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Governor Newsom Signs AB 2098 Into Law, Most Totalitarian Move Yet

Assembly Bill 2098, (AB 2098) was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom this week which now makes it a crime for doctors to express any information to patients that is anti-vaccine for COVID-19. 

AB 2098 designates the dissemination of misinformation or disinformation related to the SARS-CoV-2

coronavirus, or COVID-19, as unprofessional conduct, according to the bill text

The bill will punish anyone in the medical profession who speaks out against COVID-19 medical consensus. This includes any professional who advocates the early treatment of COVID-19 with any protocol other than treatments approved by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (CDC). 

The California State Medical Board would be allowed to punish physicians who spread misinformation or disinformation regarding COVID-19 and its treatment options.

This despite numerous well-documented studies throughout the world that prove alternative treatments, when administered early on during an individual’s outbreak of COVID-19, has eliminated the need for hospitalization. 

“As George Orwell wrote in his iconic book, 1984: ‘No one can get up much enthusiasm for a government which puts you in jail if you open your mouth.’ (This) bill, while purportedly well-intentioned, appear to be the first step on a slippery slope to government censorship,” said Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, in a previous KHTS article

AB 2098 was authored by Assemblymember Evan Low, D-AD 28. 


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Governor Newsom Signs AB 2098 Into Law, Most Totalitarian Move Yet

156 comments

  1. Why vote if Newsome can just do this on his own? Shouldn’t the voters have a say?

  2. It would obviously be better for all of us if as much disinformation as possible were made public

    Because everyone has a right to have the freedom of their own information and facts: Covid is a hoax, the January 6 insurrection did not happen, the 2020 election was stolen, the moon is made of green cheese, the earth is flat, vaccinations are dangerous.

    It’d be a sad day for America if people were protected from (or, even worse, prevented from falling victim to) arguably the worst public health disaster in a century.

  3. Wouldnt you know that the assemblycriiter that put this forward is of Chinese descent…

  4. It simply requires physicians to be professional and factual in their treatment of Covid. The bill came about in response to all the crazy irrational misinformation that was spinning ‘round.
    You would expect the same professionalism from your doctor if you were diagnosed with any serious disease. The California state medical board has the authority to penalize doctors for unprofessional practices,It is meant to protect the patient.
    While many of us would like doctors to know more about alternative treatments, this is not what they learn in medical school.

  5. Cool. Glad he did it. He has balls. And I love how KHTS calls it Totalitarian. Huh? It is not. It’s smart. What we saw happen cost lives. Our own idiot President misinformed Americans and almost had us drinking bleach and windex. This is no different than making it illegal to scream “fire” in a crowded theater or “bomb” on an airplane.

    • Your knowledge of medicine, treatment protocols, studies. clinical trials and the medical tenet of First, Do No Harm, is impressive. Here’s how bright, uninformed and coerced you are…if Newsom or Biden recommended drinking bleach, you would have. No, Trump never told anyone to drink bleach, That’s weak, and a lie that you are spreading, but you are accustomed to believing lies. A sign of a lazy mind. https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/07/13/fact-check-did-trump-tell-people-to-drink-bleach-to-kill-coronavirus/113754708/
      Apparently…no…most assuredly, you belong to the new cultist religion of ‘woke’ and you suffer from Long Stockholm Syndrome. It’s very hard to be respectful to a person that encourages, condones and then endorses a system that is so deleterious to everyone, even you. You have zero perspective, obviously. You are the prime example of see no truth, hear no truth, but speak evil at every opportunity. You have been wholly captured by an agenda that seeks to harm and reap record profits and our expense. No need to argue the point with me. I’m right, you’re wrong and not because I say it’s so, it’s because it IS so. You are what I refer to as the irretrievably broken. Your ability to be objective is non-existent. Good luck. This isn’t a right or left aisle issue but you’ll never change. You are a hate-filled, closed-minded, unintelligent vessel that spews dangerous rhetoric that you just merely hear. Newsom doesn’t have balls. He’s a low level puppet.

