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    1. Josiah Neeley  🤔‏ @jneeley78 Sep 9
      Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank

      Oh and AIDS. We got lucky in that we were able to contain those other outbreaks or they weren’t that deadly (though swine flu did kill half a million people).

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    2. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson Sep 9
      Replying to @jneeley78 @baseballcrank

      Right—but you’re only making my point in another way. *If* we had another public health crisis like this or even worse, well then it would be reasonable for a president to use his power to mitigate it, too.

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    3. Josiah Neeley  🤔‏ @jneeley78 Sep 9
      Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank

      No because, for example, suppose someone comes up with an experimental Ebola vaccine & the president says “it’s important to vaccinate people with this as a precaution.” Can you then say “wait, you only have the authority to do this once we’ve reached some arbitrary # of deaths”?

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    4. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson Sep 9
      Replying to @jneeley78 @baseballcrank

      But it wouldn’t—it couldn’t—happen that way. The FDA would, at least, have to provide emergency authorization. As a political matter, you can’t imagine any president risking something this encompassing (even though <100 still exempted) with a profound crisis.

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    5. Josiah Neeley  🤔‏ @jneeley78 Sep 9
      Replying to @yeselson

      pic.twitter.com/FAfpJZxjOU

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    6. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson Sep 9
      Replying to @jneeley78 @baseballcrank

      But seriously—why would a president try to compel people to be vaccinated unless the emergency was as great as we face today? And it certainly couldn’t happen without FDA approval.

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    7. Josiah Neeley  🤔‏ @jneeley78 Sep 9
      Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank

      The question is, could they make a mistake? I think the answer is yes. And I think the chances of making such a mistake go up when it’s standard (even routine) that you can mandate this stuff.

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    8. Eric Levitz‏ @EricLevitz Sep 9
      Replying to @jneeley78 @yeselson @baseballcrank

      Just seems like a leap to assume that an action taken 18 months and 650,000 deaths into the worst global pandemic in a century sets a precedent for the routine deployment of that action in the future

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    9. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Sep 9
      Replying to @EricLevitz @jneeley78 @yeselson

      That's how precedents are always set.

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    10. Eric Levitz‏ @EricLevitz Sep 10
      Replying to @baseballcrank @jneeley78 @yeselson

      Do you guys oppose measles and chicken pox vaccines for children who attend public schools? If not, why do those not set an alarming precedent that could one day lead to the FDA approving an unsafe vaccine that will then be foisted on kids?

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Sep 10
      Replying to @EricLevitz @jneeley78 @yeselson

      The federal government doesn't require that. And the states don't run the FDA.

      7:45 AM - 10 Sep 2021
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        2. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson Sep 10
          Replying to @baseballcrank @EricLevitz @jneeley78

          Yes, the Articles of Confederation is defunct. We employ federal power when appropriate. That’s what presidents did in the apartheid South. States are units of authority. They are not the only units of authority.

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Sep 10
          Replying to @yeselson @EricLevitz @jneeley78

          We passed constitutional amendments specific to the problems of Reconstruction. There's no "whatever seems appropriate" clause in the Constitution.

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