A video from Italy is also being distributed here: McDonald's supposedly marks unvaccinated customers with a red dot on the seating card.
The man in the video sounds excited: He is sitting in the outdoor area of a McDonald's branch in Italy and is filming his place card with a red dot on it. “ Come i nazisti, bollino rosso per i non vaccinati ,” in German: “ Like the Nazis, red dot for the unvaccinated, ” he complains. But is he right in his claim?
An Italian radio station spread the video widely on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/RadioSavana/status/1423739506214248449
Radio Savana writes:
“At McDonald's, if you are not vaccinated, you will be marked in front of everyone else with a red dot on the place card above the table. It's like being back in Nazi Germany, but we're in Mario Draghi and Roberto Speranza's Italy. History repeats itself.”
The video is also shared in German-speaking countries:
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The green pass in Italy
Since August 6th, vaccinated people in Italy have been receiving a so-called Greenpass. to use public facilities such as museums, cinemas, swimming pools and restaurants .
However, the excited man you hear in the video doesn't have a green pass and therefore has to sit outside:
“So I stopped at McDonald's to have a burger and after I said I didn't have a green pass they rightly made me sit outside. But look at this, they put a damn red sticker on my place card to say I’m not vaccinated and don’t have a green pass and labeled me as I don’t know what.”
Maybe some of you already have an idea what the red dot is really for after his statement!
The red dot at McDonald's
Many people suspect that the man was cheating because the red dot on the place card is a little wrinkled. It is believed that he tore the red dot off a Coke and stuck it there, because in many McDonald's locations Coke-Zero is marked with a red dot so that employees don't mix up the cups.
That could certainly be the case, but there is another explanation: red dots can actually also be found on some place cards. A blogger from the Italian site “ Cup of Green Tea ” wanted to know exactly and visited a McDonald's branch in Gioia Tauro.
In fact, she also finds place cards with a red dot there:
Ordering in most McDonald's branches in Italy is as follows:
You go to a machine, choose a menu, take a seat card and then wait at a place of your choice for your order.
Beforehand, however, the blogger reports, you will be asked for the Greenpass, without which you are not allowed to eat inside. Only then can you order and take a seat card.
After a McDonald's employee brought her the order, the blogger asked what the red dots on the place cards were for and the answer was that employees could see more quickly who had a Greenpass and was allowed to eat inside.
Let us note:
At the branch that the blogger visited, the inside seats were marked with the red dot, and at the branch that the man in the video visited, apparently the outside seats!
So does this mean that unvaccinated people are discriminated against?
Unvaccinated people are also served at McDonald's, but they just have to sit outside. Of course, vaccinated people can also sit outside, especially if the weather is nice. They would then certainly receive a place card with a red dot in the branch where the man was.
The red dot does not indicate unvaccinated people, but rather the seat: inside or outside!
Some McDonald's employees also confirm that his claim is nonsense, such as here:
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“I work at McDonald's and I can confirm that what you are saying is complete nonsense. Get vaccinated and don’t bullshit me.”
Conclusion
In this country, too, we are familiar with the phenomenon that opponents of vaccination like to see themselves in the role of victim, which is why some were so brazen as to wear a Star of David with the inscription “Unvaccinated” as an armband at Corona demos or to compare themselves to Sophie Scholl.
And if you see yourself as a victim anyway, then you can sometimes mistake a red dot on a seating card for discrimination - even though McDonald's simply uses it to mark guests' indoor and outdoor seating.
Article image: Twitter screenshot
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