To not understand the outrage at Dominic Cummings?

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Please don’t flame me for this. I’m not posting this to be controversial. I am someone who always tries to see the good in people which has been to my detriment at time’s in the past so I’m very well aware that maybe I’m missing something here and being too kind when he possibly doesn’t deserve it.

My understanding is that Dominic Cummings is saying that he only returned to Durham on one occasion which was because he had fears about potentially being unable to look after his child if him and his wife both ended up too unwell with Covid. I can understand the logic in that.

I appreciate the government advice at that stage was to stay home but if he genuinely didn’t have anyone to help with his son, then I can understand his fears and that he was trying to put his child first as any parent would.

My understanding is that a matter of days after, the government did clarify that travelling in the event of needing support with children if you had caught covid was an exceptional circumstance and that travel in that instance was acceptable.

I personally live hundreds of miles from family and don’t have anyone I could ask for help in the local area was I to become unwell with Covid so this does resonate with me.

I understand that there were sightings of Dominic Cummings on other dates in Durham which indicate that he travelled back up there. If this is true, I definitely agree that he needs to be sacked, but at this stage, there is no proof of this.

Am I missing something here?

And he wasn't in the wrong, as he explained

Good of him to tell us all what to think.

It's quite easy to explain how he was in the wrong. Really, really easy.

CoachBombay single mother in a tower block vs advisor to the PM? Of course different judgements apply.

Max so us single mothers can flout rules and nobody will care, report us, care?

Cool I'm off to have a family BBQ! Thanks for the free pass.

Sorry Max. They don’t! Are you seriously suggesting that the single mother can do what she wants numerous times a day?

CoachBombay c'mon. If the story had been that Cummings or his wife had gone out more than once a day with their child it would have passed unnoticed.

Yanbu. He’s clearly a cheeky f but seriously who the hell cares?! Probably all the remoaners out there and various others out to get him.

He’s not done any harm. Half the people I talk to have broken lockdown in some form or other and continue to do so in parks, sitting in massive groups clearly socialising with more than one member of another household.

I think it’s best people let the government get on with the task at hand instead of fussing over all this pathetic nonsense and creating more instability which is the last thing we need right now.

I’m sick of all this anti Tory bs...what we are facing here is unprecedented and it’s all well and good for each of you to say what the government should have done and what you would have done but the reality is you have absolutely no idea what you would have done in this situation. There’s no perfect way out of this, some of it is trial and error.

However as usual people love to focus on the problems rather than the solutions.

The media in this country is also a disgrace imo and I’ve been pretty sickened by it over the past few years.

So some "rule breaking" are ok to do and some things not for Mr Cummings and family 🤔

So if everyone wants to get up in arms about rule breaking, then it's all or nothing.

Did she have Covid symptoms? Does she advise the government? Does she regularly confuse a family hatchback with an optician?

You really have to wonder what other people would do with their children if they were incapacitated. I suppose they would just let them fend for themselves rather than allow family look after them.

I would not have driven 260 miles with a car full of coronavirus.

Crack on with the Tory ring-licking then.

So some "rule breaking" are ok to do and some things not for Mr Cummings and family

It's not ok for anyone to go to a petrol station twice with coronavirus, no.

I suppose they would just let them fend for themselves rather than allow family look after them.

The family 2 streets away in London? Sure.

@CoachBombay A witch hunt is never necessary.

But holding public servants and elected officials to account is.

He has exposed the government as dishonest. During a pandemic. It's really not good is it.

Hoppity. I agree. The press especially those around DC’s house were a complete disgrace to their profession.

I’m betting some of Cummings apologists here were the same Covigilantes telling everyone to stay home FFS.

@SharonasCorona Yeah, probably STAY THE FUCK HOME for emphasis.

He’s not done any harm
He could well have infected people.

I’m sick of all this anti Tory bs
It isn't, that isn't the reason people are angry. He has annoyed people across the political spectrum.

I work in healthcare and yes many of my colleagues who have children have come down with symptoms, I don’t know anyone who went halfway across the country in case they became incapacitated.

Lets just move on, we have much more to worry about than the child care arrangements of some political adviser.

Let’s not. We don’t.

You sound just like Boris when he didn't want to answer any more awkward questions.

This is gold though for comedians, talk shows and morning TV. No matter what happens. It all chips away.