Masks could provide good protection against Covid-19, avian flu, influenza, and mpox. Yet nationally, there is a move to ban masks, as Nassau county just did.
Despite considerable opposition, Nassau County passed a mask ban, with all the Republican members voting for it, and Democrats abstaining. Per Howard Kopel, who chaired the hearing, the bill was introduced in response to “antisemitic incidents, often perpetrated by those in masks.”
The first line of the article.
I’ll admit to the implied laziness. Didn’t even open it.
I was somewhat full of sleeping pills so took the easy route of just leaving a question I could’ve easily Googled.
I beg your forgiveness, milord. (I’m only like… 40% sarcastic here. I really could have googled it, but didn’t.)