Banning masks means banning (a subset) of disabled people from public places without great risk to their health
Banning masks means banning (a subset) of disabled people from public places without great risk to their health
Is some idiot trying to outlaw medical equipment in the States?
North Carolina already passed the law.
https://apnews.com/article/masks-ban-north-carolina-campus-protests-128a6aa32a4c832faa83befb2e7dd77e
Nice... Using a law that was meant for the Ku Klux Klan to repress democratic routine and freedom. At least that one seems to be targeted at protests and not all every day life. And it contains exemptions. I'm just not sure if "we want to film the faces of everyone who doesn't agree with us" is a valid reason in a democracy. At least not on it's own and if there isn't some good reason to do it.
Lol what a bunch of reactionary hicks
The law allows people to wear medical or surgical-grade masks in public to prevent the spread of illness. Law enforcement and property owners can ask people to temporarily remove those masks to verify their identity.
Am I missing something, it looks like this law allows medical masks.
Victoria government in Australia
It’s important to note that the mask is far more effective in stopping the wearer from transmitting a virus than it is in stopping the wearer from contracting a virus.
High risk individuals rely on others wearing their mask to protect them from infection. Those people will effectively be relegated to their homes through the virus season if they want to remain safe. Hopefully they have the money to pay for deliveries for the season.
I can't believe we are you still have to explain this in 2024. I have zero faith in humanity left, aside from Luigi ofc.
The reason they want you to not wear masks is, facial recognition that is literally everywhere doesn't work if your masked. You can help protect the vulnerable and yourself from invasive tracking with this one simple trick.
That may be a side effect but it's not the reason.
The reason is that they don't want to be told what to do by the government. They want to use the government to tell other people what to do.
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
This is about wielding power.
The reason I don’t want you to wear masks is I don’t like being surrounded by faces I can’t read.
It’s important to note that the mask is far more effective in stopping the wearer from transmitting a virus than it is in stopping the wearer from contracting a virus.
While this is generally true, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that a properly-fitted respirator provides very good protection. Even more so if it's an elastomeric with P100 filters (99.97% PFE with absurdly high fit factors).
But...
You're absolutely right, if everyone would consistently wear at least an earloop respirator like a KF94 or KN95 — even if the quality is a bit sketchy and even if the fit is less than ideal — that would cut down on viral particulate emissions a great deal and task your own respirator with orders of magnitude less particulate to filter out.
I wear a P100 because I can't trust my fellow Americans to wear so much as a scarf.
Yep I’ve had a cold all last week and have been masking up for my grocery runs. It’s just about being a decent human being.
The people who ban masks are so self centered that they think a masked person assumes that they are sick, or dirty. They never even comprehend that it might be to help them, because they don't understand helping people
It’s important to note that the mask is far more effective in stopping the wearer from transmitting a virus than it is in stopping the wearer from contracting a virus.
It's more effective for others to wear them than for you to wear them. But it is still beneficial to wear a mask outside when you're at risk of contagion, assuming you pair it with hand sanitizer and other preventative measures.
Those people will effectively be relegated to their homes through the virus season if they want to remain safe.
At some point, telling people not to leave their homes if they want any kind of safety, but denying them access to medical equipment because it makes you feel unsafe only serves to deflect responsibility from the able-bodied to the vulnerable.
It would be like telling people in wheelchairs that ramps make me feel clumsy so you just shouldn't leave your house if you want full mobility.
Exactly. I find it strange that someone who's immune system is compromised to the point where a 'common cold' can kill them has been just hanging out in public and it's only a problem now. Masks weren't invented in 2020. Op is likely farming Internet points.
I've had a compromised immune system before. Going out in public and trusting a mask to protect me would be like wearing safety goggles when you jump into a wood chipper.
Sometimes going out in public is necessary, such as to the doctor, or to get food if there's not someone to help with that. And sometimes it requires passing through other public spaces, such as public transportation. A person can have no illusions about the degree to which masks help, but still depend on them because what else is there?
As the spouse and caregiver of a compromised person, I wear a KN95 anytime I go into a store or other indoor public space, to try to avoid catching and bringing home anything that might land him in the hospital again.
Yeah. Clearly, they should just stay inside their plastic bubbles and never see the sun so that the rest of us don't have to worry about coughing in other people's faces.
