New NC slogan: “Stay healthy, stay out of NC!”
Just in time for the avian flu.
Now that avian flu is available in hamberders, masks only get in the way of eating. So, still irrelevant and illegal.
Somebody please fire those legislators.
And prosecute them for reckless endangerment and spreading infectious disease.
What about for purely fashion reasons?
“I’m not wearing the mask for health reasons. I’m cosplaying someone that doesn’t want to get ill from a respiratory communicable disease.”
Halloween is going to be interesting this year.
Also illegal. Don’t worry though, the KKK is specifically listed as a group that can apply for an exemption. The reason that’s in there is because every version of the bill that explicitly listed the KKK as an organization that can’t apply for an exemption failed. I know this sounds like insane hyperbole and not something that actually happened, but that’s the state of things.
The Onion can’t keep up with reality anymore
Fun fact, the original public mask ban from 1953 was mostly to curb the KKK rallies back then.
“Prior to the COVID pandemic, it was illegal to wear a mask in public in North Carolina—a 1953 law put in place in response to Ku Klux Klan activity in the state.” https://www.newser.com/story/350462/north-carolina-looks-to-ban-wearing-masks-in-public.html
Operating rooms are about to become interesting.
My guess is Operating rooms would be considered private, but EMTs… They clearly operate in public.
FREEDOM means having GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS make HEALTH decisions for YOU!
DId someone say Obama Death Panels?
On the one hand, at least the Patriot Front have to show their faces now.
If you think this law will apply to their neo-nazi proxies I have a bridge to sell you.
Oh ho ho, where have you been that you think they’ll hold their own side to this standard?
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.
Here’s to hoping this aggressively stupid law doesn’t get passed, this is insane regardless.
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.
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I have strongly held religious beliefs that compel me to wear a mask whenever the fuck I want.
Yeah… but their religion says that yours doesn’t count and only their beliefs matter.
Funny how that shit works…
Rational arguments don’t usually work on religious people. Otherwise there would be no religious people.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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Tell us again about your freedumb, conservs.
Bragging about having to wear it. Now banning it. This is insane …
A bill written by representative I. N. Fluenza
GUbMeNt oVeRrEaCH.
