Sorry, GHE
He's not an idiot. The knob that took the photo and then allowed it to get into the public domain is the idiot.
We are all aware of the absolute garbage that the SCMP writes and once they get hold of this it will be no different.
What was the photographer thinking when he took the photo? There are aspects to our job that no outsider has a right or a need to know about. The fact that 'controlled rest' is an accepted and practIced technique to cope with the excessive fatigue that is a part of our existence does not make it something we should turn into a tabloid sensation!
I hope the perpetrator is found out and summarily censured. And yes I would say that IMHO this is as heinous as the BJ debacle.
And don't forget that under the current regime the logical conclusion might be to ban controlled rest altogether lest another idiot let's the press know what we do in order to function!