If what they really cared about was stopping crime, they’d make it an additional charge that could be tacked on when committing crimes. But they don’t want that, they want to prosecute and harass protestors in violation of their first amendment rights, and they want to oppose public health measures including mask wearing specifically as a method of preventing the spread of diseases.
Trump wanted to downplay Covid in 2020 because he thought it made him look bad (not understanding that he’d have looked a lot better if he showed some leadership and called for unity against a common threat). Because of that one decision, the right aligned on an anti-health, pro-disease platform that will probably be with us for a generation. The only ways it might go away sooner are if the feds crackdown on it hard (assuming politics and the courts don’t stop them), or if a new pandemic spreads with a high enough mortality to rate to weed out those who don’t learn the lesson.
Trump wanted to downplay Covid in 2020 because he thought it made him look bad (not understanding that he’d have looked a lot better if he showed some leadership and called for unity against a common threat).
Trump wanted to downplay Covid in 2020 because for a hot minute there at the start it was killing more urban Democrats than rural Republicans.
Is anyone really asking them to change the name of this disease?
Where and who has banned masks?
I’m sure some antivax conservative owned businesses in the US, but who else?
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.
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.)
