intelisense,

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

xx3rawr,

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

Stovetop,

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

puppy,

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

Stovetop,

For republicans, feelings are facts!

kescusay,
@kescusay@lemmy.world avatar

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?

FreakinSteve,

By not being beaten with baseball bats when they prove to be sociopathically psychotic

Fubarberry,
@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz avatar

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.

akakunai,

Them’s the small government folks for ya…

howrar,

But then that wouldn’t be for health reasons, right?

Fubarberry,
@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz avatar

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.

deathbird,

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.

Shelbyeileen,
@Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world avatar

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.

AceFuzzLord,

I hope one of the local government members gets a major sickness like COVID because someone with it comes up to them unmasked and sneezes on them. Then their Republicans might learn a lesson so long as it was one of them getting sneezed on. Though, I doubt it.

Xatolos,
@Xatolos@reddthat.com avatar

Doubt it. Would be a repeat of when Trump got COVID, where he kept saying it was nothing while getting massive medical help to recover from it.

pseudo,
@pseudo@jlai.lu avatar

France has enter the chat

Peter_Arbeitslos,
@Peter_Arbeitslos@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

With what legal explanation? Cruel attack on nature by not dying?

Allero,

Trying to hide while doing criminal activity

Fedizen, (edited )

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

Allero,

Sure thing; I just tell the justification they give

fidodo,

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?

Allero,

BuT TheY mAy CaUsE CriMeS!!!

tamiya_tt02,

Does that apply to Proud Boys? Let’s unmask these filthy vermin.

Dasus, (edited )

“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.

explodicle,

We can always make it hazardous to one’s health to be a Nazi fuck…

Dasus,

I support this proposition.

SatansMaggotyCumFart,

Would wearing a mask at a hospital be considered public?

AceFuzzLord,

Wouldn’t be surprised if they did include that as a public space.

ikidd,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

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

Flax_vert,

Is americ okay

rdrunner,

No. Not even a little bit

Flax_vert,

☹️

PiJiNWiNg,
ReiRose,

I would love to get a mask made that read “I have tuberculosis”.

cmrn,

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

HawlSera,

my state used to be purple leaning blue…

Ahh… good times…

they’re over now

Cethin, (edited )

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.

PlantDadManGuy,

Amen brother

HawlSera,

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

JustZ,

Good let them infect each other.

robocall, (edited )
@robocall@lemmy.world avatar

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,

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

Pretzilla, (edited )

NC Republicans aren’t a government

At best they are a christofascist theocracy

Dasus,

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.

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