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.
I have only wore a mask in hospitals in N. Pa.
Have only had 3 people ask me to put on my mask and even then I only put it over my mouth.
THESE are the people who would send you and your family to a gas chamber or firing squad if they could...............
“If it’s called snowbird season why aren’t we allowed to shoot them?”
So not a free and independent press? That explains soooo much.
Yer full of feces. Masks don’t do squat, Karen.
Good thing they weren’t at a little event in Washington DC January 6. About a million of us packed shoulder to shoulder for hours. No masks and no COVID spread. (Except apparently among masked Capitol Police)
Tim Herman was filling in for Rush a couple weeks ago. he said some guy got in his face near the deli counter at a grocery store about not wearing a mask. Herman said, “Wow, the fried chicken smells great.” The guy stopped yelling and reflexively sniffed, then his eyes went wide.
Hopefully the son of a female dog will step in front of an Am Trak going about 80 m.p.h. or hit a light pole or tree driving home.
People are going to freak when they start seeing teeth again. Small animals and kids will flee.
Here in Pennsyltucky I wear a mask to enter stores, businesses, etc. When I exit, the mask comes off. But I see people wearing a mask in places it isn’t required. They seem to be addicted to it, and seem to indicate everyone else should be, too. When the All Clear sounds and masks are no longer REQUIRED, will we allow these virtue signalers to continue bullying the freedom lovers? Somebody’s going to put a hurtin’ on them.
But the grocery store doesn't hassle their customers about not wearing masks because even though the county requires it, there's no penalty for not wearing the masks. Same is true for the local pharmacy, hardware store, restaurants, bank, etc.
Most people around here are just plain tired of being told to wear masks. So they don't.
Most people are informed enough to know that masks are worthless when it comes to stopping submicroscopic viruses.
Bingo! Me either. Not since this whole fraud show started last year.
And if anybody did challenge me about it, they would not like my response.
😡
Naples = Boston South
Might have to do a shopping trip to Oakes...
I have to wear the mask, but only because it is required for me to work. If it wasn’t required to work, I wouldn’t wear it at all.
I saw people smiling in that store as well. They should be ashamed of themselves.
How decadent and evil: no masks and smiling.
Next, will we hear about someone daring to sing without a mask and smiling?
There must be bodies everywhere.
No, the evil governor of Floriduh is shipping the bodies up to New York so Cuomo can stuff them into NY’s nursing homes and then get paid for the dead bodies.
There’s a lot of upset Karens at the Twitter site.
Twittering Karens!:?
“I really do want to live in Florida right now.”
I’m sending copies of this posting to snowed in relatives in the MidWest and to those like us in loser California.
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