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NC Senate votes to ban people from wearing masks in public for health reasons
Both my husband and my mother are immunocompromised and if I am actively ill and I must interact with them I will wear a mask. The state Senate can try to pry it off my face!
I am someone with terrible skin and like wearing my mask instead of putting on makeup.. a way less serious reason than yours but I will damn well wear my mask if it makes me feel more comfortable!
Fuck these people!
I'm wearing one of those triple layer reusable cloth masks in bed because the pandemic made me realize how much face masks aid in keeping my nose warm, and my sinuses warm & humid (I have both Raynaud's and Sjögren's). Even reusable cloth masks way past their guaranteed anti-covid limit (20 washes) are a huge boost for my comfort and health in conditions where I don't have to care about viruses, and I love wearing makeup including normal lipstick. It's so nice and comfortable that I am willing to ditch lipsticks for even more of the day.
This BS ban is incredibly cruel for so many radically different reasons.
I suffer from horrible sinuses due to polyps in my sinus cavities which lead to horrible sinus issues especially when the weather is acting up, aka a gentle wind blowing, during spring and summer. Wearing a mask has fully revolutionized the way my body handles the spring. I used to get atleast 1 sinus infection per year and always had horrible issues regardless and since I’ve started wearing a mask regularly (since March 2020) I havnt had 1 sinus infection and my sinus issues have been a fraction of what they once were. Granted this isn’t some life threatening issue (I do have asthma, but I’m vaccinated) but nothing that would kill me if I didn’t wear a mask outdoors. Still with the way my quality of life has improved there’s no way I’ll go back to not wearing a mask outdoors especially during the rough seasons but honestly I wear them inside when it’s crowded as well because I just don’t like getting sick and wearing a mask has really helped in that regard as well.
TLDR: I wear a mask because sinus issues.
I'd tell those politicians I'll see them court were ill to sue them for endangering my life! I'll be easy to spot, i'll be the one with the mask on.
If only you could package & sell all the ignorance oozing out these cheesy, state level dictator wannabes. Imagine being this stupid? Also, has the Supreme Court weighed in on all this “pre-voting” and trigger laws crap that right wingers pull? It seems to be one of their strategies, going back to the civil War. The Confederate Constitution had an amendment that forbid any of the confederate states from becoming a non-slave state, in the future. Yet, the whole purpose of the Confederacy was “state’s rights” and one of the first things this new government does is take away state’s rights. Its 2024, and so many of them still claim the civil war was all about state’s rights, and not about slavery.
What’s next, they’re going to ban women from driving cars?
This is not a stretch - this is exactly where we are headed. They are the Christian taliban - nothing less than that. We are 10 years (maybe less) from Gilead if they keep winning elections and instilling judges.
Talivangelicals.
10 years? Try ONE year, if Trump wins and his cronies are able to implement Project 2025.
Too bad Gaza is going to hand our country to Trump, since Gen Z is single-minded, and only give a fuck about Gaza and not the future genocides that will occur on American soil if Trump becomes dictator.
It’s tough because you’re not wrong - but also, Biden’s unwavering support of a far right Israeli government is a giant middle finger to everyone - and I can understand how the younger generation is saying fuck this guy. It’s such a complicated issue honestly - I’m 50, the Middle East issues have been going on my entire life. I understand our historical support of Israel and our support of Jewish people across the world - but - also - at this point we are actively supporting an apartheid regime that’s committing genocide. Fuck religion and fuck politics - it’ll be the end of us all
Agreed. I do, however, think that Biden is stuck or he would have pulled out. There is 80 years worth of binding contracts and shared interests and strategic placement. I don’t think he can just drop Israel on a dime because people demand it. I assume there must be a pretty important reason that Biden is doing this, knowing America could become a dictatorship if he loses.
I wish I knew the classified reasons he’s doing this. I don’t think Biden is a cruel man, so I imagine Israel must be pretty important to our security. It really sucks!
