General discussion on current situation

[IgorStrav]

Sorry, TFY, my eyes are feeling a bit blurry and I can't quite see your post.

Just off to drive round the Oxford Ring Road to give them a bit of a test....

[BumbleB]

TY - love it - but he's not so good when he disposes of the script.

IgorStrav - I do hope that your eyes are now feeling better after your test drive

[Jomot]

My friend (a member of the clergy in Barnard Castle) is absolutely furious & doesn't believe a word of it.  She has conducted several funerals over this period where no family has been able to attend, and were unable to visit when they were ill.

[Mike in Cumbria]

I wish someone had asked whether his wife can drive.

[IgorStrav]

I wish someone had asked whether his wife can drive.

The journalists don't seem to be looking at Twitter - it was asked several thousand times there.

From one of the journalists who broke the story in the first place:

"So many thoughts on this. But it does seem astonishing that Dominic Cummings at no point felt he should apologise for breaking at least the spirit of the rules - let alone the actual rules themselves.

What message does that send out to the public?"

I don't know about you, but I have - a couple of times - in my career met people who NEVER DO ANYTHING WRONG.

It doesn't seem to occur to them that they might possibly have done.
And Dominic Cummings is one of them.

There are a number of potential descriptive names for that sort of personality.

[BumbleB]

Ah, but his wife was ill as well, wasn't she?  I'm sad that no-one brought up the "fact" that there was a nanny for the child., or have I got it wrong and that the nanny was employed after the fact. 

Again - waffle, waffle, waffle.

[Redroger]

When you're in a hole, stop digging 

But he didn't. I do NOT believe it is possible to take a child on a 260 mile journey without at least one comfort break. All it needs is a timestamped video from a motorway service station on the way up and he is dead in the water

[Crumblie]

If as he claims it was legal for him to run home to his parents at his age how does he justify driving 200 miles back to London. He cannot, by any stretch of the imagination be classed as a key worker and surely should have worked from his parent's home?

Basically lockdown is dead in the water now and there will be wholesale rule breaking, what is good for him is now good for everyone else.

[IgorStrav]

“You can’t do anything but exercise judgement,” said Cummings as he wrapped up the press conference.

In the circumstances, with a small child, it doesn’t go into lots of different circumstance and say what to do. There is no regulation covering the situation I found myself in."


This whole thing has made me so angry and upset.

What of our instructions at the time are not clear?
There were regulations.

STAY HOME.
SAVE LIVES


Not drive 260 miles with a small child, and a potentially Covid-19 positive wife.