Were you aware that in 2022 California made it illegal for doctors to give patients medical advice that the powers that be disagreed with?

Yep, they did. Doctors could lose their medical licenses for, among other things, suggesting that a 16-year-old healthy young man might not need to get an mRNA vaccine that could damage his heart.

A federal judge halted the law in January pending court challenges, and it is unclear that officials ever enforced it. https://t.co/cXFi5An1W1

— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) October 4, 2023

It’s unclear if the law was ever applied, as a federal judge enjoined its implementation in January, but the message from the California government was clear enough: don’t give your patients your best medical advice lest you run afoul of the government.

COVID propaganda, censorship, and outright lies were the order of the day for years, and the Biden Administration is being schooled by the federal courts on their censorship efforts regarding COVID and other issues.

But it’s not just the feds. California has been waging a war on medical advice, and here in my home state of Minnesota Dr. Scott Jensen, the Republican candidate for governor has faced a slew of investigations for deviating from the approved narrative on COVID.

Jensen, a practicing medical doctor for more than 40 years who had never once faced a patient complaint has faced 5 investigations by the MN Board of Medical Practice over his dissent from the Narrative. Five in 3 years. Several during a vigorously fought gubernatorial campaign in which the doctor was accused of being a conspiracy theorist who wanted to force horse dewormer down people’s throats or something.

Jensen, of course, was right and the Narrative wrong, but that doesn’t matter. Fauci represents The Science™, and Jensen disagrees. Off with his head, or at least take away his medical license. Jensen is suing.

By now it is obvious that public health officials and leftist politicians used COVID as an excuse to run roughshod over our constitutional rights and freedoms. Government pressures to censor information and disagreements, destroy reputations, and even take away medical licenses for political reasons were rampant.

It is and was about control, and in a way I am disappointed that California’s law was repealed before the courts could tear it up, stamp on it, and burn it to cinders. After all, California’s lawmakers repealed it not because they thought it wrong, but because a Court decision could undermine their ability to impose another law like this in the future.

Better to give ground now than lose in court and be stymied in the future.

Over the past few years we have seen the constitution’s meaning twisted so far out of shape that M.C. Escher couldn’t have produced something so convoluted. If “emergencies” are an excuse to restrict freedom, the government will find emergencies under every rock.

And there are a lot of rocks to look under.