Trump will say anyone masking in public is antifa and start leaning on states and cities to criminalize it. Stores and businesses will mostly happily go along as they don't give a fuck about your safety and worry about it enabling ANY level of shoplifting or crime and it also only would impact a tiny fraction of their customers at this point. Public institutions will fold and treat you like a criminal if you're wearing a mask, the cops will gleefully start targeting anyone wearing a mask in public for inspection, shake-down and harassment.

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago

I have worried about that too, but it got to the point where I realized I could do nothing about it. If they want to ban masks, they'll ban masks, and if they want to use that to bring the hammer down on me, they will. I, in turn, will live by this mantra: "They can pry my mask off with their cold dead hands." But until/unless they dig their own graves by trying to forcibly infect me with covid, I don't worry about what they might do. Maybe they'll do it. Maybe they won't.

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

Dems like Kathy hochul suggested that mask ban too.