Anti-Mask GOP State Senator Lora Reinbold Mocked for 19-Hour Road Trip After Airline Ban
On 4/26/21 at 8:39 PM EDT
Alaska Airlines banned GOP state senator Lora Reinbold from flying on Thursday after she refused to wear a mask above her nose, prompting her to complain about a lengthy road and ferry trip to the state capital to vote against an extension of COVID-19 pandemic rules.
On Thursday, Reinbold appeared in a video at Juneau International Airport, the state s capital city, challenging airport employees and at least one police officer after she refused to wear her mask above her nose. An Alaska Air employee could be heard telling the Eagle River lawmaker, We need you to pull the mask up or I m not going to let you on the flight. Reinbold was further mocked for the incident on Sunday after she posted a series of complaints and articles blasting the airlines, as well as science behind COVID-19 social distancing.
(CARLI BERRY / iNFOnews.ca) March 11, 2021 - 11:50 AM Anti-COVID-19 restriction protesters in Kelowna have shifted their focus from COVID-19 to two local media outlets. The protesters typically gather in Stuart Park every Saturday to protest a number of things, including COVID-19 restrictions, vaccinations and 5G but today, March 11, those familiar faces were outside the offices of Castanet. Roughly 20 people gathered, with no social distancing, across the street from the media outlet on Lawrence Avenue in Kelowna’s downtown. A protest also took place at the offices of the Daily Courier newspaper. The group Common Law Education and Right Initiative, led by David Lindsay who has spent time in jail for refusing to pay taxes, is behind the protest.
At least 100 people gathered outside the Idaho Capitol on Saturday burning masks in a demonstration against efforts to limit infections and deaths caused by COVID-19, the Associated Press reported.
Destroy Them! Children Burn Face Masks on Steps of Idaho Capitol in Anti-Mask Rally
On 3/6/21 at 5:05 PM EST
Dozens of parents encouraged young children to burn masks on the steps of the Idaho state Capitol building Saturday morning in the latest anti-masker protest against pandemic facial coverings.
Saturday s #FreeIdaho mask burning event comes after Republican lawmakers in the state s House of Representatives narrowly passed legislation that would make any future mask mandates illegal. Adults at the rally in Boise could be heard instructing kids how to toss hundreds of masks into a trash can fire. Destroy them! one enthusiastic adult could be heard yelling as smiling children burned the masks inside the flaming trash can. Not too fast, kids, be careful, watch the fire.
On a fateful day in 2019, a minuscule virus made an Earth-changing move, leaping from an animal to a human in the Chinese city of Wuhan. This moment has led to hundreds of millions of global infections, leaving millions dead. Less than two years on, the world has changed.
While chance no doubt played a part in this zoonotic jump, the ensuing pandemic is far from a random streak of bad luck. As Professor Peter Hotez sees it, COVID-19 is a crystal clear reflection of the many problems facing the 21st century.
“COVID-19 met the perfect storm of several forces that were happening,” Professor Hotez, the bow-tie-wearing Dean of the US National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, tells IFLScience.