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Santa Cruz County issues face mask order
KSBW ^ | Apr 23, 2020 | Josh Copitch

Posted on 04/23/2020 8:11:06 PM PDT by artichokegrower

The Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency has issued an order requiring face masks.

The order requires the use of "face coverings" with the goal of slowing the spread of the coronavirus. The covering is allowed to be homemade

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People who don't follow the order face a misdemeanor and a fine.


Get ready as this is coming to you and your town/county. This is like living as a woman in Iran. If you don't wear the headgear the Islamic police will come and cite you, fine you and arrest you.

1 posted on 04/23/2020 8:11:06 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Yes it starts in Houston Monday...hoping AG Paxton will burst forth on this. In the meantime, Houston Police Officers Union leader has basically insinuated his guys probably will ignore the Columbian’s edict


2 posted on 04/23/2020 8:16:09 PM PDT by magna carta
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To: artichokegrower
Burka time!


3 posted on 04/23/2020 8:18:13 PM PDT by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists - redundant labels.)
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To: artichokegrower

Bring it on!!

I refuse to wear a mask.

They have to prove I have the virus.

Without on the spot testing with quick results, they have no case.

F them. I am so tired of these NAZI’S.


4 posted on 04/23/2020 8:20:02 PM PDT by HypatiaTaught
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To: artichokegrower

Cheesecloth is good.


5 posted on 04/23/2020 8:28:31 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: magna carta

With an expected CV death in Texas of only 957 by AUGUST!!! Give me a break. The HPD has already said this is ridiculous. Yeah, spend your time arresting me for not wearing a mask and throw me in jail while someone is robbing my house!!!


6 posted on 04/23/2020 8:31:04 PM PDT by carikadon (Don't mess with Texas)
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To: HypatiaTaught

Responsible, civic-minded, moral people will wear a mask because it’s the right thing to do. Masks (mostly) protect other people. You wear your mask to protect others, and others wear those to protect you. Read Mark 12:31 to understand why that’s important.

Moral people understand that it is their responsibility to prove (at least to themselves) they don’t have the virus; or else to act as if they did and wear the mask. Consider the spread of HIV/AIDS, if you still don’t understand why you could not be more wrong about this.


7 posted on 04/23/2020 8:56:11 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

I think the spread of HIV/AIDS is more relevant to your world than mine


8 posted on 04/23/2020 9:16:25 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

You sound like an advocate for the Niqab, the face cover that Muslim women wear.

Sorry, the CFR of this “virus”, case fatality rate is between .01 and .03. Similar to the flu.

Old folks and people who have secondary illnesses can stay home or wear their masks.

I have an excellent immune system and I am not wearing the bloody mask. Preach your control somewhere else.


9 posted on 04/23/2020 9:23:01 PM PDT by HypatiaTaught
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To: artichokegrower

Masks just makes liberals feel good. Nothing more. All the liberals around here wear them everywhere all the time and have been for three to four weeks


10 posted on 04/23/2020 9:51:56 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv mint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

No, you wear a mask if you’re sick. That protects others.

A healthy person wearing a mask projects fear. In a state whereas there is no justification whatsoever for such compelled actions, it’s a slippery slope of tyranny borne of those who see this ‘crisis’ as a “tremendous opportunity”.

Notably, in addition to fear, it also projects incredible ignorance:

An airborne virus 80-120 nm in size cannot be stopped by a piece of cloth, let alone a surgical mask which is not sealed to the face like a good quality N95 or better.

Worse, in spite of there being ‘medical grade’ N95 masks, there is NO MASK ON THE PLANET which is biological-certified for airborne virus. The best there is to this level are “CDC guidelines for Mycobacterium tuberculosis exposure control”...a bacterium MUCH LARGER than coronavirus (2000-4000% larger!). This is why there are BSL levels of safety for research which include full isolation.

Worse still is the logic of those who project such fear on others.

An analogy is a phrase used by abortionists: “My body, my choice.” (a phrase I now love throwing back in liberals’ faces)

I could argue that point in defense of not wearing a mask, yet the fearful among us will always leap to the logical fallacy like Cuomo did the other day when attacking the ‘liberate’ protests: Not wearing a mask - just like ending the lockdown - means illness (or death) to others.

Really? Well when the logical fallacy is applied to abortionists, it could be said that an abortionist is party to a conspiracy to premeditated murder of someone’s mother or father and, on that basis, I’d be justified to take them out RIGHT NOW just for supporting abortion (for the benefit of others who want to apply this logic to hysterical liberals supporting draconian, unjustified rules like this).

I could also argue against the imposition of your logic, which from your standpoint you presume a biblical interpretation prescribes that I treat you (my neighbor) equally as you would do to be (wear a mask), yet the very act of supporting a compelled act without justification other than fear is tyranny and, using your logic, you now fall under the definition of ‘domestic enemy’.

What do you think my justified act would be now, using your logical fallacy?


