North Carolina's Republican lawmakers are about to overturn Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of mask criminalization which purports to expose often face-concealed pro-Palestinians protesting Israel's war on Gaza.
Legislators argue that the bill's language is confined: "medically vulnerable people and others trying to avoid respiratory viruses" are exempted, reports The Washington Post.
Detractors counterargue that "such an approach would be impractical and sets mask wearers up for further ostracization and harassment by police and fellow citizens."
One such citizen multiplied by an immeasurable factor harassment's dictionary-defined unpleasantness or hostile "verbal conduct."
The badgering spider monkey pooped a pile of invective on a severely ill woman, which if directed at a reasonably healthy man would have left the little shit oozing his way out of the red-white-and-black pool of blood his auditor so adorably filled for him.
The event: "Shari Stuart said a man confronted her for wearing a surgical mask when she walked into an auto service center in the Raleigh area to get an oil change. After she tried to explain that she has Stage 4 breast cancer and a weakened immune system, Stuart said the man called her a 'f---ing liberal' and insisted masks were now illegal. He later coughed on her and said he hoped the cancer would kill her."
The charm of Trumpism.
"Stuart said she worries this kind of harassment would worsen if mask restrictions became law."
Of course it would will. Trump's arboreal tribe will be unburdened from reading the law, opting for its filtration through their concentrically intensifying disinformation bubbles. Should even one prehensiled tribesman read it, he'd ignore it in imitation of the Grand Wizard of Felonious Chieftainship.
Last, who thinks the vetoed yet imminent law's Republican lawmakers are disapproving of any vile interpretations?
Perhaps the only way to stop this contagion is for the truly infected with infectious diseases to infect those who insist they remove their masks. It's time to thin the herd.
Posted by: Uncle Billy | June 25, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Just to clarify, the purpose of wearing ordinary surgical masks (as opposed yo n95s) is to protect other people from any respiratory pathogens the wearer might be exhaling, not to protect the wearer. The mask directs the wearer's exhalations up, down, and to the sides, giving any viruses in those exhalations more time to be killed by all that toxic oxygen we have in our atmosphere. Air you breath in while wearing such a mask is barely if at all filtered -- it's just the air right in front of your nose and mouth. Surgical masks are far from 100% effective even at the limited role of protecting others, but even a marginal effect can stop an outbreak in its tracks, because outbreaks need a high rate of success at transmission to the next victim, or the outbreak peters out. Wear a mask and you give some protection not just to the people near you, but to society in general, to everyone these people around you will be breathing close to during the time when they would be infectious and exhaling the pathogen
This law's exception for the "medically vulnerable" therefore has it completely ass-backwards. Even if there were some legitimate public interest in prohibiting masks that the legislature was trying to balance against health concerns by accommodating people who are unusually vulnerable to infection by respiratory pathogens, the exemption would have to apply to the general public, and not the medically vulnerable. Surgical masks protect everyone else around all of us in public spaces, and then everyone they will be near in the future.
Posted by: Glen Tomkins | June 26, 2024 at 10:05 AM