[ExI] texas county judge demands residents wear bananas

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 09:04, spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] texas county judge demands residents wear bananas
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> >> Under what legal structure does this county propose to prosecute
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> >…So is there a mechanism to make people wear masks, if it should be shown
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> Hi Stathis, this power-tripping county judge thinks so, but I think not.
> I can’t imagine how the prosecution would continue, should the defendant
> show up and say she didn’t have a mask.  The government cannot make you buy
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But in general, is there a mechanism to make people wear masks, perhaps
provided for free? It doesn’t seem to make a huge difference in this
pandemic but we can imagine a situation where it would.

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Stathis Papaioannou
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