SF Mayor violates strict mask mandate, which city has yet to soften

Suprise suprise, rules for thee, not for me.

https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/COVID19citations.html

SF is still actively issuing citations for this.

If a politician is individually and personally a horrible person and idiot, but they run everything well, are they a bad politician? (I'm not arguing this mayor runs everything well, I don't know about that)

Leadership REQUIRES "leading by example". It's one of the fundamental requirements. Otherwise the person is just a bureaucrat empowered by authority of position in an org chart - no voluntary followers to be expected.

Why are people so outraged? The rule only applies to the plebs.

the whole "unless eating or drinking" exception makes the whole enterprise kindof a farce

if she had been holding a drink the whole time would it then be OK?