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?
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.
Oh just call the TST for this one, even the constitutional literalists cant weasel their way out of that one.
They can, as they already have. There is no guarantee that their decisions will be consistent or intellectually sincere.
Yeah, and for some reason people are just ignoring the blatantly obvious inconsistency. It’s crazy.
Not…really? Not in this context, anyways.
You cannot compel a person to remove their hijab, anywhere in the US, for example.
The police can and do, which is what they are enforcing here
Yes cops are bad. We all know. You don’t fight cops at your arrest for justice. You fight in the court.
You’re missing the point entirely.
Jfc room temp IQs in this thread.
You don’t win fights against cops in court. Best case scenario, the public pays the cost to cover your suit.
But your point was that people have rights in the US. My point is a right on paper but at the discretion of the police, is in practice, not a right.
As I said, you’ve missed the point entirely.
Then what is the point?
You are missing the point about the courts.
🙄 no u
Qualified immunity called me while you wrote this. It didn’t say anything, it was too busy laughing.
That isn’t what qualified immunity is or does.
Qualified immunity more or less means that the cops can’t be held directly liable for something that the courts haven’t yet found to be wrong for a police officer to do while in the course of their duties. So, if a cop does something obviously wrong and fucked up in the course of their duties (like, say, detaining you in a car parked on railroad tracks) and you suffer injuries from it, but a court hasn’t previously found that exact situation to be a wrong thing for a police officer to do, qualified immunity prevents them from being held personally accountable. The next person who gets detained on railroad tracks is covered, but you’re shit outta luck.
I know what QI is about, the comment has more to do with fighting the cops in court when courts meet all manner of egregious police behavior with little more than stern finger wags and exasperated sighs at best (often. Very rarely, they actually do get held accountable) and endorsement at worst.
Replied to wrong post. Nothing to see here. Move along
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.
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
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:
It’s on the first page of the bill and runs into the second page if you open the full document.
“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.
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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.
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”