I agree, JB is a good man, and he’s very likely in a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation with Israel. That being said, I’d prefer damned if you don’t support genocide and apartheid. But I’m sure politically it’s an incredibly challenging situation for him. But at the end of the day, you just can’t, under any circumstance, support the killing of 30k women and children of an oppressed people by its oppressor
I know. However, I’m voting for Biden no matter what because Trump will gleefully kill every single person in Gaza. At least, Biden built a port so aid can get in unimpeded by Israel. There must be so much complex negotiations.
I feel Hamas struck to topple world democracy. They struck on Putin’s birthday, which I can’t ignore. This is all about Biden. If America falls, the whole West falls like dominoes. It’s just too important to mess around, and I’m afraid younger people don’t get that.
Yep, you’re right about that
So true!
Yes. They've openly said many time they want to reverse the civil rights act of 1964. They want women in the kitchen, blacks in the fields, and LGBTQ six feet under.
When people tell you who they are, believe them.
Don't give them any ideas.
They've had that idea already
They’re already trying to ban birth control and divorce.
They'll decriminalize DV against women eventually.
We're gonna be back in "if women go too fast their uterus may fall out" territory again before 2028.
The Republican candidate for governor denies the Holocaust, wants to repeal women's suffrage, wants to repeal the Civil Rights Act. He also refers to the LGBT community as "filth" and wants to ban ALL abortions. He gets crazier from there.
No, just ban them from.leaving the kitchen
/s
Yeah, but just for health reasons. If you’re going to a Klan rally in uniform, that’s legal.
But it's their freedom to restrict others freedom
My religion says I can wear a mask
It's cool, they all walk around with firearms strapped to every nook and cranny of their body (which nobody better dare ban them from wearing). If they see any germs they'll just go all Rambo on the little fuckers. What more protection could anyone need?
Is it really that you find masked chemo patients that threatening? Something about them makes you really angry?" asked Sen. Natasha Marcus, D-Mecklenburg. "Or is this, more likely, a desire to score some political points with the anti-mask crowd during an election year, at the expense of vulnerable people?
Winner winner chicken dinner
Best part is the Republicans in masks will be ingored I bet by police
By Republicans you must mean white males
Don't forget an attemet of getting rid of likely democrats in purple states
Of course it's a Democrat that says something reasonable and points out the obvious nastiness of this ban. 'cuz the GQP could *never* sort this out themselves.
Stupid ass GOP needs to be excised from all statehouses.
I’m sure they’ll still allow the KKK and proud boys to wear masks tho
Masks for health reasons in NC = BAAAD Masks for racism in NC = OK
AKA the cops
Well, that's for fashion & hiding one's identity, not for health reasons.
Oh! That is absolutely in there! You will absolutely be able to wear your KKK hood, just not your cancer mask. So we know where priorities lie here.
I told my husband that if this passes, I will never step foot in NC again, which saddens him because he grew up there. 😕 But he gets it and feels the same.
Idiots. If I want to wear a mask, I will wear a mask. It's my health, not theirs . I have asthma, and staying well is a priority in my life
Just tell them you wear it for religious reasons. Their heads will pop.
How long till the satanic temple declares itself to have an official religious tenant of "wearing a medical mask in public" to protest this?
24-48 hours tops
I suddenly have a strong, almost spiritual, urge to put on a mask…
They don't need to, it's Tenant III:
- One's body is inviolable, subject to one's own will alone.
Just say it's not for health reasons. "I'm a proud boy and I don't want people to know who I am."
No your suppose to die working for your betters and like it. Many consider it a privilege even.
I wear a mask but allergies are high.
Good luck to any firefighters going into a burning building then...
Now, ... Im gonna ask a stupid question.
Cant ppl just say they're wearing it for religious reasons?
Absolutely. It is also unconstitutional to question the sincerity of Saud religious belief.
"There's nothing in the Bible about masks!" - these people, probably
“And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip…” Leviticus 13:45 King James Bible
There's that woke talk again
Shh. That's the real Bible. None of the Religious Right have read that one. They prefer the MAGA version
The one with all blank pages?
Nah, it's the one with all the pages cut out so you can hide your gun.
I dunno---sounds like "health reasons"
only ~you~ the satanic church, can save us from crazy fucking "Christians"
how did we get to the point, where being smart, and caring about your health, is an act or rebellion against "the man"
How? Democracy only works well if a significant amount of the people aren't batshit crazy.
