He’s really good at holding his breath. https://t.co/6uaC0S9o4M
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 14, 2022
SoFi Stadium’s rules dictate that masks are required indoors and outdoors during events with more than 5,000 people.
Last Wednesday, asked about photos of him maskless with Los Angeles Lakers icon Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Garcetti stated, “I’ll take personal responsibility, and if it makes you and everyone else happy — or even the photographs with people where literally I’m holding my breath for two seconds — I won’t even do that,” Deadline reported.
“I wore my mask the entire game,” Garcetti protested. “When people ask for a photograph, I hold my breath and I put it here and people can see that. There is a zero percent chance of infection from that.”
He added, “I won’t pull it down for two seconds anymore — that’s easy. But to me, it is crystal clear that nobody has been endangered by that and I’m trying to model the good behavior of making sure we wear this (for the) entire game,” The Daily Mail noted.
Garcetti was widely mocked on social media after the NFC Championship game :
This isn’t hypocrisy. This keeps happening because the politicians who impose all these COVID rules and restrictions on everyone else see them as a useless joke, and that’s why they ignore them in their own lives and end up saying darkly hilarious things like this to justify it: https://t.co/Xfz16ZlR0L
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 3, 2022
This isn’t hypocrisy. This keeps happening because the politicians who impose all these COVID rules and restrictions on everyone else see them as a useless joke, and that’s why they ignore them in their own lives and end up saying darkly hilarious things like this to justify it: https://t.co/Xfz16ZlR0L
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 3, 2022
