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Whole Foods staff kick 14-year-old disabled girl out of Virginia store for not wearing a mask

Updated: March 10, 2021 at 11:57 am EST  See Comments

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VIENNA, Virginia, March 10, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A mother, her severely disabled daughter, and her daughter’s nurse were recently asked to leave a Whole Foods in Vienna, Virginia, because the daughter was not wearing a mask. The non-verbal 14-year-old girl has high-tone cerebral palsy and is wheelchair-bound due to quadriplegia. 

According to the mother, Teresa Schultz, Virginia state mask mandates exempt people like her daughter from having to wear face coverings. The Virginia order exempts, “[a]ny person who has trouble breathing, or is unconscious, incapacitated, or otherwise unable to remove the mask without assistance.” It furthers states, “Nothing in this Order shall require the use of a mask by any person for whom doing so would be contrary to his or her health or safety because of a medical condition.”

With the exception of the Whole Foods confrontation, Schultz says her daughter, Mary, has never had issues entering establishments mask-free. However, this time, Schultz, Mary, and Mary’s nurse were approached by two Whole Foods employees because the girl was unmasked.  According to an interview with The Federalist, the employees did not

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