11 posted on 04/23/2020 9:53:28 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Wearing a mask is in NO way my "civic responsibility" and I'm not buying what you're trying to sell me. This newest tactic to force a form of "portable isolation" on healthy people as the Chinese Virus continues to wane is not only dehumanizing (similar in every respect to what the islamic savages who force women to wear a face covering -- a burka -- that denies them their humanity, as a person is known by their face), wearing a mask as a way to avoid spreading the Chinese Virus is unnecessary in most social situations and only marginally effective due to the fact that most people have no idea of how to select, apply, wear and maintain a mask.

How you behave "socially responsible" when outdoors (that is, when you're not in a densely packed environment like on a bus or in a subway car) is to maintain the [anti]-social two-yard distance from every other human being you encounter and, MOST IMPORTANT, don't go the f*ck outside if you're sick ... whether or not you're wearing a G-D mask or if you're still terrorized by this virus! Just stay home and stop making your town look like an infirmary in some third-world fauci-hole of a country or like an antifa convention is in town by pushing these masks! Got it?! It's really not that hard to understand.

12 posted on 04/23/2020 9:54:53 PM PDT by glennaro
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To: logi_cal869
How do you know whether you're sick or not? Most people don't know their status yet. The infection rate appears to be higher than previously thought. If you haven't been tested, or haven't recovered from the disease, you may be an asymptomatic carrier. If you are reckless, and people die as a result, how is that not negligent homicide?
13 posted on 04/23/2020 10:03:44 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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The covering is allowed to be homemade

Think I'll take an old bra of my wife's, cut it in half, and fashion some way to keep it attached around my head. That way we'll both have face masks.

14 posted on 04/23/2020 10:04:40 PM PDT by Ratman0823 (2020 Logic: We all stand together when we all stand apart!)
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To: glennaro

You’re acting like the worst stereotypes leftists use against Trump supporters. If Trump loses in November, look in the nearest mirror for whom to blame.


15 posted on 04/23/2020 10:08:57 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: HypatiaTaught

Sad, just sad.


16 posted on 04/23/2020 10:12:13 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: artichokegrower

“So how did you meet”?
“It was that mask she was wearing, I’ve always loved dragonfly’s.”
“Something about that mask he was wearing projected strength and masculinity.


17 posted on 04/23/2020 10:30:32 PM PDT by Varsity Flight (QE 2020. All Quiet on the Western Front)
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To: artichokegrower
The order requires the use of "face coverings" with the goal of slowing the spread of the coronavirus. The covering is allowed to be homemade

I request clarification:

Must all persons (incl., e.g., 2-year-old children) wear a mask whenever appearing outside in public?

Or is a mask required only when, e.g., entering a "public convenience" (place of business, govt. building, etc.)?

Regards,

18 posted on 04/23/2020 11:26:45 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
There simply is no reasoning with someone such as yourself who is so filled with fear of living, who is so willing to give up their liberty and control of their own lives to power-obsessed politicans, who so worships "experts" and is so eager to accept as gospel truth every word, every theory, every prediction they spout although these "experts" are so often wildly wrong in their predictions (predictions they assure us are not only inevitable, but are infallible and unquestionable ... although as regards the Chinese Virus these "experts" were over 150 times "wrong" -- that is, greater than two orders of magnitude from reality) and for who there is not a shred of wisdom as evidenced by their truly disasterous public policy mandates, and who is so willing to destroy their livelihood and their society that they are incapable and so weak to fight back.

Although you did not -- and I expect would not -- ask for it I cannot help feeling pity for you. That even though you have, as have we all, seen first-hand the ugly face of tyranny (fortunately limited in scope due to the nature of the mediocre politicians who, drunk with their self-anointed vast new powers and driven by their larger-than-life egos, have been only marginally, and I expect temporarily once men recover from their fear-induced mental paralysis, effective) you remain committed to the Leftist secular theology that life can be made completely safe if only we would listen to the "right" politicians and to all those "experts" who have only our "best interests at heart" and who are "doing these things for our own good". Well, from what I've witnessed over the past few weeks I don't believe a word they say ... I form my opinions based only on their actions and the results of their actions.

So while my heart feels pity, my mind knows that this cannot ever be allowed to happen again in America. I care not one whit about what people on the Left and what people in other countries think of me, of other patriotic Americans or of America. So go ahead and live your life under the banner of "better safe than sorry" and accepting "it is what it is" ... but I shall not; I will not. And I thank a merciful God -- a "just" God -- that Donald Trump is President and that he will, your desire to "prove me wrong" be damned -- continue to lead America for another four years in this now-turned-vicious fight with the Democrat/Left for the soul of America. Cheers & sincere best wishes for your continued good health. GA

19 posted on 04/24/2020 6:43:53 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
It is WELL-ESTABLISHED that this virus is dangerous only to about 15% of the population, so why the F are you falling on the side of the tyrannical to compel compliance with 100% of the population when only the 15% need to be isolated and/or wearing masks and the rest of us get immune (the latter being the ONLY defense against this bug at this time)???

I presume from your handle, of course, that you are not American. Thus the following is only partly applicable:


20 posted on 04/24/2020 7:05:58 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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