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Old 10-29-2020, 08:28 AM
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Originally Posted by heims01 View Post
Seatbelts are the law. You wear one? Wearing a mask in the circumstances outlined by the experts could be a law as well if we had a federal government that worked. At least while this pandemic rages.
The federal government is working quite well. So is the Constitution of The United States.

Wearing a seatbelt is not a federal law. Auto manufacturers are mandated by the federal government to install them but wearing them is a state law. New Hampshire is the only state to not mandate the wearing of seatbelts.

Federal laws and be tricky. Not only are all powers not granted to the federal government in the constitution reserved for the states, but state law enforcement cannot enforce federal law.

So if there was a national mask mandate, who would enforce it? State, county and municipal police would not be allowed to. Would the FBI be arresting people for not wearing a mask?

I think that's why Joe Biden stopped saying it on the campaign trail. He had to have been told this by his advisors. The question that I have is, if a broken down old retired golf professional, cum musician knows this, why didn't a former senator and vice president with 47 years in our government not know it?
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