If you’re upset about having to wear a mask in public to protect other people from catching coronavirus from you, you don’t have to be upset long.
The North Carolina General Assembly adjourned on Friday, June 26 and didn’t pass legislation making it legal for adults to wear masks in public after August 1.
At the beginning of May, the legislature passed a law that temporarily lifted the restriction on adults wearing masks in public, but that “fix” expires August 1.
So imagine this: If Gov. Roy Cooper has found a way to extend his executive order requiring people to wear masks until August, or if Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan decides to reinstate the mask order, then persons could get stopped by police, and if they were wearing a mask they could be charged with violating the state statute and if they weren’t wearing a mask they could be charged with violating the emergency order.
Many have forgotten that when the Greensboro City Council first advised people to wear masks in public, it was illegal. Cooper’s stay-at-home executive order issued on March 27 doesn’t recommend, much less require, wearing masks in public.
When the legislature held a special session in April mainly to determine how to spend all the federal CARES Act money, but also to make some adjustments for the pandemic. As part of the COVID-19 Recovery Act, a section was added making wearing a mask in public legal, but that portion of the law expires on August 1.
The legislature at one point had an extension of that law in a bill being considered just before the legislature finally adjourned at about 3:30 a.m. on Friday, June 26. For some reason that has not been explained, at least not to the public, it was removed from the bill before it came up for a vote.
So the original expiration date of the law making it legal to wear a mask in public still expires on August 1.
I appreciate all that Greensboro’s mayor and the council has done to protect its citizens . I think that Governor Cooper has put his job on the line by doing what was and is necessary for public health. He did what needed to be done. If he hadn’t we would be in the same boat as Florida and Texas. All this was done in spite of having no support or leadership from the potus who is ignorant, illiterate and hateful to all who do not look, think or act like him. He makes Henry the VIII look good. May the history book make this all clear. The republican would rather support this shadow of a man than chance having Democrats at the helm, reminds me of the civil war. No matter if they are wrong and know they are wrong but deny and fight just so they can claim control.
Damn, sweetie… get back on those meds, pronto!
don’t be condescending. ruins your argument.
Jessica, you do know that President Lincoln was a Republican, right? Or is your argument that Lincoln was wrong to stand up against Democrat led support of slavery because he just wanted to fight a Democrat led Confederacy that disagreed with him?
Interesting point of view, I suppose. However, one might argue that that today’s endless list of Democratic government handouts are just another form of slavery, indentured service at best. Democrats believe that If they give you enough free stuff, you will vote for them, so that they can keep giving you free stuff. Never enough to be on your own, just enough to get by as long as the hand outs keep coming. Remember though, if you ever betray them, if theu ever lose power, you will die, because you cannot live without the Democratic govenrment’s help. Ridiculous. Telling your own constituents that they are not good enough to survive without your help is demeaning and disempowering.
Side note: A cloth mask does nothing to stop the spread of germs. It only stops large globules of spit and saliva from projecting from your mouth. Airborne germs pass right through. If you don’t believe me, go find some road kill, stand over it with your mask on, and breath deeply. If you can smell the stink of decay, you are also breathing in the germs that create that smell. If airborne E-bola or the Plague were out there, would you travel confidently with a cloth mask as your only protection? I think not. It’s a sham.
Unfortunately Jessica your comments are wasted in this republican rag. I also think Gov Cooper has done an admiral job and hopefully November will give him an A+ for his final grade. The Governor has fought an unending headwind of republican spew that initiates from the top of the dung heap from their lord master, POCOTUS. I only read this “news” vehicle to find out what is going on in County Government, otherwise it is no better than FAUX entertainment network.
Take your pills, honey!
Poor, poor Jessica. So misinformed, such a sheep. Let’s hope she goes baaaaah-ck under the rock she crawled from.
Lot of ugliness on here today…..