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Cindi's avatar

Masks serve a couple of purposes - allows the hive-mind tribe to identify each other & for the rest of us, identifies who they are so we can laugh & avoid them. I do feel sorry for those still FORCED to wear them though.

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Speaking of burqas...there were bans against them, all facial coverings, including face masks under international law upheld just months before they were made mandatory. For the health of society. The rulings seemingly vanished because of a flu just months after they were upheld. For the health of civil society as a whole, not simply to prevent medical harm to the wearer from inhaling hazardous biological waste over and over.

International Law (Pre-2020). Broadly known as the "Burqa Ban's. But applied to all facial coverings, including masks. Unobstructed faces deemed especially important in public settings, like public transportation:

2014

"Judges at the European court of human rights (ECHR) have upheld France's burqa ban, accepting Paris's argument that it encouraged citizens to "live together".

The law, introduced in 2010, makes it illegal for anyone to cover their face in a public place...the law was not aimed at the burqa or veil but any covering of the face in a public place...

...The European judges decided...that the preservation of a certain idea of "living together" was the "legitimate aim" of the French authorities.

Isabelle Niedlispacher, representing the Belgian government, which introduced a similar ban in 2011 and which was party to the French defence, declared both the burqa and niqab "incompatible" with the rule of law.

Aside from questions of security and equality, she added: "It's about social communication, the right to interact with someone by looking them in the face and about not disappearing under a piece of clothing."

The French and Belgian laws were aimed at "helping everyone to integrate", Niedlispacher added."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/01/france-burqa-ban-upheld-human-rights-court

2019 - Ruling just months before masks became mandatory.:

"On August 1, 2019, the “Act Partially Prohibiting Face-Covering Clothing,”also known as the “Burqa Ban,” entered into force in the Netherlands. The Act prohibits the wearing of clothing that completely or partially conceals the face in spaces where people are expected to communicate with each other. Thus, face-covering clothing is banned on public transportation and in educational, governmental, and nursing care institutions, but is still allowed in such public spaces as on train platforms. The ban applies to burqas, niqabs, full-face helmets, balaclavas, and masks, but not to headscarves."

https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2019-08-27/netherlands-burqa-ban-enters-into-force/

Western nations imposing mask mandates not only harm the individual health of those they purport to protect, they harm the collective health of society. And freedom.

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