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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStaten Island crowd defies vaccine mandate by storming mall food court
(Who organizes these groups of protesters?)As customers enjoyed their Saturday afternoon at Staten Island Mall and prepared to enjoy their meals, a raucous, maskless crowd of dozens opposing New York City's indoor vaccination mandate stormed into the mall while chanting, "U-S-A!" Their goal: to eat at the food court without showing proof of vaccination.
"Everybody go get food and eat. That is what we're here to do!" one woman said to the group, according to a video from freelance journalist Oliya Scootercaster. "We're going to meet over there and go into the food court area and sit our butts down and stay as long as we like!"
Videos posted to social media show the protesters marching into Staten Island Mall in defiance of the city's indoor dining vaccination mandate. Although people are not required to show proof of vaccination or wear masks inside the mall, they do need to show proof of immunization to eat at the food court. Some chanted, "My body, my choice," while others recited the Pledge of Allegiance.
The anti-mandate demonstration at the mall food court is the latest public instance of resistance from those opposing vaccine and mask mandates, even as the country is averaging more than 119,000 new coronavirus cases a day.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/staten-island-crowd-defies-vaccine-032017433.html
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Staten Island crowd defies vaccine mandate by storming mall food court (Original Post)
left-of-center2012
Sep 2021
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Lovie777
(23,701 posts)1. Last stand . . ..
In their tiny little closed minds they truly feel they are doing the right thing. Meanwhile sane people looking at them have no more fucks.
badhair77
(5,209 posts)2. How much of a loser do you have to be when this is your fun time?
NanceGreggs
(27,835 posts)3. I wonder how many of them ...
... will soon be dead of Covid.
SoCalDavidS
(10,599 posts)4. Not Enough nt