Anyone else think F&@@ it after today's briefing?

[Sarahbeans]

After today's briefing, anyone else half thinking screw it, if Cummings can make up the rules as he goes, why the he'll can't I interpret them as I set fit too?

I have a clinically vulnerable child and have stayed indoors and been so strict the past 12 weeks, but even I'm now beginning to think what's the point? Clearly the govt does what it wants, why the hell should we listen to the govt any more? Lost all faith in them.

He was sightseeing flowers wasn't he? I mean I don't think his child was in serious danger really?

No, I won't be letting her out anytime soon, but i now won't be listening to the government about when she goes back to school, I will use my common sense and judgement to do that, and if one of us gets sick with it, I will arrange for her to go and stay with family members. We're not all in this together and I will do what I can to protect her. Clearly the rules are to be interpreted now, and that's exactly what I'm going to do.

Yes, I am really cross. Feel like not following the rules at all now. It's so hypocritical

08Limeandsodit
Nope
The left have taken it to the extreme as usual

Eh? It's Conservative MPs too who are calling for Cummings to go! This goes way beyond party politics. It's about principles and integrity and setting an example. It's about following the rules that the rest of us have made great sacrifices to keep: not seeing our families and friends for 2 months, staying in the house for 23 hours a day etc etc.

Sarahbeans

I am so angry and disappointed. I've Followed every rule to the letter... - don’t be, you’ve done for you and your loved ones , now after today will you be willing to put your child at risk?? i will continue to follow the rules for but Im not angry for those that choose not to , their lives their choice

I think at the very least it would have been wise for Boris to come out and say that it was very wrong but that he will retain him as a key team member in fighting the virus etc etc Purely from a messaging standpoint/PR view that would have been better.

Not at all, but it was a car crash briefing.

Oh lord yes. I cant rent a cottage in Dartmouth but he can fuck off to Cumbria and visit a castle?.

#StayElite

(I) will be using my own common sense and instinct to do what I think is right for my children

Yes. This ^.

Apparently we should all have simply been following our instincts and to hell with the rules

Following guidelines and using your own common sense is not mutually exclusive. For example, according to my state's guidelines we need to wear masks in places we cannot socially distance (i.e. grocery stores). I loathe masks, but I wear one shopping.

Do I wear one outside? No. I can socially distance outside, so I choose not to. I see other people choosing to wear one - even when they are in their own front yard. That's their choice.

I don't think fuck it because it doesn't affect my family. If I did think that, and went out, and subsequently caught the virus, that WOULD affect my family.

Your post does not make any sense.

We have never been all in this together. Some of us have been completely shafted by lockdown (to the extent that they have contemplated taking their own lives), while others have had a lovely time and would be quite happy for the rest of us to carry on being shafted (not that they would say this, but that's the effect of it).

I have just applied common sense all along, and will continue to do so.

I am a lifelong Conservative voter, but never again after the Cummings saga. I would have done exactly the same as he did, btw, but wouldn't have done in his position.

@Fluffycloudland77 Barnard Castle is a place, not a castle. Not that this makes any particular material difference to whether or not he stuck to his own stupid rules.

BTW, I suspect that the reason he didn't follow his own stupid rules is that they are not actually that necessary, and common sense would have been a better way to go about it all along.

The Covid hysteria is the strangest thing I've witnessed since the mass hysteria in response to Diana, Princess of Wales', death.

I hope it wasn’t his parents he was planning to get to look after his child - that would be truly ridiculous. I think the plan was to use his siblings if necessary? If you can give elderly grandparents a covid positive child to look after, why not one whose parents are healthy and need to go out to work? Childcare issues are childcare issues, after all. Are healthy, youngish people like Dominic Cummings likely to be more incapacitated from a childcare perspective by covid 19 than by having to work full time from home?

You could say this is part of a master strategy to get people to be thinking of organized disobedience, out and about, sticking to rules where appropriate. Cases will go up, but govt can bring lockdown back if needed.

Saves the govt actually trying to think of a plan, certainly one that contains well thought out stages.

Personally I worry how reliant they are , or probably just BJ , on one unelected Advisor.

He went to his parents to look after his kids when unwell. Jesus hes prob a crap dad and needs help. What do u want him to do ring social services

Why should we all stick to the rules if some of the top people who are meant to be running the country cant? 🤬🤬

Yes. Boris has massively misread the mood of the people on this one. He's hoping we'll forget about it. I think this is going to dominate the news all week and I predict an embarrassing u-turn.

No l won’t give up trying to keep my family safe, my husband has cancer... we could have gone to a friends place in the country. We were tempted for one mad minute to run away from it all. We didn’t, we stayed put. We are doing the best we can and obeying the lockdown.
This selfishness will ruin our society, it’s not for me.
#StayElite

I think there will be a lot more BBQs and family gatherings from tomorrow and people won't be so quick to report it anymore.

Happily I am not one of the useful idiot slavish rule followers, but we need about 70% of you to keep following the rules. Don't look at what others are doing (unless it's to report your neighbours - caveat, not if they are vips though) just stay home and stay safe.

Clearly the rules are to be interpreted now Weren't they always to be interpreted? I thought that was the point made by Jenny Harries in her briefing on 24 March discussing exceptional circumstances.

I feel the sentiment - its an appalling situation, but just because some arse in government feels he is above the rules, I dont feel that I am. I will be keeping my family as safe as I can - especially considering lots of people will probably be breaking lockdown now. The virus is still circulating, and I dont want over 70s isolated for even longer than they have to already.

I have a clinically vulnerable child and have stayed indoors and been so strict the past 12 weeks, but even I'm now beginning to think what's the point?

Haven’t you explained the point in the first six words of your OP?

Isolate the vulnerable. Let everyone else carry on.

Beyond furious

Absolute fkn cheek

Boris and Cummings need to resign