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Make the spread of disease and medical treatment and prevention denial a crime.

Submitted on Sunday 17th January 2021

Rejected on Monday 25th January 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Make the spread of disease and medical treatment and prevention denial a crime.

Petition Details

Criminalise the spread of false, baseless information about diseases and illnesses and the treatments and vaccines used to cure or inoculate people from diseases such as COVID.

Additional Information

Make it illegal for anyone to spread false, baseless information about a disease or illness, and the treatments being used to treat it or to inoculate against it which hampers the work of our health services and ultimately puts extra unnecessary pressure on our NHS. The COVID deniers lobby is large and powerful and is growing every day and so fewer people will accept necessary treatment or vaccine. Disease and vaccine denial will ultimately lead to further unnecessary illnesses and deaths.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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We think these petitions are similar:

Create legislation to prevent COVID-19 & vaccine misinformation on social media
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/564524

Make it an offence for media outlets to publish unfounded or false statements
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/569725

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