North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) issued an executive order on Wednesday mandating that everyone going outside their homes wear masks or any other type of facial covering to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The order requires people to wear masks while visiting retail stores, restaurants, day cares or any other places out in public if they cannot maintain a physical distance of six feet. The only exceptions are for children under 11 years old and those with certain medical conditions that prevent them from covering their faces.
In his statement, Cooper described the requirement as a “simple way to control this virus while we protect ourselves and the people around us.”
“We’re adding this new requirement because we don’t want to go backward,” the governor said. We want to stabilize our numbers so we can continue to safely ease restrictions, and most importantly, get our children back in school.”
Tyranny!
So, are they still having part of the Republican National Convention there? That will be fun.
But mah freedumb!
But mah freedom! (typed before Tena dropped hers haha)
We could of avoided a lot of deaths and economic pain if the entire country started doing this back in January.
Every RWNJ (and some others I’m sure) on my recent mid-May flight simply claimed “medical condition” to avoid wearing masks (and I understand it would be hard for flight attendants to be put in the that situation - air marshals, anyone?). Complained to airline (Southwest) that I won’t fly them again until they require masks onboard, but you can see the same thing will happen here. An allowance for medical condition will be abused to the point of making the order useless. Hate to say it, but we need proof of medical condition, or in-house quarantine if you have a medical condition for any of this to have any effect.