CORONA Mask Burning

desert_fox

desert_fox

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It’s an opportunity to tell government it works for the people. Not the other way around. On Saturday, March 6th, there is going to be a mask burning event in Idaho. At multiple locations statewide. At 10 o’clock in the morning in Twin Falls. At Pioneer Motors at 347 Washington Street North. The event has been organized by Idaho on Fire and #FreeIdaho.
We did have to endure mask wearing while shopping, dining and in some work places.

Organizers are fed up with mask mandates still in place in some parts of the state. We never had to deal with a government mandate in Twin Falls and Twin Falls County. We did have to endure mask wearing while shopping, dining and in some work places.

The actions of the last year remind us our liberties are less than a generation away from being extinguished (I’m paraphrasing Ronald Reagan).

Organizers explain they’ll take precautions to keep the fires confined. The idea generated some intense interest in Cassia County last week. Attendees filled a ballroom.

Many believe a large turnout on the 6th will send a clear message to state government. The citizenry wants to make decision makers think deeply about how emergency declarations impact the governed.

What we’ve seen over the last 11 months is a division of Idahoans (and Americans) into two camps. Those who are protective of their God given liberties and in opposition a large number of people best described as servile personalities.

Much of this effort is being driven by Darr Moon, founder of Idaho on Fire, and his wife. She’s State Representative Dorothy Moon. She has spent the last several weeks crisscrossing the massive 8th State Legislative District. Feedback about burning masks is mostly supportive.


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Mask Burning Protest Planned for Twin Falls
 
desert_fox

desert_fox

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I am not sure how I feel about this. One part of me is like "Yeah! Burn those masks!" and the other part is "Be careful! The eye of Sauron will descend on Idaho".
 
medic38572

medic38572

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desert_fox said:
I am not sure how I feel about this. One part of me is like "Yeah! Burn those masks!" and the other part is "Be careful! The eye of Sauron will descend on Idaho".
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Sorry df I am not gonna buy a mask to burn....I wonder if they will charge them all with arson for burning their own masks.
 
desert_fox

desert_fox

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Update:

Well the mask burning made national news today. As usual the liberal bias/slant as usual.
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A child tosses a surgical mask into a fire at the Idaho capitol.
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Coronavirus
‘Here fire, you hungry?’ Idaho Covid protesters burn masks in front of capitol
  • Children encouraged to burn masks in state without mandate
  • Republican-led states move to relax coronavirus restrictions
Guardian staff and agencies
Sat 6 Mar 2021 18.20 EST

A least 100 people gathered in front of the Idaho state capitol on Saturday to burn masks, in a protest against measures to limit infections and deaths caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Biden hails 'giant step' as Senate passes $1.9tn coronavirus relief bill
Some groups, predominantly rightwing, say mask mandates are a restriction of their freedoms. Health experts say they help slow the spread of the disease.
More than 170,000 Idaho residents have been infected with the virus in the last year and nearly 1,900 have died. Johns Hopkins University puts the US case count at nearly 29m and the death toll at more than 523,000.
Videos posted on social media on Saturday showed adults in Boise encouraging children to toss masks into a fire. One child could be heard to say: “Here fire, you hungry? Here’s another mask.”
A child says “here fire, you hungry? here’s another mask”

A mask burning rally in boise, Idaho pic.twitter.com/MqNnaEKBP0
— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) March 6, 2021
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The Republican governor of Idaho, Brad Little, has never issued a statewide mask mandate but seven counties and 11 cities have such mandates in place.
Visitors to the capitol in Boise are asked to wear masks but they are not required and few Republican lawmakers wear them. A Republican on Wednesday introduced legislation to prohibit mask mandates.

Other Republican-led states have moved to end mandates and reopen their economies, citing decreasing case counts and increased availability of vaccines – an effort driven by the federal government.
Amid warnings of a possible fourth surge of cases if public health measures are dropped too early, Joe Biden this week accused such Republican leaders of “neanderthal thinking”. Republicans protested.
In Boise, a man identified as Darr Moon, an organizer of the Saturday event, told the reporter Sergio Olmos in footage posted to Twitter: “I think people need to realize that we’re standing here today to rein back government, to reestablish our republican form of government, government that has balance between the branches.
“And we’re kind of that belief that we need well-defined government, certain boundaries and that’s not what we have today.”

As the event took place, senators in Washington were passing a $1.9tn stimulus and relief package meant to bolster the effort against the pandemic and revive the economy it has battered. Joe Biden hailed the development and said he expected to sign the bill into law next week.
Moon also said the Boise event was representative of a “widespread grassroots uprising”.
Olmos also filmed a protester burning a mask with “Biden sucks” written on it, another burning a picture of “Sleepy Joe”, and others refusing a police request to put out a fire.
Amid reaction on social media, the political scientist Ian Bremmer said: “Ritualized mask burning in Boise wins this week’s award for acts of symbolic stupidity.”

'Here fire, you hungry?' Idaho Covid protesters burn masks in front of capitol
 
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