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December 15, 2021, 12:27 pm
A group of anti-vaxxers decided to stage a Typhoid Mary-style protest at a New York Cheesecake Factory Tuesday night, resulting in six arrests and God knows how much exposure of restaurant staff and rule-following customers to COVID, including the rapidly spreading omicron variant. According to local reports, about 30 people, including children as young as 10, blew past all the people waiting for their turn at a table and took seats wherever they could find them and refused to leave until exhausted and underpaid workers had to call the police.
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The cops then had to try and explain to a bunch of people who have decided they’re legal experts without any actual education that if the manager asks them to leave and they refuse, they will be arrested on charges of criminal trespassing. In their video, because they could never do anything without filming themselves for clout, they argue with the police on the simple legal concept of private businesses being allowed to refuse service to anyone as long as they’re not discriminating against a protected class of people.
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And as much as they might want to think they are, anti-vaxxers are not oppressed.
A group of 30 + antivaxxers claiming to be doing a “sit in” refused to check in at the host stand, skipped waiting customers, and sat themselves across multiple tables in a Cheesecake Factory in NYC.
They are now arguing with police. One antivaxxer compared the police to Nazis. pic.twitter.com/elFKOoTZ98
— PatriotTakes
(@patriottakes) December 15, 2021
“The manager is asking you to leave. That’s their decision,” says one officer in a video clip. “If you guys refuse to leave, we’re going to give you every opportunity to leave, but if you eventually refuse to leave when we tell you to leave, we will be arresting you.”
The full video shows the anti-vaxxers sitting at dirty tables and at the bar as the workers refuse to serve them and repeatedly ask them to leave while the unmasked “protesters” complain and make up stuff about what’s illegal.
“You’re going to discriminate against me because I refuse to show you my vaccination card?” said one anti-vaxxer about an alleged conversation with a server. “I refuse to give you my medical history even though you know it’s illegal, and he kept saying he knew it was illegal but there was nothing that he could do.”
Indeed, Cheesecake Factory servers and bartenders do not set company policy, nor are they responsible for the recent mask mandate set in the state by the Department of Health, which is what the anti-vaxxers were protesting. Why they didn’t take their protest to the actual Department of Health and instead decided to be massive pains in everyone’s neck while potentially spreading plague is beyond normal human comprehension.
The new mandate says that masks must be worn indoors at all business establishments unless the business commits to checking patron vaccine cards and only admitting vaccinated persons.
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And if you think anti-vaxxers can do a protest without comparing vaccines to the Holocaust (in addition to comparing themselves to Black Civil Rights activists who risked their lives), you were unfortunately incorrect. One of the “protesters” in the video called the cops who were enforcing basic law “Nazis.”
“The Nazis were just following orders,” they said after speaking with police.
Six of the 30 plague spreaders were ultimately arrested. The following day, more anti-vaxxers protested outside of the Cheesecake Factory in support of those who were detained while people on Twitter mock them for their absurd choice of location and for generally being awful.
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*First Published: December 15, 2021, 12:27 pm
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