the party of plague is still a party of plague

[solarbird]

Nothing is ever about “bodily autonomy” with Republicans. Nothing. Today’s example:

The Republican Senate of North Carolina just passed a ban on masking for medical reasons in public.

For bonus points, it has an exemption preserving the right of the KKK to march around masked. Republican leadership refused to allow a floor vote to take that out, so passed it with the exemption intact.

But masking for medical purposes in public? That they’ll make illegal.

Posted via Solarbird{y|z|yz}, Collected.

Comments

[jessie_c]

"The party of small Government". Except when it comes to controlling perfect strangers' personal lives.

[solarbird]

Yeah, it's all lies. All of it. It's just about control and looting.

[jessie_c]

I would wonder whether they'd be hypocritical enough to charge someone with spreading disease because they weren't wearing a mask, but of course they're that hypocritical.

[shaddyr]

Every time I think I have seen those assclowns pull the looniest shit every, they do something even more asinine.

[solarbird]

It's staggeringly vile.

[rialian]

===Oh, I hope that is not going to be the case for airports. (Of course it will be enforced at airports...I shall be making sure to not have flights hitting that area.)(Sigh)

[solarbird]

I actually doubt it; airports are Federal territory. Different rules, different cops.

[rialian]

===True...but bleedover from local law understandings will likely affect behavior of local officers, I would imagine. (TSA, etc)

[melchar]

Please let many of these idiot politicians go in for medical treatment/surgery and see their doctors/surgeons unmasked because they are in public. JUST for them.

[librarygeek]

I've been angry since I read this when you first posted it. I was already mad with the whole South, with transgender people and those with breast cancer in my family.

I just thought of something as an interfaith HOSPITAL CHAPLAIN: I'm masking for religious purposes. Tikkun nefesh 🔯, to save a (life, soul, BREATH) and it's required to do what is necessary to save even my own life. For those who are nominally Christian or Christ followers, I give you Matthew 15:17-19, my restatement: what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and that is what defiles a person.

I would say, if I truly needed to be in North Carolina, "I wear this mask to remember to not speak ill of anyone, as the Lord has bidden me." I wouldn't mention I was Jewish to that type, I wouldn't want to provoke them into sinning further. 🙏🤫😂🔯😉

I'm still scared for everyone having to live under those conditions in North Carolina though. Cancer patients and those with compromised immune systems shouldn't be risking their own lives to leave their residences.