      • Love this response. Puppets obey the hand and hand in this case is Newsome. Totalitarian was a great choice of wordss to describe what is happening in CA. Love this state, hate what is happening to it as the Puppet Master dictates his opinion and lacks the balls to let the people decide.

      • I thought that you were prolife. Prolife doesn’t end with a fetus.

      • Methinks the lady doth protest too much. You can sound all righteous and high-and-mighty in your repudiation of Harlan F’s unfortunately overblown remark but there are two differences between Left-leaning people and Trump supporters in this Covid context. Firstly, yes, of course, everybody saw Trump simply musing about disinfectants taken internally, DUH. But the FACT that hundreds of people DID ingest them afterwards shows you the mentality of the MAGA Cult. Secondly, the ridiculous and widespread use of first antimalarial then horse tranquilizer just because Trump touted BOTH – against the majority of World Medical opinion just shows how egregious misinformation can be. I believe this newly signed law is a bit extreme but SOMETHING has to be done about harming a numbskull Right Wing populace with horrible, politically motivated, blatant, groundless disinformation.

      • I totally agree with you, Diane Sandy. Newsom is a dictator! To punish doctors that could save lives by using alternative medicine is a criminal offense. I’m not surprised at the sheeple that follow him! I’m surprised that we’re allowed to voice our opinions. This is another reason so many are fleeing, this once beautiful state.

      • This is the best response to ignorance I have ever read. I can’t begin to tell you how happy reading it made me. I think I’m going to print it off and put it on my fridge so everyone who comes to my house can have the pleasure of reading it also if you don’t mind.

      • We put our fairy in a medicine approval system (FDA) that was the envy of the world, that is until Donald Trump got a hold of it and ruined it like so many of his failed con-job businesses.

      • tRump absolutely made it okay to drink bleach. His idiot cult doesn’t discern anything. They hear, “drink bleach”. That’s all they can comprehend.

      • You must have needed to lash out at someone, but Harlan stated pretty much what we all know happened. With our country and the world desperately hoping for answers, Trump provided a series of stream-of-consciousness
        guesswork ramblings that showed his illogical thinking at such an important time.
        Maybe you missed Trump’s White House Coronavirus Task Force news briefing on April 23,2020. He said, “We tested bleach. I can tell you that bleach will kill the virus in 5 minutes.” He went on to say that we can use disinfectant by “injection inside or almost a cleaning.Because you see it gets in the lungs
        and it does a tremendous number on the lungs.” He knew nothing about the subject but his ego couldn’t allow him to let others be the scientific experts.
        PS Hoping for an INTELLIGENT, HONEST candidate for Republicans to vote for in 2024

        • Pitiful. Here’s Biden’s lie regarding the issue of what President Trump said (more twisted lies from the left, masters of deceit), “And when it comes to COVID-19, after months of doing nothing, other than predicting the virus would disappear, or maybe if you drank bleach you may be okay, Trump has simply given up,” said Biden, who delivered his remarks at a metalworks factory near his hometown of Scranton on Thursday. He should stick to eating ice cream cones rather than destroying our democracy, our republic.

          Here’s what Trump actually said (Trump spoke about the role he thought disinfectants could play in tackling an infection caused by the virus during a now infamous April 23 briefing. But he didn’t say people should drink bleach or inject it.) Not even Trump would suggest injecting bleach, but the people that bought in to the fear mongering would and they weren’t solely MAGA. Prove it.
          “It wouldn’t be through injections, almost a cleaning and sterilization of an area. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t work, but it certainly has a big effect if it’s on a stationary object.”
          It’s convenient to leave out the entire statement made and follow-up questions that were clarified. And by the way, to all the medical Einsteins out there, Trump was primarily discussing light therapy to kill viruses on surfaces and the fact that they are used internally as well to kill viruses.
          Keep trying. It’s annoying as hell but I’ve got nothing better to do at the present time.
          https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7194064/#:~:text=Further%20evidence%20shows%20that%20blue,complications%20associated%20with%20coronavirus%20infection.

