What has upset me the most is each and everyone standing up and effectively saying that I am a bad mum, some have pretty much said I'm completely unfit to be a parent because I absolutely would not have driven a distance with COvid symptoms. In fact I wouldn't have driven anywhere (unless a test centre if well enough). I would stay in my primary residence (OK I'm a scummy pleb with only one residence) and not gone out until I met the conditions that meant that I was not a danger to anyone I would meet by chance. I just feel I've had enough, what's the point? Now everyone will ignore guidance and we'll have a second, bigger peak and it will be even more months before I see family.
In no way are you an unfit mother, and the Prime Minister is very wrong to suggest that those who have kept to the guidelines, often in considerable difficulties, are in any way less than the person who chose - with suitable alternatives to hand - to take a completely unnecessary journey halfway across the country.
In that journey, he risked passing on the virus to other people, and - should he have had an accident or any other difficulty - put the safety services at considerable risk also.
The announcement at 5 o'clock reduced me to tears, and I know that I am not alone in feeling very angry as well as upset.
I think the Prime Minister may very much have underestimated the strength of feeling in the country - once we felt we are all together, and now (apparently) we never have been.
Thank you Pharma, and all your colleagues in the health and caring services, for all you do.
