Posted on 02/04/2021 11:01:20 AM PST by Red Badger
Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, a Florida supermarket is sparking outrage online after video surfaced of customers and employees going about their business without masks. The 15-second clip was shared Wednesday by NBC's Sam Brock, who was astonished when he walked into the popular Naples, Florida grocery store only to see people both young and old flouting the rules for mask-wearing. Brock in his tweet wrote that a sign outside the store cited "medical exemptions," preventing Brock from asking any questions.
The video has since been viewed more than 2 million times, raking in over 9,000 retweets and sparking even more comments from those outraged over the clip, which comes as the death toll in America continues to grow. Responding, one person wrote that "having a medical exemption for wearing a mask should not mean 'c'mon in and infect everybody,'" adding that it instead means, "you can get your groceries shopped and delivered to you at the sidewalk. Or delivered at home. Or some other method. It's not a free pass to be an a–hole." Somebody else said the video was "pathetic," with another person writing, "they're all immune, until they're not. And then an overworked, overstressed healthcare professional has to clean up their mess."
New video from a supermarket in Florida shows customers and employees of all ages openly rejecting the rules for mask wearing, spurring outrage as the country continues to battle the coronavirus. @SamBrockNBC reports. pic.twitter.com/wzhnI52Yuq
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) February 4, 2021 Several social media users noted that the owner, Alfie Oakes, is "notoriously anti-mask" and in the past has come under fire for calling both the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement hoaxes. Oakes, who owns Oakes Farms Seed to Table, shared similar sentiments when speaking with Brock in an interview that aired Thursday on the Today show.
"I know that the masks don't work, and I know that the virus has not killed 400,000 people in this country. That's total hogwash," Oakes said. "Why don't we shut the world down because of a heart attack? Why don't we lock down cities because of heart attacks?"
Despite Oakes' remarks, mask-wearing has been widely encouraged throughout the course of the pandemic as a means of slowing the spread of the virus. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), "experimental and epidemiological data support community masking to reduce the spread" of the virus. The CDC also notes that masks help "reduce the emission of virus-laden droplets," which is "especially relevant for asymptomatic or presymptomatic infected wearers who feel well and may be unaware of their infectiousness to others." These people are estimated to account for more than 50% of transmissions.
There must be bodies everywhere.
It’s Florida which is tomato red now what exactly is Shepherd Smith going to do about it...get so mad he could just cry and watch a desperate housewives marathon?
Florida has no requirement for masks... as a law or mandate. This is only about what the media thinks the CDC can “order” through regulations (announced on the radio btw) implying it could result in “arrest”... By whom? No one has jurisdiction over the people. They will hassle perhaps the grocery owner and his business— perhaps. But FL Dept. of Health will not be pressured by Fauscisti Fauci and the idiot chickie at CDC. Not going to happen, and is why FL is doing so well in control of the virus and much else.
Yes, on the beaches....................
Collier County (Naples, FL) has a Covid death rate of 1 in every 778 people. Los Angeles County (LA, CA) - where everybody wears a mask and it’s mandated - has a death rate of 1 in 508.
wow it just shows how right the libtard globalists were in programming the two minutes hate response into people over an overhyped, incorrectly used to test to generate massive false positives and fearporn to overcome reality that this disease is easily handled by way over 99% of people who are not old and with pre-existing conditions. nevermind this demo never does well with any disease, we all already knew that.
insanity. plus the mask tests that show they stop nothing. fauci said march 2020 masks dont do anything, they make people feel good. now it gives them a chance to redirect hate from those locking them down and estroying their jobs and lives, and refocus it onto others who wont play along with the insanity because the overlords are painting them out to be evil people for ‘not caring’ and o’putting lives at risk’. pot, meet kettle.
heres a great little vide about the ineffectiveness of the masks, under 1 minute.
https://rense.com/general96/technique.php
I saw people smiling in that store as well. They should be ashamed of themselves.
NBC’s Sam Brock needs to stay home so that he doesn’t perish in the Wuhanic Plague. The states with the most lockdowns have the worst COVID count.
It only outrages the Leftist control freaks who want to keep the pandemic going.
Leftists hate people happy. Our bodies our decision.
Living well is the best revenge. Don’t let things we cannot control determine our happiness.
“””Florida has no requirement for masks... as a law or mandate. This is only about what the media thinks the CDC can “order” through regulations”””
EGGSACKLY!!!
I never wear a mask anywhere and nobody say’s anything.
Most people wear masks here at the local Publix. I have a hunch it is pretty much the same over in Naples. So no doubt footage was selectively shot to make it appear more people were not wearing them then not. Florida does not have a mask order but local governments may have them. The only thing is that local governments are not allowed to levy fines against individuals for not wearing one.
Biden wants DeSantis to shut down bars, gyms, clubs, and restaurants again. So the media will be pushing “Florida is killing people!” news for the weeks to come.
If one does not like it, don’t shop there.
I’d shop there if I could.
I’m tired of masks which those masks are admittedly just this side of useless. Let the Karens shove their silly opinions up their collective Obamaholes.
Good thing he didn’t come to the “not Street Vibrations” in Virginia City Nv last fall. He would have stroked out for sure. Hundreds and hundreds of folks enjoying some fresh air. And now..........gov sissypants has tightened up on our requirements again.
I don’t like seeing Shep Smith crying because the mascara running down his cheeks makes me ill to my stomach.
I went in to get a sandwich and...
Oh, the humanity and all the passengers screaming around here. I told you. It's -- I can’t even talk to people whose friends were on there. It -- It's....I -- I can’t talk ladies and gentlemen.
So what? The media is the communications division for deep state. They lie for a living. What’s new?
That's about 0.54%. That's hardly worth hand-wringing about.
F**k 'em.
...a stunning representation of liberty and freedom...
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