'Here fire, you hungry?' Idaho Covid protesters burn masks in front of capitol

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Guardian

Children encouraged to burn masks in state without mandate

Republican-led states move to relax coronavirus restrictions

Guardian staff and agencies
Sat 6 Mar 2021 18.20 EST

A least 100 people gathered in front of the Idaho state capitol on Saturday to burn masks, in a protest against measures to limit infections and deaths caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Some groups, predominantly rightwing, say mask mandates are a restriction of their freedoms. Health experts say they help slow the spread of the disease.

More than 170,000 Idaho residents have been infected with the virus in the last year and nearly 1,900 have died. Johns Hopkins University puts the US case count at nearly 29m and the death toll at more than 523,000.

Videos posted on social media on Saturday showed adults in Boise encouraging children to toss masks into a fire. One child could be heard to say: “Here fire, you hungry? Here’s another mask.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/06/idaho-covid-protesters-burn-masks-state-capitol

[magicarpet]

1. Freedumb,... freedumb,.. freedumb,...

Free to be stupid Fascists...

USA,... USA,.. USA,...

[Botany]

24. the stupid is strong there*

Idaho's Lt. Governor w/her gun, bible, flag, and truck

Fox, News Max, the GOP, poor public education, gun culture, anti science, generational stupidity, and religious nutters
brew this brain toxicity.


* But sadly it is now nationwide.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. Speaking as one who lives in a neighboring state they better stay the fuck in Idaho

Link to tweet

?s=20

[FarPoint]

4. Apparently.....

They are all handling used, contaminated used surgical masks without even thinking to wear gloves.. that makes this a double dirty stupid act.. OMG so filthy!

[movingviolation]

7. The deluded looks on all their faces, the poor children,

it's like a horror show. Jim Jones comes to mind.

[logosoco]

26. That smoke has got to be pretty toxic!

But I guess these people don't care about that either and are teaching that lesson in stupidity along with the rest.

[kimmylavin]

3. Population of Idaho: 1.78 million

170,000 people infected mean that almost 10% of the people in the state have been infected.
10 percent!

And these idiots... with their kids...
It's just so goddamned frustrating spending all this time trying to get people to take care of THEMSELVES, let alone other people.

[stillcool]

5. future generation...god help them

they teach what they learn.

[movingviolation]

6. These are the types of people that don't take the whole dose of antibiotics when prescribed..

because they feel better, thus stimulating mutation and further worsening infection.
The salt of the Earth, the common people, you know, morons!

[Throckmorton]

30. Mel Brooks at the height of his powers.

Gene Wilder, one of the best comedic actors of all time.

[Jon King]

8. Meanwhile the kids with smart parents...

are studying for the future, volunteering, networking in their community, planning school courses for the new green energy economy, learning about science and reality and common sense.

These parents are preparing their kids to hate, not think for themselves, and fail.

[Hulk]

9. Nazi book burning, 2021.

Welcome to the cult of stupid. Thank God the con artist pile of orange shit is gone....we would be in serious trouble across the country if Biden lost, or Georgia didn't muscle up and give us to Senators in January.

[MissKat]

10. Because there is stupid and then

there is Republican stupid.

Go check Darwin's grave-- listen for spinning sounds.

Seriously, what's next? No protective car seats for kids! No seat belts for anyone! Helmets are for sissy pants! A little knock on the head will do them good.

The level of bizarre behavior with these mask defying, Covid denying idiots is pathetic.

[ailsagirl]

11. Imbeciles!!!

[Yavin4]

12. But they get 2 senators either of whom can block ANY meaningful prorgessive legislation.

Our system absolutely sucks.

[BlueStater]

13. History books are going to be absolutely scathing against Americans of this time period.

Half this country have lost their fucking minds. This is just pathetic.

[Marcuse]

15. If we don't prevail they will be writing the history books

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

27. You win the internet today with that post

because is it so scary and true! These wackos would not only rewrite history to suit them but would gleefully stamp out any opposition to their efforts.

This toxic culture of stupidity, hate, intolerance, ignorance and racism will destroy our country completely if we let it happen.

[Mickju]

34. This is the truth.

We are teetering on the edge of disaster and failure.

[RVN VET71]

38. Interesting thing about this bullshit and the Civil War

In the Civil War, millions of white people took action to “free” themselves from the yoke of democracy because of their racism, their hatred, and their intolerance.

These poor dumb bastards are all that plus stupid. (Yeah, there were lots and lots of harebrained, stupid rebels, but the leadership, the plantation plutocrats had a real plan and a real (if horrid) vision). But these folks, the Q-Anon believers, the Trump-cultists, the damned-fool militias don’t. They are just hateful and stupid. They attack the Capitol Building, as just one example, thinking their Chosen One will issue them pardons for trying to topple the Federal government. They refuse to wear masks -- and the news has not a few cases of the ones who got sick and lamented their choice to “own the libs” before they died; and when they get arrested they act like the ignorant, stupid children they are, whining about the food, about the fact that they’ve been arrested and jailed, about how the freaking miss mommy and daddy.

The have no over-riding ideology to comfort them in their cells or in their ICU beds. Only a growing sense of their own stupidity.

[royable]

14. I am partly cheered by the hope that 10, 15, 20 years in the future,

some of the kids involved in the mask-burning will look back on the incident and damn their deluded parents to hell for the breach of trust, the complete abrogation of morality, in the parent-child relationship.

[dchill]

16. I'd rather die than wear your socialist mask.

All credit to Trump, the GOP and a shortage of education.

[EarthFirst]

25. Absolutely.

This is 100% how it was framed from it’s inception.

It didn’t have to be this way.

[turbinetree]

17. And to think the southern part of Oregon and all of Idaho want to combine themselves

and be called Orida............and new gerrymandered state from what I have read............

[3Hotdogs]

18. Like Forrest said, I can't remember the exact quote...

something about a Republican being as dumb as a box of chocolates. Ya never know what kind of dumb is gonna get out of that box.

[DENVERPOPS]

19. It seems to me

that parents that don't require their children to wear masks at school or in public, during a lethal viral epidemic could be charged with Child Abuse.....

I would love to give each of these children's despicable parents, a blow by blow accounting of our friend's 15 YO daughter's last five months of her post covid life......and the prognosis for her future life.......

[LudwigPastorius]

20. These are the kind of numb nuts that would have set fire to the library at Alexandria.

[Laha]

21. How on Earth can they nazi what's wrong with this?

There's something wrong with these people.

[C Moon]

22. The virus is still alive. If anyone there had it without symptoms, a dozen will now have it.

This GOP "it's all over" approach, reminds me of Bush Jr.s ridiculous "Mission Accomplished" fanfare.

[ZonkerHarris]

23. Children of the corn meets Jonestown cult.

[nwliberalkiwi]

28. Die You Idiots

Stupid people cull themselves, unfortunately others too.

[twodogsbarking]

29. Genius has a limit.

With stupidity the limits are endless.

[prodem65]

31. Stupid and proud of it

[zanana1]

32. When we were burning bras...

We said they were restricting our freedom. The whole country was outraged. Bras came back and now we're dealing with underwire bras.

[keithbvadu2]

33. Will these Trump supporters burn their masks?

[twodogsbarking]

35. Some didn't know that they were

supposed to remove the masks first. C'est la vie.

[Politicub]

37. That's because freedumb isn't free. You need to have some

singed skin in the game.

[Politicub]

36. Even children you say? They just ape their parent's behavior.

And some escape their toxic orbit and grow up to be good people.

[nykym]

39. To bad we can't

get a picture of all who attended and participated and keep track of how many get Covid.
See I told you so!