05-17-2020, 03:54 PM
(05-17-2020, 03:44 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: Including wearing face masks? Great, welcome to the dark side.
That would be more of a "gotcha" moment if the general anti-masker didn't oppose all sorts of freedom in the name of neo-conservative moralism.
I will say that one of the few things I expect a national government to do is defend people from others who would do them harm, so while I wouldn't call NOT wearing a mask in public to be an assault on the same level as shooting at someone I can wrap my head around the notion that having mask-related rules at this time could be spun more as a case of defending the populace rather than some sort of fascist control for the sake of control.
Call me a cynic, but if covid had been unleashed on the American populace by ISIS as a form of biological warfare I sincerely doubt Trump and his fanclub would be so eager to pass it off as something that is overblown and worthy of being ignored.