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Owner of Maskless Florida Grocery Store Says Coronavirus Pandemic Is a Hoax
CLICKORLANDO ^ | February 5, 2021 | Christian De La Rosa, Andrea Torres

Posted on 02/13/2021 8:57:21 PM PST by nickcarraway

Despite the dangers of the coronavirus pandemic, no one at a crowded grocery store in Naples was wearing a face mask.

That’s because Alfie Oakes, the owner of Oakes Farms - Seed to Table Market, is not enforcing customers or employees to do so, News 6 partner WPLG reported.

“Customers can wear a full bodysuit, and if you’re afraid of bumping your head, wear a football helmet,” Oakes said.

His posts on Facebook referred to the deadly pandemic as a hoax. It’s a position that cost him a contract with the Collier County School Board.

It is not hurting business otherwise. His supporters continue to shop at his supermarket where business was booming on Thursday. Seed to Table was also trending on Twitter.

“Please do your research,” Oakes said, as he defies all scientific research. “Please do your critical thinking and research.”

Collier County issued a face mask mandate. Oakes challenged it in court but his lawsuit was dismissed. Gov. Ron DeSantis has not issued a face mask mandate.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; fakenews; fakescience; florida; masks; msks
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Supermarket owner in Florida defies face mask order in Collier County
1 posted on 02/13/2021 8:57:21 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Good man. There is zero evidence whatsoever face masks have any benefit in hindering the spread of any virus. Prior to the Wuhan Virus there have been many studies on this subject. All involving N95 surgical masks developed to minimize Bactreriological Infection in operating rooms. Not one indicated any benefit versus any virus.
The cloth masks and bandanas 99.99 percent of people are wearing are useless. There have been several studies from Scandinavian countries that make this case quite well. All have been censored from publication in the USA. Post them on Social Media and you too will be censored. Persist and you will be cancelled.


2 posted on 02/13/2021 9:06:06 PM PST by ocrp1982
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"... as he defies all scientific research." says the snowflake authors who provide no data that anyone working at or shopping in this store has contracted covid in the store.

No data is #FakeScience, Christian De La Rosa and Andrea Torres, and your reporting is #FakeNews.

3 posted on 02/13/2021 9:18:49 PM PST by TigersEye (Everyone knows)
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To: nickcarraway

I have Burlap. Easy to breathe through. I wait for those N-95 masks people to confront me because the info printed on N-95 says “this mask does not prevent contact or transmission of disease”, Burlap has no disclaimer but probably has the same end result,


4 posted on 02/13/2021 9:24:39 PM PST by Starstruck ( Since I'm old I don't whether I'm senile or brilliant. Or happily both.)
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To: nickcarraway

5 posted on 02/13/2021 9:26:35 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: ocrp1982

“It is not hurting business otherwise”

Of course not. It’s like my cousin who came back from Sturgis a year ago. 95% didnt wear masks and not one outbreak. Those who said there was an outbreak is BS. The organizers had testing sites there as a courtesy for the Karens and Kevins, and ran contrary to what the MSM were saying.


6 posted on 02/13/2021 10:42:31 PM PST by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: nickcarraway

If I still lived in Florida, I would drive from Plant City to where he is and buy something just to support him.


7 posted on 02/13/2021 11:04:40 PM PST by sport
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To: ocrp1982
All have been censored from publication in the USA. Post them on Social Media and you too will be censored. Persist and you will be cancelled.

That's dangerous. We are supposed to be a free society. Big Tech cannot be our arbiters who get to reside what's the truth is.

8 posted on 02/13/2021 11:13:44 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: nickcarraway

Proud to be a supporter of Oakes Farms. Article is somewhat misleading as I see a lot of masks at my local store but it is not mandatory to wear one.


9 posted on 02/14/2021 3:09:12 AM PST by Boomer One ( ToUsesn)
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To: Starstruck

I’m waiting for the day someone confronts me about my lack of any mask. I’ll look in their shopping cart and ask why they are buying processed foods or point out their obesity. Until they can explain that they have no leg to stand on about my maskless face.


10 posted on 02/14/2021 3:56:29 AM PST by rfreedom4u ("You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas")
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To: rfreedom4u

Almost a year into
This “Religion” and
Some are ‘Doubling Down!’
Two masks are Trendy
in California.


11 posted on 02/14/2021 4:05:49 AM PST by Big Red Badger (Be Still and Know that I Am God. Rev 19)
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To: Starstruck

“I have Burlap. Easy to breathe through.”

I made a couple for when i MUST wear one — at the doctor’s office mostly. Made out of 22 count even-weave Aida fabric. The weave is loose, and convenient for cross-stitching a message, too. My doctor laughs when I visit wearing my “under duress” mask.


12 posted on 02/14/2021 4:07:05 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (They HAD to kill somebody for their plan to work. RIP Ashli.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Big Tech cannot be our arbiters “

They already are.


13 posted on 02/14/2021 4:08:52 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (They HAD to kill somebody for their plan to work. RIP Ashli.)
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To: nickcarraway

I’ve been going to Publix maskless for months here in Indian River County. They have a mask requirement sign and I just blow through there like a boss. It’s comical how masked snowbirds scatter at the sight of the maskless.

My neighbor works there P/T and said employees are instructed not to confront maskless shoppers.


14 posted on 02/14/2021 4:14:35 AM PST by Mustard (tt)
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To: Mustard

I’m in St Lucie and refuse to wear my mask anywhere!


15 posted on 02/14/2021 4:39:14 AM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: ocrp1982

‘Post them on Social Media and you too will be censored. Persist and you will be cancelled.’

and on FB or youtube a bevy of young females claiming to be medical workers, exhausted by their ceaseless efforts, will descend on you and call you a murderer...amazing how many ‘nurses’ on on social media these days...


16 posted on 02/14/2021 6:18:33 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: ocrp1982
N95 are for particles. They are dust masks and had never been approved for medical use except maybe an EMT going into a dusty environment. They got special approval for covid because there were plenty of them in the supply chain and surgical masks had run out. Surgical masks are not meant to prevent the spread of viruses either. They're to prevent a surgeon and staff's spittle from getting into you innards while you're opened up.


17 posted on 02/14/2021 6:36:35 AM PST by Pollard (Bunch of curmudgeons)
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To: Maskot
I’m in St Lucie and refuse to wear my mask anywhere!

Yet you refer to it as "my mask". See what they've done to you?

I wore one once for 10 minutes last Spring. Most people don't wear them around here unless they work in a store that has food. Walmart finally gave up and took down the mask required signs and peeled all the arrows off the floor because both were being ignored. Workers hang out in front of the store while on break chatting with their mask on their chin.

Bunch of rebels here in the Ozark hills.

18 posted on 02/14/2021 6:43:54 AM PST by Pollard (Bunch of curmudgeons)
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To: max americana

If you watched the U.S map covid graphs for a while after Sturgis, you could watch the spread. Gone now, finally, SD doing fine.


19 posted on 02/14/2021 8:29:11 AM PST by firebrand
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To: nickcarraway

The virus may not be a hoax, but masking and “distancing” as a way to control it most definitely is. The results which support this point are crystal clear.


20 posted on 02/14/2021 8:33:23 AM PST by glennaro (Tyranny can only be defeated by force ... physical force. It doesn't just "go away" by itself!)
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