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City Considers $250 Fine For Residents Not Wearing Masks — Outside
by Joseph Curl, Daily Wire:
Officials in Hoboken, New Jersey, are considering a citywide ordinance to fine residents $250 if they don’t wear a mask outdoors.
Hoboken City Councilman Phil Cohen said the city has been keeping an eye on mask usage in public spaces, but in some spots, like popular shopping districts, some people aren’t wearing them. “A lot of visitors on Washington Street, a lot of visitors on the waterfront are jut not complying,” Cohen told CBS-2 in New York.
The outdoor masks wouldn’t apply everywhere and there would be warnings before fines.
“Mimicking Governor Phil Murphy’s mask mandate, this wouldn’t apply in situations such as sitting in a park with family, working out or outdoor dining, as long as you keep away from others. But, when you’re walking down the street, you can’t guarantee it. Cohen said education and warning would come before summonses are handed out,” the station reported.
“I think once people start getting warnings, realizing there are financial consequences to not wearing a mask, that compliance will increase and that really is the goal here,” Cohen said.
Some cities are considering extreme measures to enforce mask ordinances. A Nashville councilwoman, for example, wants anyone who doesn’t wear a mask to be “tried for murder or attempted murder.”
“My question goes back to legislation,” Sharon Hurt, an at-large councilwoman of the Nashville Metro Council, said during a meeting last week, The Tennessee Star reported. “But my concern is — you know I work for an organization, that if they pass a virus, then they are tried for murder or attempted murder, if they are not told … and this person who may very well pass this virus that’s out in the air because they’re not wearing a mask is basically doing the same thing to someone who contracts it and dies from it.”
