Mayor of New York

North Carolina already passed the law.

https://apnews.com/article/masks-ban-north-carolina-campus-protests-128a6aa32a4c832faa83befb2e7dd77e

I can't believe we are you still have to explain this in 2024. I have zero faith in humanity left, aside from Luigi ofc.

The reason they want you to not wear masks is, facial recognition that is literally everywhere doesn't work if your masked. You can help protect the vulnerable and yourself from invasive tracking with this one simple trick.

Yep I’ve had a cold all last week and have been masking up for my grocery runs. It’s just about being a decent human being.

It’s important to note that the mask is far more effective in stopping the wearer from transmitting a virus than it is in stopping the wearer from contracting a virus.

While this is generally true, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that a properly-fitted respirator provides very good protection. Even more so if it's an elastomeric with P100 filters (99.97% PFE with absurdly high fit factors).

But...

You're absolutely right, if everyone would consistently wear at least an earloop respirator like a KF94 or KN95 — even if the quality is a bit sketchy and even if the fit is less than ideal — that would cut down on viral particulate emissions a great deal and task your own respirator with orders of magnitude less particulate to filter out.

It’s important to note that the mask is far more effective in stopping the wearer from transmitting a virus than it is in stopping the wearer from contracting a virus.

It's more effective for others to wear them than for you to wear them. But it is still beneficial to wear a mask outside when you're at risk of contagion, assuming you pair it with hand sanitizer and other preventative measures.

Those people will effectively be relegated to their homes through the virus season if they want to remain safe.

At some point, telling people not to leave their homes if they want any kind of safety, but denying them access to medical equipment because it makes you feel unsafe only serves to deflect responsibility from the able-bodied to the vulnerable.

It would be like telling people in wheelchairs that ramps make me feel clumsy so you just shouldn't leave your house if you want full mobility.

More like because you're eating broccoli.

If it's a complete mask ban, then it's more like they're throwing a tantrum because you're eating broccoli.

Individualism for me, fashion police for you!

damn you just made some gears spin in my head

I think capitalism promotes "individualism" because the alternative is selflessness which means more money spent for the greater good of society

they aren’t banning masks… they’re banning Halloween.

I'm more than confident that the NYPD will make an exception for something that's lucrative to Big Business. The issue is that medical masks outside of one day in October aren't highly profitable, while CCTV cameras on every corner and AI facial recognition running across a thousand enormous data centers absolutely is.

Can't justify the enormous state investment in spying if these high profile assassinations demonstrate the holes in the system. So we just make masks illegal (except on the one day when it makes businesses money) and tell people with weak immune systems to eat shit.

Given the popularity of anti mask overlapping with fundamentalist they would ban Halloween. Possibility even Christmas as the only holiday we are authorized to celebrate is the Lord's Day, Sunday.

Ok, Mayor Adams, you're in favor of a mask ban.

So anyway, back to what we were talking about, why haven't you resigned despite being indicted for corruption and influence-peddling?

Disabled people were some of the first German gas chamber victims.

As a disabled person you’re spot on.

It’s the kind of people saying that disabled people should just “get on with their life” and stop “making everything about their disability”.

Like yeah sure Bradley, I would do that, if I could get on with my life because c*nts like you didn’t deny every attempt at making the world accessible. Maybe if people like you didn’t complain every time a cent was spent on an accessibility fund or on medical research I would actually be able to be getting on with my life.

But no, since we’re treated like shit I have to make “everything about my disability” just for my basic survival. Because if I don’t I’ll just be left in a ditch to starve.

Nassau County in NY state passed a law this summer https://www.nyclu.org/press-release/nassau-county-mask-ban-signed-into-law YES, there are exceptions for health, religious or cultural reasons BUT they've also used it as probable cause to search someone https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nassau-county-police-issue-first-face-mask-ban-violation/5741363/ (it doesn't matter that he was found with a knife. My son wears a mask because he thinks his nose is ugly)

Remember that you're not crazy for or alone in wanting that privacy. If I saw you shooting them out with a pellet gun then no, I didn't.