          • Thank you for posting this. And The media takes simple remarks of someone they don’t like, and changes and sensationalizes and distorts just to smear them. Sick of all the lies they spread. There is NO pandemic now, but making it official would cause big pharma to lose billions, and our crooked government to lose the legislation power they are weilding during this pandemic!

      • Oh well, if they were smart to begin with, they wouldn’t be played over-and-over again. Their govt has been taxing them over the smallest of things and telling them its a good thing. His solution to high gas prices is to tax the oil companies, as if that’s gonna help the man on the street. The companies will just pass on the cost to the consumers and that’s why they have the highest gas prices and utilities in the nation. California is the state of “taxation without representation”, if the Californians say otherwise, it just means they are supportive of the liberal policies causing the huge spikes in crime against themselves.

      • Extremely well said!

    • The problem w your rationally is it gives no one the ability to yell “fire” even if there is a fire.

    • Your interpretation of a President’s remarks was obviously filtered through media, which btw has a record of distortion and blatant misrepresentation unsurpassed by any but the most outrageous conspiracy theorists. The Onion and the Babylon Bee are as trustworthy sources of information as some so called “News” networks, but more witty.

      • It’s best to watch the president speak live & hear/see what he says directly. Trump stumbled & bumbled all through Covid.

      • New to The Babylon Bee—unbelievably witty & Truthful! Our favorite is the delicate, Naive, Snowflake Liberal Californians moving to Texas! Disgusting to think the degenerate Liberals will bring their Demonic lifestyles to Texas & Florida, rather than voting & behaving the decent, successful way here in the once wonderful CA that they’re tearing apart like the other once decent American cities!

    • You are clearly a misinformed fool. During Covid the powers that be were allowing people all over this country to die unnecessarily from Covid. Doctors were ordered to refuse treatment until the person couldn’t breath, which for most was too late. I lost 2 family members because of this lack of treatment, one was before the so called vaccine, one was after. They lied to us about the “vaccine” too, so they could make millions from it. I have a family member that almost died because of the “vaccine”. He got a blood clot in his heart after a booster and almost died, he now has heart damage, they have lied to us about everything to do with Covid, just do some research and you will see the truth. I got the first “not vaccine” and got Covid anyway, I was really sick but fortunately I had steroids on hand, when I took them, amazingly it cleared up the worst symptoms, steroids is a treatment if given early on with other meds, can save lives, yet doctors were refusing treatment. What was done is murder, yet fools in this country blindly believe whatever the Dems tell them and Newscum is the worst kind of politician, a dictator. Why is he allowed to get away with this, because of all the blind fools that vote for them and cheer them on, just like the Germans that followed Hitler! Wake-up!

    • That’s actually legal, constitutionally.

  6. He is such a narcissist! But the people of California have been drinking his koolaid, so he can and HAS done whatever he likes. Passing a bill telling a MD what they can say? Took the Death Penalty, took PPP, kept his Winery open, I could go on and on, but koolaid I haven’t had. Pretty soon he will be ordering microchips or tattoos….. oh, that’s when he runs for the Whitehouse. Keep the line straight. It is sad, my physician EVER follows the order of a politician and not MEDICINE, I go elsewhere.

  7. Liberals love & practice the concept of Orwell’s “1984”!! The Nihilism Liberal Bible!

  8. Guess what. You live in a liberal state. Don’t like it? Move to Texas, or Alabama.

    It also seems some of you skipped your Civics & Government class… or forgot what ‘totalitarianism’ means. Newsom doesn’t have to power to write laws. Only the State Legislature can. Sure, he finalized the bill by signing it; but like all bills, it had to be passed by a vote in the Legislature.

