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.
At some point, Rush’s old routine about ugly people needing to stay inside needs to updated for the mask era. Uglo-Americans now have a way to go out into public!
I'm surprised he gained entry into Naples, most folks there pride themselves on not being Leftist's.
Everybody in the store looked pretty happy until they started giving the camera dirty looks. Take a hint, NBC.
Anecdotal, but I have seen the same thing in St. Pete. Especially 7-11s.
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I really do want to live in Florida right now.
I went to a company office today in Jacksonville. Nobody was wearing masks. Not even in the bathrooms.
The purpose of the mask is not to prevent WuFlu. The purpose is to isolate, dehumanize, and deindividualize the citizenry. So much easier for the commies to task the military to shoot faceless things as opposed to their own countrymen and women and children.
it’s pretty chilly here in the panhandle today...........61°F...............
Works for me. At this point, I want the crazy liberals to think that coming to Florida is bad for their health. Their tourist/snowbird dollars are not worth it if they decide to move here and vote their liberal policies.
Its like a sport for us Floridians to go around maskless in front of terrified Yankees. They go absolutely bonkers. I had a NY woman screaming at me a week ago while picking up a pizza. My wife and I haven’t worn masks since we opened back up in May.
It makes it easier to pick out the tourists from the natives.........
“It’s Florida which is tomato red now “
REDDER. The huge gains in blue Wade County (Miami), not even DEmocrap pollsters could predict. That’s why FL was one of the very first to be called for Trump last November.
“My wife and I haven’t worn masks since we opened back up in May.”
Same here. Not yelled at but they make stupid sarcastic remarks when they pass me by. I dont care. My GF on the other hand, almost gets into fights with them lol
My best bud who owns a used-car dealership in L.A., HE DOESN’T wear a mask. And he’s the owner. The plexi-glass is enough he says.
He estimated only one of 50 will BITCH about it, and that one won’t even buy a car..
I was in a Very Large Store (not to be named for obvious reasons) in my area day before last - no masks, not one for the customers, none worn for the staff although a few of them had them around their necks just in case there was a difficult customer. Which there wasn't, because everyone was smiling and that's what they were smiling about. The only reason this might outrage a reporter is that he no longer matters.
There’s a lot of upset Karens at the Twitter site.
LOL.
The purpose of the mask is absolutely to reduce chance if spread particularly by asymptotic cases. You’re spewing your own fringe paranoid fantasy.
Lockdowns are about isolation and control and dehumanizing.
Masks are a waste of time...might slow the spreed and prolong this forever
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