From the BBC:
“Nancy Pelosi pictured without
mask in hair salon”
The most powerful elected US
Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, who scolds President Donald Trump for not wearing a
mask, has been pictured without a face covering in a San Francisco hair salon. Footage
obtained by Fox News showed the House of Representatives speaker inside the
premises on Monday, breaking the city's coronavirus-prevention rules. San Francisco's
pandemic orders do not allow hair salons to open indoors. Thousands of
California businesses have shut permanently amid virus curbs. Mrs Pelosi - who
always wears masks in public - often admonishes Republicans to "listen to
the science" on the pandemic. But the Fox News footage showed her walking
with a face mask around her neck, rather than over her mouth, through eSalon. A
stylist, who was wearing a mask, was shown following her. The California
Democrat's spokesman said she did not realise she was breaking her home city's
rules on virus prevention. "This business offered for the Speaker to come
in on Monday and told her they were allowed by the city to have one customer at
a time in the business," spokesman Drew Hammill said in a statement. "The
Speaker complied with the rules as presented to her by this
establishment." Mrs Pelosi has herself previously cited US Centers for
Disease Control guidelines recommending that Americans wear face masks in
public, especially when physical distancing measures are difficult. After
Monday's appointment, the House speaker appeared on MSNBC with the Golden Gate
Bridge in the background. She told the network that Mr Trump had "slapped
science right in the face" last week by allowing an audience of mainly
mask-less invitees on the White House lawn to watch his speech to the
Republican convention. The salon owner, Erica Kious, told Fox News she rents
chairs to a stylist, who notified her that Mrs Pelosi's assistant had called,
saying her boss wanted to come in for a wash and blow dry. Ms Kious told the
cable network: "It was a slap in the face that she went in, you know, that
she feels that she can just go and get her stuff done while no one else can go
in, and I can't work." More than
5,000 businesses in the San Francisco Bay area alone have closed since March,
over 2,000 of them permanently, during the pandemic, according to a recent
study of Yelp data. Outdoor haircuts were allowed in California from Tuesday,
under new rules announced by the mayor, but indoor salons remain shut. Senate
Republicans suggested the House speaker was a hypocrite. They tweeted:
"Speaker Pelosi has pushed policies that would keep our economy closed and
our small businesses shut down. "But for herself? A salon visit whenever
she pleases." The House speaker has previously said Republicans could help
create the conditions to safely reopen if they would only "listen to the
scientists". Mrs Pelosi has also repeatedly criticised Mr Trump's decision
to largely spurn face coverings, calling him a "coward" and saying:
"Real men wear masks." The coronavirus outbreak has infected more
than six million people in the US, while some 185,000 deaths have been
recorded.
^ Pelosi has long held herself
above everyone else and now above Californian Law. While it doesn’t really
surprise me it does show the nation photographic proof of her being an arrogant
hypocrite. ^
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