Montgomery City Council votes down mask ordinance, sends doctors out in disgust
Source: Montgomery Advertiser
Jackson Hospital pulmonologist William Saliski cleared his throat as he started describing the dire situation created by the coronavirus pandemic in Montgomery to its City Council before they voted on a mandatory mask ordinance. "It's been a long day, I apologize," he said.
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After they spoke, and before the council voted on a proposal by Councilman C.C. Calhoun to mandate mask-wearing in public in Montgomery, Councilman Brantley Lyons questioned whether masks and six-foot distancing really helps. They do, the doctors replied. Lyons was unmoved. "At the end of the day, if an illness or a pandemic comes through we do not throw our constitutional rights out the window," Lyons said.
From the crowd, doctors called for him to visit the hospital sometime.
Instead, the council killed the ordinance after it failed to pass in a 4-4 tie, mostly along racial lines, with Councilman Tracy Larkin absent. Councilman Clay McInnis voted with three Black council members Calhoun, Oronde Mitchell and Audrey Graham in favor of the ordinance. Lyons, Charles Jinright, Richard Bollinger and Glen Pruitt voted against it.
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brewens
(13,622 posts)It's the worst kind of filler, and when I hear it in a meeting I invariably fantasize the painful demise of the speaker.
thesquanderer
(11,993 posts)Steelrolled
(2,022 posts)Blues Heron
(5,944 posts)Of course you do fool, the constitution is not a death pact. You give up your rights all the time for emergencies. You take your shoes off at the airport to thwart the relentless, never ending tidal wave of shoe bombers who would bring down our planes on a daily basis right? So put on a mask for a real threat idiot.
yardwork
(61,712 posts)Blues Heron
(5,944 posts)yardwork
(61,712 posts)I understand that constitutional rights can be suspended during emergencies, including public health emergencies. Many people don't know that clause is in the Constitution. It's understandable that people complain during curfews, when rights to assemble are suspended, etc.
But who ever thought the Constitution guaranteed a right not to wear medical protection?
The drama.
Blues Heron
(5,944 posts)louzke9
(296 posts)National emergencies just suspend them temporarily. Like the air travel suspension after 9/11.
sop
(10,265 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Literally and figuratively
yardwork
(61,712 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,474 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)UpInArms
(51,284 posts)canuckledragger
(1,667 posts)Do folks understand those violations were intentional?
It has always been a hammer for conservatives in office to pound on their perceived enemies - especially that super broad definition of terrorism. It's how they try to stifle free speech they don't benefit from.
Maribelle
(4,783 posts)If the situation were reversed, however, if whites were the ones experiencing more casualties than others, you can bet your bottom dollar this would have passed.
Shame on you Montgomery City Council. This smacks of your days with George Wallace as governor strongly maintaining your infamous Jim Crow Laws, and it appears as if you couldn't care less if it does.
raccoon
(31,126 posts)James48
(4,441 posts)Somebody should report those guys to the Right-to-Life local chapter.