Last month, the Trump admin added fuel to the fire, issuing letters to Columbia & Harvard demanding campus mask bans. Columbia capitulated, continuing their disastrous strategy of attacking Palestine solidarity movements at the expense of everyone’s health & privacy
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Mask bans are a tactic of #surveillance and control. Not only do they infringe upon people’s rights to health, safety, #privacy, and #accessibility, they cause disproportionate harm to racially marginalized + #disabled people.
https://thesicktimes.org/2024/09/03/perfect-storm-of-criminalization-analyzing-mask-bans/
By creating a chilling effect on masking and ample opportunities for harassment and profiling, mask bans gravely escalate the life-threatening impacts of police violence, doxxing, #COVID, and #LongCOVID. They have no place on college campuses.