By Collin Cunningham
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) A Tuesday hearing for an Ohio anti-vaccine bill sounded more like a panel at a science fiction convention as one doctor claimed to the House Health Committee that vaccinated people pose a danger to others as they've somehow become magnetized by the shot.
“They can put a key on their forehead, it sticks. They can put spoons and forks all over them and they can stick, because now we think there’s a metal piece to that,” said Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, a board-certified physician who was testifying on behalf of House Bill 248, according to News 5 Cleveland.
“There’s been people who have long suspected that there was some sort of an interface, yet to be defined interface, between what’s being injected in these shots and all of the 5G towers.”
Dubbed the "Enact Vaccine Choice and Anti-Discrimination Act," the legislation is Republican Rep. Jennifer Gross' attempt to prevent any organization, institution or individual from requiring Ohioans to get vaccinated for any reason.
Also at the hearing, the station reports a pastor revealed the alleged ingredient list for COVID-19 vaccines, which he said includes formaldehyde — a cancer-causing gas used in the production of building materials and some household products — and fetal cells.
Additional testimony came from attorney Tom Renz, who has filed lawsuits related to COVID-19 and its vaccination across the county over the past year. He previously withdrew a case in Ohio after U.S. District Judge James Carr referred to his arguments during proceedings as "incomprehensible" and his supporting evidence as "a jumble of alleged facts, conclusory and speculative assertions."
According to 19 News, Tuesday's hearing took place before 30 Ohio residents, including a woman named Erika Smith, who supports the bill.
“Government-sanctioned discrimination based on skin color is no different than government-sanctioned discrimination based on vaccine status,” Smith told the station. “The unvaccinated will become second-class citizens, just like Blacks once were.”
Others at the hearing were more critical of the proposed law, such as State Rep. Beth Lisbon.
“So [a] university, who would think about all their students, knowing that one person not getting it could lead to the death of someone on that floor, doesn’t have the right to ask for vaccination status?,” Lisbon asked.
"According to this bill, that would be correct," responded Sunil Bhat, a board-certified Infectious Disease physician out of Mount Vernon, Ohio.
19 News reported that Cincinnati Children's Hospital Chief of Staff Dr. Patricia Manning-Courtney also had unkind words about the bill, saying the following:
To limit and restrict the ability to require vaccinations in schools or to check vaccination status, it’s almost unthinkable in a pediatric community to think that one of the best tools we have at prevention would be limited, restricted, or discussed in a way that is negative.
The bill has received public support from several Ohio groups that have held that the coronavirus was a myth since the pandemic started in March 2020, including the National Health Freedom Coalition, Patriots for Ohio and Free Ohio Now.
The Ohio Department of Health's COVID-19 Vaccine Dashboard states that more than 5.3 million doeses have been administered in Ohio as of Tuesday, with 46.18% of the state's residents having received at least one dose of the inoculation.