The audience responded with a loud chorus of boos
Meeting to discuss mask policy postponed because…
… because dozens of people not wearing masks filled the room.
Well at least they’re sincere.
Utah County Commissioner Tanner Ainge said Wednesday the gathering in Provo, Utah violated current health recommendations and moved to suspend the meeting until a later date. His motion to adjourn was approved with a 2-to-1 vote, with the dissent coming from a commissioner who had organized the meeting.
“This is the exact opposite of what we need to be doing,” Ainge said at the meeting. “We are supposed to be physically distancing, wearing masks.”
The audience responded with a loud chorus of boos.
Because…why? Do they really want to make health and safety a libbrul thing and disease and peril a conservative thing?
Apparently the rationale is that it’s about who gets to make the rules aka you’re not the boss of me aka freedom freedom freedom.
Carly Lisonbee said Ainge and others wanted to “override a parent’s decision over what they think is best for their child.”
“I think you’re forgetting we live in America,” Lisonbee said, according to the Herald. “And we the people decide. You work for we the people, not the other way around.”
So murderers get to “decide” that they can murder at will? Arsonists get to “decide” they can set people’s houses on fire at 3 a.m.? (There was once an arsonist who did exactly that roaming north Seattle when I lived in north Seattle. It was a nervous time until he was caught. A bunch of people died when he did it to a nursing home.) Men get to “decide” they can rape women?
It doesn’t work like that. Along with the infrastructure and the regular food and water and Netflix there are some rules. You can’t have the first without the second.
FWIW, Covid-19 cases have been booming in Utah. Much higher case incidence than you’d expect for a Western state with otherwise very high health indicators.
Freedom freedom freedom
That photo is horrifying. I wonder how many in it already have the virus; I wonder how many in the photo caught it in the course of this meeting? How many more will they then spread it to?
WEARING A FUCKING MASK IS WHAT’S BEST FOR EVERYONE AND THEIR KIDS YOU ABSOLUTE PILLOCK!
We actually do override parental decisions on a wide variety of things. There are laws requiring that parents do these and not do those things. Just like with trans, people don’t bother to ask the basic questions. (“Do we currently …” “What sort of reasons could justify …” “Are parents infallible?” “Is it possible for a parent to be wrong?” “How do we tell when that happens?” “Should parents be allowed to harm their children?” “Should parents be allowed to harm other people’s children?” etc.)
Why haven’t the adults (sic) accompanying the children in that room been charged with reckless endangerment?
Also, is the chap sat on the far right (no pun intended), second row a Trump tribute act?
No, they are making sure that you don’t override the decision on what is best for someone else’s child, the someone else’s child who could be sickened with a potentially lethal illness thanks to you thinking it is best for your child not to wear a mask.
Meanwhile, I went to my first live theatre performance last night. Masks required. Social distancing enforced. It was weird, with group of one, two, or three sitting in small sections six feet from everyone else. Masked everybody. No socializing. Being asked to go to the restroom during the show if necessary and not at intermission. But…the precautions were stringent for a reason. And the audience did not beef a bit. They accepted the requirements and enjoyed the show.
I may not get to see live theatre for a long time again; but one of my pieces was being performed, so I braved it.
Speaking of theater I listened to an interesting BBC R4 discussion a day or two ago about theaters closing down now and in 1603. I bet you’d like it.
Yesterday: here it is:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kwfq
Covid-19 cases are indeed booming in Utah. Our usual inundation of tourists is at high tide right now. License plates from all over the country. Far too many of these people are not wearing masks, distancing, etc. They are crowding into the restaurants, shops and so forth.
It is super scary. At the least, we should go back to take out only for the restaurants. I don’t know why they keep coming! Here in Zion, most of the trails are still closed. There’s not much for these people to do but crowd together and breathe on each other. Maybe they think if they are not home, they can’t get sick? It’s scary around here.