NO MASK BANS, NO SECRET POLICE.
These are not incompatible goals.

Yes, Law Enforcement Officers must be required to identify themselves at all times by clearly displaying name, agency, and badge number. We need to know who we are dealing with, and it should not be so easy for random people to imitate law enforcement officers.

But they should be wearing respirator masks. The fact that more Immigration officers have died of Covid-19 than of any other cause since 2021 has been cited as indicating that despite their claims they are not subject to violence from immigrants or other members of the public. That's true and important.

But it also indicates that they are disease vectors! They interact with many members of the public and thus have a high chance of contracting and spreading illnesses. LEOs should be wearing high filtration respirators (like N95s, not cloth gaiters, which offer negligible protection against disease).

The Covid-19 pandemic continues: the WHO ended the public health emergency, but notes that "This does not mean the pandemic itself is over."
Influenza is spreading, and people are more vulnerable to other illness because covid (even when asymptomatic) causes immune damage.

ICE officers are sickening enough already. Putting respirators on them would be a win for anyone breathing in their vicinity.

That liberals and progressives think a mask ban is a good idea only shows the extent to which health fascism has succeeded in confusing and misleading the public about public health.

#PortlandOr #PDX #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #NoMaskBan #NoSecretPolice

https://www.portland.gov/council/documents/public-hearing/masking-id-draft-public-hearing

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/ice-deaths-assaults-administration-masks-covid19-shooting-dhs-trump/

https://www.who.int/europe/emergencies/situations/covid-19

https://www.panaccindex.info/p/answered-does-covid-19-impact-the

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/06/27/mask-bans-and-the-age-of-pandemics-and-fascism-and-climate-crisis/

https://peoplescdc.org/no-mask-bans/

WHAT FRESH F£%ING HELL
this is the direct result of #ManufacturingConsent

fuck you, i won’t do what you tell me no matter that the weird looks amongst people are getting more obvious as they are done with decorum

#KennedyCenter #nomaskban

It’s time to boycott the Kennedy Center.

Trump has taken a great American arts institution and started destroying it (like he does with everything he touches)

The Center announced an employee mask ban today, putting the lives of staff and patrons at risk.

Employees must obtain a doctor’s note if they feel their disability merits wearing a mask. They will be forced to divulge medical information to their employer.

Even if they successfully jump through all the hoops, they will be removed from a public facing role.

Everyone needs the right to protect their health. You shouldn’t need to already be disabled to be “allowed” to avoid COVID.

This is about optics and control. They want to promote the narrative that COVID is over, even though they know it’s not true.

This is an inevitable consequence of failure to normalize masks. Please if you can wear a mask, wear one now.

It won’t be long before the fascists ban them altogether.

#maskban #uspoli #fascism #trump #kennedycenter #covidisairborne #covidisnotover #wearamask #nomaskban

Texas and New York are currently trying to enact mask bans, even as measles cases sore and politicians adopt eugenicist mindsets that say it’s our “patriotic duty” to remain healthy.

You know what helps people stay healthy? Wearing a mask.

Don’t let them say medical exemptions are the answer:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/nassau-county-ny-makes-masking-illegal

#uspoli #fascism #texas #newyork #nomaskban #disability #covidisairborne #ableism #eugenics #wearamask

Mask bans are ableist, discriminatory ugly laws.

Disabled advocates have been warning for years that if people didn’t help normalize masking, bans would follow

Please call legislators in New York and tell them No mask bans!

Medical exemptions aren’t enough, everyone needs the legal right to mask

The police are not doctors. They can’t determine who’s “sick enough” to wear a mask.

Many people with invisible illnesses struggle to get healthcare workers to take us seriously. We don’t want to be questioned by police.

Everyone should be allowed to mask up to prevent covid.

#nomaskban #noNYmaskban #CovidIsNotOver #covidisairborne #sarscov2 #uglylaws #fascism #ableism #eugenics #disability

If you think mask bans are “no big deal” because there’s medical exemptions, please consider the following:

😷 Police are not doctors
😷 Many disabilities are invisible
😷 Disabled people don’t live in a bubble. I need my friends and caregivers to mask to protect me
😷 Everyone should have the right to protect their health, you shouldn’t have to already be sick to be permitted to mask
😷 Criminalizing masks sends a message that maskers are “bad”. It emboldens anti-maskers and increases odds of aggression

The reality is that mask bans are discriminatory, ableist and eugenicist. They push disabled people out of public spaces. They put marginalized and POC at increased risk of police profiling.

There’s no official policy for a medical exemption either, it’s at police discretion.

If you’re stopped and questioned, you will have to prove you’re masking for the “right reasons”

I’m more than willing to admit that if I were stopped by a cop for masking, I would appear nervous, shaky, tachycardic and probably “suspicious”.

Not because I’m doing anything wrong, but because my illnesses do not respond well to stress and the police are stressful.

It’s not right to put the onus on the masker to defend their right to mask. We’re still in a global pandemic. Texas has a measles outbreak. There’s tuberculosis in Kansas. Bird flu is spreading and it’s the worst year for influenza A in over a decade.

Masks are a public health tool. They’re a disability accommodation. They should NOT be criminalized.

For more on mask bans and medical exemptions, I wrote an article on the Nassau County ban here:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/nassau-county-ny-makes-masking-illegal

#nomaskban #uspoli #texas #northcarolina #maskban #disability #uglylaws #publichealth #ableism #eugenics #h5n1 #measles #longcovid #covidisairborne

Another day, another attempted mask ban. This time in Maryland.

Please, if you stopped masking we really need you to start again. It will reduce the number of Covid and flu cases, but it will also help normalize masks as a health tool.

Disabled people need you to help fight us these ugly laws:

https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1081F.pdf

#maskbans #uspoli #nomaskban #uglylaws #eugenics #ableism #disability #covidisairborme

North Dakota becomes the latest state to try & enact a mask ban

Pay particular attention to this part of the bill

“With intent to conceal the identity of individual while congregating in a public place with any other individual wearing a mask”

Being masked with other maskers should NOT be a crime

https://ndlegis.gov/content/application-template

#maskban #nomaskban #covidisnotover #uglylaws #uspoli #disability #ableism #disabilityrights