CLAY: There’s been a lot of stupidity — I mean, an awful lot of stupidity — over the past couple of years surrounding covid. But you guys know we talked about this on Monday. The mayor of San Francisco, London Breed; the mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti; and the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, all attended the 49ers game against the Rams, the NFC Championship Game in L.A. at SoFi Stadium.

And all three of them were pictured without masks with Magic Johnson, former Laker basketball star. Now, Magic Johnson, of course, has HIV; so he would be, in theory, the definition of someone who is immunocompromised. All of them have tried to explain themselves away. Gavin Newsom said he only took his mask off for a few seconds.

By the way, we’ve learned — according to Democratic politicians — that when you get a picture taken, covid can’t spread. That seems to be their position because they’re always saying, “Oh, we just took the masks off for a couple minutes,” same thing CNN staffers said, by the way. Eric Garcetti broke a new stupidity level here. He said that he held his breath while he got his photo taken with Magic Johnson so there was no risk.

Listen to this answer.

GARCETTI: I wore my mask the entire game, and I — when people asked for a photograph, I hold my breath, and I put it here and people could see that. There’s a 0% chance of infection from that.

CLAY: (laughing) Buck, he held his breath! Does that mean that, like, if you are really one of these deep-sea divers and you just hold your breath better than almost anyone in the world, that you don’t theoretically ever have to wear a mask, right? This is one of the dumbest answers of all time.

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BUCK: I don’t even know if we could sit here and laugh without at least the possibility that in a week or two Fauci would be like (impression), “I have an announcement, forget double masking. I want half freezing. I would like for mitigation purposes to limit the droplet dispersal by having everyone hold their breath to least 10, perhaps 15 — and if you go to 30 and pass out, that’s not good, so please stop at 20.” Is there anything that is too stupid for these people? I just have to wonder. Is anything too dumb for the Fauciites? I don’t think so.

CLAY: “I didn’t inhale” now has competition. That depends on what the meaning of the word “is” is. This is so stupid. This is so dumb that if I were a resident of Los Angeles, if I lived in L.A. County, I would want the mayor fired on the spot. I’m sure there are a lot of vice mayors out there. Somebody could step up, probably not be as dumb.

But, Buck, this is having consequences in L.A. The L.A. Times had a big article today saying that in the wake of the mayor’s stupidity and the picture of the governor inside of SoFi Stadium at the game, many parents out there are saying, “Wait a minute. You’re requiring my kids to wear masks; you are posing for photographs with Magic Johnson.

“There is no legitimacy whatsoever any longer to a mask requirement in L.A.,” and I think this hypocrisy is really cutting through even, Buck, in L.A., which is obviously a left-leaning state. Remember, more people in California voted for Donald Trump than voted for Donald Trump in Texas. Now, that’s the partly a function of population. But there’s a lot of sane people in California, too.

BUCK: I think so much of this now has come down to there’s the brainwashed folks, and they’re gonna take years. They’re traumatized by Fauci in a way, and I don’t think we can reach them. But for a lot of people, Clay — I’ve been thinking more about this — there’s a stubbornness with we don’t want to admit that the evil, right-wing insurrectionists —

CLAY: Were right.

BUCK: — et cetera, like you and me were right.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: They cannot psychologically cope, not that they had to do all this, that we were right the whole time.

CLAY: I think there’s some truth to that.