An MSNBC camera crew was caught off guard after a man recorded several members of the crew not wearing masks while they did a report scolding other people for not wearing masks.
“Are they not worried about their own personal safety?” host Katy Tur asked a masked Cal Perry of those not wearing masks in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
“You can see here, just around, nobody is wearing them,” Perry said.
“Including the cameraman,” said a bystander, who gestured to Perry’s team. “Half your crew isn’t wearing them, either.”
Perry acknowledged the man was correct. The video recorded by the man, who appeared in the MSNBC video, can be seen below and shows several members of the crew standing behind the camera without masks on.
Perry was reporting from Wisconsin, where the state’s Supreme Court overruled Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’s stay-at-home order on May 13 and allowed the reopening of some nonessential businesses. Earlier in the interview, Tur asked if people who refuse to wear masks do not care about their “personal safety.”
“So, are the people there just not worried about it, Cal? They’re not worried about their own personal safety?” asked Tur.
“I haven’t met anybody who is,” Perry said.
Media outlets and politicians have stressed the need to wear protective equipment but on several occasions have been seen breaking their own rules, leading to criticism from citizens who are skeptical of the country’s “new normal.”
