Senators skeptical of legal trouble for harmless masking after moving to make it illegal.
  • intelisense@lemm.eeEnglish
    165·
    5 months ago

    What if you are severely immuno-compromised during a pandemic? Just die, I suppose?

    • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
      158·
      5 months ago

      Better that than to hurt the feelings of someone who cares a whole lot about people wearing masks.

      • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        49·
        5 months ago

        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.

        • deathbird@mander.xyzEnglish
          6·
          5 months ago

          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.

          • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

            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.

      • puppy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        27·
        5 months ago

        But here I thought Republicans only cared about facts, not feelings. . .

        • kescusay@lemmy.worldMEnglish
          20·
          5 months ago

          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?

    • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      5 months ago

      Or worse, what if you are a bit sick but need to go outside for a while? Just keep spreading the disease, I suppose?

  • 3volver@lemmy.worldEnglish
    66·
    5 months ago

    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.

    • Maple Engineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      5 months ago

      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.

  • Marighost@lemm.eeEnglish
    52·
    5 months ago

    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.)

    • conditional_soup@lemm.eeEnglish
      58·
      5 months ago

      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.

      • Ultraviolet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        24·
        5 months ago

        Of course. Good thing those that work forces and those that burn crosses are two entirely different groups and totally do not overlap.

        • conditional_soup@lemm.eeEnglish
          12·
          5 months ago

          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.

  • robocall@lemmy.worldEnglish
    44·
    5 months ago

    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.

    • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      This entire scenario (the mask banning) is ridiculous. Political games like this are the worst.

    • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      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.

  • SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    42·
    5 months ago

    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.

      • SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        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.

    • Shelbyeileen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      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.

  • Dendr0@fedia.io
    31·
    5 months ago

    “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”.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      18·
      5 months ago

      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.

      • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        It won’t, they don’t stand for anything outside of “Libs Mad” so as long as “Libs Mad”, they’ll keep voting

  • Shelbyeileen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    4 months ago

    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.

    • GluWu@lemm.eeEnglish
      17·
      5 months ago

      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.

      • NovaPrime@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

        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

  • shininghero@kbin.social
    22·
    5 months ago

    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.

  • seth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    5 months ago

    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.”