A group of high-level managers at the Louisiana Department of Health walked into a Nov. 14 meeting in Baton Rouge expecting to talk about outreach and community events.

Instead, they were told by an assistant secretary in the department and another official that department leadership had a new policy: Advertising or otherwise promoting the COVID, influenza or mpox vaccines, an established practice there — and at most other public health entities in the U.S. — must stop.

NPR has confirmed the policy was discussed at this meeting, and at two other meetings held within the department’s Office of Public Health, on Oct. 3 and Nov. 21, through interviews with four employees at the Department of Health, which employs more than 6,500 people and is the state’s largest agency.

  • Nougat
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    3917 hours ago

    We’re going to start needing state border checkpoints so that deadly diseases from states run by fucking idiots don’t travel to states not run by fucking idiots.

    • @yesman
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      17 hours ago

      states not run by fucking idiots

      Don’t worry, it’s hard to travel from LA to a place not run by idiots. I know you can’t get there by car. You’re going to need at least an airplane, maybe a starship.

      • Nougat
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        817 hours ago

        I mean, there’s always going to be some regular idiots, but not all states are run by fucking idiots.