No health reasons for you
Republicans are the party of liberty liberty liberty.
The North Carolina Senate voted along party lines Wednesday to ban anyone from wearing masks in public for health reasons, following an emotional debate about the wisdom of the proposal.
So people with compromised immune systems just have to stay home or die. Peak liberty!
The proposal faced strong opposition from Democratic lawmakers, community activists, and advocates for people with health issues — who are concerned about the consequences of the proposal.
House Bill 237 would ban everyone, not just protesters, from wearing masks in public for medical reasons if it becomes law. It passed 30-15, with every Republican in favor and every Democrat opposed.
“It’s unconscionable,” said Sen. Lisa Grafstein, D-Wake.
Nah nah nah, it’s liberty. People’s faces are public property, and we get to control them.
Democratic lawmakers proposed different ways to amend the anti-mask bill to protect people who want to wear masks for health concerns. Republicans shot each of those proposals down, without explaining their opposition.
Oh come on, what is there to explain? Everyone knows masks are a communist plot to steal our faces and make us eat granola.
As Republicans have shrugged off Democrats’ concerns, they’ve said they trust police officers not to abuse the power to arrest anyone for wearing a surgical mask out in public. Newton said Tuesday that it wasn’t intended to “prosecute granny for wearing a mask in the Walmart.”
You have got to be kidding. Republicans said that? Republicans said oh just past a law restricting what people can wear and trust that the cops won’t enforce it?
Ayn Rand would not approve.
I’m just getting over a mild sore throat & cough. I might have given it to someone else before I started wearing a face mask when in public indoor spaces, after I noticed the problem. Who knows how more serious it might have been for someone else who caught it from me.
I pulled out the COVID test kit from 2 years ago, but the test fluid in the remaining ampoule had partially evaporated through the plastic, so there wasn’t enough to do the test even if the remaining fluid would have been effective. So what I have is unknown.
The last time I was outside was on the twenty-ninth of April. I went to the hospital for an MRI. I wore a mask, but only while I was on the hospital grounds. When we went to the DIY store on the way home, I didn’t wear one. Forty-eight hours later, I succumbed to a respiratory virus which has kept me in bed ever since.
When I recover, I won’t be going anywhere without wearing a mask.
So North Carolina Republicans, if you lived there, would have you never go anywhere ever again. What lovely people.
I’m going to Asheville next weekend and am planning on wearing a mask on the plane for obvious reasons (I generally never wear one); they can go fuck themselves. Also, if there’s one thing I know about right wingers it’s that they view laws as being things where no discretion is permitted (except when they find inconvenient).
Ooh Asheville. I like that town.
Prior to COVID, I had resistant bronchitis at least twice every year, which exacerbated my asthma. Since COVID, I’ve been wearing a mask, and have been sick only once. It isn’t just COVID that people can get from the air.
I would wish all those Republicans got tuberculosis, also spread through the air, but I’m not that mean. Also, they would probably pass it to everyone.
It’s a good thing it doesn’t get too cold in NC; otherwise, anyone wearing a scarf could be arrested.
Amazing
You’re right, Ophelia; and I feel desperate for everyone who lives there, especially those with serious health issues.
I’m wondering if I did catch CoViD after all; a new variant on an older one, perhaps. In any case, I’m not getting any better yet, and the last couple of days have been worse than the ones preceding them, but not as bad as the first three times. But I’ve not been tested this time. I’ve read that the old tests don’t work on the newest mutants. Still, what with all the vaccines I’ve had, each iteration was slightly less awful than the one which preceded it.
I did at least manage to leave my bed long enough today to watch my daughter open her birthday presents. I now have three children in their forties. How did that happen? I could have sworn that I was only twenty seven myself.
Ugh, sorry you’re dealing with that, tigger.