I'm surprised that nobody in my state has brought this up, but it is on the books and I once actually arrested someone for it and even had to educate the magistrate about it when I wrote the affidavit for the warrant:
SECTION 16-7-110. Wearing masks and the like.
No person over sixteen years of age shall appear or enter upon any lane, walk, alley, street, road, public way or highway of this State or upon the public property of the State or of any municipality or county in this State while wearing a mask or other device which conceals his identity. Nor shall any such person demand entrance or admission to or enter upon the premises or into the enclosure or house of any other person while wearing a mask or device which conceals his identity. Nor shall any such person, while wearing a mask or device which conceals his identity, participate in any meeting or demonstration upon the private property of another unless he shall have first obtained the written permission of the owner and the occupant of such property.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 16-114; 1952 Code Section 16-114; 1951 (47) 132.
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www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t16c007.phpWell I can't see what the above has to do with the present recommendations that in some areas, masks should be worn. I'm sure that when the above was written up decades ago, Covid 19 and a pandemic which has involved at least 9m American sufferers as we speak wasn't on their minds.
And yes it hasn't even looked like finishing as yet, worldwide as well.
It seems that the overall attitude of many Americans over the years has now got to the stage where they are defying their own health officials who they seem to distrust along with darn near every politician except Trump himself.
It seems strange to me that the Official US Govt unproven story of who the perps were in 9-11 was utterly believed as true, and had the effect of unifying America in a way no other event seems to have since Pearl Harbour, another jack-up by Roosevelt to gain full public support for outright war.
Yet a virus which has neither any respecter of political party or station in life, and which has clamed the lives of 230,000 Americans either directly or indirectly is regarded by some as bullshit just because the majority of sufferers have recovered.
Apart from not taking into account a growing number of Covid 19 sufferers who have sustained debilitating and permanent injury through the virus, it's like saying that Vietnam was bullshit because only 2% of the total number of men and women who served in the Vietnam war was killed.
You know yourselves that in the aftermath of any war, there are many who suffer from permanent wounds which cause continuing pain, both physical and mental/emotional. It's accepted that although exact figures are often controversial, that thousands of Vietnam veterans have committed suicide since, over the years.
On the whole like any war, the consequences of said war do not stop at ceasefire, and even today there are Vietnamese (among them kids) who are either born deformed from Agent Orange or killed by stepping on a mine from those days.
Covid 19 is a serious wartime event. It infiltrates, sabotages, damages, kills, spreads through measures which any other enemy would not be able to. It is unseen, initially unfelt, silent.
The fallout from this virus, whether anybody wants to believe it or not, will always be largely unknown, simply because years down the track some husband or wife will take matters into their own hands through depression or other maladies that render them feeling that they can no longer face life. Others are scarred mentally through brain damage caused directly by the virus etc.
Yet nobody wants to do as they're told, or even advised by their scientists and doctors who are only trying to do their job. And today 19 years after 9-11, America is as divided as it ever could be and still functioning as a country, with its inhabitants railing against paltry measures such as wearing a simple mask for a limited amount of time, whether they are any good or not.
After 9-11, that had around 3000 deaths on the day, there were calls to serve that many answered, on the back of never-proven US Govt story as per who the alleged perps were. Nobody but a few questioned that story, and today the numbers of soldiers and death and destruction in the Middle East goes on and on.
Nineteen years later everybody is at each others' necks, the partisan divisions between the two major parties (now three) with gun-toting loonies carrying military style weapons to usually peaceful gatherings of protest.
In 9-11 Americans were almost entirely united in their belief that 19 Islamic terrorists financed and planned by Bin Laden carried out the four attacks that day. A story with no solid evidence for it. Today Americans have solid evidence right in their faces that more than half the total number of Americans killed in WW2 are dead in less than ten months from a virus for which there is no vaccination as yet in the public domain. Yet rebellion on all fronts in the US is evident almost by the day.
What the hell is going on ?
