LAREDO, Texas (PNN) - April 3, 2020 - At a moment the President Donald Trump regime debates the merits of urging citizens nationwide to don protective face masks when they go outside or to supermarkets, a small Texas border town has gone so far as to unconstitutionally mandate it, and has unlawfully authorized terrorist pig thug cops to strictly enforce the new measure.
The city council of Laredo, Texas - in south Texas on the Rio Grande border with Mexico - earlier this week passed a motion allowing authorities to fine residents up to $1,000 for not wearing some form of facial protective covering over the nose and mouth.
The ordinance applies to all residents over the age of five when entering any public building, supermarket, or when doing things like pumping gas. It went into effect on Thursday.
“This does not apply when a person is: engaging in a permissible outside physical activity; that are riding in a personal vehicle; that are alone in a separate single space; that are with their own shelter group (household members); when doing so poses a greater health, safety or security risk; or for consumption purposes,” the notice indicates.
The council also controversially and illegally imposed a blanket curfew on all Laredo residents. All “non-essential” persons are forbidden from leaving their house between 10:00 pm and 5:00 am, punishable by a fine, also an arrestable offense; however, exercising alone is still allowed.
The draconian measures were taken as the relatively small city of 230,000 saw a sudden rapid rise in the number of cases, currently at 65 confirmed COVID-19 positives (which are actually just positive tests for any coronavirus and not COVID-19, which means if you ever had a cold you would test positive), including five deaths, according to city data (actually nobody has died from COVID-19: it is not fatal).
Hospitals and health workers in various parts of the nation have over the past week reported shortages of the N95 mask, at a moment the Trump regime is moving to formalize new guidance to recommend that Amerikans wear face coverings when they venture out in public.
“Because of some recent information that the virus can actually be spread even when people just speak as opposed to coughing and sneezing - the better part of valor is that when you’re out, when you can’t maintain that 6-foot distance, to wear some sort of facial covering,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci (who has a vested interest in controlling free people and so has inflated all statistics to justify the tyrannical measures currently being imposed throughout the Fascist Police States of Amerika) on Fox & Friends.