set financial penalties
for members of Congress who come to the House floor sans mask, imposing a $500 fine for a first offense and $2,500 for a second offense. Biden, who will take office on Jan. 20, implored Americans to take the virus seriously and emphasized his plans to impose a mask mandate on public transit. "For God's sake, wear a mask if not for yourself but for your loved ones — for your country," he said. "These are real matters of life and death."
Since the pandemic began in the US, roughly 23.5 million people have been infected and over 392,000 people have died,
Poor guy.....
To some freedom is getting to breath the horseshit we be spewing
Those GOPers realize that masks don't do squat for Covid.
The Republican movement is not about being reasonable or responsible. It's about being belligerent about what you believe to be your rights, even if that means hurting other people. It's about turning 'rights' into a weapon, the same way they weaponized religious freedom.
81 million plus have been trying to figure out what's the matter with Republicans for a long time.
The threat of dictatorship comes from monopolists who have created a ruling coalition of American neoliberalism; this coalition includes corporate media, Wall Street, the intelligence community, the tech giants Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple.
Joey...we’ve been playing this game for 10 months now. The masks just aren’t working. How come you just can’t get that? We have various vaccines causing various issues with people too. Good thing it’s a small minority, but it’s still an issue.