It could soon be illegal to publicly wear a mask for health reasons in NC
It could soon be illegal to publicly wear a mask for health reasons in NC
Senators skeptical of legal trouble for harmless masking after moving to make it illegal.
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.
Or worse, what if you are a bit sick but need to go outside for a while? Just keep spreading the disease, I suppose?
This would be a clear violation of ones first amendment right. Say it's your religion.
The courts have already set the precedent that there are preferred religions and religions that do not enjoy the same rights because the judges don't believe in them. Our legal system is corrupt and unjust. We cannot count on the courts to protect our rights.
clears throat it's your religion.
Ok, what's the next step?
America is a garbage country.
Context: I am American
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.
These are the same people who argued that forcing people to wear masks is fascism.
You literally can't make this shit up.
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.
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.
That is a weirdly specific phrasing
Do you have a source for this? I really wanted to make some snarky posts pointing this out, but couldn't find mention of it in the summary of changes proposed by the bill:
"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.
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!
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.
"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.
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
They really said “because we can’t get crime under control, you can’t have health measures”
Is americ okay
No. Not even a little bit
☹️
Does that apply to Proud Boys? Let's unmask these filthy vermin.
"to wear a mask for health reasons", it says.
So I guess it doesn't apply to those idiots because they don't believe in those health reasons and hide their faces because they're pussies who are afraid of being identified as the pathetic nazi fucks they are.
good thing they forgot to ban them for security reasons...
Good thing they won't ban that.
I thought that said NYC at first and was confused as it's blue, but now it makes sense
Yes, shoot me for wearing an anti-allergy mask officer. I'm begging you.
I will live like a king siphoning off your retirement pension if you shoot me for keeping pollen out of my nose.Oh, you sweet summer child.
Cops can murder people in cold blood, on camera, and suffer absolutely no consequences.
Good luck suing a cop. The courts have consistently ruled that they can basically do what they like and you can't sue them for shit.
https://www.ncsl.org/civil-and-criminal-justice/qualified-immunity
You know damn well police face no real consequences for their actions.
even if somehow you get past qualified immunity, cops don't pay shit. it comes out of your (and your fellow citizens') taxes.
I would love to get a mask made that read "I have tuberculosis".
Hopefully this doesn't spread. My partner already has a difficult time going into public because she's highly allergic to a very common ingredient that's in practically everything.
Is it sugar?
It's a fruit. They have an anaphylactic reaction when coming in contact with it or breathing in the fumes from products.
I'd imagine this is more about making sure facial recognition works. Can't Big Brother if they plebs are covering their faces.
Would this include airplanes flying into NC? Like, if I have a layover in Charlotte and I'm only gonna be at the airport a few hours, I can't wear a mask on the plane to Charlotte, or at the Charlotte airport? I know planes are owned by the airlines so they're not "public", but what about inside an airport?
I can only speak from an international perspective but I've taken a plane from Canada through USA a few years ago. During that time Canada had a mask mandate so all of us have to keep our mask on from the airport all the way to boarding. However, once the cabin door closes, apparently, that's when American law kicks in. The mask mandate is lifted according to US law. Maybe US state laws work similarly?
This is more about arresting protestors
With what legal explanation? Cruel attack on nature by not dying?
Trying to hide while doing criminal activity
More evidence of nihilistic government. Can em ban em afghanistan em
I hope one of the local government members gets a major sickness like COVID because someone with it comes up to them unmasked and sneezes on them. Then their Republicans might learn a lesson so long as it was one of them getting sneezed on. Though, I doubt it.
Doubt it. Would be a repeat of when Trump got COVID, where he kept saying it was nothing while getting massive medical help to recover from it.
Ever since I left NC it has become the most fucked up bunch of deranged retards (oh, excuse me, deranged "mentally challenged" 🙄 ) and I am NOT going back to fix it. This is what nonstop, unchallenged radical fascist radio causes, and every shitlib here is still gonna defend it as "free speech".
It's a shame, really. There's so much good there, and so much that I miss, but the gop wholeass hijacked the whole state.
Would wearing a mask at a hospital be considered public?
Wouldn't be surprised if they did include that as a public space.
*France has enter the chat*
Good let them infect each other.