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posted by martyb on Sunday August 09 2020, @12:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the freedumbs? dept.

Pupils who shared photos of packed corridor of maskless Georgia students suspended:

At least two high school students in Georgia have allegedly been suspended after sharing a video of school hallway crowded with largely maskless students, according to reports.

North Paulding High School in Dallas went viral after it reopened on Monday when two students shared photos of the school corridors with apparently no social distancing and barely any wearing masks.

Paulding County Schools Superintendent Brian Otott reportedly released a statement saying that the images were taken out of context, that masks were a personal choice for students and reopening was in line with Georgia Department of Education's health recommendations.

[...] "Students are in this hallway environment for just a brief period as they move to their next class. ... There is no question that the photo does not look good," Mr Otott said according to CNN.

"Wearing a mask is a personal choice, and there is no practical way to enforce a mandate to wear them."

Following the alleged suspension 15-year-old Hannah Watters who posted one of the photos and a video on Twitter told Buzzfeed News she received a five-day, out-of-school suspension for posting one photo and one video on Twitter.


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  • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @07:57PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @07:57PM (#1033977)

    Anyone trying to force other people to wear masks or get shots should be banished from the country. You are not Americans. You are cowardly authoritarians.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @09:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @09:41PM (#1034029)

    You would not mind, then, if I took a dump, (I have every right to take a dump) on your living room floor?

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @12:44AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @12:44AM (#1034109)

    How to enforce mask or vaccine mandates is something that ought to be open for discussion. However, requiring masks or vaccines to protect against dangerous diseases is not authoritarian. I'll just quote an article from reason.com [reason.com], which is a libertarian site:

    One could make a libertarian case for government mask mandates during a pandemic, on the grounds that no one has an inherent right to cough deadly pathogens on another person. But that theoretical case has to be weighed against the reality of policing in America, where cops frequently resort to petty and overaggressive enforcement.

    Your liberties do not extend to recklessly endangering others against their will. There is reasonable room for discussion about how to enforce mask and vaccine mandates. But you do not have the right to recklessly risk spreading dangerous diseases to other people.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @04:31AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @04:31AM (#1034192)

      Simpple line is: Your rights stop at the tip of my nose.

      Translate to you yell at any one over anything, but you can not assault them (punch in nose).
      In the case COVID, your rights stop when you to assault me. (give me COVID)

      That is what not wearing boils down to simply assault. Startign hauling them away.

      And Bike in South Dakota... Lock them all there - it is called quarantine for 14 days. Make it 21. To insure late spreading is caught too. Also will boost local the economy for a 3 week period from the current 1 week dash-and-go. If locals have to suffer, then at least get them all paid for their suffering.

  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday August 12 2020, @06:19PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday August 12 2020, @06:19PM (#1035689)

    Anyone trying to force other people to wear masks or get shots

    Oh hey, somebody other than me made the connection between how people think about Covid and Anti-Vaxxing!

    In both cases the people bitching about their freedoms and "government oppression" are fucking morons.

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