Funky_Chicken
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Good - he surely has to go now
Does everyone have a circle of friends who have had coronavirus? What other breaches of social distancing rules have been going on?Not even in the 10pm BBC headlines thanks to LK
This is his wife's version of life under Lockdown https://spectator.us/getting-coronavirus-bring-clarity/
This is a lot different to someone who is healthy wandering off to a holiday cottage for a weekend. (Though frankly I don't see much wrong with that either, provided care is taken not to infect others).
It's obvious Cummings and his wife were in no state to care for their son and turned to their parents for help. I imagine similar scenarios have played out all over the country in the past few months. I'd do the same for my son and his wife and my grandson if they were sick - whatever the risk to myself.
bull****.This is a lot different to someone who is healthy wandering off to a holiday cottage for a weekend. (Though frankly I don't see much wrong with that either, provided care is taken not to infect others).
It's obvious Cummings and his wife were in no state to care for their son and turned to their parents for help. I imagine similar scenarios have played out all over the country in the past few months. I'd do the same for my son and his wife and my grandson if they were sick - whatever the risk to myself.
She wasn't as sick as Cummings, but she wasn't writing articles all the time (she's an editor for the Spectator). She missed her usual monthly article in the Spectator in March for example.She was writing articles throughout
This is a lot different to someone who is healthy wandering off to a holiday cottage for a weekend. (Though frankly I don't see much wrong with that either, provided care is taken not to infect others).
And isn't it possible Cummings parents came down to London and picked them up? Or perhaps he arranged for a driver..
Other people in a less privileged position he and his find themselves in have had to cope with exactly that. According to him as and colleagues we weren't allowed to visit parents, weren't allowed to travel from one end of the country to another, couldn't visit our second homes (assuming we were lucky enough to have one) and shouldn't be leaving the house at all if you have symptoms of covid-19.She wasn't as sick as Cummings, but she wasn't writing articles all the time (she's an editor for the Spectator). She missed her usual monthly article in the Spectator in March for example.
And isn't it possible Cummings parents came down to London and picked them up? Or perhaps he arranged for a driver.
It's a year or so since I had serious influenza, but I'm fairly certain I couldn't have cared for a four year old for at least three days at that time. And I don't think government policy runs to allowing four year old children to go without food, or sick parents to have no one to help them. I appreciate Cummings is the Devils progeny, but I would have thought that even the most ardent Cummings hater would have some compassion for the seriously ill, or if not for them for their children.
This is a lot different to someone who is healthy wandering off to a holiday cottage for a weekend. (Though frankly I don't see much wrong with that either, provided care is taken not to infect others).
It's obvious Cummings and his wife were in no state to care for their son and turned to their parents for help. I imagine similar scenarios have played out all over the country in the past few months. I'd do the same for my son and his wife and my grandson if they were sick - whatever the risk to myself.
The rules of lockdown are to self isolate at home for 7 days if you had symtoms of C19 and 14 days for anyone else in the household.
Not only did Mr Cummings not do this, he drove, with his symtomatic wife and probably asymtomatic child from one end of the country to the other.
The simple fact he took this journey is against the rules as he is putting the lives of emergency workers at risk if he had an accident. Doing so to stay on your elderly parents estate for childcare is another level.
Millions of people across the nation have not been able to visit their parents and children to grandparents. Many have had to care for their children at home in isolation while sick from the virus as per the rules.
Mr Cummings position is untenable and should resign or be sacked.
I’ve had to put my 2 year old into childcare so that me and my wife are able to my job, my wife being a critical worker. She’s in there with all other critical workers.
I’ve had grandparents in tears, if this lad isn’t sacked people who are less patient than me will flout this rule, starting this weekend and it could undo the work that has already been done
It’s been a total Sh1tshow start to finish from this government
As others no doubt mentioning, how can a couple be unfit to care for a child but capable of driving for hours to place the child with 2 over seventies!This is a lot different to someone who is healthy wandering off to a holiday cottage for a weekend. (Though frankly I don't see much wrong with that either, provided care is taken not to infect others).
It's obvious Cummings and his wife were in no state to care for their son and turned to their parents for help. I imagine similar scenarios have played out all over the country in the past few months. I'd do the same for my son and his wife and my grandson if they were sick - whatever the risk to myself.