Florida man wears mesh mask to protest "Hitler-type ruling"

[Demovictory9]

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https://nypost.com/video/florida-face-mask-law-mesh-mask-man-goes-to-walmart-as-protest/

Mesh-mask man goes to Walmart to protest Florida face mask law
June 26, 2020
A man paraded a mesh mask at a Walmart in Tampa, Florida, as a protest against his county’s “Hitler-type ruling.” He filmed the video outside the store after no one stopped to correct his face mask, which is normally worn for playing paintball or dirt-biking. “It’s not about safety,” Florida man Russ Ward claimed. “It’s about compliance, I was a good little sheep.” As coronavirus cases surge across the US and in Florida, the Hillsborough County Emergency Policy Group voted on Monday to make face masks mandatory inside businesses.

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A man decides to prove a point that masks are not for protection but compliance when he decides to use a mesh face mask rather than a filter mask in Walmart that is mandated in Tampa, Florida.

"I visited a local Walmart in a county that put an ordinance in place that mandates masks," the filmer, Russ Ward, said.

"I wore a mask that is designed for protecting your face in a paintball battle.

You can easily breathe through it.

I walked all around the store, talked to employees, and other shoppers, and every one of them could see my mouth." "It was almost like not wearing a mask at all.

Nobody cared.

That's because it's not about safety.

https://www.onenewspage.com/video/20200625/13147658/Man-wears-mesh-face-mask-to-prove.htm

[calguy]

1. Ten Dollars says he's a trump chump

[SCantiGOP]

5. I'll see your ten

and raise you twenty and give you 5-1 odds.
Of course he's a trump asshole.

[Andy823]

16. Yep

It just goes to show how totally out of reality the trump cultists really are. We should find island out in the ocean where they could all go and infect each other.

[onethatcares]

38. I'll see that ten and side wager

that he relies on the ACA for healthcare insurance.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Maybe nobody could be bothered to smack that fake mask off his face...

Why, oh why do people insist on being assholes over things like this?

[Demovictory9]

4. or maybe people assumed a plastic liner

[CurtEastPoint]

6. the FIRST word that popped into my head: asshole

[unas3]

22. Send him back to meet the real Hitler and he'll comply like a good little trumpster.

This guy is afraid to wear a mask 'cause it might make his "god" upset. If these trumpsters only realized that a mask improves their appearance, the vain bastards would comply in a minute.

[Turbineguy]

30. "....a mask improves their appearance...".

"A mask would improve your appearance!"

Retort Veritas.

[Andy823]

18. They want to be like

their hero "trump" and he is the biggest and best asshole of them all. Someday they hope to be as big and best an asshole as he is!

[HotTeaBag]

3. The point these folks will apparently never understand

is that the wearing of a face covering in public is to protect other people (unless you are wearing a hard-core N95 or other medically approved PPE).

Caring about other people is and will continue to be completely beyond them.

[lunasun]

10. Yes. They don't care about others - that's the problem

Link to tweet

?s=21

[dalton99a]

11. +1. "The virus only kills old people and they are going to die anyway"

seems to be the prevalent attitude

[lunasun]

13. "America first but me first (and sometimes only me)" with a large part of the US culture

No motivation from their perspective to be all in this virus fight together because
What’s in it for me ?

https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-01/science-confirms-obvious-americans-are-selfish/

If you need an American to do something, don't mention the common good, team work or caring for others. A new study in Psychological Science this month found that trying to get Americans to think and act interdependently failed--and may have even decreased motivation.

After being prompted to think about either independence or interdependence, a group of Stanford students were given difficult word puzzles to solve, and later, a physical challenge (squeezing a handgrip for as long as possible).

"Chronically independent European Americans" fared much worse when primed to think about interdependence while completing the task. For bicultural Asian-American students exposed to both the independence-loving culture of America and a more communally based East-Asian culture, thinking about either value set was equally motivating.

In another test, students viewed a website about a class promoting environmental sustainability. White American students said they would put less effort into the course when the description emphasized things like working together and taking other people's views into account, rather than when it prioritized taking charge and being unique.

[dalton99a]

17. +1

[Delphinus]

20. Doesn't it?!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

36. Yes, they don't care about others.

It's always a dog-eat-dog fight for them.

Unless THEY need help. Then it's deserved help in their minds, some kind of reward for doing their best to be selfish assholes.

[HotTeaBag]

37. Yeah, it's kinda like that spat between Cuomo and McConnell

where we all learned just how much Kentucky takes from the Federal pot and gives next to nothing.

Same basic idea.

[demmiblue]

7. Sooo many assholes out there.

[SCantiGOP]

8. Someone should explain to him that

the hospital won't let him in with that mask when he comes to try and visit his family member in the ICU.

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. They don't allow any visitors in ICUs in most sane places b/c Covid. nt

[Dale Neiburg]

9. Umm --- if I was going to play paintball

I'd want a mask that protected my eyes.

[soothsayer]

12. And throat! You get killed in the throat

[Demovictory9]

35. another article describes it as a mask for off roading

[gulliver]

14. Now if we can just get a photo of him at a Trump rally. Gold material for an ad.

[Totally Tunsie]

33. ...or a photo of him on a ventilator with mesh tubing!

Turn about is fair play.

[cyclonefence]

15. Actually I suspect this stupid mask is better than no mask at all

considering that it covers about 1/3 of the surface area a real mask would cover. The point of the mask is to stop the relatively large covid-carrying water droplets that escape our face-holes, and this would indeed stop some of them.

[ProfessorGAC]

24. Don't Know About That!

The void space looks a lot more than 2/3rds to me.
Looks more like 90%.
At that point, the surface adhesion of droplets that make fiber masks work is close to nonexistent.
IMO, that mask provides essentially no protection.

[LisaL]

32. It will stop nothing. It's a mesh mask with huge holes that would allow everything to go right

through it.

[chriscan64]

21. Meanwhile...

their no mask-wearing macho hero is protected by a bubble of safety measures where everyone around him is rigorously tested and masked. And some poor schlub has to sanitize his bathrooms so he can befoul them later.

[Iggo]

28. Kinda like the flu shot.

[coti]

23. They didn't say anything because if they HAD he would have thrown a shit-fit, despite deliberately

provoking them.

[Liberal In Texas]

25. Another reason not to go to WalMart. n/t

[Buns_of_Fire]

26. Okay. Then shoot him in the mask with a paintball.

By all means, use an orange one.

[Iggo]

27. Pete? Pete Zagarine?

[tinrobot]

29. Maybe I should take off my mask and start coughing directly at him.

I think his concerns of "safety" would be amplified greatly.

[Baked Potato]

31. He got his 15 minutes. Looks like he's hiding his mug.

[PaulRevere08]

34. Probably the employees did not want to get into a confrontation

with a self-righteous piece of crap. Same folks that scream about their rights to assault weapons at the expense of children being slaughtered.