Can Dominic Cummings wife drive?

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Does anyone know? Presumably the media know she cant or it would have been asked why he needed to drive her to the hospital with their son when he had covid and had blurry eyes? Also she could have driven them back to London and not needed a trip to Barnard Castle to test his eyes?

@NotEverythingIsBlackandWhite but he did say his eyesight had been affected...

"The incredible thing is that he rushed home to her then went bank to work. That’s breach 1 before they even left London."
He didn't say his wife had Covid symptoms. He said she'd phoned to say she was ill and had vomited. He told us yesterday she did not have a cough and fever which were the symptoms of Covid we were told that we should stay in with if we experienced them. No breach there.

'The way he said she couldn’t possibly look after a child while ill annoyed me. How many of us have done that with flu, hideous chest infections, norovirus etc. How the other half live."
She may have said she wasn't able to look after her child when she phoned him and he just paraphrased what she'd said to him.

Or he may have made that judgement when he saw her chucking up. Vomiting is usually a short-lasting symptom of an illness.

I can't remember what date his son was in hospital but I think I wouldn't call a taxi and risk potentially exposing another person to the virus. When DC picked his wife and child up he did not expose anyone as he didn't get out of the car.

I don't know who his wife is but if she can drive, it does make me wonder why she didn't drive home. However, I also know quite a few women who wouldn't dream of driving on a motorway or a long distance. They will only drive short distances. Go figure.

"If he returned to work and the symptoms were of a sickness bug then why later that night would you relocate your family halfway across the country at a point everyone was being told to stay at home?"
Because that night Boris Johnson received his positive test for Covid-19 and informed him of the result.

He thought it likely he may contract Covid too and worried both his wife and he could both become incapicated by it so that their son would require someone else to look after him. A percectly reasonable assumption.

"but he did say his eyesight had been affected..."
I'm sorry, I must have missed that bit - I just remembered him saying his eyes had felt weird during the illness.

He did say they'd felt weird. And also that he'd had trouble with them. Cannot remember exact quote but I'm pretty sure he said vision had been inconsistent.
But even if weird was the only symptom. You don't drive to test your eye sight is functioning well enough - well - to drive

"Except he didn't say that. He said he was good to go home that day, it was his wife that suggested they have a short test drive to see if he was able to make a longer drive and then go home the next day."
He did say It was his wife who suggested it. She obviously can't be comfortable with driving, otherwise she surely would have just done the drive home.

I wonder if she has health anxiety, MH issues or is just a fragile person. I don't know anything about her. (I don't know anything about him either. Always thought he looked miserable, moody and badly dressed/scruffy. I was shocked when I heard him speak. I didn't expect well-spoken, educated, reasonable and measured tones).

"I didn't expect well-spoken, educated, reasonable and measured tones"

From the man running the government? That speaks volumes

He did say It was his wife who suggested it. She obviously can't be comfortable with driving, otherwise she surely would have just done the drive home.

Or the eyesight testing excursion was a bullshit excuse, to cover up that they fancied a nice day out.

Putting to one side the dissection of each trip made.
Surely the take-home point is that everybody knows the statement was bull shit, Boris is obviously complicit in the bullshit, has refused to be drawn further and we are supposed to move on.
That's not good enough, where the fuck does it end?

Maybe she can drive but can't for medical reasons. I can't drive due to my medication at the moment

But then surely claire a better story would have been - Mary is current,y unable to drive and I am under no obligation to explain why rather than I drive to test my eye sight.

And if on Sunday you are not feeling well enough and concerned you won't be able to make. 260 mile trip then commence sense tells you you aren't well enough to make a 260 mile trip. And driving 60 mile round trip doesn't actually tell you you are able to drive a further 200 miles. He thought he could manage the 30 or 60.
So look at the motorway services available and plan your trip in chunks. Or ask for one of the many available government vehicles to pick you up if you urgently need to be in the office and zoom (or whatever software they're using) isn't good enough for that meeting.

He was probably onto a winner with his contrite act and I honestly believed we were doing the right thing story until the most ridiculous reason for visiting a beauty spot on your wife's birthday came out.

Michael Goves come out as saying he’s done the same. Sheer madness to think we’re going to swallow this as a normal thing to do.

He had no need to collect them with Covid and impaired eyesight. Hospital transport would have been provided if necessary.