Republicans is how we got here. The best thing we can do is vote as many of them out as possible in November.
People of North Carolina, vote blue
Only because most of the ignorant, religious, totalitarian-loving bigots are Republicans. It wasn't always that way. These people used to be Democrats. They wanted slavery, and to break up the Union. They started the Confederacy, with the motto "Deo vindice" (God as our defender).
Skip ahead and the parties have changed. But the one constant is their love of ignorance.and feeling superior to everyone else.
Vote the bastards out while we still can.
cuz it looks bad, and impacts profits
how did we get to the point where an entire society accepts that profits are now the most important thing under the sun, above all else.
and yet
never factor it in?
Then rebel against the stupid
Republicans have a god complex. Weird that such ignorant people would get a god complex.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts - Bertrand Russell
So the people who need to wear a mask because of their high risk condition now just have to raw dog full viral loads?
The GOP is all "sorry you have cancer and your immune system is compromised from chemotherapy, but f*** you we hope you die of whatever disease you catch."
My wife and I wore masks before Covid. She’s immune compromised and anything I catch she is likely to get.
Cancer patients often have their immune system compromised from chemotherapy.
Ideology trumps science in North Carolina.
I see tsunami of lawsuits coming in NC. What a waste of time. Yet this people keeps voting against their own interests
Those people would gladly vote against their own interests if it meant they hurt the people they hate. Republicans are cruel and evil. They have no policy or desire to better the country. Their entire platform is about hate, vitriol, divisiveness, and being "better" than the opposition.
They ALL NEED TO GO. There's no room in a modern world for that kind of backwards thinking and acting. They're animals.
How do you ban masks “for health reasons”? Masks are worn for health reasons. Banning them while citing the very reason for their existence is wholly counter-intuitive.
Republicans. The stupidity is their whole platform.
NC.
Reason and logic are not apart of the republican strategy.
Ok officer, it’s fashion for when I’m sick.
I have an autoimmune disease, so it was already medically advisable for me to avoid the South.
For a party that claims big government is bad, they sure like sticking their nose in peoples business.
I’m pretty sure that is 100% illegal. You can’t tell people what to wear on their face in a public setting.
A third Wake County Democrat, Sen. Jay Chaudhuri, proposed amending the bill to ban hate groups — he specifically mentioned the Ku Klux Klan and Proud Boys — from being allowed to wear masks in public, which the law currently allows them to petition for. His amendment also would've required state law enforcement officials do more to track hate groups. Like the other amendments, Republican lawmakers shot it down with no debate or explanation.
Essentially, in North Carolina, you can't wear masks for health reasons, but you can for racially-motivated hate reasons.
My parents go the NC a lot because of family. Both of them are in their 80's and have CPOD. The NC Senate can suck and entire bag of dicks and enjoy a plater of assholes for desert as far as I care. They're wearing the masks they need to wear. My parents ain't dying because a bunch of limp dick peckerwoods get their fee-fees hurt over a mask someone else is wearing.
gop wants to be able to spit directly into each other’s mouths.
The death cult needs to be annihilated, permanently, at the ballot box.
Or wherever...
Time for Republicans to learn a lesson
Yes, they can get dumber.
Wouldn't this violate the 1st amendment under freedom of expression?
First amendment has entered the chat.
Why do Republicans like playing doctor so much
MAGA: "I don't care if it's stupid, unconstitutional, hypocritical, and cruel. As long as we own the libs by proving we can do any thing we want."
FREEEEEE-DUMMMMMB!!!!
The classic cry of the MAGA Cultist
Why do Republicans hate freedom so much?
Trying to outdo Tennessee legislature that banned chemtrails...
Bunch of fucking inbreeders.
I'm on immunosuppressive drugs for a heart transplant. A cold could actually kill me. I'm wearing a mask around people as my only protection.
What the hell ever happened to freedom of choice??
It's interesting how these people are so pro life before a baby is born, but pro death after.
