More than a year into a pandemic that has claimed 523,000 lives in the United States, right-wing protesters in Idaho, including a handful of elected officials, set protective masks aflame Saturday, claiming face coverings stifle their personal liberties.
70 adults and children — none wearing face coverings — stepped forward on a downtown street corner in Coeur d’Alene and dropped masks into a symbolic burn pot containing dry ice. “U.S.A, U.S.A,” they chanted. “If a woman can kill an unborn child and it’s her body and her choice, I can decide whether to wear a mask,” a man shouted at the rally in Coeur d’Alene, a hub of the conservative northern Idaho panhandle.
Good for them I hope they won’t be a shortage if shit hit the fan lol 😂
One should be able to drive drunk. It's in the constitution.
fortunately death will infringe on their liberties also
And the herd finds new ways to thin its self Natural selection is a trip
I never understood the people who are acting like this, like children. Even children are much more conscious than those adults
Let them. But, if you get sick dont come looking for help.
Children of the corn.
And?!
They're doing it Romania too!
Imagine being that entitled that a health guideline is considered a form of oppression
Covidiots in action.
This is the saddest thing ever.
What happened to Idaho? All white here in the photo, weird uneducated morons stay in Idaho and go make me some hash Browns!
Free will and constitutionally protected individualism is now “right wing activism”?
Oh yeah we have a right to kill. Complete idiots
Once again, you can’t fix stupid. And stop calling them “activists,” it gives these wing-nuts too much legitimacy.
Population control.
In the USA ignorance = knowledge!
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As opposed to the left wing loons elsewhere.
Boo Fucking hoo!! Grow a pair and put the Fucking thing on, you want this Shit to go away like other Countries have, than suck it up you big babies!!!!
If I believe COVID is a bad-flu that the media blew up for many reason does this make me a right wing activist? I will never spend one second worrying about getting the flu.
Count all of the people in that photo who will be dead from Covid in 6 months as stronger vaccine-resistant variants continue to develop and be spread by idiots like them too stupid to do something as simple as follow instructions and wear a mask. Covid kills via stupidity.
Liberties! So they have the right to spread the virus? Ok for them to contaminate and kill others especially older people? They are selfish! What happen to civic duties?
Now those are the Cancelled Potato Heads
BananaS87442260 Death and disease infringe on life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This is not a political issue. This is an issue of hate thy neighbor with no regard not only for yourself but all those around you, loved ones as well as political “enemies”.
“Claiming”? Even if you think they’re necessary COVID restrictions DO infringe on liberties.
The virus could not care less about one’s liberties - stupidity at its best here - they better hope they don’t become infected with Covid!
About time people stood up to this insanity . We have had nasty diseases before without all the political correctiveness
Never under estimate the power of foolish people in large groups. Like Idaho where there are large groups of former Californians.
Left wing activists espouse the double and triple mask, locking up playgrounds, schools, and business (except for those that they need to serve them). Yet leftist states and ideologies have done worse against Covid. It’s been over a year now, good other voices can be heard.
Idaho? Sheesh.
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Dum as hell
Simply because individuals symbolically burn masks turn these individuals into a right wing extremists group that 'inhabit an alternative reality'. Were pictures taken of all participants so they could be publicly shamed? Were they identified and their background investigated?
What make them “Right Wing Activists”? Evidently it’s expressing an opinion the differs from those of unelected Left Wing Activist functionaries and administrators that continue to make policies with far reaching negative impact
More QAnon followers. Imbecility
I hate mask but I would hate to have a tube shoved down my throat and up my ass even more. That's why I wear a mask.
You know what infringes on liberty, being attached to a ventilator, and dying. 😡
I hope they all return their $1400 checks when they get them...we wouldn’t want the government to infringe on their personal economic rights...
This is the equivalent of saying: 'we don't give a shit about other Americans and we're teaching our children to not give a shit either.'
Anti-“cancel culture” morons canceling science. 🙄
dumb stupid
I guess if they have it subsequently can the hospitals refuse to treat them given hospitals are stressed out and at full capacity in some states 🤔🤔🤔🤔
ritaloooc69 COVIDiots!
Wait til they see how much COVID pneumonia infringes on their liberty. Idaho public school science teachers...you have your work cut out for you... basic infectious disease biology and public health lesson plans.
Corkscrew History... it’s all been done before. You’d think we’d have learned something from the 1918 Pandemic.
I don’t see one minority in this picture.
People forget rights come with responsibilities. Primary one,you shouldn’t endanger others in exercising your rights!!! COVID is not a hoax!
People have a right to make their own decisions. If it's a wrong one, the responsibility would be only theirs. 'My health - my business' as they say.
Well since nobody is wearing bras anymore, you gotta burn something I suppose.
Remember when the la times calls people left wing. Me neither
Burning masks? It’ll be books soon - then flags
Let them. Darwin rules 👍💪
And just like that they became pro-choice and opposed to legislating their bodies 🤗😜
Not a well educated group of people
This Idaho right-wing activists’ demonstration is irrefutable proof that “whiteness” is not superior or rational, at all.
Meanwhile, COVID continues to evolve and the vaccine is still hard to come by. Why not hand out DNR's and medical waivers to deny all COVID related treatment if they get it?
Yawn! Enjoy the hospital.
YeahBaby! 🔥🎭🔥🙅🏼♀️🙅🏻♂️ Have been burning 🔥 masks 🎭 for 13 months now! 🗓 FYY: Me ― left-wing (U.K.) activist; via California.
Idaho General Population IGNORANCE OF TRUE REALITY of an airborne, traveling pathogen virus that kills whom it enters & infects. No mask then you play game of death with Covid-19 that will win as it kills those of not wearing a mask in public.
What do you want, liberties or die due to C19, you’re choice, it’s a democracy
Well the Chinese brought the corona virus to the world and shut down half the world so I see their point of burning the masks
Simple, have them claim a store, a restaurant, a school, 1 of each service that believes this too. Only non-maskers go there. Non-maskers sign a medical DNR & waiver for COVID treatment. They only infect themselves & they don't innundate hospitals. Only masters get treatment.
The people have had enough.
Sonce they are immune perhaps they can volunteer in Covid wards so we save on PPE.
Seat belts or wearing clothing in public are laws that protect the public & all have the same effect on individual liberties... BUT The restriction is balanced against the public interest. Here during a pandemic, there is a stronger punlic interest. Mask wearing won't be 4ever
Another generation of dumbass Americans
They look like they date their cousins
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