To think Scotland’s CMO has caused irreversible damage?

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It’s not just that she has broken the rules - that is bad enough. But as a medic she must have thought there was a very low risk in moving between houses and therefore gives permission for everyone to think less of the restrictions and evaluate the risk and carry on. I honestly think she has set the whole of the country back and has caused immense damage.
She doesn’t think going out is risky. That’s the bottom line.

I agree.

No, she thinks it’s important but that she and her family were ‘special’, like all the other people out there flouting the rules.

Totally agree

It’s the ultimate ‘do as I say and not as I do’

She’s apparently offered to resign and Nicola Sturgeon didn’t accept it but I suspect she’ll be gone before the end of the week

Her position is untenable now

Made even worse by the fact that England’s CMO may well have CV and there’s been no updates on his condition

Agreed. An utter disgrace.

I think she knows it's risky.

She just thinks that it's for other people to play their part in flattening the curve,
because she's much too special and important to have to obey the rules.

It's a disgrace and Sturgeon must be bloody furious. I suppose until this year CMO wasn't a particularly high profile job, she can't have imagined this level of scrutiny.

I'd never heard of her before but apparently she's a very highly esteemed medical expert. If she thinks her kids lives or her own life was at risk by driving for an hour and walking across a golf course, then obviously she wouldn't have done it. I suspect that actually her actions were very low risk, and that most intelligent people could do the same with little risk. But the hard rules have to exist because of the idiots or the unaware, who need much firmer guidance or they just won't be sensible.

Being caught is one thing but it’s her evaluation of risk I’m concerned about. It has put everything back. She is saying to us it is safe to travel to different parts of the country as long as we distance. She wouldn’t do it with her family if she thought there was any infection risk. And then she is coming into the press conference (albeit with social distancing).
She has made a nonsense of everything.

It does matter wether she judged it as low risk. Regardless of her background.

Due to her position, she need to be seen complying with the rules. As soon as people setting the guidelines adopt the 'do as I say, not as I do' attitude, the more people will think 'fuck this, I am doing what I want'.

My point is that if she judges this as low risk then there are many other situations that people could judge as low risk. How could she have been so stupid.

I'd never heard of her before but apparently she's a very highly esteemed medical expert.

I'm sure she's very well esteemed, but she's an OBGYN.

I just can’t imagine her having a conversation with her family to say we are going away for the weekend even though everyone else is stuck in Edinburgh. How on any level could she have thought that was ok.
Did Nicola Sturgeon really not know? Surely they are all in contact with each other 24/7 at the moment and need to know where each other are in case their is a sudden escalation of events.

What she did was foolish, but ultimately probably very low risk. But that doesn't fit the current narrative, so no doubt she will have to go.

She's an idiot. I really think she needs to resign. How dare she tell us we can't see our loved ones while she swans about doing what she wants.

So which of the following would have been if any higher risk
Going on a long run/walk but not meeting anyone
Going to a beach and keeping social distancing
Driving to my holiday caravan to have a change of scene
I don’t doubt that she has seen it as low risk but I think we will look back at her actions and see them as a defining moment in this whole crisis.

I don’t think she thought “the rules don’t apply to me, I’m too important” - I think she probably assessed the risk and thought it was fine. But that’s the whole problem, everyone else will think and do the same.

What was she thinking???????

I agree OP.

I think she has demonstrated very clearly that the rules and consequences apply to everyone. She has been warned by the police. All these people with their 'but I only' have had a very clear demonstration of why that won't fly. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a set up to show the police taking strong action.

What she did was foolish, but ultimately probably very low risk

Yes it probably was, but it will lead to people thinking they don’t have to obey the rules as long as what they are doing is low risk. And 60 million people all thinking it’s ok to do ”low risk” things is going to lead to the disease spreading.

The rules are there to be obeyed. She is setting the rules. She doesn’t get to decide it’s ok for her to break them.

I’d love to nip to my caravan for a couple of days.

Hmmmm

It's a bit like the Headmistress turning up pis*ed at assembly, with a fag hanging out of her mouth, lecturing the school about not bringing the reputation of the school into disrepute.

It's called not leading by example.

Poor judgement on her part.

What an absolute knob.

Absolute stupidity. She must be replaced.

@OhClover

Not every expert agrees that what is currently happening - the extent of the lockdown - is actually necessary, or ultimately saving us from anything. Someone working directly for the Government may not find it expedient to actually say so.. But it is possible that subconsciously their actions could reflect what they really think. I suspect this has something to do with it.

I think this lockdown is utterly mad - for various reasons - and that we should be shielding the vulnerable and should have started much earlier.

I’m now wondering if she does too.

Either that or she is dense