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  • 2021-09-02 (xsd:date)
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  • Phoenix Koi Chinese Restaurant Vaccine Discount Sign – Truth or... (en)
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  • Phoenix Koi Chinese Restaurant Vaccine Discount Sign Claim A Florida restaurant, Phoenix Koi Chinese Restaurant, changed their sign to offer a 95 percent discount for vaccine card holders in late August or early September 2021. Rating Not True Like this fact check? Reporting On September 2 2021, an Imgur account shared an image that was purportedly of a sign from Phoenix Koi Chinese Restaurant, offering a 95% discount for vaccine card holders, and some additional commentary, too: Featured in the image was a two-part sign. The top read Phoenix Koi Chinese Restaurant, and the bottom featured interchangeable text reading: Lunch: $150 (Get 95% off with vacc. card!) F*** DeSantis At the bottom of the post was a link to a news article. That link didn’t address the sign, but pointed to a September 2 2021 Orlando Sentinel article titled Florida to start enforcing $5,000 fine for seeking proof of COVID vaccine. The article began by explaining that effective September 16 2021, a bill signed by Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R) prohibited businesses and other entities from asking people to provide proof of vaccination, punishable by a $5,000 fine: TALLAHASSEE — Florida will start issuing $5,000 fines to businesses, schools and government agencies that require customers or visitors to show proof of a COVID-19 vaccination. Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill earlier this year [2021] that banned so-called vaccine passports. The fines will start Sept. 16 [2021] if people are asked to show proof of a vaccine. The law does not apply to employers that require vaccination of their staff. Together, the image and link hinted at a workaround — businesses opting to raise prices and offering discounts to anyone who chose to present proof of vaccination. But the post suspiciously lacked a location or other identifying information from the original poster. Reverse image search immediately revealed that the photograph was in fact a long-circulating meme template, iterations of which were crawled as early as February 2008: Google Images similarly illustrated the history of the Chinese restaurant meme template, examples for which were occasionally profane or generally insensitive: Moreover, the template was used for an entirely different Chinese restaurant sign, shared to trading subreddit r/Superstonk on August 21 2021. That iteration changed the name of the restaurant to Wen Moon, a reference to a common refrain regarding specific tickers (in this case, $GME ): Found This Meme Last Night, Figured I’d Share Before Open from Superstonk Although the Imgur Phoenix Koi Chinese Restaurant sign included a link to a real and accurate news story about Florida’s vaccine card-related fine, the image as a meme has been in circulation since at least February 2008. Posted in Fact Checks , Viral Content Tagged chinese restaurant meme template , florida vaccine sign , Gov. Ron DeSantis , imgur , reddit , vaccine discount sign , viral images (en)
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