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.
this post was submitted on 17 May 2024
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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...
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But here I thought Republicans only cared about facts, not feelings. . .
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Is americ okay
No. Not even a little bit
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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
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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.
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.
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They really said “because we can’t get crime under control, you can’t have health measures”
I'd imagine this is more about making sure facial recognition works. Can't Big Brother if they plebs are covering their faces.
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.
I would love to get a mask made that read "I have tuberculosis".
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.
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Does that apply to surgeons?
They're probably not considered "in public."
Well shit, there goes my Outdoor Surgery business idea!
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.
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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.
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That is a weirdly specific phrasing
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"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".
Someone will just have to start a religion where masking in public is one of the purity rites for the devout. Better yet, join their religion first and schism another denomination off it due to the doctrinal demand for the ritual mask of purity. Then, they'll have to acknowledge its "legitimacy."
Oh you sweet summer child, freedom of religion is only for christians
Then make a branch of Christianity that involves mask wearing
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