What if you’re immunodeficient? Or suppressed? Or both? For example, people like myself. I have primary and autoimmune disorders. Some days are better than others, but caution is always recommended. Cancer patients? Anyone that doesn’t want to get sick during flu season?
Am I missing something here? Why is this a thing?
You're not missing anything.
The Republican party is a death cult.
So immunocompromised people can no longer go out in public? How isn't this a breach of practicing medicine without a license?
There literally is a carve-out for groups to wear masks or hoods during a public event like a parade.
So, yes. It's a fucking KKK friendly law.
We've been down this road before.
Tarheel here: I have family that is immuno-compromised. I hate the NC General ASSembly for passing this. It’s disgusting as fuck and has absolutely no other point than sadistic cruelty.
Completely unconstitutional, will never get anywhere, just shows conservatives aren’t serious about governing, they’re just mad.
These people have a very good chance of running our country again. Vote.
But they can still wear them to obscure their identity? Because that would make sense in KKK-land.
There literally is a carve-out for groups to wear masks or hoods during a public event like a parade.
So, yes. It's a fucking KKK friendly law.
This will end well when bird flu jumps...frigging idiots, all of them.
I can’t wait until they see someone open carry while wearing a mask. The cognitive dissonance may cause their head to explode.
Ah, the party of freedom and small government at it again!
God I hate republicans...
Wow NC loves big government.
I hope none of the medical professionals in the public hospitals where these Legislators have their surgeries wear masks.
Isn't this the same crowd with the AR15 stickers saying "Come and Take it"?
It's fucking fabric. What a fucking joke of a senate.
Well, let's see if the governor even signs the bill.
"I'm not wearing this mask for medical reasons. I'm wearing it in exercise of my first amendment rights."
Ha, time for me to order a "Don't Tread On Me" mask. The GOP can fuck off.
Wtf? What if someone has a compromised immune system? This country is trash!
The Republican party is a death cult
100%, and if Trump wins, they can just shoot me in the face because I’m not doing ANYTHING they say! I will spit on them the first instance they order me to do some bullshit! Life will not be worth living under a Trump dictatorship. There will be a massive rash of suicides if he wins.
No way this bullshit is constitutional.
My kid had cancer when he was 4. He had chemo that left him without an immune system for a while. He couldn’t go in public without a mask.
So, I guess those people with a similar condition are no longer allowed in public.
Good job, RepubliKKKans. Really pushing the issues that matter. /s
No exceptions other than the Klan and the proud boys? I think it's possible America is over.
Why I don't vote Republican.... They hate freedom
This is becoming too much. They are impeding on our rights. I am not hurting anyone if I wear a mask. This is very distressing.
I’m sure cancer, aids, and any other patient suffering with a suppressed immune system is thrilled about this.
I'll take "laws that make no fucking sense" for $100 Alex.
What a waste of time. Seriously, don’t they have better things to do with their time?
They're a death cult.
Fix the damn roads
Remember when the opposition against masks was all about "personal responsibility", and people just didn't want to be forced by the state to wear one?
I wore a mask a bunch in late 22 and early 23. I had a friend with cancer and didn't wanna get her sick.
So these assholes wanna make it where you deliberately put people in danger.
Republicans aren't about limited government and pro business. They're about cruelty. Plain and simple.
FYI, this petition needs more signatures! petition against mask ban
Freedom, brother
Free dumb.
Perhaps a dumb question, but what about hospitals? They're essentially a public space, too, right?
Ban's don't work. If you ban the good guys from wearing masks, the only one's wearing masks will be the bad guys........
No more trick or treating kids.
Yeah that's not the way it works, big brains of the gop. Hey, Tennessee just banned scary chem trails! Maybe you should look into that NC.
Easy. “I’m not wearing it for health reasons. I’m wearing it because I want to”
I’m not wearing it for health reasons I’m wearing it as a fashion statement
The Groomers Of Pre-teens party is ready to steal more of our freedoms. Back of the Bus Ben Carson wants to outlaw no-fault divorce and they want to ban books, ban flags, ban abortions, ban contraceptives and now this?
And RINODon's kultists think he stands for freedom?
Weird. Jesus thats weird.
