NPR is a propaganda organization that is funded (at least in part) by the US government. Of course this means they are trash when it comes to covering politics that isn't left. Witness some of the new nonsense.
Through a wave of pandemic-related litigation, a trio of small but mighty conservative legal blocs has rolled back public health authority at the local, state and federal levels, recasting America's future battles against infectious diseases.
Say, where did the "public health" get their "authority? Given this piece came out after the SCOTUS ruling in regards to the EPA you'd think NPR would ask this basic question,.
"Galvanized by what they've characterized as an overreach of COVID-related health orders issued amid the pandemic, lawyers from the three overlapping spheres — conservative and libertarian think tanks, Republican state attorneys general, and religious liberty groups — are aggressively taking on public health mandates and the government agencies charged with protecting community health."
"What they've characterized as an overreach."
SCOTUS said so too. Not only in regards to the EPA but also the CDC.
""That's the arena where these decisions are being made, but it's the fundamental constitutional principles that underlie it that are an issue.""
Yeah, I've been saying the same thing. I have two extensive videos where I discuss the form of the US government and the limited powers and separation of powers. NPR seems to find this a strange thing.
"In Wisconsin, a conservative legal center won a case before the state Supreme Court stripping local health departments of the power to close schools to stem the spread of disease."
The power wasn't stripped. It didn't belong to the health departments in the first place. Most states and state agencies have the power to detain individuals and quarantine spaces for specific causes until the situation is remedied or some limited amount of time (usually no longer than 30 days). What these health departments decided was that they could be THE GOVT and rule by edict for an indefinite period of time.
"In Missouri, the Republican state attorney general waged a campaign against school mask mandates. Most of the dozens of cases he filed were dismissed but nonetheless had a chilling effect on school policies."
We already know masks do not work. The only people wearing the things are those who have been forced to or are virtue signalling.
"n California, a lawsuit brought by religious groups challenging a health order that limited the size of both secular and nonsecular in-home gatherings as COVID-19 surged made it to the U.S. Supreme Court. There, the conservative majority, bolstered by three staunchly conservative justices appointed by former President Donald Trump, issued an emergency injunction finding the order violated the freedom to worship."
Those durn enumerated rights. Meanwhile these "leaders" were having their own parties.
"Other cases have chipped away at the power of federal and state authorities to mandate COVID vaccines for certain categories of employees, or thwarted a governor's ability to declare emergencies."
Where NPR comes out against bodily autonomy and the idea that individuals should make their own medical decisions without the interference of government OR employers.
And folks wonder why I have no sympathy for those affected by the recent SCOTUS decision. "Pro-Choice" people (particularly women) have been at the forefront of the vaccine mandate push. So they can bite me in regards to Roe.
"Public health experts say it has endangered the fundamental tools that public health workers have utilized for decades to protect community health: mandatory vaccinations for public school children against devastating diseases "
Nope. You all did this to yourselves by lying to the public. Resorting to censorship of those with contradictory (or actual) evidence. Resorting to blackmail and outright threats to peoples lives and livelihoods. With all the lying about these mRNA products, what sane person would NOT be asking questions about all the other "mandatory" biological products?
Furthermore, many state laws that govern "public health" agencies specifically bar forcing vaccinations (or medical intervention) on any person. Yet even where these specific limits are on the books, they have still done this mandating. Why? Because the courts themselves are in on it and will not rule against themselves.
"and the use of quarantines to stem that spread."
State governments (at least the ones I've looked at) already have the power to quarantine an infected person. Nobody is challenging that. The problem is that these officials created the "asymptomatic spreader" in order to label millions of people as presumed infected (never mind the survival rates) and then imposed draconian lockdowns that did far more harm than more targeted interventions would have.
"Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, a Democrat, decried the wave of litigation in what he called a "right-wing laboratory." He said he has not lost a single case where he was tasked with defending public health powers, which he believes are entirely legal and necessary to keep people alive. "
"Connecticut"
Well sure you haven't lost. And that underscores another issue which I think is growing larger and larger with each passing year: The breaking up of America.