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World leaders are still running afoul of their own covid restrictions
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Washington Post


Washington Post, December 9, 2021
Posted: December 20th, 2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/09/leader-covid...

There’s often outcry when a public figure eschews covid-19 related rules — but even more so when those breaking the rules are the same ones who set them. In 2020, guideline-flouting officials faced backlash across the world — from New Zealand to Ireland to Canada to the United States. There was California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s attendance at a lavish $350 per person dinner party. Or the British prime minister’s then-top aide Dominic Cummings, who defied a lockdown for a 260-mile road trip while he and his wife were infected with covid-19. And the senator in the Philippines who broke quarantine to visit the hospital where his wife was in labor — all waiting for his coronavirus test result, which ended up positive. As the pandemic persists, the cycle of rule-flouting, public outcry, followed by an official apology and sometimes, a resignation, continues. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is embroiled in another scandal — this one with a Christmas theme. In early December, controversy arose over a 2020 Christmas party (or series of parties) at 10 Downing Street, the British prime minister’s office, in the midst of a strict coronavirus lockdown. Johnson issued an apology at the House of Commons. After the prime minister’s apology, the leader of the opposition Labour Party, Keir Starmer, said that the “millions” who followed public health protocols last Christmas “now think the prime minister was taking them for fools, that they were lied to.”

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