When the lockdown ends
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Or a wind up?"
JK
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Or we've not had the mail because we've opted out 🤷🏻♂️
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It wasn't the fact that he made the journey that bothered me, but that he put his older parents at risk by asking them to look after his son when he might have been carrying the virus.
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Personally I have no problem with anybody choosing to isolate in such a way if they maintain isolation. If I was in a similar position I might well do the same.
Few outlets seem to publish news beyond Corvid19 politics.
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It is clearly a misunderstanding on our part!
He has done a piece for the Spectator about being in lockdown where he talks about doing things with his son, you know the one that he needed his parents to look after, you know, the ones that shouldn't be doing that, after, you know, he drove from London to Durham which he shouldn't have done but he made this right by returning to london in April.
Goodness we are all so easily confused and suspicious are we not?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/spectator-writers-in-lockdown-by-the-people-stuck-with-them
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Hi, If, and as said above its all rather confusing, he thinks he had symptoms why would he then risk passing the virus to his parents?
They may have suggested it, so what?
Don't get me wrong, one of the changes we have made is to turn off the non stop drivel about the 'hordes' of people bringing catastrophe to a place near you, as it seems many are quick to criticise without thinking but , and as with the 'if' , its a big but, the circumstances are at all accurate this appears to be a man who,whatever the reasons, mitigation etc , has chosen to risk travel to be with others whilst having symptoms.
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Hi, If, and as said above its all rather confusing, he thinks he had symptoms why would he then risk passing the virus to his parents?
There is nothing that I have read to suggest that he did risk passing on the virus. I have read a statement that he lived in a separate building. I know of several self isolating in caravans etc on parents driveways and maintaining social distancing and I would suggest that in such cases it is far easier to safely isolate in such a way with somebody at hand to to provide back up for provisions etc.
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As I put his position is untenable. However, ''tis easy to judge. We have a young granddaughter. They only live a few miles away and we just meet by Face Time. If her parents both became ill and unable to look after her properly, what would we do?
Fortunately it is not a descision we have had to make.
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...or their parent have to go back to work....
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Hi easy, he says in his piece in the Spectator that he was ill at the end of March and for the first two weeks of April.
I too can easily see circumstances where I might act in a way that may be viewed as not complying but don't think that, if all the circumstances reported, be it unverified, from the local Police in Durham , or from Cummings himself, are correct that I would have done what he did at that time.
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+1, these people set the rules or advise what rules to set. They should be the best of the best, when proved to be self serving selfish types they need to be sacked to give the message to the rest of us it is not acceptable. Why would anyone who is capable of passing on the live Covid-19 virus want to be within talking distance of others let alone family. I think ‘isolation’ is the giveaway here😤
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"Don't get me wrong, one of the changes we have made is to turn off the non stop drivel about the 'hordes' of people bringing catastrophe to a place near you, as it seems many are quick to criticise without thinking....."
certainly agree with this...
i try and find something positive to think about, something that indicates we are moving forward...
im afraid there are some who would rather dwell on the misdemeanours of others and how every decision is taking us in the wrong direction.
i just keep myself to myself, steer clear of others where possible, and tick off another day nearer a return to something more normal.
i certainly wont succumb to gloom in the meantime.
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Hi steve, I am only 'judging' this as Cummings has written a public piece that appears to contradict the reasons that have been given , that he 'needed help with childcare'.
It all seems rather odd given that we are told how 'switched on' he is and who knows maybe, as I said earlier, its us that have just got confused.
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His wife also gave a BBC Radio interview about their joint illness "at home" I assumed they had help for their son in London. No hint they'd had help. elsewhere. I'm not interested in them but at the time felt human sympathy. However it wasn't as it seemed.
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Hi steve, there are multiple reasons why people may have problems returning to work however, for me, there is no value in comparing the issues that, say, a single parent, with key worker status may have with Cummings apparent needs.
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There will no doubt be multiple explanations and apologists for what Dominic Cummings did.
Drive 200+ miles while having symptoms? Take the kids to their grandparents to be looked after? Live away from your normal residence?
All things we have been told repeatedly not to do. It doesn't matter one jot what his justification is or whether other folk would have done the same. At the end of the day he was just plain in the wrong and if he (or his boss) had any integrity he'd admit it and resign (or be sacked).
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even for teachers?...with the Govt determined to move onward with openings..?
there will need to be some rule bending (relaxing) somewhere to make this happen...
in theory, someone could babysit a (older) child outdoors if maintaining social distancing**...in Ireland you can now meet with 6 others not from the household...obviously, scope is gradually broadening...
** and its not raining....
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As with most, it seems these days, the information that is given in any interview ,is what they want people to hear not the way it was actualy carried out
"The notes are all there ,but not necessarily in the right order" Eric to Andra Previn
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I see the wagons are circling!
Statement from the Chancellor - "looking after your wife and child isn't wrong, trying to make a political point out of it is" (or words to that effect).
So it's all of us who have tried to do as we were told (by Cummings' boss) that are in the wrong then!
We will see now just how far integrity exists in this government.
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