they were outside, and put their masks on unless they were at the mics, talking or singing...even the few GOP guests, Pence, GWB, McConnell ...all wore masks ...
there was social distancing in the audience.... but the guests of honor up on the balcony looked crammed in, prolly due to wanting to be seen on camera and the shortage of space up there...
national guard outnumbered audience...peeps were not allowed in because of the threats made by the knucklehead crowd that ransacked Congress a couple weeks ago...plus the pandemic...
poor Biden...his last rodeo and it was wrecked by the black plague and the white scourge