All eyes on Holcomb’s decision on bill that would allow local officials to overrule health officers

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5 thoughts on “All eyes on Holcomb’s decision on bill that would allow local officials to overrule health officers

  1. Public health officials are not elected to office. They are there to advise the governor, mayor, city-council, town manager who are elected. This handing over power to the unelected needs to stop as does government officials overreaching on their constitutional authority. Also, most of the health experts in Indiana making these decisions are way out of their expertise. Internal medicine and OB/GYN specialist are not experts in infectious disease and virology. Just because you have MD behind your name doesn’t make you a “medical” expert in every field of medicine. Wouldn’t go to an orthopedist for a heart condition, why an OB/GYN for a guidance on immunology, infectious disease, or virology?

    1. Because they actually went to Medical School, not Law School or Junior College? I’d much rather let someone with medical knowledge make medical decisions. By the way, and infectious disease specialist is someone with a residency in Internal Medicine.

    2. Great question, Stanley, but not in the way you intend.

      If your issue is that doctors aren’t experts in every field, why should those who are experts (and who know who to consult when it’s not their specialty) be overruled by people who won an election? What medical expertise did winning an election give them?

      And why do so many of the people pushing these nonsense bills believe the anti-vax nonsense peddled by non-infectious disease doctors?

      This bill has nothing to do with doctors outside their realm of speciality. It has everything to do with people who want to ignore science. Doctors at least know what they don’t know. The politicians think they know better than everyone else … and that’s the most dangerous type of fool.

      Look, I haven’t liked the answers from the experts either. Being stuck at home for over a year has stunk but it’s just about over. And when I see what’s going on in India, I’m glad we listened to the experts and not the politicians. And I wish our politicians would have been smarter and listened like the folks in New Zealand so many more folks would still be around.

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