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

[Yoda]

Does this include Proud Boys/3 Percenters/Oath Keepers/Whatever-the-domestic-Nazis-are-calling-themselves-these-days marches?

I ask b/c it honestly wouldn't surprise me if NC Republicans wrote in an exception to the law for their most loyal voters - cowards who wear masks and carry tiki torches while chanting "Jews will not replace us."

Or did they just stop at virtue signaling against efforts to stop the spread of infectious diseases?

[wnwnwn]

I think he tried to say Murica instead of Murcia.

A ME RI CA.....
Wtf is a kilometer?
I hAtE broccoli
Mac n cheese!!!
T Bone baby 
This land is my land, NIMBY!
WaLkInG iS 4 pEaSaNtS

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Does this include Proud Boys/3 Percenters/Oath Keepers/Whatever-the-domestic-Nazis-are-calling-themselves-these-days marches?

I ask b/c it honestly wouldn't surprise me if NC Republicans wrote in an exception to the law for their most loyal voters - cowards who wear masks and carry tiki torches while chanting "Jews will not replace us."

Or did they just stop at virtue signaling against efforts to stop the spread of infectious diseases?

No there isn't anything like that at all. The bill removes an exception in a longstanding law that was placed in response to the COVID epidemic, and adds enhanced penalties for wearing a mask while committing a crime. It also adds sections stating that religious institutions can't be placed under more restrictions than non-religious institutions, and adds penalties for blocking emergency vehicles and repeat offenses of blocking traffic.

https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2023/Bills/House/PDF/H237v4.pdf

[Vice President Christian Man]

Does this include Proud Boys/3 Percenters/Oath Keepers/Whatever-the-domestic-Nazis-are-calling-themselves-these-days marches?

I ask b/c it honestly wouldn't surprise me if NC Republicans wrote in an exception to the law for their most loyal voters - cowards who wear masks and carry tiki torches while chanting "Jews will not replace us."

Or did they just stop at virtue signaling against efforts to stop the spread of infectious diseases?

Three Senate Democrats proposed amendments to keep the health exemption and exclude hate groups from masking, but Senate Republicans used a procedural mechanism to block them without going up for a vote.

It doesn't explicitly make an exception, but I find it troublesome that the Republicans moved to block the vote on those amendments.

[Badger]

Does this include Proud Boys/3 Percenters/Oath Keepers/Whatever-the-domestic-Nazis-are-calling-themselves-these-days marches?

I ask b/c it honestly wouldn't surprise me if NC Republicans wrote in an exception to the law for their most loyal voters - cowards who wear masks and carry tiki torches while chanting "Jews will not replace us."

Or did they just stop at virtue signaling against efforts to stop the spread of infectious diseases?

Three Senate Democrats proposed amendments to keep the health exemption and exclude hate groups from masking, but Senate Republicans used a procedural mechanism to block them without going up for a vote.

It doesn't explicitly make an exception, but I find it troublesome that the Republicans moved to block the vote on those amendments.

Troublesome, or on point?

[T'Chenka]

Every single libertarian should be up in arms about this (figuratively).

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Does this include Proud Boys/3 Percenters/Oath Keepers/Whatever-the-domestic-Nazis-are-calling-themselves-these-days marches?

I ask b/c it honestly wouldn't surprise me if NC Republicans wrote in an exception to the law for their most loyal voters - cowards who wear masks and carry tiki torches while chanting "Jews will not replace us."

Or did they just stop at virtue signaling against efforts to stop the spread of infectious diseases?

Three Senate Democrats proposed amendments to keep the health exemption and exclude hate groups from masking, but Senate Republicans used a procedural mechanism to block them without going up for a vote.

It doesn't explicitly make an exception, but I find it troublesome that the Republicans moved to block the vote on those amendments.

excluding groups from masking on the basis of what they advocate for runs into 1st amendment issues since it can be considered viewpoint discrimination.

[Skill and Chance]

Does this include Proud Boys/3 Percenters/Oath Keepers/Whatever-the-domestic-Nazis-are-calling-themselves-these-days marches?

I ask b/c it honestly wouldn't surprise me if NC Republicans wrote in an exception to the law for their most loyal voters - cowards who wear masks and carry tiki torches while chanting "Jews will not replace us."

Or did they just stop at virtue signaling against efforts to stop the spread of infectious diseases?

Three Senate Democrats proposed amendments to keep the health exemption and exclude hate groups from masking, but Senate Republicans used a procedural mechanism to block them without going up for a vote.

It doesn't explicitly make an exception, but I find it troublesome that the Republicans moved to block the vote on those amendments.

excluding groups from masking on the basis of what they advocate for runs into 1st amendment issues since it can be considered viewpoint discrimination.

Wouldn't ADA compliance/preemption be the out if you want to allow it only for health reasons?

[HillGoose]

BIG GOVT COMMUNISM has arrived in NC!

[You don't see any blue avatars now]

BIG GOVT COMMUNISM has arrived in NC!

Arrived? We've had it for at least eight years.

[Ferguson97]

BIG GOVT COMMUNISM has arrived in NC!

Arrived? We've had it for at least eight years.

thank god for Chairman Roy Cooper