The lockdown rules aren’t important because every breach of them involves a risk. Some breaches actually might not. But if the lockdown rules aren’t followed, *that* is a risk. They are there to avoid people making (bad) judgments about risk in individual cases. https://twitter.com/bbcscotlandnews/status/1246732541551431680

So Calderwood might have thought that if her family all drove together to the second home, stayed away from anyone else, and drove back together, that was safe. That might even be correct. But the point about a lockdown is that you don’t get to make those bespoke decisions.

You *especially* don’t get to make them if you are one of the people responsible for telling people how important it is to comply with the rules.

It might actually be fair, *in mitigation* of what the CMO did, to say that she observed social distancing and didn’t put anyone else at risk. But that misunderstands what she did wrong here, which was to undermine the system of lockdown that she has a responsibility to promote.