Short diary:
Veteran Maine Public reporter Steve Mistler has this audio clip of Maine Rep. Heidi Sampson comparing Gov Janet Mills to Josef Mengele, the notorious Nazi doctor known for his experiments on Jewish prisoners of the Holocaust. Sampson is serving her second term in the Maine House, and represents a largely rural district in southern Maine.
In the recording, Sampson refers to the Nuremburg Code, which was created in 1947 in direct response to Mengeles’ atrocities. It begins:
The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.
Of course, the current administration of Covid-19 vaccines is not an experiment, as trials were conducted on them more than a year ago.
Gov. Mills has mandated that health care workers at hospitals, home health agencies, nursing and residential care facilities, as well as EMS providers and dental practices be fully vaccinated by 1 October 2021. There has been some push back by workers, including a protest over the weekend in which hospital scrubs were left at the Blaine House, the governor’s mansion in Augusta.
