For my friends, everything. For my enemies – the law.

It’s true, at least according to that venerable old American magazine, The Atlantic, which recently had this cover story:

No, that is not satire from the Babylon Bee, but the real headline of the article.

Far back in the distant past of 2020 I posted about how one of the chief British screamers of Covid doom, Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College Disease Model fame, got fired because he’d been breaching his own lockdown rules to bonk some hot young married mistress of his (This man will NEVER be listened to again). And of course the man he had been advising, PM “Bonking” Boris Johnson, landed in the same crap later for his parties at No. 10.

It was the same in the USA with California Leftists like Governor Newsom having a lovely group dinner at one of the most expensive restaurants in the world, The French Laundry; Nancy Pelosi’s fundraiser in the expensive vine yards of California (staff all masked); Barack Obama’s 60th birthday unmasked bash in Martha’s Vineyard; and the gala at the Met Ball in NYC, complete with AOC wearing a fabulous dress with “Tax The Rich” scrawled on it.

But the story The Atlantic was writing about was actually worse than any of these, both in its details and in the apologetics offered up. It concerns one Dr Jay Varma who was NYC’s senior public-health adviser under then mayor Bill de Blasio:

[O]ne of the most prominent advocates for lockdowns, masking and vaccine mandates — was not exactly practising what he preached. In a series of recorded conversations posted by podcaster Steven Crowder, Varma boasts about attending sex parties and raves while implementing policies that locked New York down.

‘The only way I could do this job for the city was if I had some way to blow off steam every now and then’, he is recorded saying. Poor Dr Varma. We all remember what a tense time it was. Who could blame the man for getting off his head on ecstasy and going to a couple of orgies here and there?
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The piece helpfully points out that ‘Varma explained that he’d partied responsibly, noting “Everybody got tests and things like that”.’ There was no word from the Atlantic as to whether or not Varma managed to get his plums sucked by fellow orgy participants when the city guidelines were to only have group sex while ‘wear[ing] a face covering’. Quite the logistical challenge.

That’s Spiked magazine doling out their usual measure of acid on the story, including The Atlantic itself:

This is the perfect article, in a way. It captures the way that our moral betters think about themselves and about the people they want to rule.

Sure, Varma used the police to jail people who violated COVID policies, but his excuse for organizing drug-fueled orgies was that he had to blow off steam. He was stressed out, you see, by having to impose tyranny on others. Who doesn’t need to blow off steam?
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Drug-fueled orgies for me, but not for thee. 

What makes this article perfect is the casual way in which all this hypocrisy and lawbreaking is portrayed as normal.

We are ruled by awful people. The Crowder “interview” is below: 16 minutes of pure cringe if you can stomach it.

While this prick “let off steam” with his drug-fuelled orgies the following was happening to ordinary, powerless little people in the same city.