(OPINION) Social media expressed collective outrage over Monday’s 2021 Met Gala after A-list celebrities were pictured en masse without masks while other, lesser-known entertainers and employees were forced to cover up their faces for the super-elite event.

2020’s Met Gala was canceled due to the ongoing pandemic. Celebrities and politicians — including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) — took to the crowded NYC event’s red carpet without masks on Monday night. Conservative media maven Megyn Kelly tweeted about the event — and Ocasio-Cortez’s appearance — and wrote, “A pathetic self-aggrandizing hypocrite.



Meanwhile, our kids are muzzled & six feet apart all day long while trying to learn but she & these other ‘Rules for Thee but Not for Me’ pols can parade around maskless & in top of each other at the Met Gala bc, SCIENCE.” Professor and Dr. Howard Forman added, “Notion that you don’t need to be masked at the #MetGala because everyone is vaccinated flies in the face of every public health proclamation of past 2 months.

This ‘let them eat cake’ cartoon would be funny if not compounded by the ‘tax the rich’ subtitle.” The Daily Wire’s Megan Basham added, “How can you tell the elite from the peasants? The peasants have to wear masks.” Her remark was in reference to Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.), who was pictured indoors without a mask while standing in front of a long row of gala staffers — all of whom were masked. READ MORE