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UK Gvmt Say Mask Wearing At Protests Will Soon Be Illegal
(www.theguardian.com)
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First they force you to wear masks in public, then they ban it. Fucking clowns.
Nah, not this rhetoric. Masks were mandatory because of COVID, and that was the right move. Get out of here with your bad-by-association argument. Making masks mandatory then was the right move. Banning masks during protests is not the right move. Both these facts are not mutually exclusive.
When you make such weak, bad faith arguments, you only give fuel for the other side to break down even your valid arguments.
There are plenty of reasons to call UK clowns, but masks during this centuries worst version of the black death (so far) isn't one of them.
I think I need to clarify.
I support mask wearing, I wore one despite being legally exempt on health grounds (autism).
The fact is covid is still here, if anything wearing masks at a large scale gathering like a protest is still a very good idea on health grounds, especially for those with weakened immune systems, the unvaccinated, etc. It's utterly mad to ban a protection device you once mandated when the problem it protects from never went away.