I think what Cummings did was bang out of order. And his wife writing a cover-up article doesn't exactly help. If their story is, they fled north so that poor little Cedd could be looked after by their relatives, how does this passage from her Spectator article square up?
'...my only really useful advice for other double-Covid parents or single mothers with pre-schoolers: get out the doctor’s kit and make it your child’s job to take your temperature. Any game that involves lying down is a good game. My other corona tip is to order at least a litre of PVA glue. As Dom lay sweating, Cedd and I made a palace out of polystyrene packaging.'
So, not being looked after by his sister, then. No, they were 'double-Covid parents', according to Mary.
People on the radio phone-ins who defend Cummings tend to say, oh come on, what would you have done? In the same circumstances, you'd have done the same. Well, no, I wouldn't have driven 300 miles with my child in the car while symptomatic with Covid. Check it out: Downing St said he had symptoms on 30 March & he drove up on 31st. What a prick.
Yeah, I get it that people might be tempted to break the rules. But that's the privilege, if you like, of us nobodies. We can calculate the likelihood of getting away with it. The one group of people who can't do that are the lawmakers, and administrators like Cummings. In other words, perhaps the only privilege that man DIDN'T enjoy was the ability to take the risk of breaking the rules. But he decided he wanted that privilege, too. And now they expect us to believe the bollocks in that statement. He did 'the right thing'; he behaved 'reasonably and legally'. Pull the other one, it's got bells on. He should've stayed at home and dealt with it, like thousands of parents have to who have no alternative. Like that article your wife wrote that relates how you
'...emerged from quarantine into the almost comical uncertainty of London lockdown.'
Yeah, after another illegal 300 mile journey. One more quote:
'Just as Dom was beginning to feel better, it was reported that Boris was heading in the other direction, into hospital ... what’s there to do for the sick now except pray? I left my polystyrene palace and got to my knees for Boris, and found to my surprise that my prayers flowed easily, as if carried along in a current of others.'
www.spectator.co.uk/article/getting-coronavirus-does-not-bring-clarity