Can you imagine being so ignorant that you seek to ban masks.
The considered ban on masks was for protesters.
The idea of not allowing anonymity for protesters has its origins in combating racial violence and the KKK. Klan members suddenly lost a lot of their motivation to assemble in public, once they had to show their faces, those that did were less likely to commit illegal acts and the ones that did break the law were more likely to face legal reprocutions.
The contemplated ban on masks for protesters in Los Angeles was considered following increased violence by masked protesters and was not motivated by covid denial.
We weren't living in a world with cameras everywhere when the KKK needed to be attacked so vigorously. Times have changed and things should be updated. Especially in a world where bigots are fine marching without masks (see Charlottesville).
But, if a protester has covid...?
They haven't thought that far yet 🤔
This just in: more than a single factor can exist.
Sure, a environment guaranteed to enable the rapid spread of any transmissible disease. I bet this ban wouldn't apply to MAGA since they are not protesters. Just concerned citizens with hateful banners and firearms.
People need to stop stereotyping cities as liberal havens.
LMFAO yeah see: NYC. Dude's pretty much a Republican in Democrat fur.
Well it suits a narrative when there are crime and poverty issues to be exploited for publicity and political gain.
Ah, sweet sweet karma. Unfortunately modern medicine for an Important Person with lots of money will limit its reach, but I hope she has a really unpleasant reaction to the antivirals.
This is notably the woman who, in response to a protest of West Bank land sales that was understaffed by the police said the answer is not to boost police presence at contentious protests, but just to do what she wanted to do already, have more police patrols.
Yet another misleading article from u/return2ozma.
The mask ban was for protesters, and has nothing to do with Covid.
Because everyone knows Covid can't spread at protests.
It's about responding to somewhat opposing public safety concerns. As someone else pointed out in this thread, when protestors are allowed to wear masks they are more likely to commit illegal acts, even violent ones. SARS-CoV-2 is no longer a novel virus. There is now significant immunity in the population and our COVID treatments are much improved, meaning the virus no longer constitutes a public health emergency.
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The post title is the same as as the article title. As of right now, article title is: Los Angeles’s Mayor Was Contemplating a Mask Ban. She Just Got Covid.
I didn't say he changed it, but he links these kinds of misinforming stories all the time.
I originally wrote the article was misleading, but since they correct the misleading headline already in the first sentence, that wasn't really true.
So I changed it to the headline which is what is actually misleading.
But since this is misunderstood, I have now changed it back.
The fact of the matter is that u/return2ozma is flooding lemmy.world with misleading stories with misleading headlines, no matter how much they are the original headlines, they remain misleading. Those are often stories that in no way deserve to be spread.
I have certainly criticized OP for posting things before, but I'm really not seeing the issue here with their actions. They posted an informative article that you just need to read to understand the headline... or just read the one-sentence preview if you click on the post to comment.
It isn't their fault that the headline is deceptive. It's a good article from what is normally a trustworthy outlet and it's pretty much your fault if you don't even bother to do the second of the two things I suggested.
"This is bad journalism because I don't like it!"
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