    • You obviously blew up some “minds” with your facts on how government works — notice how you didn’t get any replies? Obviously the loonies and Chicken Littles calling him a dictator and forcing his will on the people when all he did was sign a bill that the legislature had already passed — a legislature that was voted in by a majority of the people — these people here who don’t understand how this works apparently just don’t know how to respond to facts. Which sort of explains why they’re so lost…

    • No. True Californian want to take back the state and deport the DemonicTaxRats to a very small island at low tide.

      • Especially one with frequent hurricanes! Problem is, while they’re there, they would tax the coconuts, turtles, fish & even the sand! Our insane Liberal caused gas is DOUBLE what other states are paying & even $1.00 higher than Hawaii! Damn Liberals!

  9. Based on the title is this article, it belongs in the “opinion” section. I really miss factual, unbiased, unopinionated news coverage. Too bad the KHTS staff doesn’t even have the courage to place a journalist’s or a reporter’s name to the piece. Maybe there are none on staff.

    • What you lament is that KHTS never has been the CCP Propaganda Rag you wish it was.

      • What a witty response.

        • What a witty single use poster name.
          Read the KHTS political endorsements to clear up your brain fart.
          Put down the LA Times, and go sit n’ spin in front of your TV and watch CNN.

          • Thank you for your compliment regarding my name, Max. I have been using my name on the khts website for several years. I rarely choose to post comments, mostly because the majotiry of posts are cheap shots and not written with the goal of having a civil discourse with others. I am fortunate to have more worthy endeavors to pursue and will continue to spend the majority of my time with those endeavors. Your time may also be better spent helping those who live in your community.

          • We don’t get civil discourse from the LLLLLCCP. DONT EXPECT IT BACK.

          • It is not Civil what the Liberals are doing to our once fantastic (not perfect) country! Liberals are unable to grasp wit/humor with a twist of realism that sometimes is negative—-but that’s why there’s a negative response from decent humans tired of being morally & financially raped!

  10. So now we can’t get both sides to an argument.
    It’s their (government’s) way or the highway.
    What happened to the patients ability to choose the most affective treatment for their individual requirements.
    B.S.

  11. So does this now mean that even if a patient chooses to go another route with their treatments, they too are forced to do only what the CDC recommends? Health care is hardly health care anymore. We go to the doctor now and have them decide for us what is best for us, not because of any medical knowledge they actually have or obtained from experience, but simply because the CDC had tied their hands. Ridiculous.

  12. Lived here all my 60 years…now moving to a different state that is better aligned to my thoughts and beliefs. NEVER thought I would leave. Now, can’t wait!

  13. I don’t see how demanding that professionals speak the truth is in any way, shape, or form, Authoritarian, taking a woman’s right to chose is authoritarian, as is taking people’s right to vote is authoritarian. The truth is not authoritarian.

  14. typical rightwing knee-jerk reaction and drama, KHTS is basically trump radio

  15. For the Love of America
    Ed fam that is not a witty response that was a well thought out response I thought I feel it is individuals like you that are so blind to the truth of the matter it makes me sick we live in America a free country if anybody wants to speak anything truth lies it does not matter it is his own right if you see a doctor that’s says anything that you do not like stop seeing them that’s just how it is we have to use our own discernment in our hearts to guide us through what is wrong or right what is truth or factual but it’s a lie it’s just how it is every American has the right to speak his own mind not to be told what to do like some communist country you must be a Chinese person Ed fam or some sort of communist lover we live in America land of the free people have died gave up so much blood to stand where we stand right now pull your head out of your ass right now Ed Fam.

  16. Newsom has to go. This state is in a mess. Wake up people. It’s all about “control.” Look at the Communist countries. He’s following the playbook. Don’t drink the Kool Aid.

  17. Mahlia,

    Your complaints are not about Democrats. They are about Covid. Sorry you had such upsetting experiences. I don’t believe that there was a greater conspiracy going on. There was a shortage of ventilators that forced doctors into making hard decisions. We had poor federal leadership (Trump) and governors all across the country were trying to get supplies and help their states. Drug companies were scrambling to develop drugs and acquire a vaccine. It was such a horrible situation.
    Now that more people have been vaccinated, we have fewer deaths.

