This is doing the rounds today... a lot of us forget about how lockdown might affect people less fortunate than ourselves.
Well there's authority and then there's authority, isn't there? And "the establishment" is not monolithic. The authority of a professor of epidemiology derives from expertise and many years of hard work, while the authority of Boris Johnson derives from unearned privilege and the ability to act the part of a ruddy good chap.There's a fair overlap with the goody-two-shoes school swot types who have been successfully trained to jump to any authority figure's tune and derive their self-worth from their standing in the establishment's estimation: 'Look how well I can follow your rules - can I have an A, teacher?'
Lockdown is something most of us wanted to do, so we did it. And we had fun. Now we are bored and we want to riot. So now we will do a bit of that. Or have an illegal rave.