https://twitter.com/APDillon_/status/1806077038375116955
Don’t worry though, they made sure to put some vague exemptions!🙄
Came across a comrade making some cool agitprop. Here’s their kofi.
fuck this country
More and more people are saying this!
The bill actually has 5 sections.
Section 1 is the mask ban.
Section 2 is increased legal penalties for wearing a mask
Section 3 limits the ways that churches can be regulated in case of an emergency or pandemic. It says that religious institutions are not allowed to be shut down in instances of emergency, like lockdowns during the pandemic, except instances which apply to all businesses.
Section 4 Increase penalties on protestors who block roads. Misdemeanor for first offense and felony for second offense.
Section 5 changes the limitations on funding to funding election campaigns. from the summary, “Any national, State, district, or county executive committee of any recognized political party is exempt from the contribution limitations.”
This seems like clownish levels of absurdity. The bill is intentionally designed to target anti-israel protestors AND allows political campaigns to receive unlimited money from federal PACs.
This seems like clownish levels of absurdity. The bill is intentionally designed to target anti-israel protestors AND allows political campaigns to receive unlimited money from federal PACs.
And prevent future lockdowns.
The owner of a private property can make a lawful order to do something other than fuck off? Land of the free, by the way. I’m glad the freedom loving right will wring their hands and fight tooth and nail for this one… right?
no no no
Literally anyone anywhere
owner or occupant of private or public property
“I detained this other patron of the McDonald’s for a citizen’s arrest when he refused to identify himself to me by removing his mask.”
“Sounds good to me. You’re free to go.”
OH WOW! WE LOVE OUR FREEDOM DON’T WE FOLKS?
brb calling the cops on my local surgeon for refusing to remove his mask for identification purposes
You know a surgeon that masks?
what? surely you cant do a surgery without a mask, that’s something we’ve been doing for literally over a hundred years at least
I have seen it. It has become so politicized that you risk any appointment running afoul of “professionals” who think they don’t need to wear anything on their face under any circumstances anymore- doctors, nurses, surgeons, dentists…
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holy shit there are going to be some acts of incredible violence directly resulting from this isnt there?
Freedom for the Opulent Minority.
every person who supported this should be repeatedly infected with covid until their lungs calcify
Sorry for being dense, but where is the part about masks being banned? I’m not seeing it in the screenshot. Unless the title of this post is referring to the part where a LEO can require a person to remove their mask during a traffic stop, which is not the same thing as a ban.
EDIT: Okay, I see the problem now. Thanks to @D61@hexbear.net and @JoeByeThen@hexbear.net for helping me understand.
(1) Cops can now (or can go back to) assume(ing) that you are up to no good if you are wearing a mask and harass you, you may or may not be able to defend yourself if you happen to have a doctor’s note and the cop gives a shit. But fuck you if you’re preemptively masking for any personal or social health reason.
(2) Private places (businesses, hospitals, etc) can call the cops on you if they see you wearing a mask because, you know, if you’re wearing a mask you are up to no good. loop back to (1)
If you’ve done a crime (everything from speeding, missing a red light to murder) and are wearing a mask, it can increase the penalties.
This is a de facto ban.
Okay, I see the problem now. Thank you!
This law rewrites a pre-covid mask ban that was previously created in response to union organizing. When they were taking the pandemic seriously, the mask ban was suspended from the law. What’s in the tweet are the vague and easily abused exceptions to the reinstatement of the ban. The Death Panel Podcast episode: “Unmasking Mobs and Criminals” (05/23/24) did a great breakdown of the law, the anti-labor history behind mask bans, and the bad faith arguments of the legislators while they were pushing this through.
Thank you. I now understand that we’re not talking about COVID masks, which threw me for a loop given the title of this community.
The measure added language that allows people to wear “medical or surgical grade masks” to prevent spreading illnesses. It also allows law enforcement and property owners to ask someone to temporarily remove their mask for identification.
“Basically, you can wear a mask for health and safety if you’re not planning on breaking the law,” said Gaston County Republican Rep. John Torbett, one of the bill’s sponsors.
You’re welcome. We’re still talking talking about covid masks though. I very much recommend listening to that podcast; Immunocompromised folks have been dealing with the discrimination and abuse of these mask bans for years even before covid.
Gotcha, thanks for explaining that. I see the problem now.
There was also a recent story of a woman with late stage cancer who had a man approach her in an oil change shop and tell her that masks were illegal, then coughed on her after she told him she had cancer and her immune system was nonexistent because the concept of protecting yourself from deadly pathogens has been politicized so heavily the past few years.
Damn, that’s awful. What a terrible person.
I sentence you to as many listenings of The Death Panel Podcast’s episode titled “The Rise of Mask Bans” as necessary to understand why you should unask your question.
a LEO
drop the real bioweapon now Xi
China’s bioweapon is a collaborative effort with Cuba that’s a Super-Vaccine against all cancers, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, pneumonias, and STDs. Economists say its affects on the economy will be quite costly.
The people wanted this. They voted for this. Tell me again why I should have faith in the people?
Navigating the completely fucked contradiction of being a militant communist and realizing your entire country is full of evil people at every rung of the social ladder. They will break the chains and then chain everyone else. Fuck this place forever.
You know what they say “You have to have high high hopes for a living.” Also, “the people” are slaves of media and cultural hegemony. That’s why Zero Covid was always Class Struggle, and the only real solution will be Revolution.
Except this
is dealing with the opposite of high, high hopes… I think am dealing with something called “Autistic Burnout” and I really want to quit my shitty job that’s driving insane.I’ll go touch grass now
it’s totally understandable.
This is bad and i hate it. : (
Another win for Biden.
My family has caught COVID once and that was more than enough. We will continue to mask wherever and whenever we feel like it
