I wonder where that energy was in the 852nd month of "two weeks to flatten the curve". 🤔
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Good luck enforcing this. I have a right to protest, and I also have an autoimmune disease that means I will wear a mask in public spaces on the advice of my doctor, especially when there’s a new strain of covid.
Look forward to many, many federal cases under the Americans with Disabilities Act, dipshits.
Americans with disabilities act in England? How does that work?
Yeah, I skimmed it, and read UK as US.
Sorry, I have dual citizenship and sometimes conflate the two. Deleted my comment as erroneous.
Antifa ain't happy about that.
Does it apply to FFP2 respirators?
Are they going to arrest Muslim women with face coverings?
Burka-ban has already been introduced in Austria. Didn't really work because that was just before covid but they sure as shit tried.
Yeah lol of course, they would absolutely love any excuse to do that
But they already made protest illegal.
Fuck this country. I'm moving out.
You know what I hate about it? I've always been quite the anglophile, but never saw the chance to move there because I was uneducated. Now they might even want me to come and I don't think I want to anymore :(
They need the facial recognition software to do it's thing so they can make sure life gets difficult for anyone conscious of their actions.
Hmm… I may be mistaken but can they not already arrest troublemakers, arsonists, violent/aggressive individuals and other sort of rioters/agitators with preexisting laws/bylaws/regulations ?
On the other hand, I'm trying to see the silver lining here… perhaps this new law will make it difficult for agent provocateur¹ from operating without repercussions and anonymity unless the law specifically has a carve out for them (I wouldn't be too surprised, but it would be another major blow to the resiliency of democracy in the United Kingdom).
Police discretion will already make an exception for them even it's not explicitly carved out, there is no silver lining, it's just more police state shit
I'm sure there'll be a carve-out to the mask prohibition. I mean, what if there's protest action a minister/police department dislikes? They need a way for their agents to don confiscated Nazi paraphernalia before joining the event and poisoning it, while remaining unidentifiable as state actors.
They don't need a carve out for that, police discretion will do
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