Anti-maskers are like 6 year olds throwing a tantrum because you're making them eat broccoli.
More like because you're eating broccoli.
If it's a complete mask ban, then it's more like they're throwing a tantrum because you're eating broccoli.
Those who oppose it for themselves during a pandemic are just children refusing to do their part to help others.
Those who oppose it for others are sex perverts. They oppose masks solely because they want to be able to see the faces of random people in the street so they can commit them to memory and later masturbate to them. Really they belong on the sex offender registry.
is this under the assumption that this isn't the point? they're fascists, getting rid of disabled people is on brand and purposeful.
reminder that the party of "death panels will kill your grandma if anyone gets affordable healthcare" actively called for the death of grandmas when they didn't want to be inconvenienced by a piece of cloth over their mouth.
The mayor of NYC is talking about it because of Luigi. My brother in Christ, Luigi doesn't care about your mask ban.
Ok, Mayor Adams, you're in favor of a mask ban.
So anyway, back to what we were talking about, why haven't you resigned despite being indicted for corruption and influence-peddling?
Just start coughing. NYC remembers 2020.
They know, they don't care.
American individualist propaganda has a load of people believing they're free to do whatever the fuck they like, and fuck anyone who tries to stop them.
Selflessness is a rejected concept to them, they will never productively participate in a community of people.
Individualism for me, fashion police for you!
if only there was some sort of word for a political movement that weaponized the trappings of individual liberties in the name of killing marginalized people. i do nazi myself thinking of one
damn you just made some gears spin in my head
I think capitalism promotes "individualism" because the alternative is selflessness which means more money spent for the greater good of society
It took a long time, but one day, the term "human capital" finally clicked in my head and I couldn't stop mulling it over until I realized how insanely fucked up it is. What are the humans? Capital. What is the capital? Humans. Human. Capital. And we're so blase about it.
Whatever the fuck I like includes wearing masks. Also dresses. Fight me.
Individual rights and selfishness are orthogonal. The idea that the only bad actions are illegal ones is the issue. We want to use laws to enforce ethics instead of community.
Stop talking about selflessness, start talking about selfishness, because wearing a mask is perfectly selfish. Yes it's selfless, too, of course. But not wearing one isn't selfish, it's just dumb. If they were competent and proactive at selfishness they'd be aggressively demanding that everybody wear masks.
Seems like you could get this shit struck down by challenging it in court based on the ADA
not with republican filled courts lol
lets turn this around on them. they aren't banning masks... they're banning Halloween.
they're trying to cancel Halloween! what's next, Christmas?!
they aren’t banning masks… they’re banning Halloween.
I'm more than confident that the NYPD will make an exception for something that's lucrative to Big Business. The issue is that medical masks outside of one day in October aren't highly profitable, while CCTV cameras on every corner and AI facial recognition running across a thousand enormous data centers absolutely is.
Can't justify the enormous state investment in spying if these high profile assassinations demonstrate the holes in the system. So we just make masks illegal (except on the one day when it makes businesses money) and tell people with weak immune systems to eat shit.
I'll make an exception for police who aren't in my field of vision to live.
Given the popularity of anti mask overlapping with fundamentalist they would ban Halloween. Possibility even Christmas as the only holiday we are authorized to celebrate is the Lord's Day, Sunday.
It’s also permissible to celebrate the 4th of July when Jesus came down from Heaven with the Constitution on stone tablets and gave them to the founding fathers.
I wouldn't be surprised if they were the kind of people to say that disabled people are a burden to society
As a disabled person you’re spot on.
It’s the kind of people saying that disabled people should just “get on with their life” and stop “making everything about their disability”.
Like yeah sure Bradley, I would do that, if I could get on with my life because c*nts like you didn’t deny every attempt at making the world accessible. Maybe if people like you didn’t complain every time a cent was spent on an accessibility fund or on medical research I would actually be able to be getting on with my life.
But no, since we’re treated like shit I have to make “everything about my disability” just for my basic survival. Because if I don’t I’ll just be left in a ditch to starve.
Who is banning masks?!?
Nassau County in NY state passed a law this summer https://www.nyclu.org/press-release/nassau-county-mask-ban-signed-into-law YES, there are exceptions for health, religious or cultural reasons BUT they've also used it as probable cause to search someone https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nassau-county-police-issue-first-face-mask-ban-violation/5741363/ (it doesn't matter that he was found with a knife. My son wears a mask because he thinks his nose is ugly)
Fuckin' shit-ass Nassau, of course they did.
