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don't be disingenuous. they're clearly different kinds of masks.

• marknutter 2y ago
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  • edm0nd 2y ago
    One is designed to cover your mouth and the other is designed to... cover your whole face.
  • ahmeneeroe-v2 2y ago
    The inability to distinguish between mask types says more about the person who can't do so than it does about the similarity of mask types.
  • exsomet 2y ago
    One is designed to provide medical grade protection for those around you from potential airborne bacteria you expel when you breathe and is primarily used for that purpose. The other is designed for protection from the elements and is primarily useful for establishing anonymity, frequently when breaking the law. Why be on a social forum if you aren’t participating in the conversation in good faith?
• abeppu 2y ago
  This specific charge was not of a person wearing a health-related face-covering, but the law is supposedly motivated by the supposed anonymity of people wearing masks at pro-Palestine protests: > The push to ban masks in some public settings began in June after some pro-Palestinian demonstrators covered their faces during protests. ... and often at those protests, people do wear KN95 and similar masks. In those contexts (dense crowds of people shouting) on its face wearing a mask for health-related reasons does not seem outlandish. And some organizers, specifically trying to make events accessible to people with elevated risks, have advocated masking so they can have more people participate. So while this particular person was wearing a ski-mask, I think it's disingenuous on your part to pretend that mask-bans aren't related to health-related masking.