Unless you live in a cave (in which case well done you, you
have embraced the lockdown and have taken isolation to a new level) you will
know about Boris Johnson’s chief aide Dominic Cummings who drove 260 miles from
his London home to his parents' estate in County Durham at the height of
restrictions in March. His reason being he was taking his vulnerable 4 year old
son to he looked after there by his family as he feared he and his wife would
soon be incapacitated with the Corona virus (having worked close proximity to
Boris around the time he tested positive the likelihood Cummings would have it
too was very high)
So now many are screaming for the sacking of Dominic
Cummings (also in effect supporting a mad Maoist intrusive regulation of
personal lives, by howling for its enforcement and encourage the activities of
informers and who think it right to denounce neighbours to the police but let’s
overlook that part)
What I do find it fascinating that there are so many people
on social media appear to be budding amateur Atticus Finches (as in To Kill a
Mockingbird) or legal experts for the “Facebook” prosecution but let’s have a
wee look at the facts firstly in law....
The actual Government regulations for Isolation.
Under reg. 6(1) to leave the house whenever we had a
“reasonable excuse”
Now check out 6(2), in specific (d) “to provide care and
assistance to a vulnerable person” (in
Cumming’s case ...his 4 year old child)
Now the law often prioritises the needs of children so let’s
also have a wee look at 6(2)(j) which allows a child from separated households
to travel between them.
Now let’s also seek a little clarification from the
Governments public statements as It is true to note the deputy chief medical
officer on 24 March was asked a question relating to small children and
answered “clearly if you have adults unable to look after a small child, that
is an exceptional circumstance.”
What I would certainly call an “exception circumstance” would be two parents leaving their home with
a vulnerable young child to get childcare in the likelihood of both parents
being ill with the virus (which went on to hospitalise the boss of the man in
question, Boris)
Now as for Moral reasons.....
Protecting one’s family is what any good parent does. and as
such it is wholly appropriate under the guideline to do so so is lawful but
morally if I was in the same circumstances with my child being 4 years old and
with concerns for his care and health ... well firstly I would not hesitate
braking any laws (in his case Cummings did not) and if any one flicked their noses at my decision to put
my child first or this there followed a orgy of online prurience my response
would be “go fuck yourself” but hey ...
I’m old fashioned that way thinking that the heath of a small child is more
important than what the curtain twitchers and self-appointed morality police
think.
So what’s people’s faux fury at this?
Well with the Scottish nationalists it’s clear.... they will
use the comparison of Nicola Sturgeon’s Chief Medical Officer who was found to
have breached guidelines by nipping off to her holiday home in Fife, twice. So
going to your holiday home is comparable with taking a 4 year old child to
safety .... awww you caring tartan clad blue faced bunch.
Or perhaps you have the “Tory hatred fury” in you (very prominent with the above group)....a cure
to this sickness would be two servings of “educate yourself”, I prescribe my
blog entry “Why I will be voting Conservative 2019” from 28th
November 2019
Or perhaps you are just looking for opportunity to punish
Cummings for leading the campaign in 2016 that the majority of the British
people supported and democratically voted for.
Personally I was a remainer and Cummings pissed me off
immensely but what pisses me off now is this politically driven witch-hunt and
hatred of a man’s action to do what is best in the interests of the health of
his 4 year old child.
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