Dr. Lucky Tran 
When leaders talk about banning masks for safety, they ignore the safety of many diverse communities. People who are higher risk, and Asian people have been attacked for wearing masks. Black and Brown communities are disproportionately targeted by police. Safety means EVERYONE.
There is zero evidence mask bans are effective against crime or hate. But there's a lot of evidence that shows banning masks will put everyone's health at risk, and increases harassment and targeting of higher risk people and communities of color. Mask bans make cities LESS safe.
Femme Malheureuse@luckytran The incidence of COVID outbreaks immediately after maskless Trump campaign rallies compared to the lack of outbreaks following peaceful BLM/George Floyd protests in 2020 offer anecdotal evidence.
Many counties that hosted Trump rallies had a significant increase in Covid-19 cases
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/29/health/covid-trump-rallies-counties-cases/index.html
Black Lives Matter protests and COVID-19 cases: relationship in two databases
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7717330/
J.H.Noyes@femme_mal
Covid is 2x as deadly among American blacks as it is Whites. And if is even deadlier in Native Americans.
At least in the short term. In the long term risk should be about even: early death from age related diseases with a focus on cardiovascular disease and dementia. The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics always collects its due.
@noyes @luckytran @hannu_ikonen BIPOC people have understood that not only were their risks greater, some of the risks would be exacerbated by a racist inequitable health care system.
So they wore masks while protesting.
Whites attending Trump campaign events didn't bother because they didn't expect bad health care treatment if they needed it. Poor foolish Herman Cain.
Lstn2urmama 🇨🇦@luckytran UNLESS THERE IS ULTRIMOTIVES ...
Tomm@luckytran This seems like a reflexive "do something now!" political response to the most recent protests, precisely targeting those that, for privacy reasons, are unlikely to push back publicly.
Jen, MPH has moved see bio@tomm @luckytran the ramifications of knee jerk policies always come back to bite us. Good policies are first examined and edited in order to alleviate unintended consequences, but there still can be some unforeseen issues.
A government that spreads SARS doesn't give a fig for your safety or mine. If you were going to prep an adversarial population for a biological attack, how would you do it any different?
Njord@noyes @luckytran @hannu_ikonen
2020 made the US goivernment's priorities real clear. It had stockpiled enough teargas for soem of the largest and longest protests in history, but ran out of PPE for healthcare workers in days.
Kathmandu
Captain Jack SparrowFunny how these .#MAGA / #GOP / Libertarian / Rightwing arseholes who bang on about freedom of choice are very badly to take it away from other people.
And the rightwing #evangelica - pseudo #Democrats - pseudo #Christian - psuedo #ProLife - pseudo £patriotism arseholes who really don't give a fuck about their fellow citizens or anyone else, they just want to enforce their own dumb orejudices onto everyone else, because that's what fascists do.
Art - US Expat in Spain@luckytran The obvious answer is to massively test the law, force cops to arrest people and make challenges in court. It is absurd. Make the law unenforceable.