No change of subject Tim, its about Covid and the dangerous behaviour of individuals- whoever they are.
There is no doubt that some people are currently acting contrary to the spirit or the letter of the law, be it either the The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020/350 or the Coronavirus Act 2020.
I don't disagree that some of the journalists reporting on the Cummings story appear from the footage to have been in contravention of the health protection regs (which cover the social distancing). Cummings appears to have contravened the Coronavirus Act (which provides the powers covering the 'potentially infectious' people).
One could argue that these are two separate (though undeniably related) pieces of legislation, but this would still not avoid the problem of falling into a form of
tu quoque fallacy "A cannot accuse B of doing wrong because A also does wrong". But more significantly I believe the issue here is of
false equivalence: journalists simply do not have the same power and influence as Cummings and do not have the same expectations of leadership from the general public.
