Senate Bill 22 in Ohio amounts to legislative manslaughter

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It is time to acknowledge what Ohio Senate Bill 22 really is, legislated involuntary manslaughter, the killing of another human being from an improper use of reasonable care or skill while in the commission of a lawful act.

Rather than relying on medical institutions like the renowned Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals of Cleveland, the Ohio State Medical Center and other recognized medical research institutions, SB 22 allows Ohio legislators to reject medical reality and substitute their own. Without any education or experience in epidemiology, virology, infectious diseases, or pediatrics, the legislature can rescind by a simple majority vote any rules and orders from Gov. Mike DeWine or the state Health Director aimed at preventing the spread of contagious or infectious diseases.

Did any legislator behind this bill ask any one of the more than 70,000 Ohioans hospitalized with COVID-19, or go out to the cemetery to ask relatives of the 21,500 Ohioans who died from COVID-19 their opinion about preventative COVID measures? Would Ohioans who adamantly support this law visit their state legislator for cancer treatments?

Practicing medicine without a license is illegal, but in Ohio, it is a precursor for pandering for votes. Uniformed medical decisions have life-or-death consequences.

Edward J. Konys,

Enon

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