On Monday morning, wrestling legend Jerry “The King” Lawler posted a (since-deleted) selfie on Twitter showing him on a plane wearing a surgical mask.
“Not many people flying today!” the WWE broadcaster wrote.
But Lawler, a 70-year-old with a history of health problems (including a 2012 heart attack that occurred live on the air on Raw and a 2018 stroke suffered while having sex with his girlfriend), needed to get from Memphis to Orlando because Raw was set to be broadcast live from the WWE training facility there that night—after the state of Florida had deemed WWE to be an “essential service.