New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio expressed confusion over why some were upset to see him at the gym a day after announcing that public venues would be closing to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.

De Blasio, a failed 2020 presidential candidate, announced that the city would be shutting down restaurants, bars, and gyms on Monday and urged people not to go to those public spaces to combat potential exposure, but that did not stop him from going to the YMCA that morning for one last workout. A number of people expressed their frustration with the mayor, seeing his actions as an implicit double standard.

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