Both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization recommend people wear cloth face masks when out in public to help slow the spread of COVID-19.
Related: WATCH: Randy Rainbow to Trump: ‘Cover Your Freakin’ Face’
Yet, for whatever reason, there are still those who refuse to comply with simple guidelines put forth by the world’s leading public health officials. Some have resorted to throwing temper tantrums in public, giving rise to the latest viral video trend: mask meltdowns.
Like this Karen in a bedazzled Bebe t-shirt and white tennis shoes who freaked out at a Trader Joe’s in North Hollywood, California when she was told she needed to wear a mask inside the store as mandated by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti….
How about we take this to the next level?
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Karen has meltdown in Trader Joe’s after being asked to wear a mask ? #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/nDGGKfRVzW
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) June 27, 2020
Or this brutish Chad from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania who called a grocery store employee a “f*cking terrorist” then spat on another man when he was asked to wear a face covering while shopping per the store’s policy…
posting on behalf of a friend who sent me this video from Wegmans in Bethlehem, PA. The taller man in a dark shirt was not wearing a mask when it’s store policy, called a POC staff member “a terrorist,” and spat on a man trying to intervene. #racist #YouAboutToLoseYoJob pic.twitter.com/5vQU7jVQe6
— dove (they/them)? (@__fallrisk) June 28, 2020
Or this delightful young Karen who violently hurled packages of frozen meat from her cart while shouting obscenities after she spent over an hour breathing all over a Fiesta grocery store in Dallas, Texas…
Dallas, Texas:
Lovely young Karen throwing a fit over being asked to wear a mask… pic.twitter.com/CnxRFMvMqf
— Rex Chapman?? (@RexChapman) June 28, 2020
Or this elderly Chad from Florida, where coronavirus cases have increased fivefold in two weeks, who lost his balance and face planted on the floor after assaulting a Walmart employee who told him he couldn’t enter without a mask…
Darren storms the supermarket!! He rages! This dude was not happy he was told to wear a mask at the grocery store. Of course this was in Florida! pic.twitter.com/ZnyVxGMs2T
— Perez (@ThePerezHilton) June 22, 2020
Or this Karen who was driven out of a Target store in Staten Island, New York by an angry mob while browsing the frozen food aisle without a face covering…
Turns out the best remedy for mask shaming is non-mask shaming.
I love how the mask wearing shoppers at this Staten Island grocery store shame the lady without a mask out of the store.#MemorialDay2020 #coronavirus #COVIDIOT
Via @McauleyHolmes pic.twitter.com/S0OvmPDvn4
— d?xx?d ?u? ??? ?u? ?? (@twmentality1) May 25, 2020
Or this gay Trump supporting Chad who recorded himself having a breakdown after he was kicked off an American Airlines flight in Dallas, Texas for refusing to wear a mask en route to Trump’s white supremacy rally in Tulsa…
— Brandon Straka (@BrandonStraka) June 17, 2020
Seriously, folks, just wear the damn mask.
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sanfranca1
Every one of these vids is unplayable: “The media could not be played.”
Kangol2
It could be your browser. I’m using Brave for Mac and they all play just fine.
Chris Vogel
Must be your computer. There is nothing fancy or unusual about mine and all the videos played just fine.
curiobi
If you’re watching on mobile that happens a lot, just hit the Twitter icon on each individual post and watch it on the site and then hit the back button to come back here, that always works for me!
Cam
These people are anti-American a**holes, and they are helped along by FOX News, where all the employees sit at home isolating themselves while they tell their audience Covid 19 is a hoax.
sonic_source
Entitled people crack me up. These a-holes who refuse to wear masks because “this is a free country” are the same ones who talk smack about the BLM protesters.
ahpace24
Seriously, a mask is apparel that a consumer must wear to shop there just like shoes and clothing, are they going to go shopping naked because clothes are infringing on their freedoms?
Kev57
I agree. No one flinches at “No shirt, no shoes, no service” or no smoking indoors. It’s only because that idiot Trump is making this into a culture war that these people are doing this.
Doug
This is a perfect example of how self-centered and entitled some people have become. The guy forcing his way into Walmart is really mind-boggling… he acts like he thinks he owns the store. I don’t want to wish this virus on anyone, but I can certainly think of a few who deserve it more than others. Amazing.
ShowMeGuy
I get amused by the morons who think “america” is a free country. There is no such thing as a *free country*. A free country would collapse due to total anarchy within itself.
Once again, a virus has been politicalized and turned into a cultural weapon of mass destruction. Remember A.I.D.S. ?
Dwight
Yeah, that one in Texas has way more than the 15 item limit in the express lane, too.
Joshua333
Imagine showing up to the supermarket and getting turned away cause you ONLY wore a mask like that’s what the website said why do I need the rest of my clothes?
LamarTrotsky
You would also need a shirt and shoes-the rest…
JessPH
If you have no problem with the government forcing you to use seatbelts while driving or wear clothes in public then you should not have any problem with it forcing you to wear masks.
With that being said, perhaps we should stop calling these people “Karen” because people whose real names are Karen are getting mocked for their names.
Preppy1000
Just wear the fu*king masks people! I don’t like them either but I’ve had a few friends who got it. They survived but are going to have health problems the rest of their lives.
Dunnedin
Hm, based on the actions of these people, perhaps we should start issuing tasers to the employees of Wal-Mart, Trader Joe’s, etc.
Cam
To ALL the people who say that LGBTQ people are bitchy and judgmental, I would like to point out that not ONE comment on here made any reference to her eyebrows or sparkly Bebe top.
bookseller406
Oh I considered it. Lol.
rocknstan
“No shirt, no shoes, no mask — no service.”
Of course, FAUX Newz has them all thinking that their inalienable rights are being violated.
One of the first Amerikkan inalienable rights is the right to be as dumb as ‘ya wanna be.
Amerikka is showing itself, full-frontal.