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What if you are severely immuno-compromised during a pandemic? Just die, I suppose?
Better that than to hurt the feelings of someone who cares a whole lot about people wearing masks.
From reading the article, I get the impression that this bill is mostly about them wanting to be able to arrest protesters who wear masks to hide their identity.
Which is still really shitty, to be clear.
Them’s the small government folks for ya…
It’s so stupid. Like, if the protesters do something illegal (actually illegal that is) then even if they have a mask on you can arrest them and make them take it off for mugshots. Also medical masks don’t really cover enough of the face to prevent identification.
But then that wouldn’t be for health reasons, right?
Right, but any kind of “you can’t wear a mask in public” law is easily evaded if there’s a legal exception for wearing one for health reasons.
But here I thought Republicans only cared about facts, not feelings. . .
The Republican claim on hard-nosed, reality-based reasoning is just so astoundingly mendacious. I find myself legitimately perplexed over the whole thing.
I mean, the guys who believe the Earth is 6,000 years old, trickle-down economics work, ectopic pregnancies are a gift from God and mustn’t be stopped, vaccines are poisonous, life doesn’t evolve, and Donald Trump was a good president are the down-to-Earth realists? Is this performance art of some kind?
How do people like that survive to adulthood?
By not being beaten with baseball bats when they prove to be sociopathically psychotic
For republicans, feelings are facts!
Or worse, what if you are a bit sick but need to go outside for a while? Just keep spreading the disease, I suppose?
Banning masks is authoritarian fascist shit, especially masks that protect you from spreading contagious illnesses. Ridiculous, one year we’re all told we need to wear masks to protect one another, next year we’re told that it’s illegal? Fuck off government, fuck off.
In one case it was experts trying to save lives. In the other it’s white nationalist christofascists virtue signaling to their crushingly ignorant base.
These are the same people who argued that forcing people to wear masks is fascism.
You literally can’t make this shit up.
America is a garbage country.
Context: I am American
There are active KKK chapters in NC. There is also a Proud Boys presence here (they’re known to wear masks).
I wonder, will they be exempt from this? (I know the answer, of course. Republicans will protect their own.)
This was actually discussed. The bill makes an exception for “members of a secret society demonstrating in public” as long as they get a permit from the police first.
Of course. Good thing those that work forces and those that burn crosses are two entirely different groups and totally do not overlap.
I was going to make a remark about how getting a permit must be really convenient, since you don’t even need to leave the office.
That is a weirdly specific phrasing
“You boys better not have no n95s under them hoods?”
My exact thought: surely they’ll be prosecuted under this law, right? Right?
Some of those that work forces…
I know someone that recently got a heart transplant. They wear a mask, and take many other precautions so that their immune system doesn’t reject the heart. They aren’t being overly cautious - they are actually at risk. I can’t imagine a government trying to arrest them for wearing a mask.
NC Republicans aren’t a government
At best they are a christofascist theocracy
This entire scenario (the mask banning) is ridiculous. Political games like this are the worst.
I can’t imagine a government trying to arrest them for wearing a mask.
Imagination isn’t your strength, is it? If such a statute was placed, I can definitely imagine a cop not giving a fuck about a serious medical issue. As if they used reason or had empathy.
My little niece just turned 19. Weeks before her birthday, she was diagnosed with cancer and is currently going through chemo.
These people can go to hell if they think they can put her even more at risk because of whatever shitty agenda they’re pushing.
Party of freedom… fuck you, fucking fascists.
I’m really sorry to hear that. Wishing the best for your neice
Thank you. She’s an incredibly talented writer and ridiculously creative, thoughtful, & kind. She was only just starting to live her life independently, and it was ripped away from her with the diagnosis.
We need to advocate for those who struggle to / are unable to do so for themselves.
I’m severely immunocompromised. Let them try and get the mask off my face. I’d prefer to hit them with my cane, but in all honestly, it would be more effective to sue them on federal ADA violations.
That’s fine. Wearing a mask is now a political statement which is protected free speech.
Sorry, money is speech. Now pay up.
Does that apply to surgeons?
They’re probably not considered “in public.”
Well shit, there goes my Outdoor Surgery business idea!
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You absolutely will not back this up, I guarantee it.
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What a bizarre hill to die on.
You absolutely know shit, I guarantee it.
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I’m following too. This vinegary vaginal lavage showed up four days ago, spread a thin layer of their personal brand of idiocy everywhere, and has now disappeared. Maybe they’ve fucked off back to some dark hole on Reddit? We can only hope.
“For health reasons” - if that’s what they choose to enforce, well then… looks like every day just became Halloween.
“No officer, Im not wearing this Ronald Reagan mask for my health, I’m celebrating Halloween” “Yes, officer, in May”.
my state used to be purple leaning blue…
Ahh… good times…
they’re over now
I’m in VA. For a bit it seems like we would be a future blue state. Now we have a porn ban and Marijuana legalization, which was passed by democrats, has been effectively stalled. Possession is legal, and you can grow a small amount for personal use, but our republican governor blocked the creation of a legal market.
Republicans can get fucked. I hope that this obvious not listening to their constituents costs them in the future, but I’m really not sure. People need to vote, and not just for president.
It won’t, they don’t stand for anything outside of “Libs Mad” so as long as “Libs Mad”, they’ll keep voting
Amen brother
Let them try … I’m a cancer survivor with a compromised immune system. They can fuck right off and I’ll be filing an ADA complaint.
Is americ okay
No. Not even a little bit
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They really said “because we can’t get crime under control, you can’t have health measures”
Yeah, ok, good luck enforcing that
They will, they will make hundreds, maybe thousands of arrests knowing full well its unconstitutional. But it’ll take a year or two to work through courts at which point the courts will be completely controlled by Project 2025 magats.
Disagree. Even if this goes through, it reads more like a liability waiver: it’s power is more in the chilling effect vs. actual teeth in enforcement
