It could soon be illegal to publicly wear a mask for health reasons in North Carolina

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It could soon be illegal to publicly wear a mask for health reasons in NC
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What a stupid fucking rule, guess immunocompromised people are just supposed to die?

In the article it says that immunocompromised people spoke during the public comments on the bill and Republican senators said that the bill would criminalize their wearing masks but they just won't be prosecuted for it.

So the law would demand it, but the "trust me bro, I got yo back" defense says to ignore what the law actually says?

Okay, I think I will.:-P

Pretty sure a SCOTUS justice said that they can't trust prosecutors to not do this just a month ago.

Yeah, that's just simply not how laws work... and even if they did, for a time, people could forget and prosecute later, bc that's what the law says to do.

I think I missed that one. Got a case name for it?

Trump v. United States

https://archive.org/details/CSPAN_20240428_171000_Supreme_Court_Hears_Case_on_Fmr._Pres._Trumps_Immunity_Claim/start/3960/end/4020

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2023/23-939_f2qg.pdf

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Well, that's what I -- I mean, shortly after that statement in the court, that -- court's opinion, that's what they said, but there's no reason to worry because the prosecutor will act in good faith and there's no reason to worry because a grand jury will have returned the indictment. Now you know how easy it is in many cases for a prosecutor to get a grand jury to bring an indictment, and reliance on the faith -- good faith of the prosecutor may not be enough in the -- some cases. I'm not suggesting here.

So instead of just having cancer, you’ll have cancer and be a criminal.

That's a much smoother way to become a criminal than by committing an actual crime, kinda convenient.

AKA you'll be removed from the voter pool of you wear it.

Sounds like Florida's law about Mexicans, and then poof, all the Mexicans left Florida.

Translation: don't worry about it if you are a cishet white Christian.

If God loved them, he wouldn't have assembled them all jacked up!

This is how you sue dumbasses who pass this law