I keep seeing opinions regarding the constitutionality of wearing masks. Many state governors require it and many seem afraid of the Republican party and just strongly recommend wearing them. What I donât understand is why people are opposed to some state laws or mandates but not others? The state seems to want us to wear the masks to protect ourselves a little and others a lot. The state also wants us to be safer on roads so they mandate speed limits. Are speed limits constitutional? Shouldnât I be able to travel the speed I think is safe for me on Idaho roads?
Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, right, listens to a news conference, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. Family attorney Ben Crump is calling for the Kentucky attorney general to release the transcripts from the grand jury that decided not to charge any of the officers involved in the Black woman s death. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
What’s left to say about 2020 except that it’s over. But what a year with the well-chronicled coronavirus pandemic that killed more than 300,000; racial unrest that created division in across many communities and a presidential election that was over until it wasn’t. And there was plenty of more to a year that goes down as one of the most memorable in recent history. Here’s some of what happened.