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I don& #39;t know who needs to hear this, but if we criminalize not wearing a face mask rn, the law will not be used to punish the people who you think "deserve it"
I get the anger, everyone in my house is high risk and so are most of my friends tbh
But a carceral solution is not going to help
But a carceral solution is not going to help
1. Say the punishment is "just a fine", but someone can& #39;t pay the fine. What then? Do we put that person in a crowded prison during a pandemic, when we should be working on getting people out of prison?
2. If not wearing a mask is punishable with a fine, that just means it& #39;s legal for rich people.
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3. There are other solutions, like we could make masks free. Hand them out to people who are not wearing one. Do more education on mask wearing. I know, I know: this country.
But I don& #39;t think choosing to criminalize not wearing a mask is going to topple Fox news.
But I don& #39;t think choosing to criminalize not wearing a mask is going to topple Fox news.
4. I know we all hate the people who think the ADA is some sort of "gotcha", but there are legitimately disabled people who can& #39;t wear a mask. Sometimes there are other options, like a face shield. Here& #39;s a v good thread about that. https://twitter.com/allylovespono/status/1275905774875627521?s=19">https://twitter.com/allyloves...
5. Do we really want to give cops another tool to harass Black people? Because you know they will, right? You know that even if a Black person is wearing a mask...cops lie. Right?
6. Plus some white woman is definitely going to say she felt "threatened" because a Black man was wearing a mask in her vicinity. And call 911. You know this, right?
7. We already tried criminalizing people for exposing others, and it didn& #39;t actually help. There are a lot of folks more directly affected already talking about this, you can read more here. https://www.thebody.com/article/policing-pandemics-criminalization-hiv-coronavirus-covid-19-webinar">https://www.thebody.com/article/p...
8. Those photos of crowded beaches pissed me off, too. But there& #39;s a narrative that the rise in COVID cases is due to "selfish individuals" rather than a government that is prioritizing "the economy" over human lives.
8b. We could have just stayed closed, given individuals a lot of stimulus money to pay them so they don& #39;t have to go to work, provided free masks, etc.
Reopening was a choice our government made. Let& #39;s stay mad about that.
Reopening was a choice our government made. Let& #39;s stay mad about that.
8c. I& #39;m also staying mad about being lied to that masks helped.
9. If you know individuals who are not wearing masks, have you tried...talking to them about it? Like I know that some people are not going to listen. But maybe someone has a barrier to wearing a mask that you don& #39;t know about. Or they& #39;re working on misinformation.
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Also here& #39;s some reading on abolition
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Also here& #39;s some reading on abolition
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Addendum: also I get the impulse in thinking people not wearing a mask "deserve" to get COVID, but (a) it will spread, (b) this is just reinforcing the idea that sickness/disability is some kind of moral punishment. Which is a v toxic idea.
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