How many times have you broken the Covid-19 rules? Some of my friends who are sticklers for the rules in certain contexts freely break them when they really need to, or when they really feel like it. David Aaronovitch, writing in The Times this summer, claimed that he felt justified during the first lockdown in breaking the spirit of the rules by going for extended walks: “I was walking three or four [hours]. I live near big parks… I was going to be OK.”
Libertarians, Aaronovitch argued, should recognise that the rules are malleable in practice; not really even a proper “lockdown”.
