North Carolina Senate votes to ban people from wearing masks in public

[Vice President Christian Man]

This bill is a violation of individual rights.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-carolina-masking-bill-pandemic-coronavirus-crime-campus-protest/

Edited because I forgot to insert the link.

[dead0man]

this is just as bad as requiring masks in public

[GP270watch]

The GOP has become a party of willful stupidity.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

this is just as bad as requiring masks in public

No it's not wearing mask was to protect you from others germs, and you didn't have to wear it on outside it was only in stores or restaurants

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Halloween is gonna suck for kids in North Carolina this year

[Not Me, Us]

What pointless and unconstitutional virtue signaling.

[YE]

What if there’s a wildfire?

[Joe Biden 2024]

What if there’s a wildfire?

Knowing the GOP, they'd try to spread it, and then immediately blame someone else for it.

[courts]

this is just as bad as requiring masks in public

they hate freedom

[wnwnwn]

I don´t like "always mask leftists", but this is too much. People with health canditions do exist.

[You don't see any blue avatars now]

North Carolina moment.

[Thank you for being a friend...]

this is just as bad as requiring masks in public

Politicians are so eager these days to get up in people's faces (literally) and tell them what to do!  Very bad trend.  Let people do what they want - this is a free country goshdernit.  FREEDOM should be our national word.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Anti-Klan measure.

[MasterJedi]

I just imagine how ignorant it makes people look. In East Asia (Japan/SK) people always wear masks out when they’re sick out of a belief of “we before me” but in Murcia, especially conservative Murcia it’s just “all about me” from the me generation that voted this in.

[President Johnson]

And exactly accomplishes what?

Just seems like a silly "gotcha!" move. It's one thing to ban local authorities or businesses to impose any mask mandates at this point, but banning masks for people who voluntarily wear them is ridiculous. Hasn't the state bigger issues to solve?

[Torie]

I guess it's time to wear a mask in NC as an act of civil disobedience. The legality of this law if it passes should be tested.

[Sol]

The rhetoric around this, fyi, has made it pretty clear that the intent around this is to give police a greenlight to arrest protestors wearing masks, even though it's substantially broader in wording.

[Steve from Lambeth]

Now read the seventh paragraph of the OP's linked article.

[S019]

I just imagine how ignorant it makes people look. In East Asia (Japan/SK) people always wear masks out when they’re sick out of a belief of “we before me” but in Murcia, especially conservative Murcia it’s just “all about me” from the me generation that voted this in.

Can you elaborate a bit on the relation of southeastern Spain to all of this?

The bill is obviously unconstitutional, and I don’t think it warrants discussion beyond that.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

And exactly accomplishes what?

Just seems like a silly "gotcha!" move. It's one thing to ban local authorities or businesses to impose any mask mandates at this point, but banning masks for people who voluntarily wear them is ridiculous. Hasn't the state bigger issues to solve?

The idea behind the bill is the worry that the health exception of the current mask ban enables people to hide their identity while engaging in riots and destructive protests.

[Skill and Chance]

At least in public accommodations and employment settings, wouldn't this violate the federal ADA?

[Frodo]

Don't worry about it -it would either die in the House, or be vetoed by the Governor, and overturned by the state Supreme Court.  Even with its current configuration.

I just imagine how ignorant it makes people look. In East Asia (Japan/SK) people always wear masks out when they’re sick out of a belief of “we before me” but in Murcia, especially conservative Murcia it’s just “all about me” from the me generation that voted this in.

What does early medieval Mercia have to do with this story?  

[Sol]

Don't worry about it -it would either die in the House, or be vetoed by the Governor, and overturned by the state Supreme Court.  Even with its current configuration.

I would not assume any of these except the veto! The NC Republican Party is foaming at the mouth over the recent protests at UNC Chapel Hill (they already diverted millions of dollars away from DEI to the Campus Police) and there's a desire to take some sort of legislative action.

[Ferguson97]

There are so many Republicans who don't have any principles beyond trying to piss off liberals.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

And exactly accomplishes what?

Just seems like a silly "gotcha!" move. It's one thing to ban local authorities or businesses to impose any mask mandates at this point, but banning masks for people who voluntarily wear them is ridiculous. Hasn't the state bigger issues to solve?

The idea behind the bill is the worry that the health exception of the current mask ban enables people to hide their identity while engaging in riots and destructive protests.

This bill probably needs some fine-tuning, but I highly doubt that the reason most of the campus protesters wear masks is for actual fear of covid or another illness.

And, I would agree that it's perfectly legitimate for mask wearing to be prohibited in some cases (usually probably at the discretion of a business).  I can absolutely see why somewhere like a bank would want to ban mask wearing for security reasons.