I know someone who wears one because a lifetime of depression caused them not to take care of their teeth, and so they don't want to be judged even more poorly for that.
I haven't seen his nose, but I bet it's bold and beautiful. I wish him luck on his mental health journey!
In the UK we have the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 section 60aa where the police are able to make anyone within an area remove a mask when a there is a large crowd and a senior cop decides to fill in the paperaorj. There has been a recent increase in its usage in the last 4-ish years.
Banning masks only serves to increase the overreach of our surveillance state.
Ski Masks is my Religion
It is commandment one of the Church of the Holy Skiers that Ski Masks are a mandatory Religious Garmet. This is a blashphemy against my Religion! A clear violation of my first amendment rights!
The people who want this don't want other religions either
what about schizo people like me who wish to hide their identity so as to not be clobbered by AI facial recognition software?
Remember that you're not crazy for or alone in wanting that privacy. If I saw you shooting them out with a pellet gun then no, I didn't.
i mean, yes you did, i would give you a pellet gun as well. It's just that we wouldn't talk about it outside of telepathy.
My sister said she loved not being told by random creepy dudes at the grocery store that she'd be prettier if she smiled more.
It’s schizo to think this?! Being constantly surveilled is unreasonable search and seizure.
You're one of the reasons for the ban.
unfortunately, yes, fortunately for me, and other people, i'm still correct in this regard.
There's nothing inherently wrong with wanting to obscure your identity, if there was the internet wouldn't allow anonymity. People would be required to wear their government issued ID on their shirts. Etc.
This is clearly a proposition intended to remove anonymity from any future shooters in NYC.
You saw the camera footage. It’s as watched as CCTV in London, apparently.
Tell me about it...if you have certain less obvious disabilities, you are 100% screwed, even in a liberal society.
Love to the poster, I don't agree with these views, but this argument would fall completely flat because they think disabled people should just die if they're "too weak". If you can just don't go to these places because they're run by delusional people at best and Nazis at worst.
When my (then) 4 yo was undergoing chemo I had a goto line I used often when people would comment on my mask:
You’re right. I should let my kid who has no immune system because he’s on chemo for cancer treatment just die then, right?
Honestly, if you’re still masking and get flak, just say the above anyhow. You have my permission.
Mask bans are cruel. Maybe they should ban eyeglasses.
I agree. What I'm trying to point out is that we're dealing with incredible amounts of Hitler particles with these people and we're past the point of reason.
What?? Why, where and how are masks being banned? Like, face masks?
Yes, face masks. Republicans, largely, but some Democrats too.
Citing a flurry of protests on college campuses in recent months, GOP lawmakers in North Carolina last week overrode a veto by the state’s Democratic governor to ban mask wearing in public, with certain exceptions. As part of the new law, people may wear medical masks in public to prevent the spread of illness, but officers and property owners may ask people to remove their masks to verify their identity.
Republican Sen. Buck Newton, a supporter of the bill, said last month, “It’s about time that the craziness is ... at least slowed down, if not put to a stop.”
And sick people should wear them too when they go into stores. But where is this actually a topic anyway? I've not heard much of anything regarding masks since the pandemic.
What do you mean, "since"? COVID is still running freaking riot. We just stopped acknowledging it.
Freedom
Private property
Also means ridding the world of many of the idiots that espouse such action
Fantastic meme, OP.
If you’re being unironic, thanks ☺️.
If you’re being ironic because this is more a political thing than a meme, microblogmemes is meant to be a whitepeopletwitter alternative that doesn’t divide based on race.
Are these "people banning masks" in the room with you right now?
In all seriousness, I wear masks when I go anywhere where there is high traffic and I've never even so much as gotten an angry gaze from anyone. I don't think anyone would enforce such laws or initiatives.
Might vary from locale to locale
some folks on here are very paranoid and might suffer from severe anxiety disorder. They were saying how its draconian for your boss to ask for a doctors note and to fire you if you missed work.
This is not a meme.
Check the sidebar.
microblogmemes is meant to be a whitepeopletwitter alternative that doesn’t divide based on race. There’s no rule about it needing to be funny or a joke.