"....some are more equal than others."
Posted on 01/31/2022 6:45:38 PM PST by lightman
INGLEWOOD, Calif.—Several California officials are under fire after they were photographed without masks at a Jan. 30 National Football Conference (NFC) Championship game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood.
The Los Angeles Rams earned their spot in the Superbowl LVI when they beat the San Francisco 49ers 20–17, and the high-profile football match drew high-profile guests—including Gov. Gavin Newsom, LA Mayor Eric Garcetti, and San Francisco Mayor London Breed—who each posed maskless for a photo with NBA legend Magic Johnson.
The photos circulated widely on social media in the face of the governor’s extended state of emergency and mask mandate through Feb. 15.
Los Angeles County also requires masks at indoor and outdoor mega-events of 5,000 people or more, regardless of vaccine status, except when “actively eating and drinking.”
SoFi Stadium also allows attendees to only remove their masks when eating or drinking, “after which they must be immediately put back on.”
Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger called for a “re-evaluation” of the county’s mask policy on Jan. 31, saying the policies “don’t make a difference when they’re not consistently followed or enforced.”
“Masking rules set by the state and county weren’t followed consistently by everyone at yesterday’s NFC Championship,” Barger said in a statement. “Instead, we saw individuals choosing to mask up based on calculated personal risk. … Let’s do away with blanket COVID-19 masking policies—they don’t make a difference when they’re not consistently followed or enforced. We need to trust the public to make the best personal decisions for themselves based on their unique risks and circumstances.”
San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond in a Jan. 31 statement accused the officials of “disregarding the rules they put in place for us.”
“This continued undermining of the public’s trust is dangerous,” Desmond said. “Governor Newsom has extraordinary emergency powers to issue rules he believes will stop the spread of COVID-19, yet his actions show he believes many of those rules to be unnecessary or ineffective.”
Desmond said Los Angeles County’s rules for SoFi Stadium, guided by California health officials, “do not include exceptions for the Governor, the Mayor of San Francisco or the Mayor of Los Angeles.”
Johnson’s photos were taken from a luxury box overlooking the field. While Garcetti and Breed are pictured with what appears to be face masks in hand, no masks are visible in the Newsom photo, though the governor maintained that the mask was in his left hand when asked about the matter during a Jan. 31 press conference.
“I was very judicious yesterday,” Newsom said. “Very judicious. You’ll see the photo that I did take, Magic was kind enough, generous enough, to ask me for a photograph, and in my left hand’s the mask, and I took the photo. The rest of the time, I wore it as we all should, um—not when I had a glass of water—and I encourage everybody else to do so.”
The governor was also separately photographed sitting with his mask undone, hanging from one ear, without drinks or food in sight.
“The governor acknowledged that he took off his mask for a few moments during Sunday’s game,” a spokeswoman from Newsom’s office, Erin Mellon, said in a statement. “He continues to encourage all Californians to do their part to get through the pandemic and this latest surge, including wearing a mask and getting vaccinated.”
State Sen. Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore), a Republican, criticized Newsom, pointing out that young children are being forced to wear masks all day in schools, while officials go maskless at mega-events.
“Toddlers are being forced to wear masks all day long in school,” Melendez wrote on Twitter. “Maybe one day they’ll be governor or the mayor of LA and they won’t have the follow the rules they impose on others.”
Assemblywoman Laurie Davies (R-Laguna Niguel) echoed Melendez’s concerns about student masking, saying in a statement, “Actions speak louder than words and Governor Newsom’s actions at the NFC Championship football game shows why he cannot lead by example. Our kids are inundated with COVID rules at school, but it turns out all they need to do is rub elbows with the Hollywood elite and COVID rules don’t apply. The governor’s hypocrisy knows no limit.”
This comes after the county’s public health department has issued repeated reminders in the past two weeks that masks are required at outdoor mega-events, including at SoFi Stadium where Superbowl LVI will take place Feb. 13.
“We appreciate efforts made at the venues to remind spectators of the requirement and ask that attendees take responsibility for protecting each other during the surge by keeping their masks on unless actively eating or drinking,” a spokesperson from the health department told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement.
Mayors Garcetti and Breed didn’t respond to a request for comment by press time.
"....some are more equal than others."
Happens a lot! The leaders of Commiefornia are exempt from the rules they make!
They know it’s not about healthcare. Follow their lead.
So how in (Nicolas Cage from "The Rock") ZEUS' BUTTHOLE! is he still living and others who contracted HIV and later AIDS have died?
“...County Supervisor Kathryn Barger called for a “re-evaluation” of the county’s mask policy on Jan. 31, saying the policies “don’t make a difference when they’re not consistently followed or enforced.”
And if everyone quit following this idiocy , this would end....
He never got HIV or AIDS. He lied.
The stadium should BAN THEM FOR LIFE.
Go Bengals. (Sorry, Matthew, you were great in Detroit, but I cannot root for Hollywood’s Team)
Wonder if he was Like Mike, and got caugh gambling, too?
Remember, it was OK at Obama’s birthday bash as well.
Rules, like taxes, are for little people.
Anyone charged with violating one of Newsom's illegal diktats needs to sue the citation issuer, the agency they're from, and the governor himself. Anyone banned from entering a venue needs to do the same, especially if it's at SoFi Stadium.
It’s very important that the Elites win this one. They have to show the sheeple that the rules only apply to the sheeple. These rules were put in place to demonstrate obedience
Anti-viral drugs
It’s all about teaching COMPLIANCE….
...not “following the science”:
Masks are:
1) a sign of submission, subversion and subjugation
2) mandated in order to dehumanize
3) virtue signaling devices
4) meant to provide constant reinforcement of fear
5) used to destroy community, friends and family normal communication
6) implemented to create isolation, confusion, anxiety, destroy human connectivity, trust and interactions
7) mandated to exacerbate illness
8) intended to aid in the abandonment of the belief and reliance on our immune systems
9) intended to refute integrous science
10) signal to positions of power that you are willing to give up all of your rights and freedoms based on anything they say, even if it is a BIG FAT LIE!
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