Senators skeptical of legal trouble for harmless masking after moving to make it illegal.
  • Shelbyeileen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    6 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.

  • intelisense@lemm.eeEnglish
    25·
    6 months ago

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

    • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      6 months ago

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

      • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        8·
        6 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
          3·
          6 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·
            6 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.

        • kescusay@lemmy.worldMEnglish
          4·
          6 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
      3·
      6 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?

    • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      6 months ago

      “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.

  • robocall@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    6 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.

    • Pretzilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
      132·
      6 months ago

      NC Republicans aren’t a government

      At best they are a christofascist theocracy

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

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

    • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      6 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
    16·
    6 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·
        6 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·
      6 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.

  • cmrn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    6 months ago

    They really said “because we can’t get crime under control, you can’t have health measures”

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    6 months ago

    I’d imagine this is more about making sure facial recognition works. Can’t Big Brother if they plebs are covering their faces.

  • 3volver@lemmy.worldEnglish
    141·
    6 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
      7·
      6 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.

      • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        6 months ago

        pretty sure the police are still going to be wearing helmets when they commit crimes, this is about speech and anonimity

      • fidodo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        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?