Sorry spitting on & giving an essential worker 3 heart attacks & trauma during a viral pandemic is not “people are getting frustrated with public health orders”

Nor was the BC Walmart greeter punched & kicked in the head repeatedly https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rhonda-comeau-nelson-empire-coffee-spitting-1.5852380?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar
B.C. hotel employee still recovering after disturbing incident with anti-mask customer | CBC News

Rhonda Comeau was allegedly spat on by an angry customer at a coffee shop in November and had to be rushed to hospital with heart problems afterwards. She asks people to follow COVID-19 regulations...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rhonda-comeau-nelson-empire-coffee-spitting-1.5852380?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar
Nor was the Canadian Tire staffer who yelled “BOOHOOHOO” at me after pretending he couldn’t hear me through my mask no matter how loud or clearly I repeated myself

Nor the young man at the ski hill who pulled his mask down after the diligent liftie asked him to three times...
These people are extremists. They seem to me almost all young, white, male & entitled

I now see this as an organized & coordinated terror campaign literally attempting to infect, traumatize & murder innocents. It’s not “free speech,” it‘s not protected https://bc.ctvnews.ca/mobile/walmart-employee-attacked-after-asking-customer-to-mask-up-police-say-1.5206231
Walmart employee attacked after asking customer to mask up, police say

Another dispute over B.C.'s mandatory mask policy erupted into violence this week at a Walmart in the remote community of Dawson Creek.

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/mobile/walmart-employee-attacked-after-asking-customer-to-mask-up-police-say-1.5206231
They aren’t “frustrated” with rules
they don’t deserve any sympathy if as a consequence of their extremism they get incapacitated by bystanders or responders after being warned repeatedly

Don’t stand by waiting & watching them assault people if you can safely stop the danger
Also I don’t give a damn about those entitled Alberta hockey bros. He wasn’t arrested for “playing hockey”
Just like these aren’t “conflicts over masks”

They’re selfish extremists, irreconcilable with everyone else’s freedoms—especially people who aren’t white, male or young
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