I'd like to point out to anyone who thinks that "you do you" public health is sustainable that it's illegal to wear a mask in many public places in the US. This has only been on hold because of the emergency declaration and that's about to end.
For example, let me introduce you to my local law in Florida. Florida State statute 876.12:
Wearing mask, hood, or other device on public way.—No person or persons over 16 years of age shall, while wearing any mask, hood, or device whereby any portion of the face is so hidden, concealed, or covered as to conceal the identity of the wearer, enter upon, or be or appear upon any lane, walk, alley, street, road, highway, or other public way in this state.
This law was pointed out to my wife by a law enforcement officer who really wanted to arrest her for wearing a mask in a grocery store last year.
If you think you're going to be able to avoid COVID after the end of the emergency declaration you'd better be a full on hermit who never has to venture out.
@BE Wow. That's pretty facist, and it's not even close to the most facist thing Florida has done in the last few weeks.
The enforcement is absolutely fascist.
The real problem is that it's an anti-KKK law that's been on the books since 1951, many states have them, and *prior* to the pandemic they've been used against people wearing masks in public for allergies or chemical sensitivities by some police departments.
I really just want to point out to people that they've lived their entire pandemic timeframe in a declared emergency, and when that ends in a few months a lot of things that they thought they knew are going to be different.
