Micheal Gove's daughter's test?

[SouthWestmom]

So, not about her health, wish her well etc. But it appears she had a test on the advice of Chris Whitty so Gove could continue isolating or return to work.
If this is true is this not a bit tone deaf as front line staff can't get tested and return?

Surely with the extended allowance for expenses to enable them all to work from home he could have stuck it out for two weeks and dialled in like the rest of us?

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/coronavirus-michael-gove-given-special-permission-to-test-daughter-with-covid-19-symptoms-11972552

Agree. The test could have gone to an ICU nurse or Dr instead.

I reckon the rest of the cabinet would have appreciated the break for a couple of weeks. The man is hard work!

I’m suspicious she hasn’t had the test and that he got caught out exercising when he should have been in self isolation. Because initially he claimed he was allowed to exercise even though she was symptomatic.

It was only when it was pointed out that actually you can’t that he said she’d been tested and was negative.

I thinkHe’s bullshitting Rather than face the fallout of not following the guidelines.

Another example of one rule for the tories and one for the rest of us. Why the majority of England voted for this lot is beyond me.

Barbie**
I think CW has gone down in my estimation really - unless they have a physical need for him to be in meetings or briefings. Surely they can make secure connections otherwise that £10k isn't necessary.

I think viva is right. I hope CW isn't involved.

SHOCK as man who has done nothing that doesn't further his own interests, does something that furthers his own interests.

Exactly how stupid are people? This shower of gobshites doesn't have your best interests at heart.

I actually agree with her getting the test and don’t actually think the Gove family have been treated particularly differently. I work in emergency services. There are now limited tests being made available to frontline workers and even their families to allow self isolating front liners to return to work.

He is a senior minister involved in co ordinating the response at a time when the PM is unavailable, he needed to return if possible.

I say this as someone who is no way a fan of the Tories or Gove.

Hardly a surprise. Those in govt, the wealthy and privileged (PofW, some famous footballer)--there always seems to be tests available for them. I imagine this would apply to their families too.

Private testing is a thing now too. (Gove should have went private) Anyway, god knows why the NHS aren't snapping up these stocks. If you google, there are private companies offering private testing. NHS get a discount too. Woo hoo!

#oneruleforthemandus

Boris worked from home in isolation until he was admitted to hospital. Why couldn't Gove work the whole two weeks from home?

Banana what is essential that he couldn't do remotely? Genuinely.

Hope he didn't just make something up viva!

Yes.
There is a difference between key workers who can't work from home, and key workers who can (admittedly with some inconvenience) work from home.
The former group should be prioritised, and until there are enough tests to ensure all the former group (and their families when necessary) receive tests then there shouldn't be spare tests for those who can work in isolation (no matter how high profile they are).
Gove is in the latter group.
He could work from home, probably more easily than many other isolated key workers can.

I can't speak for the whole country but in my area tests are available now for frontline healthcare workers and the people they live with. it's all about keeping them working.

Whatever you views on this administration surely with the P M out of action it is important that senior government officials are able to work.

What is your area Argus - it’a certainly not happening in the north

I am actually raging about this. NHS hospital doctors that I know aren’t being tested - even with symptoms (!) - and Michael Gove’s flipping daughter is?

Not to mention Bojo and fam running off to their holiday homes while telling the rest of us to stay at home.

I’ve been pretty relaxed about stuff but today I want to explode. Even during something like this it’s one rule for them and one rule for everyone else.

Gove is not the sort of key worker whose family should be immediately tested.

I think our government is shaming us right now with its behaviour. Totally and utterly shaming us.

Are people really so obtuse that they think government ministers and their households shouldn’t be tested if necessary? Yes, they are a high priority for should be obvious reasons, such as being needed to - oh, I don’t know - run the government that we all depend on.

But Gove was able to work. He could easily have done any reading of documents at home, telephone calls, virtual meetings etc. She doesn't have it - how many tests are they going to waste when front line staff are still waiting?

Ministers, yes. Their households no.

Not to mention Bojo and fam running off to their holiday homes while telling the rest of us to stay at home.

By running off to their holiday homes, do you mean recovering from a critical illness in a government building on the advice of his medical team, you ludicrous person?

No she should not have got one. Dominic Rabb is officially the ‘sub’ for Boris Johnson and if he falls ill Rishi Sunak will step in. Parliament is not sitting and Gove should work from home with the additional money he can claim to do so. Front line staff are unable to get tested and they are needed and cannot wfh.

We got offered a test? Because my husband is a nurse and our daughter got symptoms... he has to work at home for 14 days as per the advice so they wanted to test her to see if it perhaps wasnt coronavirus and he could return to work....they couldnt do it in the end because shes only 1 so that's apparently too young for the test to work... but they were wanting to do it...
I hate Gove but actually I'm not sure hes done anything wrong here.. he is an essential worker and they are trying to test family members with symptoms so essential workers dpnt have to isolate for 14 days...
I think its luck of the draw as to where you are whether you get a test quickly or not...I mean we got offered one 2 days in so... but other people are waiting weeks

The hospital trust I work for are now doing this- it means that people who are self-isolating due to a family member's symptoms can return to work if that person tests negative. Makes perfect sense.

Kriss your husband can't be a nurse from home I assume? Whereas a government minister probably can.

I'm just interested. I thought tests were still lagging, that ministers have just had expenses extended by £10k max to allow them to work from home, and then Give's daughter is tested.

They can run government from home. They done need to be in and face to face.

Plus he wasn’t spotted out of isolation heading to the cabinet office, he was jogging round a park.

Ok so my original point is not families of frontline staff (ie in contact with patients/public through the nature of their job) it is families of someone who can work from home (or can't? Why?)

I think I made that clear in the op but worth repeating before the thread diverts off to nhs staff thinking I'm criticising them for getting their husband tested.