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"Maryland lawmakers and advocacy groups hope to pass a bill that would prohibit law enforcement officers and agents from wearing face coverings or masks during normal operations."

#Maryland #LawEnforecement #MaskBan #ICENews #ICE
https://dbknews.com/2026/03/09/maryland-bill-law-enforcement-face-coverings/

Update: #California Can’t Officially Enforce #MaskBan, Federal Judge Rules

https://lataco.com/masked-law-enforcement-ban

Although the court had found that federal agents can do their jobs without wearing masks, the law, as is, does not apply equally to law enforcement officers across the state, the judge cited as cause for her ruling.

#LA Council Members Roast Chief McDonnell For Suggesting That #LAPD Will Not Enforce #MaskBan

https://lataco.com/city-council-mask-ban

During Tuesday’s meeting, Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson described the chief’s comments as “disturbing” and “wholly unacceptable."

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

In recent weeks & days, the #Trump admin began a review of $9B in federal contracts & grants to #Harvard; called for restrictions including a #MaskBan & *#DEI* removal; threatened to strip Harvard of its #TaxExempt status; & demanded info on some #visa holders at Harvard w/ a threat to take away its ability to enroll #foreign #students.
Harvard on Monday rejected numerous demands that it said would cede control to the govt. The Trump admin subsequently said it was freezing $2.3B in funding.
#law

Veterinarians Working on #BirdFlu, Pet Food Safety Fired in HHS Purge

#CatHealth #RFK #N95 #MaskBan #PublicHealthAttack
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/02/bird-flu-fda-veterinarians-laid-off/

Trump Targets #Disabled with #MaskBan

- #AI can ID perps with masks: no legit reason to ban
- Masks collect DNA: benefit to police
- Trump cronies ban masks to forbid disabled from protesting
- #N95 🖕
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/columbia-university-mask-ban-trump-administration-demands/

Apparently Columbia University has agreed to Trump administration demands:

https://abc7ny.com/post/trump-columbia-university-work-stops-researchers-funding-pulled-antisemitism-campus/16064110/

But I'd still urge US folks to call their congress rep to say these kind of research funding cuts are unacceptable.

You can remind your congress rep that ME/CFS research is badly underfunded.

You can also say ME/CFS patients are against mask bans because masks are needed to protect our health!

@mecfs

#MEcfs #LongCovid #Research #Resist #USPol #MaskBan #CovidIsNotOver

New York Governor Hochul is trying to sneak a mask ban into the budget, despite the opposition of many disabled & high risk people who NEED masks to safely access public spaces.

Criminalizing masks during an airborne pandemic, while measles is on the rise, is dangerous, ableist & eugenicist.

Call and email elected officials and tell them you oppose mask bans and that medical exemptions are NOT sufficient

https://gothamist.com/news/gov-hochul-is-pushing-a-last-minute-subway-mask-ban-in-state-budget-talks

#maskban #noNYmaskban #ableism #eugenics #uglylaws #newyork #uspoli #covidisairborne #covidisnotover

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

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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

Jfc the president of my school just sent out an email titled, "Starting a special year with a renewed commitment to belonging," that lays out why they are soft banning masks on campus.

The policy states that campus security will determine whether you're wearing a mask for health or to conceal your identity. If they believe it is the latter, they will ask you to remove your mask to be identified.

Not only does that pose a health risk, it will most certainly result in an I crease of racial profiling on campus.

Wtf.

#CovidCautious #MaskUp #COVID #MaskBan #Canada #BIPOC #A11y #DisabilityJustice

Graphic by virgoakahater

#mask #masking #MaskBan #disability #covid #NoNYMaskBan #CovidIsNotOver

Mask bans re-emerging and gaining momentum. To all on "the left": so many of us have been trying to warn again and again, you *have* to hold the line, no one left behind, and keep reinforcing pandemic precautions, and keep fucking masking up! One break in our defences, one compromise in our solidarity, and fascism finds a way through: https://www.mediaactivist.com/recovering-from-shock/ #fascism #MaskBan #MaskUp #KeepMasking #CovidIsNotOver

I wish those Nassau County fascists were honest about it. They could have required people to wear identifying bar codes while in public instead. That would have accomplished their stated purpose.

Their real purpose was to say "fuck you" to people trying to stop the spread of deadly pathogens.

Sociopathic morons. Elected. What a shithole society.

#maskban

I'm hoping that the law of unintended consequences for stupid, stupid, stupid government actions applies to the Nassau mask ban, and someone develops a transparent COVID-proof face covering, so that not only does the mask ban not force people to risk their health, but it leads to vastly more people masking all the time.

#Nassau #MaskBan #COVID

From Alice Wong:

"Mask Bans Insult Disabled People, Endanger Our Health, and Threaten Our Ability to Protest"

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/mask-bans-disabled-people-protest

#Disability #Disabled #ChronicIllness #MaskBan #Masks #DisabilityVisibility