This has the (wrong) built-in pre-supposition that masks protect you from proverbial second-hand smoke in the first place (they don’t. They are mitigating. Not protecting).Sorry, as an ex-smoker (1 year) I have absolutely no sympathy for the anti-maskers. You all were quite fine with me not being able to smoke inside. You were quite fine with me standing in the street. You were quite fine with all the laws and rules around where I could and could not smoke.
All because of second hand smoke. Well, second hand covid germs are possibly as deadly as second hand smoke. So all of those people who don’t want to wear a mask, let smokers back or WEAR YOUR MASK.
No need to invent. They already exists for 20 bucks.Why try to invent that masks “stop” a virus?
My wife and a friend of mine lean that way. When the pandemic started, they already had masks and other supplies from previous preparation. There is also plenty of water and non perishable food along with camping equipment.I got some of these I bought from a doomsday prepper estate sale( he died before doomsday could happen )
I thought we were supposed to follow the science. She’s not a scientist. She’s a pro-centralized, anti-free school choice activist.I was a teacher in the area of special education for many years, and I have a PhD in educational leadership from Florida State University.
Hard to argue against that (good reason not to give government too much power), but surveys do show that well over 90% of Americans say they wear a mask in public.I also know that common sense isn’t all that common.
This is simply not true. We’ve spent trillions of dollars in Covid relief, investments in PPE’s, on research for vaccines and therapeutics. In less than a year, as many as 4 vaccines are ready, and billions have been spent on preorders.I also know that as a country, we have not jointly taken any concentrated efforts to stop this.
Which rights are imagined? The “right” to not wear a mask in a public space? I agree. On the other hand, the general government has no constitutional mandate to impose a mask mandate. Certainly the president doesn’t.I also know that people are so worried about their imagined rights
Public property is a wholly different situation. My local government has the power to mandate mask wearing, or a tobacco ban, at city hall.And back to my comments about smoking. In many states, people can not smoke on school grounds even when school is not in session, near doorways, in schools, at open air stadiums.
Is it mandated by law?Why? and why is this different? Oh, and don’t forget that many people take a shower and throw their clothes in the wash if they’ve been around smokers. No difference.
I guess you are right. We just disagree here. That’s fair enough.Sorry, but if a law says you have to wear a mask in public, I would consider that to be the same as a current laws that say you must cover certain parts of your body. Women can not run around without some minimal covering. And yes, they have been known to get arrested for not wearing clothes.
However, at this point I am willing to accept that we disagree on what kinds of clothing the state can require that people have to wear when out in public.
I agree. At the state and local level.Sorry, but if a law says you have to wear a mask in public, I would consider that to be the same as a current laws that say you must cover certain parts of your body.
The state can set rules. They should do it by statute.However, at this point I am willing to accept that we disagree on what kinds of clothing the state can require that people have to wear when out in public.
If you’re in favor of the authoritarian, anti-constitutional approach, fine. I think it is time for states to fight back, like intercepting income taxes collected before they get to Washington in order to fight back against that tyrannical tactic.and the feds can withhold money like they did with speed limits
Not everybody took it that way.We never had a lockdown in my state.
Confusion surrounds Georgia’s coronavirus lockdown
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Coronavirus | April 5, 2020
By Alan Judd, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Local officials left to ‘copy and paste’ Kemp’s order
You can still play golf.
You can still go to the beach. Or shop for groceries, get takeout from a restaurant, pick up medicine, see a doctor, exercise outdoors, and go to church.
You can even, in many instances, go to work.
So many loopholes reside in Gov. Brian Kemp’s statewide shelter-at-home order that many Georgians spent Friday in a state of confusion and disarray, trying to determine what is — and isn’t — allowed as the state combats the coronavirus pandemic. Some questioned whether the exceptions undermine the lockdown’s effectiveness.
“A set of uniform statewide policies earlier in this crisis would have been helpful, but that’s not what happened,” said Dr. Akshat Pujara, an Atlanta diagnostic radiologist who started a petition calling for Kemp to shut down the state. “So we have to move forward. We need to minimize the impact of the anticipated surge in cases.” . . .
I haven’t forgotten. After several weeks of asking for state wide rules some of the counties started to make their own. In response, Kemp swiftly nullified all of those rules. Under Kemp’s rules, movie theaters and similar businesses were closed, but people were still free to move around the state without a mask. That is not a lock down.This from back in April . . . .