Well, this is their problem. Calderwood and Ferguson were forced to step down because of political pressure when they were actually useful people. That is the political standard the UK government set. There was a lot of talk about how the public couldn't be expected to comply with the guidance if their heads didn't roll. I wasn't sure about that, and there had been an opinion poll, I would have ticked 'don't know'.
But now it turns out Dom did something far more egregious, and the same quarters that howled for Ferguson's head are yammering "he was just a man... taking care of, of, of a sick child" as if it some kind of trump card. Telling us not to "politicise it" if we do so much as raise our eyebrows at the sheer audacity of such an excuse.
Among many other things, it proves exactly how out of touch they are with what lockdown means for a nation. Johnson has been reading speeches about appreciating the nation's sacrifices for weeks, and at the first opportunity he had to show that he truly comprehended any of his past verbiage, he failed. He wittered about how Dom had followed the instincts of a father as if none of us watching had faced the same decisions as Dom and done better.