Shoppers at a Costco in Tustin, California got an unexpected show this week, as a man with a megaphone staged an impromptu demonstration inside the store to claim COVID-19 is a hoax.
Standing on top a clothing display, the unidentified man removed his mask and began spouting COVID-related conspiracy theories to stunned shoppers.
“If masks really work, why is it still a problem?” he ranted. “Masks don’t do anything. It’s just the flu.”
“Did you know that the CDC in November or December went back and tested blood?” he continued. “Guess what, it already had COVID in it.”
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That last bit shouldn’t surprise anyone. The number 19 in COVID-19 indicates that the mutation of the virus occurred in 2019. International medicine, however, did not identify the virus until it had already begun to spread in early 2020.
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One shopper interrupted the man to point out that more than 300,000 people in the United States alone have died of the virus. Apparently, the death toll didn’t dissuade him.
“Anybody who died of COVID died of the flu,” the protester asserts. “Every year 70,000 people die of the flu.” (We’re guessing he’s not good at math, either.)
“You know why we’re under lockdown right now? All this information is coming out about COVID, and we know it’s a farce,” the man continued. “Governor Newsom doesn’t have the right to make you wear a mask.”
At this point in the video, a store employee is seen encouraging shoppers to leave the area. We have to wonder where the store security guards had wandered off to.
California is currently under new lockdown orders after a sharp spike in COVID-19 cases. The first weeks of December saw daily positive cases more than double from the same time in November, with The Mercury News reporting that the state saw on average more than 31,000 new reported cases per day.
COVID-denier in California uses a megaphone in Costco to go on a crazy rant. This is the modern Republican party. pic.twitter.com/snt7VOSqex
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) December 14, 2020
lambchopp59
What a vapid clown.
I wonder if this ilk really thinks they’re going to convince anyone of anything.
BGreen1963
Those FAUX news watching idiots are all mentally ill and Neo-Nazis and/or KKK. They would come into the Barnes and Noble I worked at everytime we’d be forced by home office (re: the Publishers) to have a Glenn Beck or Hannity or Bill O’Reilly signing (aka fiction for morons). They’d come in knuckles dragging, mouth breathing, wearing their favorite KKK or Nazi pins, patches and stickers looking at awe at the size of the store (since they were normally buying their “books” at Wal-mart or Bible store), they never knew there was more than a hundred books ever written. The fun part was watching the “1%” come in and having to get in the same line as the “hillbillys” and knowing most of both groups would never get past the first few pages. The most returned books after Xmas? The FOX Idiots books. The sad part was how many came in having received that book for Christmas” from family members trying to save their souls or correct their “facts” . Many with the inside pages with inscriptions from the giver that meant we couldn’t return them, because they weren’t resealable. I suggested to many of those people to tear out the page and regift it back to that person next year. I had more than a few say they’d do that but leave the inscription in.
johncp56
the Costco up my way would not put up with this clown , lol mean but would have been great if he trip off the table with his dirty feet lol
WashDrySpin
Would have been killed if he were black…just like they did in Walmart
ppp111
If it’s fake as he claims then why was he wearing a facemark? or did he remove it the moment he got up on his pedestal?
johncp56
to get into store, all i say is he must be a str8 snow flake repub they seem to be the biggest whinners
Prax07
Typical republican these days. They ALL need mental health checks.
1898
“You know why we’re under lockdown right now? All this information is coming out about COVID, and we know it’s a farce,” the man continued.
ummm… it’s not a lockdown if you’re allowed to wander around costco with a friggin’ bull horn
Doug
So tired of these people. I’d like to have seen more of the video to find out what they did to finally throw him out.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Ok, I know there’s a focus on the ignorant in the gay media but rather than give fools like him their fifteen minutes of spotlight why not find a gay person with HIV who might/might not take the vaccination because none of them were tried on people with weakened immune systems. Or find the gay nurse (you know, frontline worker) who can tell us about burnout. Or find the poor gay guy in San Francisco about to be evicted. To me this article questions who is the more ignorant, him or those who deem him newsworthy. And to think I thought anything written about Paris Hilton was a waste of cyber space.
Kangol2
Psst: Articles like the ones you mention barely spur any comments and who knows how few page views. Queerty wants and needs the clicks and articles like this generate them. There’s an excellent interview with the journalist Jonathan Capehart the ran a few days ago, and it had only two posts, one by me, while articles like this can be expected to get 5-10 or more. Perhaps Queerty will listen to you, but people have to respond to the articles you’re suggesting if they’re going to run at all.
Hdtex
Sister, hpw about you scroll past, start your own blog or STFU.
All three work.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
@hdtex…………thank you so much for proving Kangol2 and I correct. The sad part for you is your intentions were just the opposite.
Derek Northcutt
I’ve been told that a male “Karen” is known as a “Ken.”
man5996853
I wished they’d just bring all of these COVID deniers to the COVID wards at their local hospitals, be sure to infect them and let them all die.
whateverokok
Wow! You really love your fellow man, don’t you? just when I think all of the stupid is used up, someone goes and proves me wrong. I really do think it’s finally time I had some time alone. MS was right.
pickles
Too bad nobody just told him: Covid causes IMPOTENCE. The flu does not. Now ya wanna wear a mask??
(PS… it’s true. Mask it for your basket)