Quote Originally Posted by TWGL1 View Post
Every government in the world didn’t follow the same pathway though and the ones who did probably received financial grants etc to do so.

This was before the vax rollout as well wasn’t it, and not that long after the PM was discharged from hospital.
Just about every country took measures against covid of some sort. The majority had some kind of lockdown at one point.

I don't think the staff in Number 10 ignoring their own rules is an indication that the risks of covid were not real.