Posted on 02/05/2022 6:08:12 PM PST by KierkegaardMAN
Three days after being photographed without a face mask at the NFC championship game, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti joined other officials Wednesday to urge fans headed for the Super Bowl to strictly adhere to pandemic safety protocols that include staying masked, except while eating or drinking.
The Los Angeles area continues to see high levels of COVID-19 infections, and ticket holders ages 5 and older must show proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test to enter.
The biggest challenge at the Super Bowl might be there was no way to constantly police 70,000 people.
“You can’t force everybody to wear a mask all the time,” said James Butts, mayor of Inglewood, where the stadium is located. “In the end, it’s the responsibility of the people to take care of themselves, their families and their friends. And that’s the simplest way I can put it.”But flagrant violators might get a reminder.Slipping off a mask to take a bite of a snack “doesn’t mean buy a bucket of popcorn and eat it for two hours,” warned Russ Simons, senior adviser of facilities at the stadium. "The staff is on hand to remind people to mask up."Garcetti wasn't alone in facing criticism for shedding his mask last weekend, if even for a moment. Gov. Gavin Newsom and San Francisco Mayor London Breed also were photographed without masks at the game. The three Democrats were accused of hypocrisy for lecturing residents about dutifully wearing masks in public, while the pictures from the game that circulated widely online suggested they set different rules for themselves. . Los Angeles County has imposed some of the most restrictive pandemic rules in the nation, yet it also has seen among the highest rates for infections and deaths in the nation ..
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I would be more surprised if they didn’t make masking an issue at all.
What happened to all those social workers? Can't they handle this?
Simple solution for ticket holders.
Don’t wear a mask !
Will the players and their staffs be required to wear masks?
“But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand.
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The NFL should have done what MLB did to Georgia, move the Superbowl OUT OF California.
If you can afford the $10,000.00 ticket the $500.00 mask fine is chump change.
There is a great opportunity here, if the vast majority of the fans in LA will just disobey.
Sort of a Canadian Truckers moment.
Will Gavin attend?
Guy must be a Republican! Or maybe Libertarian. Or maybe Democratic strategists are in a panic.
Anywhere, anytime.
Hey instead of wearing a mask, just hold your breath, after all worked for Garcetti
LOL
What about a scuba mask and air tanks? Cheering and booing can be replaced by thumbs up and thumbs down.
What would be glorious is if at some prearranged moment, like the kickoff or at the end of halftime, EVERYONE in the stadium removed their masks at the same time and refused to put them back on.
What would the officials do?
“Urge”? I thought they were threatening $500 fined.
“Urge”? I thought they were threatening $500 fined.
Be sure to mask up for the halftime show. It’ll be toxic,
I was thinking that too, maybe removing them as one in a wave around the stadium.
Urge is the key word here. You spotted it. A previous thread mentioned a mask was mandatory.
I’ve watched all of the NFL Playoff Games, and I have not seen masks on anymore than 15 - 20% of Fans.
Click bait.
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