09/03/2026
🚨🚨🚨 IT’S COVID ALL OVER AGAIN – BUT WORSE!!!
Governor Josh Shapiro & his Pennsylvania Department of Health are exploiting measles in an attempt to justify rewriting regulations to claw back all the tyrannical powers used by Tom Wolf in 2020 under his Covid disaster emergency order, only without the need to declare any disaster.
Those expanded regulatory powers would include, but not be limited to:
- Mask mandates
- Social distancing
- Surveillance and contact tracing
- Private access to students without parental or school approval
- Restricting attendance at funerals, etc.
- Warrantless entry into buildings
- Forced removal of individuals from buildings
- Warrantless access to private health information
- Undefined additional measures as defined only by the Department
- Authority to investigate and take action against a non-infectious “condition”
- Authority to define such “conditions”
- Authority to perform “surveillance, segregation, quarantine” of a person with said “conditions”
The last three are quite alarming, as some public health “experts” have cited political dissent, gun ownership, and “overly white protests” of mask mandates as threats to public health.
🚨🚨🚨BUT WAIT - THERE'S MORE!!!
The proposed regulations attempt to erase women, as the terms “pregnant woman” and “mother of a newborn” would be replaced with “pregnant or postpartum individual” throughout and the term “mother” would be replaced by “postpartum individual” in a separate instance.
Adopting these regulatory changes would make Pennsylvanians virtually powerless against Department of Health overreach, regardless of whether any disaster emergency has been declared.
This tyrannical partisan regulatory scheme is only a proposal as of now, but could be approved in a few short weeks. It is currently before the Independent Regulatory Review Commission (IRRC).
🔥🔥🔥WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?
You can submit a public comment to IRRC via email. Public comments are all published and considered by IRRC during its review process.
The deadline for submitting public comments on this radical revamp of Department of Health regulations is September 21. Comment letters must be EMAILED to:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Your email should reference the following in the subject line:
Rulemaking #10-242: Communicable and Noncommunicable Diseases; IRRC #3490
I'll put a link to the full regulatory package in the comments below, where you can also peruse comments submitted by other Pennsylvanians.⬇️⬇️⬇️