Our rule of law has truly soured if public officials feel they can flagrantly ignore their own public health guidance. As much as the government would like to frame the birthday party attended by senior officials, dubbed “partygate”, as a set of individual failings, the government’s own responsibility cannot go unnoticed. The government has consistently sent the message that the privileged get a free pass. Remember when it let JPMorgan’s CEO skip three weeks of hotel quarantine? What about when Nicole Kidman waltzed into our city to film a TV series, or when top financial sector executives could apply to…