State Republicans can either tighten vaccine laws or have blood on their hands

One of the lazier rhetorical tropes to enter modern political discourse is of the “people will die!” variety. Remember when net neutrality was going to kill us all? And how about those fatal tax cuts? Then there’s of course climate change, which most people across the political spectrum understand will wreak havoc within the century if unchallenged, but Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned us “like, the world is gonna end in 12 years.”

But there is one issue of state level politics that is actually on the cusp of leading to hundreds, if not thousands, of deaths, and Republicans are about to unilaterally enable it.