A new video taken from inside of a Florida grocery story is quickly going viral after it showed most of its customers or employees not wearing a mask or standing six feet apart.
The video, posted to Twitter by NBC News correspondent Sam Brock on Wednesday, shows crowded checkout registers at Oakes Farms Seed to Table Market in Naples.
Many of the people who are not wearing a mask appear to be over the age of 65, thus making them more vulnerable to coronavirus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Brock captioned the video he posted to Twitter: “As Florida fights community spread of COVID on a massive scale, this is a 15-second snapshot of a supermarket in Naples. Many employees and customers- even older ones- with no masks on inside. Store sign outside cites “medical exemptions,” we can’t ask questions.”
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The video has quickly gone viral, earning more than 4 million vides in only 2 days.
The store’s owner, Alfie Oaks, told NBC’s TODAY that he knows masks do not work and he doesn’t believe the pandemic has killed hundreds of thousands of people in the United States, according to NBC.
"That's total hogwash," Oakes said, later adding, "Why don't we shut the world down because of the heart attacks? Why don't we lock down cities because of heart attacks?"
Collier Country, where Napes is located, as seen 27,305 positive coronavirus cases, and 414 deaths since the start of the pandemic, according to Florida’s Department of Health website.
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