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 recreation at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium.
“Hanging out at SoFi Stadium at this time!” 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 Feb. 15 amid surging instances of COVID-19.
Los Angeles County additionally requires all folks attending massive 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 have to 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 pictures.
“Toddlers are being compelled to put on masks all day lengthy in class,” she wrote on Twitter. “Possibly in the future they’ll be governor or the mayor of LA and so they received’t have the comply with the principles they impose on others.”
Others known as it an instance of “guidelines for thee, however not for me.”
Newsom and Breed have beforehand come underneath fireplace for showing to flout face masks mandates, with Breed in September defending herself after being caught on video and not using a face masks in a San Francisco jazz bar and nightclub.
In November 2020, now-infamous footage surfaced of Newsom and not using a 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 pictures. 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 might have eliminated the face masking for the pictures.
Officers at So Fi Stadium, which is able to host the Tremendous Bowl on Feb. 13, mentioned final week that every one spectators watching the sport will probably be given KN95 masks upon arrival.
