The people "partying" were all working together anyway so I don't see how it matters. It's like when people go on about Matt Hancocks affair...he was working with her anyway so it wasn't really a breach of social distancing etc.
It matters because people were dying alone without the comfort of family around them, their funerals were then restricted with no wake.
It matters because people needlessly died of non-covid causes due to not being able to access healthcare.
It matters because people gave up everything outside of the four walls of their house, some people spent that entire time completely alone before bubbles were allowed.
It matters because women had to deliver babies alone, lose babies alone, go to diagnostic scans alone.
It matters because people had to attend hospital appointments alone, receiving life changing diagnosis' alone, go through surgical recoveries, cancer treatments, palliative care, etc alone.
It matters because people lost their jobs, their businesses, their livelihoods.
It matters because children missed out on months of education, months of face to face learning, and months of peer interaction. Time they will never get back and that is going to take them years to recover from.
It matters because we are facing an unprecedented mental health crisis, a rise in inflation, and a huge rise in cost of living.
It matters because we are going to paying for covid for decades to come.
It matters disabled adults and children were completely thrown under the bus with no respite care, special schools closed, and no access to therapies and interventions.
It matters because people, mainly women and children, were locked away with their abusers for months on end with no one checking to see what was going on.
It matters because people couldn't see their families and friends for months, two years in some cases, and that takes a toll.
It matters because they told everyone that we were all in it together, that we had to make these sacrifices for the greater good, that it would be worth it, that nit following the rules would endanger us and would harm others.
And now it turns out that we weren't all in it together, that the people who were supposed to be leading us in this were instead taking part in a game of "do as I say not as I do", that they were having a jolly old time while the rest of us were basically getting fucked by covid. They've undermined every last shred of public confidence, why should anyone do anything Johnson says now? He has no moral authority.