{"id":379566,"date":"2021-03-22T14:32:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T21:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=379566"},"modified":"2021-03-22T14:32:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T21:32:11","slug":"tito-ortiz-pleads-with-parents-to-take-off-their-kids-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/tito-ortiz-pleads-with-parents-to-take-off-their-kids-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"Tito Ortiz pleads with parents to take off their kids&#8217; masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC Hall of Famer and Huntington Beach Mayor Pro Tem Tito Ortiz pleaded with parents to take off their kids&#8217; masks during a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz has been very outspoken about COVID-19 in general ever since he took over the role of Mayor Pro Tem in his native Huntington Beach near the end of 2020. <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/tito-ortiz-explains-why-he-is-anti-mask-and-wont-get-the-covid-19-vaccine\/\">Ortiz said in December that he was anti-mask and he allegedly didn&#8217;t wear a mask at city hall<\/a>, which led to complaints from employees there. A few months later and Ortiz is still nothing but critical about the masks, going so far as to tell parents not to let their kids wear them.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/weberzwayfilms\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weberz Way<\/a>, Ortiz went on another anti-mask rant (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FullContactMTWF\/status\/1374098574791745541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Borrachinha Depot<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Huntington Beach Mayor Pro Tem Tito Ortiz lectures about masks, the flu, vaccines, and taxes. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cuDOFae2Gu\">pic.twitter.com\/cuDOFae2Gu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Borrachinha Depot (@FullContactMTWF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FullContactMTWF\/status\/1374098574791745541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I gotta be here in Huntington and help each one of these people have the focus to not to wear a mask. Please, people. Parents, please take your kids&#8217; masks off. You&#8217;re ruining the health of their lungs, their immune systems. The kids are not going to catch COVID, man. I&#8217;m not a doctor, but let me tell you, I&#8217;m a person who has lived through life. Take your mask off your kids,&#8221; Tito Ortiz said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What happened to the flu? 98% has been erased. That&#8217;s kind of strange, huh? I&#8217;ve never taken a flu shot, I won&#8217;t take this vaccine shot. I don&#8217;t get a sh*t. They gotta pin me down. I know I shouldn&#8217;t have to be vicious like that because we live in American, and we pay taxes. And I pay a lot of taxes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Comments and reaction so far on social media has mainly been critical towards Ortiz for his opinions of the subject of masks, but of course, he has his supporters too.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of Tito Ortiz telling parents to take the masks off of their children?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC Hall of Famer and Huntington Beach Mayor Pro Tem Tito Ortiz pleaded with parents to take off their kids&#8217; masks during a recent interview. Ortiz has been very outspoken about COVID-19 in general ever since he took over the role of Mayor Pro Tem in his native Huntington Beach near the end of 2020. 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