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Here is footage of a Karen trying to use the disability argument to not wear a mask:Apparently, some people are trying to abuse ADA and HIPAA regulations to get away without using face masks by flashing this card:
Here is some information in case anyone encounters such a person:
*Often an overlapping set with the average Covid Karen refusing to wear a mask and making a bogus ADA complaint.
- No, HIPAA doesn't prohibit places from asking about a claimed medical condition. That only applies for doctors and insurance companies.
- HIPAA has some rather broad exemptions in the case of public health emergencies (such that both the President and the Secretary of DHHS have declared).
- The ADA only stipulates that "reasonable" accommodation be made, and does not assume all accommodations are in fact reasonable (for example, it would be unreasonable for someone with quadriplegia requiring an electric wheelchair to request boarding on a historic "dinner train" kitted out to conditions circa 1938 which cannot be retrofitted with modern train wheelchair lifts).
- The ADA also acknowledges there are some disabilities for which reasonable accommodations can't be done simultaneously (such as someone requiring a seeing-eye dog and someone with severe dog allergies, or...wait for it...some Karen who feels claustrophobic wearing a mask and someone with an immunodeficiency like lupus). Usually the ADA goes with "accommodate them separately".
- There is a very good legal argument that stores actually provide this accommodation to both groups--"elderly and people with immunodeficiencies" hours for people with conditions like lupus, and home delivery and curbside delivery services for people who can't be arsed to wear a mask.
- In cases where you are requesting ADA accommodations, a company CAN in fact ask limited questions about a disability for purposes of accommodation, especially if the person requesting an accommodation has specifically self-identified as having a disability. (The classical example being with service animals; a "service animal" is a dog or horse specifically trained to provide a service (guiding, alerting, retrieving for people with physical disabilities, seizure/PTSD/autism "alert and protect" service where the animal is trained to get its user somewhere sat down and Safe, etc.). Because of people abusing the concept of "support animals" to bring in an untrained yip-dog or exotic pets into the store*, now store-owners can ask "What service is this animal trained to perform?") Likewise, the store CAN offer a reasonable accommodation like curbside delivery.
- There is actually a specific exemption in the ADA that states no company is liable for a violation of the ADA for an action it's required to take by another law or regulation--and yes, this includes "mask orders" passed as part of public health regulations. There is also a very specific exemption in regards to control of infectious and communicable diseases, and a third exemption for any person whom can be considered a "direct threat"--that is, "significant risk of substantial harm to the health or safety of the individual or others that cannot be eliminated or reduced by reasonable accomodation" (note: Covid Karen refusing to wear a mask because Reasons would qualify; just as stores are not obligated to permit Psycho McStabby the ax murderer to go shopping with his personal Support Machete because of a dual diagnosis of psychotic disorder NOS and antisocial personality disorder, they're not required to allow a potential plaguebearer admittance, ADA or no).
She went with the intention of stirring shit up because she's the type of asshole that doesn't fact check shit she was told by someone or read on the Internet.
I feel you it’s so annoying. Especially here in winter like I go outside and come back in and I can’t see shit.
Here in GA, there’s drive through testing areas. The medical employees wear all the PPE, and you are required to wear them as well. You never have to get out of your vehicle. When I went, all I had to do was confirm who I was, drive up a little bit, then rolled down the window, and they performed the test on me. They stuck a long swab with a hook in the end in my nasal cavity, twisted it around to I assume “swab” the area, then pulled it out. It was extremely painful, but only lasted for about 15 seconds or so. Then, I was on my way. It was a very quick and convenient process. I got my results a few days later (which were negative). And this was all free.
Oh god it's worse than I remember.I mean, this is basically a shot-for-shot recreation of any recent protest:
The only place here is the hospital and we have one. I live in a small town.
Sorry to hear that. Have you researched it? Because the one I went to wasn’t easy to find. It wasn’t necessarily being advertised. I just knew a friend that knew someone who worked there. Regardless, good luck!
Yeah I want to, it’s just don’t want to risk getting anything since I’ll have to go through the ER. But I mean I’m fine so unless I got trouble breathing I’ll stay home.
Honest to god, I don't trust people and i'm still gonna quarentine myself for another 2 months.
Same, and keep an eye on everyone else, they're the guinea pigs.
Oh God yeah, I hate that too.
The health care systems between countries is very different. Here in Canada, the system is Provincially run, it's not privatized like in the US. So all doctor's office, hospitals, etc. are run by and funded by the Provincial Government.
Lol Am I the only one who thinks it’s fitting that the bottom looks like a scene out of Dawn of the Dead(1978)?
Literally:
social media is a cesspit of lies? what a shocker. It absolutely baffles me how, particularly in America, there is such distrust of traditional news media, but these same people trust youtubers and twitter bots.
It's not even that there's "no effort"; there is literally an effort not to teach them...
it is just savagery. A dark age is coming. I just hope I am not alive to see it, nor are my kids.
That depends. Does Sweden have a functioning government? If so, it's no comparison...
Yeah, Sweden's population is nowhere near the density of nyc. As far as their government is concerned, they've been catching a lot of heat for the way they've handled the outbreak.