Corona Virus Treatment

Yep. but still not any use to you, Scrungee, as it's a bark after the fact (fart)

 

He's not an MP, Mike, but Boris's Top Advisor/Consultant....but that is no excuse for"Bending the rules" But, having said that, those who are now demanding his resignation are not doing so because they are outraged but because it would be a political coup to force the Prime Minister to lose such a major figure. And that's the problem the Opposition are now turning this awful Covid 19 situation into a political scenario with Kier Starmer trying to bring the Labour Party back into view while trying to establish himself even though he was on the Front Bench supporting Corbyn.......you remember him. Mr Cummings will never be a attractive figure to the Opposition, the Media, and we don't know enough about him ourselves. But he is, in reality, the No.1 target that the Opposition, the Media would just love to force to resign for purely political reasons, and have tried, unsuccessfully, in the past, and he is a Fool for giving them the opportunity to attack him but I have a feeling that he is a man that goes around giving his Enemies, and probably the World, the two fingers.

 

But, most importantly, Upsydaisy, you didn't breach the "guidelines" for your Family and any Family, or the love of your Dad, (my condolences). or each other, and that is what Family means and is about.

 

Neither am I, my friend.

 

Having read a bit more about it, all is not as it first seems with the Dominic Cummings situation - it appears that he believes/believed that he was within the law when he went on his first visit to have his child cared for whilst he and his wife were ill - they were both in a separate property to his parents, albeit owned by them and close/adjacent to them. Not sure if he was or wasn't within the rules there. His own father contacted Durham Police at the time for advice, and on the insistence of his father the police called back the following day to advise and follow up and they were happy that no further action was needed

The second alleged infringement has been reported in the press based solely on the say-so of a Mr Lees (from what I am reading so far), with the inference being that he witnessed the second visit; the slight concern there is that Mr Lees does not live anywhere near Dominic Cumming's parents, but some 25 miles away - so was he too in breach of lockdown rules?

Finally, nobody seems to be getting in such a lather about the complete and utter lack of 'social distancing' on Westminster Bridge on a Thursday night, or indeed even with the reporters (hacks) climbing over each other outside Cumming's home today. As @ARMANDII rightly points out, it is a politically motivated attempt at a coup and sadly smear campaigns are all that the Leftwaffe have up their sleeves nowadays.

 

No guilt necessary - even during the heart of lockdown, you were perfectly entitled to give care to a vulnerable member of your family.

 

No argument there, Upsydaisy, but those idiots holding garden parties even within the last week certainly didn't feel guilty about exposing other people to the Virus. A lot of people have now travelled by car, basically within the present revised rules, to the beaches etc, kept their social distancing and maybe the Resorts where they headed didn't like it but they did behave, generally, responsibly. I'm pretty sure that a lot of the Public have flouted the rules from the start making their own excuses for doing so.
I just get sickened by the so-called Leading figures standing up and claiming outrage in pretence, as I said earlier, for moral or ethical reasons but in actual fact for political reasons and in order to claim credit for forcing a Top Adviser of the Government to resign. Cummings is supposed to be an intelligent man but, obviously, but like all humans can be incredibly stupid at times. I'm not condoning the man but we seen during the Brexit saga Politicians and Journalists trying to make a name for them by trying to claw members of the Government down for political reasons while professing to be flying the Flag of Righteousness.
Now that the Infection and horrible death rate has lowered easing the crisis some Politicians and Journalists are now having to keep the spotlight on themselves, as we have seen, by pursuing agendas to do just that. The number of times during the last few weeks that Journalists have asked such inane and stupid questions in interviews etc that has made them appear the fool and not the person being interviewed.
The number of honest, truly morally motivated Politicians and Journalist out there are few and you can see through those claiming to be acting on moral and ethical grounds while believing the Man/Woman on the Street is thick enough to believe them........and they really do turn my stomach.

 

I most certainly don't like Cummings but understand, partly, him taking his child to be looked after by relatives. Unfortunately that does appear to me to be totally against the rules that he is said to have devised - "If you have, or suspect you have, Covid then do not go out and you must self-isolate" for either 7 or 14 days depending on whether you have it or suspect you have it.

As the parents of a young child I understand the immediate reaction of wishing to remove that child from the risk of the parents not being fit enough to look after him. Unfortunately, as a/the rule maker and an intelligent man he should have been able to think up better ways of solving the problem. He was, supposedly, taking the child to be looked after by his sister/cousin - or both. They do not have Covid so could easily have driven down to collect the child.

His defence of his actions would have been much better received if he would have apologised and had said he was so worried that he thought he was doing the best thing.

There's no doubt that the attacks on him are politically motivated but he has never made himself the most popular of people (most unpleasant and arrogant a lot of the time) and he moves in a political world. The two best ways to put yourself in the firing line!