It is not only Gov. Newsom or the Democratic politicians, all of them are willing to break the rules, make exceptions, do whatever is necessary to protect their own interests. If the average citizen were in the same situation, nothing would be done and would be left to suffer. "For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right]" (Amos 5:12).