For nearly 10 months and counting, millions of school children in our nation’s capital are, well, not going to school. A summer of race riots and lockdowns (that didn’t keep us from having the 8th highest pandemic deaths per capita) have corroded Washington’s economy, with vaunted institutions such as the U Street Music Hall, the Eighteenth Street Lounge, the Brixton, the Codmother, and Post Pub all shuttered for good. All of this has given the district an unemployment rate nearly 2 points higher than our falling national average of 6.9% and has made the city fatter, poorer, and riddled with mental health woes and domestic disputes.
So, Mayor Muriel Bowser thought that this would be a nice time to go party in the streets of Delaware after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the election. Bowser, who has been about as subtle as a gun as she auditions for a Biden administration job, has recently locked down free travel from all but four states: Maryland, Virginia, Hawaii, and Vermont. Notice how Delaware is not one of those states.
For us ordinary plebeians, we would have to either quarantine for a fortnight after coming from the other 46 states or get a coronavirus test within 72 hours of arrival and then a negative result. But Bowser exempted herself from her own rules, deeming her celebratory jaunt up the coast “essential travel.” Now, does this look “essential” to you?
Dc @MayorBowser & staff attended @JoeBiden victory speech in Wilmington, DE Saturday. Delaware on the Mayor’s list of “High Risk” states which would require quarantine after returning. Bowser staff says the trip was “essential travel” exempted under Mayor’s order. @nbcwashington pic.twitter.com/GOAdajeENp
— Mark Segraves (@SegravesNBC4) November 9, 2020
Bowser’s office told FOX 5 that she exempted herself because she met with Biden staffers such as Symone Sanders in her “official capacity.” Because the mayor of a city that voted 9-to-1 for Biden must have a problem so pressing that she can’t wait to see the guy who won’t be president for another two months. The deal is clear here: Bowser wanted to further prove her pro-Biden bonafides to shore up her next job and have a non-socially distanced party of a time while doing it. “Rules for thee but not for me” is what she’s saying. Oh — and let them eat curbside cake.
