Source: COVID Hypocrisy: Policymakers Breaking Their Own Rules | The Heritage Foundation

Dozens of policymakers and public health officials have flouted their own coronavirus mitigation rules over the past year, according to a list recently published by the influential conservative Heritage Foundation.

The list “shows the continuing hypocrisy of local, state, and federal officials who violate their own coronavirus mandates, policies, or other restrictions,” Heritage argues.

Many entries on the list, which are drawn from news reports from around the country, highlight instances in which political leaders, after having mandated COVID restrictions on citizens for months, temporarily abandoned the newly imposed rules in order to join and/or praise the Black Lives Matter-led protests and demonstrations that occurred following the death of George Floyd last year.