Saddleback Valley Unified School District recently cleared its schools to resume sports and performing arts—only to later cancel live musical acts due to COVID-19 restrictions. Natalie Moreta, a senior at Mission Viejo High School (MVHS), was selected to sing the national anthem before an upcoming football game, only to have her performance cancelled March 19. The performances of other students who were set to sing at different games were also canceled. Natalie’s mother, Sarah Moreta, told The Epoch Times she is frustrated with COVID-19 rules that seem contradictory. “It’s just an inequality in the view of the performing arts in spreading this virus,” Moreta said. “How is one person standing in a field by themselves with a mask on spreading coronavirus, when [with football] 50 people are going to run on the field after she gets off and run around and tackle each other and rub on each other and scream and spit and bleed, but they’re not passing the coronavirus?” Under California’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy¸ gatherings for live artistic …
National Anthem Singers Silenced by COVID-19 Guidelines as Athletes Play
March 22, 2021
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