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by wott 2343 days ago
> 1) Citizens can legally opt out by putting on face masks.

You don't have (yet) some beautiful law like we have in France?

https://beta.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/texte_lc/JORFTEXT000022...

> Nul ne peut, dans l'espace public, porter une tenue destinée à dissimuler son visage.

Noboby may, in public space, wear an outfit intended to hide his face.

Clear and simple, I guess. That was directed towards radical Muslims but the definition encompasses everyone. And last year we got this extra one:

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?idArticl...

It is about hiding all (or part) of your face, within (or near...) a demonstration, in which troubles arose (or might have arisen...). The first law was an infraction, this one is a misdemeanour with much harder sentence.

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We have that law. That’s why balaclavas are hard to find in the UK these days. Nobody can legally use them in public.