A common phrase: I'll believe there is a crisis when the people claiming there is a crisis start ACTING like it's a crisis.
In the past, this has been used about climate change chicken littles. But it also applies to the covid lockdowns.
Our "betters" are telling the plebs to hunker down while they go out and celebrate.
Do as I say, not as I do have become the NORM for our political class.
They should be challenged at every opportunity.