; Carroll reported that to the social media site and the information was removed.
Now we have to play the game of “was this true, or is Schlomo slandering the goyim again?” I think that we should bet someone did in fact put his home address on twatter, which I totally don’t endorse but think is hilarious. I can also believe that he received death threats, because everyone receives death threats.
“This is ridiculous,” Carroll said. “We just can’t have a reasonable conversation anymore, we can’t have conversations with people about these things. I’ve heard from reasonable people that do disagree with my bill — and I appreciate them being reasonable and I appreciate them making their point — but if you want to just go the route of calling people names, and calling people like racial slurs, and threatening them and things like that, it’s impossible to have conversations at that point.”
K then STFU?
Ever since having my tiny little twatter account censored, alongside basically everybody worth anything, I really do not have any patience anymore for “muh conversation,” types. No matter how reasonable they are. I still think that he is just an attention grabbing Schlomo, who realized that his policy was incredibly unpopular, so he found a way to remove his legislation and pretend that he was the victim.
