{"id":76933,"date":"2021-08-01T12:32:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T16:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=76933"},"modified":"2021-08-01T12:32:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T16:32:59","slug":"democrat-mask-double-standard-is-being-displayed-with-highly-purposeful-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=76933","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Mask Double Standard is Being Displayed with Highly Purposeful Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>DC Mayor Bowser officiates maskless indoor wedding after reinstated mask mandate<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->Tiana Lowe<br \/>\nWashington Examiner<\/p>\n<p>Fewer than 24 hours after Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser celebrated her 49th birthday with a DJ and comedian Dave Chappelle, she officiated a wedding at The Line DC, a four-star hotel in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of the city.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"storyimage fullwidth inlineimage\" data-aop=\"image\"><span class=\"image\" data-attrib=\"Provided by Washington Examiner\" data-caption=\"\" data-id=\"60\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:60,&quot;p&quot;:59,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;openModal&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:&quot;articleImages&quot;,&quot;o&quot;:1}\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AAMNugh.img?h=381&amp;w=624&amp;m=6&amp;q=60&amp;o=f&amp;l=f&amp;x=737&amp;y=389\" alt=\"Muriel Bowser standing in front of a stage\" data-src=\"{&quot;default&quot;:{&quot;load&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;w&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;h&quot;:&quot;49&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AAMNugh.img?h=488&amp;w=799&amp;m=6&amp;q=60&amp;o=f&amp;l=f&amp;x=737&amp;y=389&quot;},&quot;size3column&quot;:{&quot;load&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;w&quot;:&quot;62&quot;,&quot;h&quot;:&quot;38&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AAMNugh.img?h=381&amp;w=624&amp;m=6&amp;q=60&amp;o=f&amp;l=f&amp;x=737&amp;y=389&quot;},&quot;size2column&quot;:{&quot;load&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;w&quot;:&quot;62&quot;,&quot;h&quot;:&quot;38&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AAMNugh.img?h=381&amp;w=624&amp;m=6&amp;q=60&amp;o=f&amp;l=f&amp;x=737&amp;y=389&quot;}}\" \/><\/span><span class=\"caption truncate\"><span class=\"attribution\">\u00a9 Provided by Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Despite the mayor&#8217;s order, the wedding reception featured hundreds of unmasked guests served by dozens of wait staff, including a conspicuously unmasked Bowser.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"storyimage fullwidth inlineimage\" data-aop=\"image\"><span class=\"image\" data-attrib=\"Provided by Washington Examiner\" data-caption=\"Muriel Bowser Maskless - 073121\" data-id=\"61\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:61,&quot;p&quot;:59,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;openModal&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:&quot;articleImages&quot;,&quot;o&quot;:2}\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AAMNLsO.img?h=808&amp;w=624&amp;m=6&amp;q=60&amp;o=f&amp;l=f&amp;x=499&amp;y=463\" alt=\"a group of people in a room: Muriel Bowser Maskless - 073121\" data-src=\"{&quot;default&quot;:{&quot;load&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;w&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;h&quot;:&quot;103&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AAMNLsO.img?h=1034&amp;w=799&amp;m=6&amp;q=60&amp;o=f&amp;l=f&amp;x=499&amp;y=463&quot;},&quot;size3column&quot;:{&quot;load&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;w&quot;:&quot;62&quot;,&quot;h&quot;:&quot;81&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AAMNLsO.img?h=808&amp;w=624&amp;m=6&amp;q=60&amp;o=f&amp;l=f&amp;x=499&amp;y=463&quot;},&quot;size2column&quot;:{&quot;load&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;w&quot;:&quot;62&quot;,&quot;h&quot;:&quot;81&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AAMNLsO.img?h=808&amp;w=624&amp;m=6&amp;q=60&amp;o=f&amp;l=f&amp;x=499&amp;y=463&quot;}}\" \/><\/span><span class=\"caption truncate\"><span class=\"attribution\">\u00a9 Provided by Washington Examiner<\/span>\u00a0Muriel Bowser Maskless &#8211; 073121<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bowser, who was not sitting at the table designated for her during wedding toasts, did not wear a mask despite not actively eating or drinking. When approached by the\u00a0<i>Washington Examiner<\/i>\u00a0to explain why she was maskless at an event now legally obligated to enforce mask compliance, security blockaded the free press.<\/p>\n<p>At least 3 out of 5 adults in the district and 3 in 4 seniors have been vaccinated. Even with the delta variant of the coronavirus,\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/just-four-covid-deaths-in-july-yet-dc-reimposes-its-mask-mandate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-id=\"63\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:63,&quot;p&quot;:59,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;partnerLink&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:24,&quot;o&quot;:4}\">vaccination has proven eminently effective, even more so than masks<\/a>. Of the nearly 400,000 district residents fully vaccinated against the pandemic, just four (all of whom were elderly or had preexisting conditions) died.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/dc-mayor-bowser-officiates-maskless-indoor-wedding-after-reinstated-mask-mandate\/ar-AAMNzes\">https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/dc-mayor-bowser-officiates-maskless-indoor-wedding-after-reinstated-mask-mandate\/ar-AAMNzes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DC Mayor Bowser officiates maskless indoor wedding after reinstated mask mandate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}