in authority

"It would be reassuring to know that someone in authority was monitoring both the absolute number of licence holders swerving a ban and the reasons why they've been granted leave to keep driving," he said.

"The infections happened because those in authority - doctors, the blood services and successive governments - did not put patient safety first."

Mr Crilly added that at this time there had been a "breakdown of trust" in those in authority by students who felt they had been told to attend in person only to find themselves in "semi-official lockdown".

As investigative journalists like Kathryn Joyce for Salon have documented, the Capitol riot was rooted in Christian nationalism and other far-right ideologies that explicitly preach a belief in strict social hierarchies that put white men in authority over everyone else.

"The infections happened because those in authority - doctors, the blood services and successive governments - did not put patient safety first."