People are being fired for wearing a mask to work. This is horrible and against public health. We need to pass laws that explicitly protect the right to mask.
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had to pass up an employment opportunity because they waited until the job offer stage to let me know they loved my interviewing, but that I would not be permitted to wear a mask to work at a customer-facing retail position :'o)
I just had a case of pneumonia and laid in a hospital bed for a week. My doctor told me to please mask up when out due to poor air quality. I’ll be damned if I’d take it off.
ICE's masks don't filter out anything. It's entirely to disguise their faces.
Maybe we should start referring to ICE masks as Gators to distinguish them
When I see someone working w a mask I naturally gravitate toward them (pick their line at grocery store etc) bc it means they care about themselves & others. Why fire these thoughtful people?
Masking up, not down. Let's get real, folks. It's 2023, not 1933. We need laws that protect our health, not our egos. Pass the laws, and the memes, please.
What the hell that's totally anti wellness. I haven't heard of that yet. Everyday the stupidity is reaching a new high isn't it. Also maybe those companies should go bankrupt? Just a thought.
Well, it's going badly for America, doesn't affect me much as I don't live there.
Unless you're extremely vulnerable to infection, wearing a mask now is silly. Plus, it was always more effective at stopping the wearer spreading than becoming infected.
What did these people do before Covid, then? Because I didn't see people wearing masks at work or in the street then, certainly not in the US or most other western countries. It was a part of the culture in parts of Asia, maybe, but not elsewhere.
They need to sue. It invades their personal medical privacy to ask why they're wearing it. Some people may not want to disclose if they're undergoing cancer treatment, etc.
You can't fire someone for wearing a medical boot on their foot or a wrist brace or a hearing aid. 🤷🏼♀️
According to a blind YouTuber I follow, that's not true. You can ask if a dog is a service dog and what service(s) they provide, but you can't ask specific health questions.
I lived in SF for many years. Restaurant owners were absolutely NOT allowed to ask about dogs. But it might be a CA law? I’m not sure. I’ll read up on it….thanks!
You know, if you make it, “explicitly protect the right to mask,” some dumbass from a clan that made its money smuggling booze will come up with a narrowly tailored rule that meets the test but fails the people. Why not, “Protects the right to use prophylactic measures against disease”?
Sucks considering Covid is going around. I work for a home project company, I have had installers call in sick, both of my managers have been sick and my husband and I have been sick. I didn’t test for covid this time but the symptoms were similar as the last time, although not quite as bad.
Federal bill (2024) — to injure or intimidate
Called “Unmasking Antifa,” this bill reintroduces a bill that died in 2018. It would make it illegal to wear a “disguise, including while wearing a mask, to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate” another person. https://thesicktimes.org/mask-bans-and-proposed-bans-by-state/
Haha, after I hit reply I wasn't sure if that was clear. But I meant people being fired for masking. Even though posts like this without context are frustrating and not likely to end anytime soon either.
I can't get vaccinated right now so, I wear a mask to stay well. If it is my health that I'm protecting I will continue. I'm surprised someone can tell you that you can't. I would definitely have that in writing and sent them the bills when I got ill.....
In late 2001, in the wreckage zone surrounding the World Trade Center, a number of office buildings reopened and ordered their employees back. The air was foul and corrosive. Management of ours installed box fans with ineffective HVAC filters and assured employees it was safe.
...not so much, so I brought a combination cartridge filter mask in from home, the kind you use for spray painting. Management was not pleased. "...worrying the other employees." Well, good, I guess?
They have turned into a vile company. I feel awful for the workers. In Asia, it is common for restaurant staff to be masked. The US is going backwards a few centuries at a time and so many idiots are proud of that.
We have those rights already, via our Constitution and ill of Rights. Maybe we just need to eliminate those who ignore our laws in ways that cause death. When they create situations that cause death, we are well within our rights to defend ourselves. The only way this ends is if they are no longer.
I have vocal cord dysfunction from pneumonia 15 years ago. I have been told by multiple doctors to stay masked around people not only for the avoiding-germs thing but also because if someone is wearing too strong a perfume I can get sent to the hospital.
So yeah mask bans would kill me.
People need to wear masks in public and at work for all kinds of reasons. When flu, cold, and COVID season start, I wear a mask to my job every day because I work with an elderly population, which is more susceptible to disease. I don't want to be responsible for exposing them to these viruses.
I had a funeral and a school event to go to last week.
I also had a bad cold.
So - I tested for COVID the day before the funeral, and when the test was negative, I went to the funeral & the school event WEARING A MASK.
Not been fired yet because nobody has been willing to even hire me for 3 years. No, I won't say I don't mask and then show up masked. Believe it or not I still think it's important to be respectful to an employer even when they won't hire someone who masks.
And yet GOP refuse common sense gun laws! The NRA must really have a tight hold on them. Children die regularly on school campuses & it’s just become commonplace. A middle school teacher told me the kids aren’t even worried anymore. They’ve done the drills since kindergarten. This is evil.
How will we handle the opposite? I warn people coming to work for me that they need to mask when in the same room with me or talking with me.
People who aren't masking here are fine with doing it for me when working for me. They may think it's nonsense, but they do it. (I will provide N-95s, too.)
