Arabnews24.ca:Thursday 4 February 2021 10:29 AM: A video showing unmasked shoppers in a Florida supermarket has gone viral due to an NBC reporter’s complaining. Among the more extreme reactions was one now-deleted tweet by a doctor who seemingly thought they deserved to die.
In a video shared on Wednesday, NBC correspondent Sam Brock showed a crowd of customers in a supermarket in Naples, Florida. Few people were wearing a face mask or practicing social distancing, and everyone was going about their business as usual. Complaining about the spread of Covid-19 on a “massive scale,” Brock claimed that the store allowed “medical exemptions” to mask wearing, and that his team couldn’t “ask questions.”
— Sam Brock (@SamBrockNBC) https://twitter.com/SamBrockNBC/status/1357047400548950023?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwFlorida currently records between 5,000 and 10,000 cases of Covid-19 per day, down from a peak of nearly 20,000 at the beginning of the month. Collier County, where Naples is located, has not been as badly affected as more populous counties, like Miami-Dade and Broward, and has recorded 28,000 cases since the pandemic began and 413 deaths, according to the Florida Department of Health.
Nevertheless, Brock’s video left some commenters horrified. “This is pathetic,” one https://twitter.com/IdeaGov/status/1357066896248508416. “America needs to mask up, not the opposite.”
— MomsThoughts™ (@MomsThoughts) https://twitter.com/MomsThoughts/status/1357086454820859908?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw— Dr. David A. Lustig (@drdave1999) https://twitter.com/drdave1999/status/1357336905394708481?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwHowever, the most extreme condemnation came from one Twitter-verified doctor. “Let’em die,” he tweeted. “I’m so tired of these people. No vaccines for y’all.” In a follow-up tweet, the doctor declared “we can’t waste our energy on these COVID deniers. They are not gonna protect themselves so let’em die. They’ll find out the hard way.”
His comments sparked a furious backlash. “‘Let ‘em die’ is a statement from someone who shouldn't be permitted to have a medical license,” pundit Tim Young https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1357213177151447040, as conservative commenters called for his firing.
— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1357299870294564866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw— Shane B. Murphy (@shanermurph) https://twitter.com/shanermurph/status/1357227514578534400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw— Patrick Basedman
