JUST a few years ago, the sight of someone wearing a face mask was commonplace. But a mask-wearing Violet Affleck made headlines this week after revealing she'd suffered from a "post viral condition" as she blasted current mask mandates at a Los Angeles city board meeting. The 18-year-old is the eldest daughter of former Hollywood power couple Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner and attended the meeting to address the lack of mask wearing in the city's hospitals.
It's not the first time Violet has been spotted out in public sporting an N95 mask. She's been snapped wearing one at a party with her dad and stepmum J-Lo, as well as running errands with her family. Fans might have assumed the teen was trying to maintain some form of privacy, but Violet revealed she'd adopted mask-wearing after suffering a devastating health condition a few years ago.
"I contracted a post-viral condition in 2019," Violet said in a passionate speech delivered at the LA city board meeting on Tuesday. "I’m OK now, but I saw first-hand that medicine does not always have answers to the consequences of even minor viruses. "The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown that into sharper relief.
" Violet didn’t give any additional details about her condition, but she called on officials to do more to help people with long Covid. “We must expand the availability of free tests and treatment and, most importantly, the county must oppose mask bans for any reason," she pleaded. "They do not keep us safer, they make vulnera.