  18. Are you for real? You can do whatever you want. A doctor is more likely to give you treatment based on his or her medical education but you can research or go elsewhere to explore options.The American Medical Association (founded in 1847) exists to promote the betterment of public health, the CDC is another entity & there are many more. The Medical Board licenses doctors. There’s nothing wrong with
    the expectation that they would require doctors to follow the proven science relating to Covid and not zany anecdotal results from Average Joe. Go to a nutritionist, an herbologist, a chiropractor, an accupuncturist, a lady at Whole Foods who sells supplements! Do what you like and stop being surprised that doctors have rules.

  19. I think the important point is the important issues are not put before the voters, they are simply passed by the mostly if not all Democratic legislative bodies, then put before Newsom to sign off on to make him look strong. I personally do not believe our doctors should be held to only what the pundits parrot on the beds that the CDC said and think that should be gospel. It takes away the right of the Doctors to treat the patients as individuals with unique Healthcare needs. For shame!

  20. Governor Gruesome, stick to something you know about, like violating the law of meetings during Covid restrictions and the lousy wine your in partnership with.

  21. Oh foolish liberals are eating this stuff up!

  22. KHTS just went down a notch in my estimation. Newsome merely signed a bill, he didn’t implement this by fiat.

  23. “ The California State Medical Board would be allowed to punish physicians who spread misinformation or disinformation regarding COVID-19 and its treatment options.
    This despite numerous well-documented studies throughout the world that prove alternative treatments, when administered early on during an individual’s outbreak of COVID-19, has eliminated the need for hospitalization”

    Above is directly from the article..
    So the doctors will be able to prescribe ivermectin?
    Great alternative that helped people

    • K: Keep
      H: Helping
      T: Trump
      S: Sycophants

      K:Keep
      H:Hiding from
      T:Truth and
      S:Science

      Carl and Jeri, your propaganda is pathetic.

      • Ohhh. The pot calling the kettle black again. That is an ironic and humorous comeback attempt from the CCP bullhorn propaganda Queen..
        IF YOU DONT LIKE IT READ THE LA TIMES INSTEAD.

        Kick
        Hit, and
        Torture
        Socialists

        Keep
        Helping readers with
        TRUTH
        Semper Fi

        • Little BoPeep Weaver,
          All day and that’s the best you come op with? Not even an original or creative thought in that vacuous space above your tiny little shoulders. Must be so difficult to live in my shadow. Alas, just keep yelling at no one, get off my lawn” you angry, tired, old man. PATHETIC

          • Alice, I am with you. I’m the real Bob Weaver, this hack, probaby Donkey Pox or Bigot Bill, took my name and slandered my thoughts. Keep preaching to the choir. Haters gonna hate.

            This website is so far up Mike Garcia butt they can no longer see anything for what it is.

          • Go throw a bucket of water on yourself and let the Flying Monkey Poxers out in CCP HQs.

  24. When the Federal Govt. HHS created a misinformation task force, i requested “collected misinformationn be sent to me for my review so I can remain law abiding. Months later nothing has been sent. This data needs to be posted so everyone can see “WHAT IS misinformation”.

  25. Libs demand you trust the science and know that men can get pregnant….

  26. Yep, Dippity Dew head will stop all educated ideas to exert more control over citizens! Everything the Liberals touch turns to degradation, just look at all the cities that have been ruined by Liberals! Tax, Tax, Tax with little return for decent taxpayers!!

  27. WELL…GUESS WHO I WONT BE VOTING FOR THIS NOVEMBER. NOT THAT THIS NEWS WAS GOING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. NEWSOME AND PELOSI (SEC. OF STATE US) ARE GOING TO TURN OUR COUNTRY INTO SH^T ANYWAYS. WE HAVE TO GET THEM OUT OF OFFICE SOMEHOW. LEGALLY.
    I AM NOT PROUD TO BE A CALIFORNIAN. BORN & RAISED HERE SINCE 1954. SAD.

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