Today we travel north from Florida to follow up on yesterday’s stupid state government work. Three states away, Republicans in North Carolina are looking to do something about the scourge of…<checks notes>…wearing masks.

The justification for a total ban on masks is reported “craziness”, such as people wearing masks during crimes. Those crimes are of course, by definition, already illegal. Criminalizing wearing masks too will only harm the elderly and vulnerable.

“It makes it a criminal act to wear a mask to protect yourself or others from communicable diseases,” Marcus said.

She said she has heard from constituents who are “desperate for someone to listen to them when they say, ‘I’m immunocompromised, or my family member is, or I’m going through chemotherapy, or I have a disability.’ There are many reasons why people need to, and should have, the freedom to wear a mask to protect themselves.”

The latest version of the bill, which goes back to the House, where it was initially proposed and could still be altered, would repeal “the health and safety exemption from certain laws prohibiting the wearing of masks in public.”

It does appear there may be some small amount of sanity in the Tarheel State, however, as there is a recent push to restore a health exemption to this bill.