Politicians are asking for the public's help to fight Covid — before going out to dinner or on vacation - NBC News

"When you see a Gavin Newsom say 'Do as I say, but but not as I do,' and then goes to Napa Valley and has his private party, that's deeply injurious to trust," Gupta told NBC News on Friday.

"If somebody says, 'Hey we're going to lock down, we're going to stop your small business, you got to shut it down for the benefit of the pandemic' or 'You're the parent of two teenaged kids, you got to arrange for in-home instruction' and then you see they themselves are not behaving within the same guardrails they're imposing on you, how are you not going to push back.

While these political leaders didn't break any laws, medical ethicist Arthur Caplan said Friday these examples "set back compliance and makes people skeptical" of any number of coronavirus mandates

"It’s the politicians and the celebrities that set the messaging in our social media and media," said Caplan, a professor of medical ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center