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In a viral video, a supermarket mob rampages against a woman
American Thinker ^ | May 26, 2020 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 05/26/2020 6:19:04 AM PDT by artichokegrower

On Monday morning, people woke up to a video on Twitter showing masked customers in a Staten Island grocery store screaming obscenities at a woman without a mask and shouting at her to “get out.” It’s an alarming video because it shows how quickly people can be turned into human weapons when fear powers them.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; hysteria; mask; newyork
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To: artichokegrower

Staten Island, where they are nothing like typical Newyorkers...Haha!

Another myth busted.


41 posted on 05/26/2020 7:40:40 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan)
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To: Steve_Seattle
Those people don’t seem to trust the efficacy of their own masks.

No, no, no, you don't get it, do you? The mask is to protect YOU from the OTHER people... you know, all of your "plague-carrying" fellow citizens? Because after all, EVERYONE has COVID (or they *might*), so you have to assume that they are a deadly COVID zombie. This way, anyone who doesn't wear a mask can be accused of not caring about others, or valuing "freedom" too much... If they said that masks were effective in PREVENTING you from getting COVID, why then you would have the CHOICE to risk catching it by not wearing a mask. And since lots of people would choose NOT to wear a mask, it would quickly become clear whether masks were making a difference or not (they're not), and the lie would be exposed - or if you're a fearbro, it would confirm your belief that we must all wear masks forever, so that no one can ever get sick again. But if no one is ever allowed to "take the chance" of not wearing a mask, then we can never know if doing so is really necessary or not. It's not, and there's plenty of science and evidence to back that up, whereas there is almost no science or evidence to suggest that all of the stupid masks, the stupid plexiglass shields everywhere, the stupid little squares and lines and arrows on the floor to promote "socialist distancing", are doing anything other than creating an environment of fear and stupidity, which is why you have people acting this way in a grocery store.

It's absolutely sick, and this mask b.s. has to end now. It is a lie that is perpetuating the fear and panic, which is exactly why government is so insistent on forcing people to wear them. If lockdowns work, if "socialist distancing" works, if masks work, then we should have been DONE with all of this at least a month ago, because COVID would no longer be a significant threat to "overwhelm" the hospital system. Remember when THAT was the concern? "Flattening the curve"? Yeah, didn't take long for that to become "Everyone could have COVID, and we can NEVER return to "normal" unless and until there's a COVID vaccine!"

Oh and by the way, in late September or early October, we're going to see a "second wave" (there won't actually be one, but suddenly no one will be dying of gunshot wounds, or car accidents, or heart attacks - they'll all magically become COVID deaths), and they will use it to lock everything down again heading into the election. So enjoy your month or two of relative "freedom", cause it ain't gonna last.

42 posted on 05/26/2020 7:45:37 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Steve_Seattle
And the irony is that most of the masks that people are wearing are probably ineffective.

On Sunday, I saw a woman wearing a CROCHETED mask! CROCHETED! It had 1/4" holes in it. The woman was either an absolute moron, or she was being cheeky, borrowing from Rush Limbaugh and demonstrating absurdity by being absurd. My guess is that like most of the population (as evidenced by this whole COVID thing), she's just really that stupid.

43 posted on 05/26/2020 7:49:07 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Sicon
On Sunday, I saw a woman wearing a CROCHETED mask! CROCHETED!

An idea she got from one of America's most famous liberal idiots, Alyssa Milano.

https://people.com/style/alyssa-milano-claps-back-at-trolls-who-critiqued-her-crochet-mask/


44 posted on 05/26/2020 7:51:02 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: artichokegrower

An invissible germ, with no known cure, is the perfect ruse to control an otherwise free people.
Giving up freedom is now as American as Socialism and or 1984.
All those crazy sci fi movies from the 50’s and 60’s about invasions from other planets have finally be realized,too.
It’s perfect timeing, too..right at the height of fake news propaganda ..fake protests...and hoaxes.
Not to mention a bogus Russian investigation and a bogus impeachment of a U.S. Presdient.
Part of cult brainwashing is to get to your targets after their brains have been softened by repeated fear mongering and misinformation.


45 posted on 05/26/2020 7:51:03 AM PDT by Leep (We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
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To: Sicon
Oops. The beginning of my post should have said:

"The mask is to protect OTHER people from YOU... you know, because we are all "plague-carriers".

Sorry, hard to keep it all straight anymore - mostly because the story and the "science" changes every day.

46 posted on 05/26/2020 7:53:19 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Sicon

Masks are turning the US into Communist China. Part of the Democrat and CCP plan.


47 posted on 05/26/2020 7:53:59 AM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: Sicon

Alyssa Milano wears a crochet mask.


48 posted on 05/26/2020 7:57:00 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Nothing happens to a Christian that God does not allow to happen.)
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To: LittleBillyInfidel

Awesome...coming back for that!


49 posted on 05/26/2020 7:58:36 AM PDT by rlmorel (Thinking for yourself is hard work. But it is a lot easier than ignorance.)
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To: artichokegrower
I've yet to see a face mask that also protects the eyes. You know....another way viruses enter our bodies!

Lots of ignorance out there.

50 posted on 05/26/2020 8:16:54 AM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: artichokegrower
The solution is to have stores where masks are required BY THE OWNERS... and stores where they're NOT required.

You can shop in one - I can shop in the other.

Freepers like Laz - who has diabetes - and freepers like me - who are older - should be able to shop without feeling we're putting our lives at risk...

51 posted on 05/26/2020 8:18:35 AM PDT by GOPJ (Plan for the worst (intentional bio-weapon attack.) Hope for the best (current plan)...)
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To: treetopsandroofs
Reminds me of The Wave
52 posted on 05/26/2020 8:31:05 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: rxsid

You should not have said that. Karen and Chad are going to drive home with their masks pulled up to their eyebrows.

Of course the cause of death will be Covid.


53 posted on 05/26/2020 8:33:15 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: rlmorel

Thanks, rlmorel! I think I might have a tad too much time on my hands, but it was cathartic Billy play time. Ha!


54 posted on 05/26/2020 8:56:16 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

Wow, I read the book, about when it came out, but have not seen the movie.

Yes, indeed.


55 posted on 05/26/2020 8:58:30 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: artichokegrower
The mask is little more than a symbol for the virtue-signalers out there. They are basically these guys:


56 posted on 05/26/2020 9:03:45 AM PDT by Antoninus (The press has lost the ability to persuade. They retain the ability to foment a panic.)
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To: artichokegrower

57 posted on 05/26/2020 9:04:00 AM PDT by cann
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To: GOPJ
Freepers like Laz - who has diabetes - and freepers like me - who are older - should be able to shop without feeling we're putting our lives at risk...

Every time you get behind the wheel, you're putting your life at risk.
58 posted on 05/26/2020 9:08:40 AM PDT by Antoninus (The press has lost the ability to persuade. They retain the ability to foment a panic.)
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To: EvilCapitalist
Hopefully one day these masked people are going to look back in embarrassment at what they’ve become.

Replace the mask with the yellow Star of David. And people wonder how Hitler came to power so easily.

59 posted on 05/26/2020 10:05:01 AM PDT by Oatka
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To: artichokegrower

The Brown Shirts are now the Blue Masks.


60 posted on 05/26/2020 10:07:35 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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