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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.
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?
Is americ okay
No. Not even a little bit
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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.
We can always make it hazardous to one’s health to be a Nazi fuck…
I support this proposition.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
America is a garbage country.
Context: I am American
I would love to get a mask made that read “I have tuberculosis”.
With what legal explanation? Cruel attack on nature by not dying?
Trying to hide while doing criminal activity
pretty sure the police are still going to be wearing helmets when they commit crimes, this is about speech and anonimity
Sure thing; I just tell the justification they give
Most of the people I see that wear masks are old ladies trying to avoid getting sick. How fucking pathetic do they have to be to be so afraid of the world that they want to ban immune compromised people from wearing a mask?
BuT TheY mAy CaUsE CriMeS!!!
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 are missing the point about the courts.
🙄 no u
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?
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.
