Got it in a nutshell @Shrinking Violet . It's all a storm in a teacup, whipped up by the media. Ask yourselves why this has only just been publicised when it happened way back in March.
Surely the boy would be comfortable with his nanny, she looks after him any other time.
Maybe she was unable to? Could have been sick herself or had her own family to care for. We must not make assumptions about what other people should have done when we don't know all the information.
“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
This is why people no longer have faith in their politicians and don't bother to vote.
My old colleagues are putting their lives at risk every day, some of them are no longer living with their families, in order to protect them, so some shister can do whatever he pleases.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
There are many many families, some single parents who, with children with autism, some severely disabled by their autism, have kept to the lockdown rules ... with great difficulty yes, but they’ve kept to them.
Imagine being a single parent coping 1:1 with a non-verbal learning and socially disabled (possibly violent) severely autistic adolescent for the past 8 weeks.
DC doesn’t know the half of it 🙄
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Can I ask a question on behalf of a friend? Yes, really!
Just before the early June quarantine for travellers from overseas comes into play officially, my friends are hosting a family member from Australia who’ll be collected by car from Heathrow and then will spend two weeks in the house before travelling on up to Middlesbrough to see her elderly mother and sick sister who’s undergoing chemotherapy.
My question is must my friends isolate in the house as well? Currently he goes to the shops once a week and she works part time as a nurse. Does anyone know the official position?
Got it in a nutshell @Shrinking Violet . It's all a storm in a teacup, whipped up by the media. Ask yourselves why this has only just been publicised when it happened way back in March.
I lost my grandmother recently. None of my family were able to be with her in her final hours. To date I have not been able to properly comfort my family.
Last week I then missed the birth of my daughter, dropping my wife in labour at the hospital front entrance. I watched helplessly as she tried to make her way to the maternity ward on her own at 3am in the morning, in the three minutes she had between contractions, bag in one hand and car seat in another. I wasnt allowed to enter the hospital with a child, and I respected the rules - and other people - enough to not take my 18 month old to family for care.
I then waited 20 hours with no news before I heard with relief that my daughter had been born safely. We will now self isolate, again shunning family and other contact at an important time, because we think its the right thing to do baring in mind the risk of a hospital infection.
Others have sacrificed far more so I really don't complain. So don't you dare come here with your storm in a teacup nonsense. You have no idea of what others have been dealing with and how justifiably angry these double standards make people.
I think Cummings may get away with it. Just hope that there's not another spike and the gov has to try to enforce another strict lockdown - how on earth do the police enforce 'rules' where you can use your instinct and 'common sense'? Obviously, Boris's, Shapps', Cummings' 'common sense' isn't the same as mine - so it basically means anything goes doesn't it? 'Where are you going sir? Why are you driving down to Devon?' - 'Well officer, I thought I'd use my common sense and drive to where the incidence rate is lower than where I live - oh, and I have a holiday home there - so I will isolate when I get there' - 'That's fine sir - just as long as you're using your common sense'.
I can't even begin to understand how people feel who have gone through the traumas of this bloody awful disease and have followed the rules to the best of their ability - putting up with the hardship and issues - who then see Cummings' behaviour being excused.
I saw Shapps with Andy Marr trying to use the weasle word bending stuff to try to talk round the fact that the local Durham police were actively involved - then Boris comes straight out on the front foot and talks about integrity.
Cummings made the mistake, BUT those people supporting him are making such a poor, poor judgement call that it must also call into question their positions. How can you lead the country and justify this? If their judgement is that bad..
On a humorous note - did anyone see the BBC 'post briefing' dissection of Boris' announcements and the twitter post on the official Civil Service site? Bet the person who posted that hasn't got a job this morning.
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Could have been sick herself or had her own family to care for.
We must not make assumptions about what other people should have done when we don't know all the information.
My old colleagues are putting their lives at risk every day, some of them are no longer living with their families, in order to protect them, so some shister can do whatever he pleases.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just before the early June quarantine for travellers from overseas comes into play officially, my friends are hosting a family member from Australia who’ll be collected by car from Heathrow and then will spend two weeks in the house before travelling on up to Middlesbrough to see her elderly mother and sick sister who’s undergoing chemotherapy.
My question is must my friends isolate in the house as well? Currently he goes to the shops once a week and she works part time as a nurse. Does anyone know the official position?
Last week I then missed the birth of my daughter, dropping my wife in labour at the hospital front entrance. I watched helplessly as she tried to make her way to the maternity ward on her own at 3am in the morning, in the three minutes she had between contractions, bag in one hand and car seat in another. I wasnt allowed to enter the hospital with a child, and I respected the rules - and other people - enough to not take my 18 month old to family for care.
I then waited 20 hours with no news before I heard with relief that my daughter had been born safely. We will now self isolate, again shunning family and other contact at an important time, because we think its the right thing to do baring in mind the risk of a hospital infection.
Others have sacrificed far more so I really don't complain. So don't you dare come here with your storm in a teacup nonsense. You have no idea of what others have been dealing with and how justifiably angry these double standards make people.