Emily Johnson: Here’s one disabled person who was arrested this year for wearing a mask to cover facial scars, these laws are being enforced and most often harming Asian, Black and African American people Fight anti-mask bans, even ones with “medical exemptions” — they all harm www.wdbj7.com/2024/04/04/1...

Here’s one disabled person who was arrested this year for wearing a mask to cover facial scars, these laws are being enforced and most often harming Asian, Black and African American people Fight anti-mask bans, even ones with “medical exemptions” — they all harm www.wdbj7.com/2024/04/04/1...

18-year-old charged with violating mask law: ‘I didn’t even know it was a law. Nobody knew it was a law’www.wdbj7.com The law prohibits anyone over the age of 16 from wearing a mask that conceals their identity in public.

Politicians saying they want to pass laws banning or fining mask wearing specifically to respond to Black Lives Matter and Palestinian genocide protestors will take every opportunity to use state violence to harm the right to protect our health of citizens, residents and visitors/tourists

I can’t stress this enough — people travel for medical care and also need medical care while traveling It’s NOT enough to say “thank god I don’t live in LA/North Carolina/New York/Long Island” and other places discussing/passing anti-mask laws We ALL need to protest these laws EVERYWHERE

It figures bsky.app/profile/luck...

How police will enforce a mask ban with a "health exception"

how on earth is this legal

Disabled people highlighted reactionary politics to public health measures for every pandemic and epidemic that experienced the exact same blowback in the last two centuries since early 2020, people of all politics are pretending viruses and infections don’t exist due to “Covid fatigue” … 1/2

+ politicians are removing public health protections as 1) they want to surveil IDs to punish people using First Amendment protesting rights and 2) sicken, disable, kill protestors to weaken protests and/or increase jail/prison populations for free/cheap labor (most homeless folks are disabled) 2/2

This is why disabled people have been on alert about the “homeless people sleeping in public will be arrested” ruling, people are being denied disability benefits at a 60% error rate yet forced to work for nothing in jails/prisons even if too disabled to work www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Judges rebuke Social Security for errors as disability denials stack upwww.washingtonpost.com Federal judges found fault with almost sixty percent of disability cases — the highest rate of rejections in years. But Social Security often rejects their findings.

We had many Asian exchange students where I taught in Hawaii. They all wore masks during flu season. Taught us a valuable lesson in respecting the health & wellbeing of others!

This country is disgusting fucking joke. A complete farce on a good day.

This is a story about a law that is being abused.

The point is that anti-mask laws (which are very old, this is not the first pushback on people masking during pandemics, epidemics and protests) have always been used to harm — this is why we can’t allow any of them

No, it’s about a law that shouldn’t exist.

It is a story about an abusive law.

It's certainly abusive now.

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