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Even at the height of the pandemic, only like 50% of people in NC would even wear masks. Chuds here would refuse to wear masks as a political signifier. Some chuds would even wear thin fake masks that would look like a mask but not prevent covid transmission. Anyone who wore a mask was treated as a social outcast and sometimes even accosted by random chuds. Laws like this are going to encourage even more violence against protestors and anyone with enough common sense to wear a mask.
NC is mostly reactionaries and fundamentalist Christians who love Israel because they think Israel will bring the rapture. The very few university protests in support of Palestine protests have already been attacked by police and counter protestors.
As a history example of how NC as treated open communists, in 1979, the CWP Communist Workers Party held an anti Ku Klux Klan rally in Greensboro. The Klan showed up and murdered 5 CWP members. The 8 suspected Klan members were acquitted of all charges in 1984, faced no consequences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_massacre
Here is some local news coverage from the past month.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuXrMgGgMxg (An encampment at UNC Charlotte was removed by Police. The media claims that they encampment wasn't students but composed of outsiders.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGcwApH6fKI (Police attack protestors at UNC Chapel Hill with pepper spray. Protestors raise the Palestinian flag. Counter protestors raise the US flag. Read the comments on the video to see public opinion in NC)
I would have chuds come at me for my mask. Would just tell them I have covid. They would slink away.
Yeah dude, shit here kinda sucks. Won’t Roy Cooper veto this law though?
Rs have a supermajority in the NC house and senate, so shit like this will probably be forced through.