Boris touching a baby's hand

[Lottle]

Just watching the 10 o clock news. Boris was being interviewed. He was playing with a baby at some school/community centre sort of thing. He stroked the baby's hand. How is that ok?! Anyone else see this?

I can't help thinking that once covid is a memory, some people on Mumsnet are going to feel lost when they can't clutch pearls about people touching a baby's hand or people exercising for 61 minutes.

@DdraigGoch clutch pearls? That’s sexist language to be using on a woman’s board. We’re pointing out the staggering lack of diplomacy from a publicly elected leader while his nation is locked down. It’s political.

Op, you need to find a hobby!

[quote RobynNora]@DdraigGoch clutch pearls? That’s sexist language to be using on a woman’s board. We’re pointing out the staggering lack of diplomacy from a publicly elected leader while his nation is locked down. It’s political.[/quote]
"Pearl-clutching" is often used by posters on these boards to describe posters horrified at perfectly innocuous things.

The PM is human like the rest of us. We all forget ourselves sometimes. Briefly holding hands with a baby is somewhere near Ed Miliband's bacon sandwich on the scale of what really matters.

@DdraigGoch

I can't help thinking that once covid is a memory, some people on Mumsnet are going to feel lost when they can't clutch pearls about people touching a baby's hand or people exercising for 61 minutes.

Can you really not see that it's not about that? It's not about whether it's ok to make physical contact with others, be indoors with them, exercise for however along you want, go a to rave, whatever. It's about the fact that the person telling us not to do these things isn't following the rules themselves!

Didn't see it but it doesn't surprise me.

I'm a life-long Tory supporter, until this government came to office. Everything they've done has been predicated on rules are for the little people.

@SunnySideAndMarmite posters above have pretty much admitted that their complaints are political. This has been blown completely out of proportion.

OP is right and the and the primal ‘jump on the bandwagon’ comments like ‘get a life’ etc not only miss the point of OP’s thread but are also repetitive and boring in their uniformity. Mumsnetters are quick to use the term ‘gaslighting’ but it seems when someone has a legitimate concern related to covid the term gaslighting doesn’t apply and you can rip to shreds anyone who raises a question. For people who have been following the social distancing rules, this does sting and for those who haven’t, well you’ve already proved yourself selfish and now you’re coming on here and ‘gaslighting’ people who have spent months doing the decent thing

Clearly many people didn't read the op's posts and all piled on to be ridiculous.
OP I agree. I'm not allowed, according to him, to meet my family and friends or hold their new babies. But he isn't living out the same rules he is enforcing.

This thread just highlights how fucked up our society has become. The hysteria that's been whipped up the past 12 months has turned people and not for the better either, everyone is so bitter about everything its not a healthy way to live. The sooner we get back to being social hunan beings the better.

I'm with @Lottle on this. Posters referring to hysteria are missing the point. Us lesser mortals have been told to social distance. Grandparents are aren't supposed to be touching their grandchildren (oh unless they are in a bubble or offering childcare)
No, the baby probably won't come to any harm, and nor will our esteemed Prime Minister, but it's not really setting a good example is it!?
He's 'supposed' to lead by example FFS

The point is @KateKeeper we shouldn't be living in a society where we have to get hysterical about someone touching a babies hand. The reduction of our social interactions has not had pleasant consequences in our ability to live a long side one another. It's not normal and I fear for us the longer these restrictions are kept in place. The human touch is now greeted with disgust its sad really we have come to this.

We get such mixed messages on this. Is covid highly contagious, or is it not? The advertising all over the tv/radio/billboards, the doom laden interviews with weary NHS staff, people who've been in ICU and survived, relatives of people who've survived, all suggest that it is.

When Boris Johnson touches a baby and 'forgets' to social distance, all the expensive Stay At Home messages start to look like mere propaganda.

In my area, numbers are very low per 100k population. 34 I think. This is with all the extra testing, so one would assume the odd symptomatic case has been picked up.
I'm continuing to follow rules but the nature of my work means I'm in contact with people, quite legitimately, on a daily basis.

It's really not surprising that people are either making up their own rules to try to avoid catching it, or shouting hysteria at people who do.

I think there is probably a middle ground to be had.

*interviews with people who's relatives died

No, we shouldn't @wellthebloodyhell But this is the message that we've been given. It's totally unfair that we've been put in this position where people are trying to do the right thing, as per government recommendations, and Boris Johnson doesn't follow the rules/guidelines he himself set out.
That's what I, and clearly many posters here are justifiably annoyed about.

I think Boris is a wanker but at the same time I bet every single person on this thread has made some sort of mistake in the last year.

Of all the things he's done in the last year this is not the one to be angry about

None of us set out the rules though. Beyond that, I agree with you Bo

@BoKatan

I think Boris is a wanker but at the same time I bet every single person on this thread has made some sort of mistake in the last year.

Of all the things he's done in the last year this is not the one to be angry about

Agreed @BoKatan but this is MN no one ever admits to making a mistake where the rules are concerned, everyone on here has followed them to the letter every single day without faltering once

Boris Johnson should be acknowledging all the children he has fathered before he touches anyone else's children.

His example is important. Not sacking Dominic Cummings and Robert Jenrick led to less compliance with restrictions I think.