{"id":13119,"date":"2022-05-13T00:30:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T00:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/patti-lupones-hypocritical-privilege-makes-her-a-mask-karen\/"},"modified":"2022-05-13T00:30:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T00:30:01","slug":"patti-lupones-hypocritical-privilege-makes-her-a-mask-karen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/patti-lupones-hypocritical-privilege-makes-her-a-mask-karen\/","title":{"rendered":"Patti Lupone&#8217;s hypocritical privilege makes her a mask Karen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Chalk up one more celebrity COVID hypocrite: musical theater great turns out to be a (maskless) ranting mask Karen. <\/p>\n<p>A viral video shows the Tony and Grammy winner screaming \u201cget the f \u2013 ck out\u201d at a patron for refusing to mask up after a performance of \u201cCompany\u201d at the American Theater Wing.  Yet LuPone wasn&#8217;t wearing a mask as she ranted.  Color us shocked. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, she was doing a post-show Q-and-A.  She likely wanted her face di lei to be seen and her speech di lei to be understood.  But the policy of the theater where she was performing requires masking. <\/p>\n<p>So why not <em>her<\/em>?  Does being on a stage mean you can&#8217;t get others sick?<\/p>\n<p>LuPone&#8217;s obvious hypocrisy was greeted with a surge of pathetic seal-clapping.  But it&#8217;s typical of the way politicos, celebs and other elites have behaved since the pandemic began. <\/p>\n<p>Witness Mayor Eric Adams carving out a mile-wide celebrity exemption in NYC&#8217;s private-sector vax mandate.<strong> <\/strong>Or AOC smiling for a glamor shot at the Met gala with a squadron of masked-up servers in the background.<strong> <\/strong>Or disgraced ex-gov Andrew Cuomo announcing that <em>he <\/em>was going to be hosting Thanksgiving dinner after telling the rest of us plebes not to do just that. <\/p>\n<p>As years of data now make abundantly clear, restrictive mandates do nothing, good or bad, for broad-scale COVID outcomes.  New York&#8217;s gone from having massive restrictions and sky-high COVID deaths to almost no restrictions and steadily <em>dropping <\/em>death and hospitalization rates &#8211; which remain low during the current &#8220;fifth wave.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s due to vaccines, rising natural immunity, a better understanding of COVID among doctors and the therapeutics now entering the market. <\/p>\n<p><em>Not<\/em> mask or vaccine mandates.  Remember: Our outcomes are nearly identical to Florida&#8217;s, which never went down the same restrictionist route. <\/p>\n<p>What the LuPone video shows &#8211; for the umpteenth time &#8211; is that the powerful love hygiene-theater.  And privileged petty tyrants will keep obliviously castigating others for breaking rules they only follow when they feel like it until our officials, elected and otherwise, show some spine by killing our last COVID rules and ending this anti-scientific farce for good. <\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, the mask Karens are <em>never<\/em> going away.   <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chalk up one more celebrity COVID hypocrite: musical theater great turns out to be a (maskless) ranting mask Karen. A viral video shows the Tony and Grammy winner screaming \u201cget the f \u2013 ck out\u201d at a patron for refusing to mask up after a performance of \u201cCompany\u201d at the American Theater Wing. Yet LuPone &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/patti-lupones-hypocritical-privilege-makes-her-a-mask-karen\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Patti Lupone&#8217;s hypocritical privilege makes her a mask Karen<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[10],"tags":[5434,451,8249,8250,6036,101,4865,7142],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/newspress-collage-22244625-1652390944850.jpg?ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/newspress-collage-22244625-1652390944850.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&1652376958&w=1024","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}