Commentary If there’s one central narrative to the restrictions throughout the pandemic, it has most certainly been “rules for thee but not for me.” As lockdowns have dragged on, the very leaders who formulated and imposed controls on their subjects have found their own rules impossible to follow. The examples are endless: Gavin Newsom’s posh dinner with lobbyists at French Laundry, Bill DeBlasio’s New Year’s Eve dance in an empty Times Square, Nancy Pelosi and Lori Lightfoot’s hair salon scandals, and even Barack Obama’s recent maskless Martha’s Vineyard birthday bash amid the rise of the Delta variant. While of course safety and precautions are of the utmost priority, our leaders have insisted on imposing blatantly unsustainable restrictions. They have succeeded in dampening our economy and our quality of life in the process while exempting themselves from the resulting inconveniences. Our leadership class has championed restriction “for our safety” while evidently …