When you say murder perhaps more specifically you mean depraved indifference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depraved-heart_murder https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w

When you say murder perhaps more specifically you mean depraved indifference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depraved-heart_murder https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depraved-heart_murder To establish depraved indifference you would have differentiate malice apart from incompetence which likely comes down to whether the individual should have known better for the position they are paid according to a common person standard. I can see arguments either way. The team represents federal executive police and so clearly they should have known better and the statement forms malicious intent. On the other hand Covid is so contagious that in practice such utterances are irrespective to reality as the gross incompetence formed from the decision is not provably different than the reality had the utterance never occurred. I, personally, wouldn’t want to be in a position where your best defense is an argument of incompetence, but I’m also not a politician.