Curley: Mask rules bringing back Democrat hypocrisy in force

The masks are re-emerging, slowly but surely — and, in a shocking turn of events, lefty hypocrisy is showing up with them.

The first go-round of masking produced a slew of good-for-thee-but-not-for-me moments from the power-hungry elites.

Who can forget when Speaker Pelosi was caught — I mean was “set up” — at the San Francisco hair salon?

Or when California Gov. Gavin Newsom dined at French Laundry with people from multiple households after urging Californians to stay home?

The double standards were glaring then, and now the hypocrisy looks even worse.

Over the last two weeks, liberal leaders, following the always-evolving directives from the CDC, have been reintroducing asinine “guidelines” to their constituents.

But for tyrannical politicians who seek to control others, “suggesting guidelines” is just a speed bump on the road to the final destination: “enforcing mandates.”

So the new diktats are appearing in D.C., half of the Capitol, L.A. County and more “hot spots” all over the country.

But the re-masking rollout is not going over well with fed-up Americans — especially those who can assess risk and understand numbers.

Yes, the cases are rising in the U.S. thanks to the Delta variant. However, the death rates are still low. This is positive news, which is why the media is trying their very best to suppress it.

The bubble-boy progressives, drunk on Karen KoolAid, are more than happy to throw their masks back on. In fact, for months these busybodies begged their overlords to come out with new rules to protect them from any and all droplet danger.

But the overlords have become even more brazen with their lack of dedication to the cause.

Late Tuesday, attending physician for Congress Dr. Brian Monahan announced the return of a mask mandate in the House.

The doctor removed his mask while lecturing the House Republicans on this very important, not-at-all political decision. Keep in mind, this mandate is only applicable to the House — not the Senate.

Fox News Radio host Jimmy Failla summed up the idiocy of the new rule in a tweet, “No masks required on the Senate side of the Capitol but masks are required on the House side. This is like creating a ‘no peeing’ section in your pool.”

But the Capitol Police are taking this nonsensical, virtue-signaling rule very seriously. In fact, new Chief Thomas Manger issued a memo that stated “any person who fails to either comply or to leave the premises” if they are asked to wear a mask would be “subject to an arrest for Unlawful Entry.”

However, Friday Speaker Nancy Pelosi decided to remove her mask for a photo-op with newly sworn-in Rep. Jake Ellzey.

No word yet on whether or not Chief Manger has placed Speaker Antoinette in cuffs.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is partaking in the insanity, too. After all, why worry about skyrocketing crime and shootings when you can virtue-signal?

To put the D.C. COVID-19 deaths in context, Fox News put up a graphic that infuriated the press’s panic-porn pushers.

From July 14 through 28, D.C. had 4 COVID deaths and 11 homicides.

Undeterred by these inconvenient stats, Bowser announced Thursday that mask mandates are back in effect indoors for everyone — regardless of vaccination status.

Well … not everyone.

Two groups are getting an exemption from the mandate: Children under the age of two and, apparently, anyone whose name is Muriel Bowser.

A photo began circulating Saturday morning of the mayor posing sans mask with comedian Dave Chappelle on Friday night at The Anthem — just hours before her new mask mandate was set to start.

Leave it to Dave Chapelle to make a joke out of the D.C. mayor— not that she needed his help.

The truth is that the majority of these pandemic restrictions are theater, and they always have been.

Unfortunately for the left, their star performers can’t even muster up the energy to pretend to care about their craft anymore.

They are lazy and arrogant — and the critics are panning their bizarre spectacle.

We are only a few days into these new restrictions, but it doesn’t look like many Americans are tuning in to watch this box-office bomb.

from Boston Herald https://ift.tt/3fjgOPX