pixie - // I think everyone can sympathise with them... but I don't see what difference parties would make... unless those people disagreed with lockdowns altogether.
Some may have done and were physically prevented from being with relatives, but there were also a lot of "don't be a granny killer" posts here. The problem is, nobody was allowed to decide for themselves (including granny), because the rules necessarily had to be fast and general.
Nothing would have pleased everyone. //
You could well be right.
But what would have pleased a lot more people was, if the people who actually conceived, implemented, and oversaw the enforcement of the rules, actually thought that it might be a good idea if they obeyed the rules as well.
But they didn't.