re: NC Senate votes to ban wearing mask in public

I don’t think they can do that other then give stores the right to demand no masks in buildings, at least cloth masks business should be able to deny service

Republicans find a way to screw up everything that should be so simple. Instead of making the law against mask in public, they should have just made it a law against wearing a mask during the public protest, civil disobedience, or in the course of any other misdemeanor or felony crime.

Very simple and you no longer have to infringement upon people that are sick or walk around scared of their own shadows.

Considering how masking has been proven to reduce spread and transmission of COVID, this is pretty ridiculous.

This law has been on the books since 1953. It was exempt from enforcement during COVID, for obvious reason. The exemption from enforcement has been removed, as I understand it, but there were 6 exemptions to the law; holiday mask, workers needing mask, etc.

One of the exemptions to the 1953 law is:
§ 14-12.11. Exemptions from provisions of Article.
(6) Any person wearing a mask for the purpose of ensuring the physical health or safety of the wearer or others.
The Senate voted to remove this exemption. The House has not voted. There are also provisions in the new law that addresses people that sit on highways and block traffic.

These are the main parts of the 1953 law.
§ 14-12.7. Wearing of masks, hoods, etc., on public ways.
No person or persons at least 16 years of age shall, while wearing any mask, hood or device whereby the person, face or voice is disguised so as to conceal the identity of the wearer, enter, be or appear upon any lane, walkway, alley, street, road, highway or other public way in this State. (1953, c. 1193, s. 6; 1983, c. 175, ss. 1, 10; c. 720, s. 4.)

§ 14-12.8. Wearing of masks, hoods, etc., on public property.
No person or persons shall in this State, while wearing any mask........so as to conceal the identity of the wearer, enter, or appear upon or within the public property of any municipality or county of the State, or of the State of North Carolina. (1953, c. 1193, s. 7.)

§ 14-12.9. Entry, etc., upon premises of another while wearing mask, hood or other disguise. No person or persons at least 16 years of age shall, while wearing a mask.............demand entrance or admission, enter or come upon or into, or be upon or in the premises, enclosure or house of any other person in any municipality or county of this State. (1953, c. 1193, s. 8; 1983, c. 175, ss. 2, 10; c. 720, s. 4.)

§ 14-12.10. Holding meetings or demonstrations while wearing masks, hoods, etc. No person or persons at least 16 years of age shall while wearing a mask, ...........hold any manner of meeting, or make any demonstration upon the private property of another unless such person or persons shall first obtain from the owner or occupier of the property his or her written permission to do so................ (1953, c. 1193, s. 9; 1983, c. 175, ss. 3, 10; c. 720, s. 4.)

NC House Bill 237 Unmasking Mobs and Criminals
This is a link to the new law.

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TBoy

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Don’t you mask up to pick up your kid from your wife’s boyfriend’s house

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I mean frick masking and all that but this seems just a little fricking unconstitutional

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Which part of the U.S. Constitution do you think a mask ban would contravene?