Lockdown holidays: are celebrities enjoying their time in the sun or blatantly flouting the rules?
As the nights get longer and the weather gets colder, we all dream of a warm, sunny holiday abroad. However, the announcement of a National lockdown, starting on the 4th January 2021, meant the dream of a nice holiday abroad must now remain a dream.
Yet, for some celebrities however, an essential trip to Dubai, the Maldives and the Caribbean seemed feasible, all in the name of a business trip. It seemed doing their vital jobs of ‘influencing’ on social media must be done from a nice sunbed by a pool, not at home which we have been told by law we need to be.
Now, for some people, working abroad is the only way their jobs can be done. Yet with the rise in Zoom and online meetings, it seems hard to believe that influencers whose jobs mainly revolve around posting on social media must fly to Dubai in order for them to do their work, particularly as the pandemic is reaching its most detrimental point yet.
For the healthcare workers in the UK working around the clock to save lives and help the country get through the pandemic, it must be hard to see these C-List celebrities blatantly disregard the law and fly to Dubai, under the allusion they are there for work.
On the 8th January 2021, the Mayor of London Sidiq Khan described the rise in Covid-19 cases in London as a ‘major incident’, and the Office for National Statistics estimated that up to one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus. These shocking and harrowing statistics proves just how terrifyingly quickly cases are rising and how important it is for the public to follow the rules.
Yet when reality stars such as Georgia Steel, Chloe Ferry and Ferne McCann all jet off to the sun to complete essential business work it does seem that the backlash they receive is justified. The UK is in a national lockdown and it seems these celebrities think they are above the law and can just soak up the sun purely because they can. And worst of all: they flaunt the whole trip on social media, gloating about their 5* trip away while the rest of us are stuck inside following government guidelines.
Perhaps reporting on such matters only gives these selfish celebs greater publicity, which is really what they want. Yet understanding the repercussions of such egotistical behaviours is vital for the British public who are following the rules and haven’t seen family members since the pandemic began, that their efforts are recognised and those who don’t follow are only reflecting badly on themselves.
Of course, we all want a sunny holiday, yet jetting off the middle of a national lockdown is barbaric, and these celebrities really must be held accountable for their actions.
