Man ejected from Tesco store for wearing ‘Covid is a con’ mask

The 58-year-old was wearing a V For Vendetta mask with "Covid is a con" scrawled on it

Video has emerged of a 58-year-old 'Covid-19 protestor' being ejected from a Tesco branch on the Isle of Man. Company director and computer consultant Martin Houston was wearing a V For Vendetta mask with "Covid is a con" written on it when he was asked to leave the Lake Road store by a manager. "I'd like you to leave the store today because I find your mask highly offensive," the Tesco employee tells Houston. "So because you are offended, you are not letting me shop?" Houston asks back. He then asks to continue his shopping, but the employee tells him he has to leave. Houston then tells the employee that he will be hearing from his solicitor, and also from his radio station. Police were called to the Tesco store on the afternoon of Saturday, January 16, but Houston had left before they arrived. Houston told IOM Today that officers later spoke to him at his home. "Covid is a scam that needs to be stopped," he told IOM Today. "I was halfway through the store with a trolley full of shopping when I was told they wanted me to leave." Houston had been handing out leaflets in Port Erin on the Isle of Man, but says he was not leafleting in the store. He says that he spoke to one other customer who had commented on his mask, and given her his card. The Isle of Man has had 432 confirmed cased of Covid-19, and recorded 25 deaths.