MAGA then:
"Masks are a communist, marxist threat to our country"
MAGA now:
"Of course the ICE agents have to mask up to hide their identities. The communist, marxist democrats (insert your choice of AOC, Schumer Pelosi) brought this upon us"
Considering masks are as much an empowering health provision as eyeglasses, we look forward to seeing the growing class action lawsuits. Accessible personal accommodations for health and wellness are a BENEFIT to a society that respects labor AND community 💖
My bff just finished her chemo. Her immune system is down (which wasn't great to begin with). She can't afford to catch anything from anyone, so she wears a mask when out. So, wtf???
That is ridiculous! When someone isn't feeling their best but still had to come to work, the employer should want them to wear a mask. Losing all employee to COVID or something worse is not very productive.
I'd rather get fired, than get covid or some other totally preventable disease. BTW, if I got covid at work due to some insane policy of no masking, I'd sue that workplace for the last penny they had.
Not gonna happen. Cases went thru the court system and companies protected themselves. This is how they were aggressively in position to push for return to the office.
Capitalism for making money, not for considering the people.who make the money
The Starbucks one has been hard to verify given the vagueness of what was written in their code and I suspect it may be store specific to fight it based on how managers interpret the dress code. But I wrote to Starbucks regardless and said if masks are banned then I was boycotting.
At certain points during the year, it’s just common sense
I was a critical care provider during the pandemic -
While I was still admitting patients to the ICU, counting the moments until they needed to be paralyzed -the public was bitching about masks
This isn’t new
This is what so many wanted
🤷♀️
Then they cry when we become disabled/chronically ill
“We waste all our funds on the chronically ill people”
Make up your fucking minds, do you want us to protect ourselves or get sick and become disabled?
Saving Leprechauns, Nymphs and Fairies too!
I’ll be riding a unicorn 🦄
Hopefully no one will notice …unless it farts…for it farts rainbows and then all the little creatures come out and dance in the rainbow light to recharge their superpowers.
Ooh! I can’t wait to see! I’ll bring my granddaughter too, she loves all things glittery & rainbow 🌈!!! Let me know when to expect the show! Hey, what about showing up at trump’s military parade???? That would be GREAT 👍🏻!!! 😉
We’re booked for another kiddie party.
We only do party’s where conscientious adults monitor their littles behavior for the safety of magical creatures and littles.
No one monitors this 🍊 💩 and his outbursts. This puts everyone in danger.
I’m sorry but I will wear a mask if sick to not get coworkers sick.
I also want coworkers with immune compromised selves or family to wear a mask so they stay healthy.
People in Asia have worn masks to curb germ spread long before this last pandemic for that very reason.
Grow up and face reality.
What happened to “my body my choice,” MAGAs were screaming when ASKED to wear masks. Now we who feel more comfortable in certain circumstances masking, will be punished???
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(in a blue state & blue county, btw!)
That seems to work.
Maybe we should start referring to ICE masks as Gators to distinguish them
Wretched.
how's that goin so far?
Unless you're extremely vulnerable to infection, wearing a mask now is silly. Plus, it was always more effective at stopping the wearer spreading than becoming infected.
Or that services for at-risk people will be used by those people, and so the staff should
mask?
Do you actually think people should be fired for it?
What, precisely, is 'delusional' about what I'm saying? That's how masks work.
Ta!
Post the name of the business so I and others can punish by withholding our financial support.
You can't fire someone for wearing a medical boot on their foot or a wrist brace or a hearing aid. 🤷🏼♀️
Called “Unmasking Antifa,” this bill reintroduces a bill that died in 2018. It would make it illegal to wear a “disguise, including while wearing a mask, to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate” another person.
https://thesicktimes.org/mask-bans-and-proposed-bans-by-state/
https://www.wlns.com/news/worker-says-he-was-fired-for-wearing-a-mask/
I don't see an end in sight for either. 😆
My throat said...
At least they gave me a buyout.
So yeah mask bans would kill me.
I also had a bad cold.
So - I tested for COVID the day before the funeral, and when the test was negative, I went to the funeral & the school event WEARING A MASK.
Stay healthy.
It took a few days though.
I guess it’s ok to mask if you’re using it to conceal your identity while disappearing people… that seems to be the logic
Bonkers.
People who aren't masking here are fine with doing it for me when working for me. They may think it's nonsense, but they do it. (I will provide N-95s, too.)
"Masks are a communist, marxist threat to our country"
MAGA now:
"Of course the ICE agents have to mask up to hide their identities. The communist, marxist democrats (insert your choice of AOC, Schumer Pelosi) brought this upon us"
MAGA has always taken the position that no one can force them to wear a mask but they can force us not to.
Not freedom of religion- freedom to shove my form of Christianity down your throat- legally.
Capitalism for making money, not for considering the people.who make the money
how can we help ?
force !!
I was a critical care provider during the pandemic -
While I was still admitting patients to the ICU, counting the moments until they needed to be paralyzed -the public was bitching about masks
This isn’t new
This is what so many wanted
🤷♀️
“We waste all our funds on the chronically ill people”
Make up your fucking minds, do you want us to protect ourselves or get sick and become disabled?
As noted?earlier: is wearing a cast now not allowed now?
I’ll be riding a unicorn 🦄
Hopefully no one will notice …unless it farts…for it farts rainbows and then all the little creatures come out and dance in the rainbow light to recharge their superpowers.
We only do party’s where conscientious adults monitor their littles behavior for the safety of magical creatures and littles.
No one monitors this 🍊 💩 and his outbursts. This puts everyone in danger.
I also want coworkers with immune compromised selves or family to wear a mask so they stay healthy.
People in Asia have worn masks to curb germ spread long before this last pandemic for that very reason.
Grow up and face reality.
Mask approved