Uh oh.
He threw out the first pitch of the baseball season yesterday — not very well, alas — and then stuck around in the nearly empty stadium to take in the Nats/Yankees game. Nearly empty, as I say. But not quite fully empty. What happened here? Dr. Fauci should be setting a better example. Photo: Alex Brandon/AP pic.twitter.com/qUhxQ4nBTx Yashar Ali ???? (@yashar) July 24, 2020 I’m almost positive that the woman on his left is his wife. There’s no problem ignoring social distancing rules in that case; they live in the same household so they’re in a quarantine “bubble” together anyway. But who’s the guy on his right? Does he live with the Faucis too? If not, why aren’t they a good 10 feet away from him? Or 50 feet, since space was no issue yesterday? At first I thought maybe the photographer had snapped this pic while he was eating, which wouldn’t be an excuse for not social distancing but would raise the possibility that he only had his mask off for a second. But no, you can see him casually watching the game with the mask down in the second photo here too. Two possibilities. One is that he egregiously flouted good pandemic practices even though he knew photographers were around and even though, at age 79, he’s at dire risk of a bad outcome if he contracts the virus. The other is that the guy on his right doesn’t live with the Faucis but may be part of some extended multi-household quarantine “bubble.
