If Dominic Cummings wasn't feeling ill and his wife was (and we know she was on the 27th), why didn't he drive his child up without taking someone with them who was definitely ill?
They did not both need to go, neither was that the safer option.
They did not both need to go, neither was that the safer option.
Mary Wakefield wrote about how she felt breathless and achy at times, and conveyed her experience looking after her husband in this time.
Not only did they increase the risk to their child putting her in a confined space for hours on end, but they also deliberately took someone with a killer illness out into the world and transported them over 100s of miles.
Had this *really* been about the safer option, and he wasn't symptomatic, then it would have made a lot more sense for the two people who had no symptoms to drive up on the 27th.
It would have still been against the rules, but it would have been logically consistent with the reasons being given that he needed to find childcare.
Yes, Mary Wakefield would have had to isolate alone, but then so has a lot of other people to ensure they don't go out and spread this.
They clearly weren't prepared to make the sacrifice other people have made, and decided instead to do something which is the diametric opposite of the principles that were encompassed in the advice and the law.
And you don't need advice or law to say "Don't go out in public when unintended transferral could lead to someone's death.
We now have somebody acting irresponsibly with a deathly virus and he is willing to declare there is nothing to see here. "He did nothing wrong," "He was actually helping stop spread the virus."
No. If you are ill and you leave your home you are saying that you believe the exercise of your free will at that particular moment is so important that is it worth risking other people's lives.
This is wrong in any book.
This is wrong in any book.
The truth is, nobody with symptoms ever had to leave London. There definitely was an alternative where Dominic broke the rules but nobody broke quarantine. So, this is not just that they broke the rules, but _how_ they _chose_ to break them
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