Here’s hoping the language isn’t so ambiguous that hospital workers will have to stop treating infectious people and surgeons aren’t having to consult with legal counsel on whether they can operate.
In public… meaning public outside and not public areas of the hospital right? Ambulances? Do those count? Etc.
It will definitely be vetoed by the governor but what’s this? A republican super majority that can override vetoes? One that they got by having a Democrat switch parties immediately after being elected?
These fuckers have declared war on America, it’s time to take the threat for what it is.
This is even more concerning when you look at some of the motivations: “The bill was largely spurred by recent protests on university and college campuses across the country, including North Carolina-based schools, against the war in Gaza.”
this is about control, fascism. historically student protests are the canary in the coal mine on a number of issues. powers that be are looking to stamp out any dissent going forward.
It’s about all of that, but they absolutely could have put in an exemption for medical needs and chose not to. The anti-mask virtue signaling to their plague-ridden base is a bonus.
There is def throwing out meat for the rabid base. Feel like North Carolina is looking to hook up with TX and FL. University of North Carolina to divert $2.3m DEI budget to safety and policing“Some members of the board of trustees, which voted for the divestment, cited students’ recent anti-war demonstrations as a reason for the redesignation of funds to the campus police.”
Bad title, if the article is accurate. What’s happening is they are trying to repeal an exemption made in 2020 to existing anti-mask laws that were instituted to curtail secret societies and the KKK.
It does not appear that masking for health reasons was prosecuted before the exemption was made for covid. Would it be prosecuted now though is the question.
That’s legalese for what they are doing. The only potential inaccuracy I see that they want to forbid earring masks in demonstrations/protests, not in general public places like a mall.
The title is 100% accurate. A thing being “illegal” isn’t a matter of enforcement.
It was also a bad law to begin with. It may not have been prosecuted, but masking for health reasons should never have been illegal in the first place, because illegality both discourages use and opens the wearer up to risks of arbitrary enforcement or its use for pretextual stops or harassment.
And this is all assuming nothing changed since before COVID. Now masking is politicized and rightwing people (a disproportionate number of cops) get irrationally angry at medical masking.
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