Did Boris Johnson just call us all bad parents?!

[Hermagsjesty]

Having watched that briefing I am incandescent with rage, less at what Cummings did - I understand people might have needed to make difficult choices and compromises during lockdown - but at the excusing of it. Why not admit it was an error of judgement and apologise?

I have three children. When my husband and I both became ill with what we believed to be Coronavirus in mid-March, we took turns to watch the children whilst the other slept. I lay on the sofa, feeling the illest I have ever felt, while CBeebies played on loop. We relied on neighbours we barely knew to drop off essentials. We would have loved to lean on family but we didn’t because we believed to do so would endanger them and the wider community.

A succession of ministers - and now the Primeminister himself - have suggested that Mr. Cummings behaved as any loving parent would. But many loving parents did not behave as he did. We struggled and made sacrifices in what we believed was the National interest. Are they now suggesting we just don’t love our kids as much as Mr. Cummings loves his?

[alreadytaken]

the newspapers have known about this for quite a while - but it breaks when the government wants us to restart the economy, Children need to go back to schools for that to happen so they want to stress parents doing what they think is right for their children.

No idea what the "eyesight" test is supposed to be about but perhaps Specsavers paid a lot for the publicity. Their next ad has to have a picture of a car crashed into a castle and a "should have gone to specsavers" message

[Walkaround]

alreadytaken - so they don’t want parents to send their kids back to school, then? Because Dominic Cummings just implied to the nation that coronavirus may make you too ill to care for your child and may make your child ill enough to end up in hospital. He also implied it’s OK to drive dangerously. None of that seems like encouragement to believe the Government is arguing that common sense says it is safe to go back to work and school.

[alreadytaken]

A lot of parents want their children to go back to school. He's said it's fine to be selfish and not think beyond what you want.