Florida woman launches rant calling people in masks 'cult members' as she's told to leave a Walmart for not wearing one
An irate Florida woman yelled at mask-wearing Walmart shoppers that they were 'cult members' after she was forced to leave for not donning a face mask.
The shocking outburst happened Sunday at a Walmart Neighborhood Market in Winter Springs, where Seminole County officials have implemented a mask mandate as numbers soar in the Sunshine State.
Additionally, Walmart announced Wednesday that all customers must wear face coverings while shopping at its stores starting Monday.
Footage shows the unidentified woman standing in the Walmart parking lot while attempting to berate store employees and mask-abiding citizens.
'You guys are f****** cult members!' the woman shouts. I'm not wearing a mask!'
The woman then storms away while employees can be heard laughing in the background.
'F*** you!' she responds.
An unidentified woman in Winter Springs, Florida, became upset with shoppers and employees after she was kicked out for not wearing a face mask
She calls mask-abiding civilians and Walmart workers 'f****** cult members' before storming off
Footage of the incident was taken by a Florida woman who was arriving at the Walmart store just as the unidentified woman was leaving
The woman who filmed it, Morgan Lamarre, told WESH she was walking into the local Walmart just as the woman was asked to leave by a manager.
The unidentified woman is just one of several recent incidents where people were caught on camera making a spectacle over face masks.
Earlier this month, a couple from Yuma, Arizona, were arrested after allegedly coughing on Walmart staffers after being told to wear a mask inside the store.
Store officials summoned police in light of the coronavirus pandemic that made Arizona a national hot spot for cases.
This week, a suspect in Palm Beach, Florida, was pushing a man in a wheelchair in Walmart when he was asked to wear a mask by a fellow shopper.
An unmasked shopper at a Walmart in Royal Palm Beach, Florida, is pictured from surveillance footage pulling a gun on another customer wearing a face covering
The suspect responded by brandishing a gun at the shopper.
Now, Walmart has mandated customers wear face coverings in its namesake stores and Sam's Club locations.
The company will create a health ambassador role and will station them near entrances to remind customers of the new requirements.
These staffers, who will wear black polo shirt. will undergo special training to help smooth the transition with customers.
Walmart has mandated that customers wear face masks while shopping in its namesake stores and Sam's Club locations
Flouting face masks, which has previously been supported by President Trump, appears to do more harm than good in Florida.
Trump was pictured for the first time publicly wearing a face mask in July and told Fox News that he's 'all for masks.'
But in April, he ignored advice from that Center for Disease Control and Prevention and said he likely wouldn't wear one.
'I don't think I'm going to be doing it. Wearing a face mask as I greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens - I just don't see it,' he said at the time.
On Wednesday, officials reported more than 10,180 news coronavirus cases after previously counting just hundreds daily.
And on Monday, the Florida Department of Health recorded that second-highest number of test results received in one day, with 12,624 positive test results and 35 deaths reported to the state in the previous 24 hours.
Almost half of Florida's ICUs were at least 90 per cent full last Thursday, while one in five are completely full, the Florida Agency of Health Care Administration reported.
'Miami is now the epicenter of the pandemic,' said Lilian Abbo, an infectious-disease specialist from the University of Miami Health System.
'What we were seeing in Wuhan six months ago, now we're there.'
Ron DeSantis, a Republican former naval officer and federal prosecutor, has been lambasted for Florida's skyrocketing coronavirus cases.
A strong ally of President Trump, DeSantis wholeheartedly endorsed the president's push to reopen quickly.
The numbers in Florida are so concerning that Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York, the country's original epicenter, offered to send one day's worth of medications to the state.
The small shipment was enough to treat 280 patients and act as a stopgap for Florida on Saturday, while the state was awaiting the delivery of remdesivir from the federal government.
DeSantis said that he had personally secured a supply of the antiviral from the President and vehemently denied needing assistance from New York.
The state now has more than 300,000 confirmed cases and 4,500 deaths.
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