Masks are forbidden
In the last few weeks a spate of American stores have made headlines after putting up signs telling customers who wear masks they will be denied entry. On Thursday, Vice reported on a Kentucky convenience store that put up a sign reading: “NO Face Masks allowed in store. Lower your mask or go somewhere else. Stop listening to [Kentucky governor Andy] Beshear, he’s a dumbass.”
What can be the point? It’s a respiratory disease, spread via coughs, sneezes, breathing, spitting – it spreads from the face. Why would you not want to wear a mask around people, given that the disease can kill a lot more readily than, say, a cold? Why turn it into a matter of political flagwaving? You might as well say it’s liberal bullshit to look before crossing the street.
Anti-lockdown protesters have argued that it is anti-American for the government to curtail people’s freedoms in order to reduce deaths as a result of Covid-19. Meanwhile, store owners tell customers what they can and cannot wear before entering, and customers cough in the faces of workers in the name of freedom.
The freedom to infect other people isn’t a human right.
Why are the spitters and coughers not being charged with assault or even reckless endangerment? They have no idea whether they have the virus or not, and even if they tested negative after arrest that wouldn’t alter the fact that neither they nor their victims knew if they were infectious or not at the time of the assaults.
Actually, bearing in mind the intent and potential outcome of their actions and how they will impact on the lives of their victims, one could almost make a case that what they did is a terror offence.
In the UK the CPS have stated that such actions will be treated as assault, with a maximum 6-months prison sentence, or 2-years maximum if the assault is commited on emergency workers, and there have been scores of arrests of people who have deliberately coughed on or spat at people. Whether the offender was infectious or not is deemed irrelevant unless they knew they were carrying the virus. If that is the case then I assume it will be treated as assault with intent, which carries a longer maximum sentence than plain assault.
Of course it is liberal bullshit – I was taught this by my commie primary school teachers and lifelong trade union member parents.
It is also liberal bullshit to
Use a condom
Shelter from a storm
Take out insurance
Wear a seatbelt
Say NO to drugsAccept women as equals.
Not lie down on railway tracks
Just where will this oppression end?
Further to #1
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-52616071&ved=2ahUKEwjk8-6pssnpAhWjQEEAHSthDWwQFjAFegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw2BbJGlwQmw44psnJG52AnL
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Shorter Catwhisperer: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-52616071
Sometimes we are a crap species.
Had an outbreak like this happened while Obama was president, this sort of behaviour would have happened to spite him. Under Trump, this behaviour is being encouraged and modelled from the Oval Office itself.
Tigger – ugh, can’t believe I typed all of that!
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catwhisperer, tigger, that story shows that some people are seriously screwed up. Why would someone do that? It seems so inexplicable to me, but then, I was born with basic empathy, I guess.