Gov. Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and different California leaders are going through criticism after they have been photographed Sunday with out face masks on the NFC Championship sport at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium.
“Hanging out at SoFi Stadium right now!” former Laker Earvin “Magic” Johnson wrote in a tweet showcasing the maskless celebs, who included San Francisco Mayor London Breed and actor Rob Lowe, amongst others.
The group was attending the sport that noticed the Los Angeles Rams defeat the San Francisco 49ers and advance to the Tremendous Bowl.
The submit was met with swift backlash from commenters noting that California’s common masks mandate requires residents to put on face masks in all indoor public areas no matter vaccine standing. Earlier this month, state officers prolonged the masks mandate by means of Feb. 15 amid surging circumstances of COVID-19.
Los Angeles County additionally requires all folks attending giant indoor and outside occasions to put on face masks, besides when consuming and ingesting, as does SoFi Stadium.
“Masks can solely be eliminated to actively eat or drink, after which they should be instantly put again on,” the stadium’s masks coverage states.
Representatives for Newsom, Garcetti and Breed didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark Monday.
California Sen. Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore) was amongst those that expressed concern concerning the images.
“Toddlers are being pressured to put on masks all day lengthy at school,” she wrote on Twitter. “Perhaps someday they’ll be governor or the mayor of LA they usually received’t have the observe the foundations they impose on others.”
Others known as it an instance of “guidelines for thee, however not for me.”
Newsom and Breed have beforehand come beneath hearth for showing to flout face masks mandates, with Breed in September defending herself after being caught on video with no face masks in a San Francisco jazz bar and nightclub.
In November 2020, now-infamous footage surfaced of Newsom with no face masks at a cocktail party on the French Laundry restaurant in Napa. The governor later apologized.
Regardless of the haters, not everybody was upset by the images. Some commenters famous that the group seems to be in a non-public, open-air suite. Others identified that a number of folks, together with Garcetti, are holding their masks of their fingers, indicating they could have eliminated the face masking for the images.
Officers at So Fi Stadium, which can host the Tremendous Bowl on Feb. 13, mentioned final week that every one spectators watching the sport shall be given KN95 masks upon arrival.
— by way of www.latimes.com
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