"This California Teachers Association Board of Directors Member, Jesse Aguilar, isn’t interested in a ‘cautious’ approach for adults, only our kids. This is Jesse Aguilar. He went to NFC championship game with 70k strangers - he is #Done With Vivid but his Union wants kids masked," the LA Parent Union, a group advocating for an end to California's school COVID-19 restrictions, tweeted Monday.
Pictured in the tweet was CTA Board of Directors member Jesse Aguilar, who appeared to be celebrating the Rams NFC Championship win last month. A Facebook profile for Aguilar features the same photo from Jan. 31.
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Attached to the LA Parent Union post was a recent statement from the California Teachers Association, including CTA President E. Toby Boyd applauding the state's decision to maintain COVID-19 restrictions such as masks in place for K-12 students.
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"We support the administration's decision to pause and gather more information to make a science-based decision on school masking that responds to this moment in the pandemic and helps the state transition with an eye on equity," the statement reads.
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The picture of Aguilar was taken during the same game that California Gov. Gavin Newsom was also maskless in a photograph. He defended this move, despite a policy in place that required all spectators to wear masks.
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"I was very judicious yesterday, very judicious, and you’ll see the photo that I did take where Magic was kind enough, generous enough, to ask me for a photograph, and in my left hand’s a mask and I took a photo," Newsom spoke of the photo he took with NBA legend Magic Johnson. "The rest of the time I wore it as we all should — not when I had a glass of water or anything, and I encourage everybody else to do so."
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On Monday, Aguilar asserted a similar line of defense to his maskless picture in a Facebook post. He argued that he only took off his mask to snap the photo.
"This person wants to know where my mask was. It was in my pocket. I took it off for the picture. There was nobody in front of me," Aguilar insisted in the post. "I’m glad to wear my mask in a pandemic. It’s not hard and it shows I care about the people around me. I was glad SoFi required proof of vaccination. Getting vaccinated is the sane thing to do in a pandemic. I’m glad sane people behave in a sane manner in an insane time. Where’s your mask?"
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