to think Dominic Cummings has to go?

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Dominic Cummings apparently travelled to his parents house while meant to be self isolating due to covid symptoms.

Given what happened with Neil Ferguson and Catherine Calderwood, AIBU to think his position ought to be untenable?

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/22/dominic-cummings-durham-trip-coronavirus-lockdown

By the way what's the etticute over @ people? If the person is already on the thread?

It's not a great video because it doesn't mention a sick son.

If he had visited a lover, gone to Durham for the sake of it, I'd certainly be behind instant dismissal.

It just strikes me as making something out of nothing purely because of who he is.

It's boring and to me it undermines when action does really need to be taken.

It's not a great video because it doesn't mention a sick son

Was his son sick? I guess being in an enclosed environment for 250 miles in a car is going to expose you to more Covid-19

He didn't have a sick son. His son was nursing him and feeding daddy Ribena.

We don't know their circs or relationship.
Family doesn't necessarily translate to, capable of looking after your child or you.*

Well we know that DC is very good friends with Jack, Mary’s brother and even introduced them.

Are we really expected to believe that DC had no recourse other than to travel to Durham?

His wife wrote an entire article about their son taking care of them and force-feeding them ribena.

It's not a great video because it doesn't mention a sick son.

Son wasn’t sick.

I hope he’s been summonsed to Downing Street in a Sunday to be sacked. Sadly I think it will be to get their stories straight.

Harsh though it is I wouldn't have taken DC's son into my own house and endangered my own family. Nor would I have travelled down to London to look after my nephew. Nor would I have put my DS in a car with my niece or sister to drive up to Durham. They travelled up to Durham to an empty annexe.

Derxa, but brother was capable of dropping off food, which is all that DC’s parents/sister did in Durham.

It's not a great video because it doesn't mention a sick son

So it's OK for people to get in a car and travel 300 miles to another part of the country, whilst having symptoms of COVID 19 so long as they have a sick child?

When the government were telling people to "stay at home" I don't think that they intended this interpretation of the rules even throwing "common sense" into the equation.

Personally I've not been critical of how government has handled this crisis up until now but I just can't work out how they can say that this was within the rules when it is so clearly was not within the rules.

They travelled up to Durham to an empty annexe

I wonder where they stopped?
It's a shame Grant Shapps didn't know that - seeing as he was pretold some of the questions last night.

People in the North were worried about super spreaders from London coming North with the infection.

What kind of selfish, arrogant person knowingly travels to a different part of the country knowing they have been exposed to a disease like this?

As it turned out, he was infectious. And in any case, he was exposed to BJ who had CV so should have been quarantining anyway.

Actually I don’t think he needed to just by virtue of being exposed to a colleague and coronavirus. Which is one of the stupid things which never made sense. Just before lockdown 2 colleagues got Covid, well 2 who were tested. We suspect many others had it. One of the two confirmed cases died. I had lunch with the second person the day before she became symptomatic. Because I didn’t live with her I didn’t need to isolate and was expected to come into work still. I spent more time with her that day than I had with dh!

One heck of a video from Labour

Although the Matt Hancock clip appears to be from the 3rd April - DC had already gone up to Durham.

Actually I don’t think he needed to just by virtue of being exposed to a colleague and coronavirus. Which is one of the stupid things which never made sense. Just before lockdown 2 colleagues got Covid, well 2 who were tested. We suspect many others had it. One of the two confirmed cases died. I had lunch with the second person the day before she became symptomatic. Because I didn’t live with her I didn’t need to isolate and was expected to come into work still. I spent more time with her that day than I had with dh! Yes it's all crazy isn't it.

Have you read the daily mail. He’s going to paint this as a silly little thing that only the “metropolitan elite” are concerned about. If he gets away with this we have a government that is entirely unaccountable for their actions. And that is deeply worrying.

I have a single parent relative who lives a similar distance away without local support. They were awaiting major surgery and are simply not well enough to look after their DC alone. We've been told we would absolutely be breaking the law if they came to stay with us. We were on the point of deciding it was worth the risk because the situation is at breaking point. Guess we definitely will now, because, well, it's the 'responsible thing to do.

We've been told we would absolutely be breaking the law if they came to stay with us

At least now you know it is definitely within the rules. If only you'd just used your "common sense" you could have done this weeks ago!

They travelled to Durham 3 times during lock down restrictions.

DC is following the science. But it's the science of eugenics. Vile, dangerous little Goebbels.

@Shortsally
If you type @ a list of posters on the thread comes up and you can click on their name and it adds them. Hope that helps.

That reminds me.

One mumsnetter claimed that it was breaking the law if someone looked after their sister's non-ill child while their single parent sister had surgery, because it was mixing households. I was on the thread, saying that providing care to a child while the parent had surgery was morally and legally permissible, because it is.

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Actually I don’t think he needed to just by virtue of being exposed to a colleague and coronavirus.

Nope, the advice was that if you were exposed to someone with coronavirus then you needed to quarantine for 14 days. I remember because I had coronavirus around 23 March and then later my husband got so I checked the NHS guidelines and it said I needed to quarantine for 14 days.

Although the Matt Hancock clip appears to be from the 3rd April - DC had already gone up to Durham

Is that what you took from this?

I should say ‘suspected coronavirus’

is that what you took from this?