Fake card claims to exempt people from wearing masks under Americans With Disabilities Act

[TomCADem]

Source: KTNV

There's a warning about a fake card that is currently making the rounds on social media in response to several states now making masks mandatory in public.

The claim is that the card will exempt people from wearing a face mask under the Americans With Disabilities Act because it "poses a mental and/or physical risk."

It also claims that if a business denies access to a person with a card, the business will be reported and potentially fined thousands of dollars.

The card has a Department of Justice seal but the DOJ says it did not issue a card.

Read more: https://www.ktnv.com/news/coronavirus/fake-card-claims-to-exempt-people-from-wearing-masks-under-americans-with-disabilities-act

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Typical privileged, self-centered move for anti-maskers to distribute and use fake cards to claim they are exempt from wearing masks due to a disability.

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[NurseJackie]

1. It looks home made... poorly made.

The spacing, margins, font size, and placement of the Google-search clip-art is laughable. The top edge has been cut-by hand with a pair of round-tip school scissors.

[Olafjoy]

2. Businesses:

Please see the card is issued by the Facebook group freedom to breathe agency and laugh (behind your mask of course) in the face of people who show it

[SergeStorms]

28. I thought it stood for...

freedumb to be assholes. My mistake.

[dalton99a]

3. ftbagency.com is not a website

[NurseJackie]

5. Looks like it's a registered domain.

But it's unclear if it was registered by the person who made this ridiculous card, or if it's someone who saw the card and decided to quickly register the domain name.

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[cayugafalls]

7. It was a real website. It just got taken down.

I think the feds are investigating it and the people who put it up.

Article about the website and the group behind it
https://www.slashgear.com/the-face-mask-exempt-card-con-and-the-group-behind-it-25626485/

The woman behind the group.
https://www.lenkakoloma.com/

That is the website of the author of the exemption card. I posted about it down thread. She has a Covid 19 page that is quite interesting to say the least and seems to be a nut job of the highest order, well funded too.

[dalton99a]

8. What a damn nut.

[SergeStorms]

29. And after all of her fantastic claims...

about things only she knows.... at the bottom of the page...

"Lenka Koloma is not a medical doctor and the contents of this website or any other media are for informational purposes only. The information provided does not constitute medical advice. It is not intended to substitute any professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your health professional".

Another "self help" guru who only wants to help herself to your money.

[Newest Reality]

4. What a joke...

Perpetrating fraud is really sketchy, here. That's a false document that is being presented as having an official origin and validity.

[cayugafalls]

6. There is a person/group who appears to be behind all this exemption charade.

Lenka Koloma. Here is link to page that describes the whole deal.

https://www.slashgear.com/the-face-mask-exempt-card-con-and-the-group-behind-it-25626485/

Author Data in the downloadable PDF file for the fraudulent exemption card turned up a name L.Koloma as well. LenkaKoloma.com is a website connected with that name – and leads us back to the source of the Freedom To Breathe Agency.

[Gothmog]

9. Arggh

Link to tweet

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[TomCADem]

10. I Am Almost Surprised That AG Barr Did Not Jump On the Bandwagon

Since Barr has been threatening to sue States over efforts to combat COVID-19.

[Totally Tunsie]

11. Um...."posses"?

[Dale Neiburg]

12. In addition, even under Barr

the DOJ usually spells words right (re: "posses" )

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

13. The most amazing thing to me is that folks are surprised at this level of BS.

[cvs15ensign]

14. Medical Exemption for wearing a mask?

Does anyone know of a legitimate Medical Exemption for wearing a mask?
I don't know if that's real? What condition might you have that would prevent you from wearing one?

[OneCrazyDiamond]

17. California has one for hearing impairment.

I guess some folks read lips to "hear", and Ca listed it as a mask exception.

[cvs15ensign]

18. Thanks for the info

I should've thought of that. My wife is hard of hearing and she's always asking me to face her when I talk so she can read my lips!

[OneCrazyDiamond]

22. There was at least another exception,

but the hearing one jumped out at me, cause things sound more muffled then when I was younger.

[LunaSea]

15. "You'll need to call that number..."

"Go ahead, I'll wait."

Would be my response if someone whipped that out.
Make them follow through with their implied bogus threat.

Stupid pot pies.

[Mosby]

16. It's the Americans with Disabilities Act.

They didn't even get the spelling right.

[sakabatou]

19. Arrest anyone using this card as it's a fake ID

[rockfordfile]

20. I agree

[Initech]

21. Do you apply at the same place you get your emotional support animal card?

[keithbvadu2]

23. Legal help for no masks

Legal help for no masks

[sakabatou]

27. +10

[FailureToCommunicate]

24. Get a brain morans! It's the Americans with DisabilitIES Act.

As Click and Clack would say: This card is "BOOOOO-GUS"

By the way, the 30th anniversary of the signing of the ADA is coming up this July 26th.

https://adata.org/ada-anniversary

[Gothmog]

25. Those Face Mask "ADA Exemption" Cards Are Dangerous Nonsense

These cards are totally bogus

Link to tweet

Every morning I get a text message from my disabled grandmother’s nursing home telling me how many residents have died “COVID related deaths” since the pandemic began. As of Friday morning? Eighteen. Every night, I dread the possibility of waking the next morning to find the number has ticked even higher. Nationwide, more than 33,000 nursing home residents have been killed by COVID-19. Despite the promise of the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, landmark civil rights legislation designed to guarantee the rights of disabled Americans, the United States has continually failed disabled people. Where were the ADA protections for those 33,000 nursing home residents? And our government isn’t even bothering to track, in any nationwide, systematic way, the number of disabled people dying in other institutional settings, like psychiatric facilities and group homes—where are their ADA protections?

Now nondisabled scammers want you to believe that the ADA “protects” them from having to wear a face mask in public. Don’t believe them.

An outfit calling itself the “Freedom to Breathe Agency” (both its Wix website and Facebook group have now been taken down) has been distributing a “Face Mask Exempt Card” designed to be presented to businesses. The card reads: “I am exempt from any ordinance requiring face mask usage in public. Wearing a face mask poses a mental and/or physical risk to me. Under the Americans with Disability Act (ADA), I am not required to disclose my condition to you.” The card also features the seal of the U.S. Department of Justice and the threat “If found in violation of the ADA you could face steep penalties. Organizations and businesses can be fined up to $75,000 for your first violation and $150,000 for any subsequent violations.”

That might sound vaguely convincing if you aren’t familiar with the ADA. But it’s all nonsense—the Department of Justice has called the cards fraudulent. And it’s dangerous nonsense at that.

First, when we’re considering face masks, the ADA applies only to people who are actually disabled. It is absolutely true that there are people who cannot wear a face mask because they have a disability. And while there is no sort of master list of “ADA-approved” reasons for not wearing a mask, to give just a few examples, they may include people with COPD, asthma, cystic fibrosis, PTSD, and autism. These are the people the ADA is designed to protect—people who are actually disabled. The ADA does not apply to ableds lying about disability in order to spread a disease that disproportionately kills members of marginalized groups—e.g., the Black, Latinx, indigenous, poor, and, yes, disability communities.

[JDC]

26. The idiot's Fake ID

You'd have to be some kind of clown to use that crackerjack box looking pos.

[MiniMe]

30. This posses total BS

[Gothmog]

31. These cards do not carry the force of law':

Link to tweet

[BadGimp]

32. I GOT MY CARD!