Say a fine and community service, with jail time for repeat offenders.
The biggest problem with this (and we’ve already seen it in some places) is that it would be used to target POC and the poor in due to the nature of policing. If the police didn’t suck then I’d be in support, but they do so I can’t.
Fines are regressive, some rich fuck can afford $500, whereas it could put a poor person on the street
In Finland, speeding fines are linked to salary. The Finns run a “day fine” system that is calculated on the basis of an offender’s daily disposable income – generally their daily salary divided by two.
The more a driver is over the speed limit, the greater the number of day fines they will receive.
In 2002, Anssi Vanjoki, a former Nokia director, was ordered to pay a fine of 116,000 euros ($103,600) after being caught driving 75km/h in a 50km/h zone on his motorbike.
And in 2015, Finnish businessman Reima Kuisla was fined 54,000 euro ($62,000) for driving 22km/h over the 50km/h speed limit.
jails = bad. i’d just have them escorted back to their home if they refuse to put one on. I guess that’s basically house-arrest but like, just wear the free provided mask if you want to come out. If things got bad i’d go full tankie lockdown like china did and just you know, make everyone lock down for a month or two (while providing food/med/necessities for all) and then masks would be far less of a concern.
I live next to a much bougier county. No cops would enforce it there.
I couldn’t get behind this in good faith if there wasn’t a similarly strong shutdown order/eviction moratorium/rent pause/mortgage pause/weekly stimulus checks/food guarantees. Enforcing a mask mandate with cops should be the last thing on the list of things to do to make coronavirus safer. “Making something illegal” is the same liberal thinking that got us in the war on drugs.
If it isn’t coupled with monthly checks and an extended eviction freeze, it’s only gonna further irritate maskless people.
