A local news station recently ran a segment on anti-maskers and it’s gone absolutely viral on social media.

A reporter from ABC4 News attended a protest in St. George, Utah where roughly 1,000 people gathered to speak out against children being required to wear face masks at school.

In addition to calling coronavirus a “hoax,” the protestors called mask mandates illegal and unconstitutional, and said they are “tired of not being able to live our normal lives!”

“If we want to wear a mask, that’s fine, but we can take care of ourselves,” a man by the name of Stephen Millet said. “We don’t need the government telling us what we can and can’t do.”

“George Floyd was saying, ‘I can’t breathe,’ and then he died,” a disgraceful woman by the name of Shauna Kinville added. “Now we’re wearing a mask and saying ‘I can’t breathe,’ but we’re being forced to wear them.”

But perhaps the biggest highlight from the 1 minute and 39 second segment was an elderly woman in a straw hat and bright red lipstick named Betty Jake who cried, “I’ll tell you another reason why I hate masks. Most child molesters love ’em!”

Utah currently has 57,892 coronavirus cases, with 616 being reported in the last day.

Watch.

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