San Francisco Mayor London Breed defended herself having a good time at a nightclub where she was seen dancing without a face mask by saying ‘we don’t need the fun police to micromanage us’ despite her new strict city mandates.
Breed was spotted partying at the Black Cat Nightclub without a face mask despite mandating in August that all people – whether they are vaccinated or not – need to wear one indoors when they are not actively eating or drinking.
In defending herself, she claimed everyone was vaccinated and that she was ‘feeling the spirit’ and ‘wasn’t thinking about a mask.’
Despite the outrage online about her breaking her own city mandates, she said she and her fellow nightclub goers don’t need the ‘fun police.’
‘We don’t need the fun police to micromanage us and tell us what we should or shouldn’t be doing,’ she said in a press conference on Saturday.
She said that at the time she was filmed and photographed dancing, her drink was on the table despite not being seen actively drinking it.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who was caught partying without a mask on at a nightclub, defended herself by saying the ‘fun police’ doesn’t need to ‘micromanage’
She claimed to have a drink at her table, where she was dancing, and therefore, following health protocols. She also said she was ‘feeling the spirit’ and ‘wasn’t thinking about a mask’
San Francisco is one of several major US cities to pass vaccine mandates. The city enacted it on August 20 and it requires all citizens to wear a mask indoors unless eating or drinking
‘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 health orders.’
As of August 20, San Francisco required all citizens, regardless of vaccination status, to wear a mask while indoors, unless actively drinking or eating. Rules for dancing at the table are unclear.
Speaking to reporters on Saturday, Breed tried to steer the focus of the conversation on San Francisco’s reopening and the comeback of nightclubs and live performers, like Tony! Toni! Toné! and Metallica, who performed at the Independent.
‘When you enter these venues, people are going to drink, people have to be vaccinated,’ she said. ‘That doesn’t mean you have to sip and drink, that is just not realistic.
‘I’m leaving my mask down while I’m enjoying my food.’
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There was major outrage online toward Breed after a video and photos of her dancing mask-less most of the night surfaced
This isn’t the first time the San Francisco Mayor has been called out for breaking her own mandates.
Last November, Breed was seen having dinner at the French Laundry with seven other people not from her household, after warning citizens to avoid big groups the week prior.
California Governor Gavin Newsom was also criticized for dining mask-less at the same restaurant around that time.
Newsom’s dinner eventually sparked his recall election, which he just recently won.
Breed was at the Black Cat Nightclub in San Francisco to see the original Tony! Toni! Toné! perform
The liberal governor admitted that the recall effort against him was ‘in no small degree because of our approach to this pandemic.’
California, hard-hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, had some of the strictest prevention policies in the country, where many schools were shut down for over a year and confusing, back-and-forth lockdown measures left businesses frustrated.
San Francisco is still being hit hard, causing Breed to mandate that residents need to wear masks indoors regardless of their vaccination status, and the state’s health department ordered that people dining and taking part in other indoor activities need to show proof of vaccination, last month.
San Francisco has reported about 134 new COVID-19 cases as of yesterday.
The city has among the lowest rate of cases in California, which now has less COVID-19 transmission than any other state in the country, the New York Times reported.
San Francisco reported that nearly 80 per cent of all eligible residents have received at least one dose of the vaccine, while 73 per cent are fully vaccinated.
California reported more than 82 percent of its eligible residents have received at least one jab.
The US continues to see a spike in cases due to the Delta variant as it reported nearly 165,000 new cases and about 2,500 new deaths on Friday.
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