That small government they keep talking about is apparently being looked at through a telescope being held backwards.
Small enough to fit in every woman’s womb, every bedroom, and now every where else.
OK. NP I wear mine as a fashion statement. /s. This has to be unconstitutional. Next we'll be back to not being able to show your elbows or ankles if your female.
Cool, so no more Klan hoods or Patriot Front balaclavas?
There literally is a carve-out for groups to get permits wear masks or hoods during a public event like a parade or demonstration.
So, yeah. It's a fucking KKK friendly law.
GOP is for freedom, as long as it is what they want. Otherwise the will jail your ass for not agreeing with them. Libs will say you shouldn’t do or say something and they may stop liking or following you, I’m ok with how the libs do it.
Why are they pieces of human excrement? Don’t take my guns but I’m going to take away your 1st amendment rights.
So are hospitals and surgeries considered public places?
Party of limited government continues to expand government overreach
Hey Florida, hold my beer and watch this!
The party of small government, everybody.
GOP = Death Party
MAGA shows up a lot on this thread...
Jesus NC is fucking stupid.
Wow, so pro-life of them 👏🏻
I'd really like to see them arrest me for wearing a medical mask. They're just pissed off that the insurrectionists were too fucking stupid to take advantage of the mask policy at the time while committing felonies and shitting/pissing in the Capitol halls. FUCK THE FASCIST GOP.
What about doctors and nurses working in hospitals 🏥 ?
How stupid are these legislators.
Now there's that small government I've been told to want!
We cannot share a decent society with these people. Wth.
I fear for America this November. You are so close to losing democracy and all you hold dear. It’s absolutely terrifying watching what the maga republicans are doing to America. Life as you know it will be over. The republicans hate the low and middle class and the sick. They will make life a living hell for anyone who isn’t rich. Scary times.
I do hope someone gets hassled/fined for this and then sues the everloving fuck out of the state
What happened to having the freedom to wear what you want?
So that clinches it: I'm wearing a mask every time for the entire time I am in NC.
Sorry but this goes beyond stupid. Should’ve been posted under “News of the Evil”
So America, let me get this straight.
You say it is your right as an American to not wear a mask, so in that case it is your right to also wear one, yet you now make a law up to ban wearing them for *checks notes* "health reasons".
I would say you would even stop a Surgeon from wearing one but seeing as some of you claim healthcare professionals are bunk, well.
So, America, how are you enjoying partying like a Puritan in 1699? Talk about a backwards country.
Party of small government my ass.
Discount culture warrior cry babies.
This is the GOP saying ‘Fck you’ to anyone with cancer or who’s immunocompromised. They really don’t care about anyone, they just want to *own the libs.
the NC legislature loves passing (or trying to pass) unenforceable bullshit like mask mandates or bathroom bills. Anything but legislation that actually helps people
We're evolving, but backwards.
Next let's ban bandaids so that people can deal with open wounds/infections the way God intended.
Are they going to ban them in hospitals too? How about in the workplace?
Idiots
YOU MUST DO WHAT WE WANT BECAUSE THIS IS A FREE COUNTRY.
How stupid can these people get???
Is it only illegal if I’m protecting my own health, or I’m protecting the public health. I currently have pneumonia and have horrible coughing fits. Shouldn’t I wear a mask? My reps are idiots.
Ignore them
Can we ban stupid politicians next?
We need to protect freedom by taking freedoms away from people
But I'm guessing they won't ban people from carrying guns in public
I see a lot of frostbite cases on faces in the future.
Unconstitutional. It will be struck down.
Play their game. So wear it as a political statement or religious freedom. Or just say you are trying to hide your identity from the deep state.
The party of small government.
The ignorant continue to grow in this country!
What happened to your right to do whatever you wanted to do? WTF is wrong with the Republicans? They used to be about less government control, more freedoms, now they seem to be about the complete opposite!
Ok I’m wearing them for personal reasons
That seems like such a law would be in conflict with federal laws banning discrimination on the basis of disability. Depending on what's in the NC constitution, it may also be Unconstitutional under the state constitution.
Nothing says “FREEDOM” like banning certain articles of clothing