Hypocrisy gone viral? Officials set bad COVID-19 examples

“Do as I say, but not as I do” was the message many British nationals saw in the behaviour of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s key aide, who travelled hundreds of miles with coronavirus symptoms during the country’s lockdown. While Dominic Cummings has faced calls for his firing but support from his boss over his journey from London to the northern city of Durham in March, few countries seem immune to the perception that politicians and top officials are bending the rules that their own governments wrote during the pandemic.