In a bid to crackdown on pro-Palestinian protestors, lawmakers across the country, Republican and Democrat, want to criminalize masks.
  • Zier@fedia.io
    54·
    7 months ago

    Masks are not just for covid. Many people around the World wear masks when they feel ill for other reasons, and they also use them to counter bad air quality. America is pro-sickness. Having a healthy nation, and actual National Healthcare is almost illegal in the USA, not yet, but close. Republicans just want to control society and make money off of sick people.

    • mecfs@lemmy.world
      18·
      7 months ago

      Not to mention, for disabled people like me with specific illnesses including long covid, this basically means we can’t leave our homes without severe risk to our health. In essence, another ableist tactic to hide disability.

        • mecfs@lemmy.world
          5·
          7 months ago

          Republicans are doing everything possible to deny long covid is a thing. They are pushing the NIH to only fund research trying to (wrongly) make it seem like a mental disorder.

          • Zier@fedia.io
            2·
            7 months ago

            That’s because they don’t want people to know that being a republican is a mental disorder, but we know, we know!

  • starcat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    7 months ago

    I have a cold right now, and I needed to pick up some cough syrup to give me some relief. I wore a mask to prevent my illness from spreading to other people.

    We should be normalizing this behaviour.

    Do you want a summer cold? No. Me either. Wear a mask when you’re sick.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    18·
    7 months ago

    They all get upset about masks, then a Charlottesville or January 6th event happens and then they stay quiet about masks for a while.

  • BuckFigotstheThird@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    7 months ago

    How about when mowing a dusty dry lawn or leaf blowing all those sycamore seeds. Without a mask I choke and cough and quit.

    Also, these fucks equating health masks with actual masks used to hide identities is straight bullshit.

    Then, we got that one place that carved out an exception for Klan members… Fuck. Fuck these assholes.