San Francisco Mayor London Breed made a good point this weekend: We don’t need the “fun police” constantly critiquing individuals’ decisions regarding the pandemic.
“While I’m eating and drinking, I’m going to keep my mask off,” she said when asked why she was partying maskless at an indoor bar last week despite her own mask guidance. “And yes, in the time while we’re drinking like everyone else there, we were all having a good time and, again, all vaccinated.”
Breed went on to argue that putting a mask on in between eating and drinking isn’t “realistic” and that she wasn’t worried about following her own public health orders at the time because she was “feeling the spirit.”
“My drink was sitting at the table. I got up and started dancing because I was feeling the spirit, and I wasn’t thinking about a mask. I was thinking about having a good time, and in the process, I was following the health orders,” she said. “We don’t need the fun police to come in and micromanage and tell us what we should or shouldn’t be doing.”
Breed is exactly right. Her health is her own concern, and if she is fully vaccinated, there is very little reason for her or anyone else to be concerned at all. She should be able to enjoy live music and dance around carefree.
The problem, of course, is that she expects everyone else in the city to live by different standards. She reimplemented a citywide indoor mask mandate last month for everyone, regardless of vaccination status, and claimed this was necessary to protect public health. As a result, children 3 years old and up are forced to wear masks at day cares and schools; adults are required to wear masks while exercising in gyms, and everyone besides the mayor who eats out or goes drinking is expected to keep a mask on at all times except when “actively eating or drinking.” Shouldn’t they get an exemption, too, if the spirit moves them?
Breed should do herself and everyone else in the city a favor and repeal her misguided, anti-science mask mandate. She clearly doesn’t think it’s all that necessary anyway.
