Hong Kong government employees
Clarke Gayford
Boris Johnson
What do they all have in common?
They think they deserve(d) preferential treatment and/or broke covid regulations/advice.
Johnson's was on 20 May 2020, but it's front page news now. I've never forgotten what my secondary school teacher said (and I don't know it if was original): Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others.
Situations like these have come up before I think, or if they haven't, in any case, this time around the reaction seems fierce.
Hong Kong has omicron in the community, but has basically got delta under control and, more generally, covid. Government employees had a large party and this was after criticism from Carrie Lam about Cathay Pacific, specifically one of the aircrew not abiding by regulations, which is the reason omicron is in the community.
Clarke Gayford, Jacinda Ardern's fiancée, tried to get Rapid Antigen Tests for his musicians friends after DJ Dimension revealed he was positive with omicron, NZ's first case of it ever*. This was when that wasn't the Ministry of Health NZ's advice.
Boris Johnson attended a party at 10 Downing Street which went against covid regulations.
Whatever you think about all the strings involved that form your reaction, it seems the news has broken, and it's been taken hard, from three places at the same time for basically/essentially the same reason. Possibly one explanation for the intensity is because in Hong Kong and New Zealand's cases, omicron is recently present or recently potentially present. As for England, it was in lockdown.
I could say a lot, but possibly one of the issues at the most basic level is: regardless of your status, if you are seen to be hypocritical, you have to work hard from the time your behaviour triggers this.
* correction: first related community exposure
Source:
- A.M.
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