Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Eggs]

Unfortunately, not even knowing about all this until reading it in here, and then having found out what he did and decided it was political noise, I just put myself in the position of the grandparent and commented accordingly. There is so much going on the world and the U.K. that I really cannot understand why everyone is up in arms. It’s political and nothing else....

....no Pete, it’s the public putting trust in what they are being told and then finding out the message is ‘do as we say, not as we do’.

it’s very sad after what sacrifices people have made. I vote Labour and if a Labour politician did this I’d be equally disgusted.

 

[peteblue]

Pete, this is just the "as a mum" card as played on facebook by idiots who think they're special because they reproduced. It doesn't lend your argument any credence.

I’m not saying it does, I’m just telling you how I would react as a grandparent.....right or wrong....

 

[tsubaki]

Did they have a spare detached house. If yes then fine, If no then They would have broken the rules.....

Every child needs its own detached house? I didnt think they were that Tory.

 

[Blues Harp]

I think it will be forgotten by next weekend. Unless Cummings has told a fib, there is no issue. Very early on the Deputy CMO was asked a similar question, and her reply all those weeks ago Vindicates Cummings. For me this is a non issue when just seven days from now Schools are supposed to open......

Not here they aren't....

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Did they have a spare detached house. If yes then fine, If no then They would have broken the rules.....

Why would they need a spare detached house? Your (and their) excuse for going was because the child needed looking after. The child isn't staying in the spare house on its own, is it? Send the kid to the relatives living in London, and you stay in your own home, isolating. You don't drive all that way under the pretense that you need someone to look after your kid, and then all three of you live in the spare house your parents have in your garden, with your family doing nothing but deposit food parcels on the doorstep. Not if you're pretending you went there for childcare support.

 

[peteblue]

...I know they wouldn’t travel, Pete. Her husband is a pharmacist. The risk of infection to others would be too much for them. She is paranoid about us getting sick and would not risk that outcome. Even now, she’s ultra-cautious, she knows how deadly this virus is because she sees well people deteriorating so quickly (her words not mine).

Simply, you are totally wrong. If my daughter had been in that position she’d undoubtedly have not done what Cummings did.

But that wasn’t my question was it. If they were both had the virus, and a young child, and you had a spare detached house in your garden, what would you have wanted......

 

[Tea_drinker]

Every child needs its own detached house? I didnt think they were that Tory.

In tory world its unthinkable that they wouldn't have access to a luxury second home on a farm. Ridiculously out of touch.

 

[Voodoo Billy]

In a normal family wouldn't the grandparents have travelled down to look after the child if its parents were unwell rather than the sick ones travelling the other way?

 

[Tea_drinker]

But that wasn’t my question was it. If they were both had the virus, and a young child, and you had a spare detached house in your garden, what would you have wanted......

If they didn't have a spare detached house, just a flat somewhere in an inner city. What then?

 

[tsubaki]

But that wasn’t my question was it. If they were both had the virus, and a young child, and you had a spare detached house in your garden, what would you have wanted......

I'm sure its not "I want to watch my grandchilds face as I come down with a disease that is more likely to kill me than anyone else"

 

[davmaher]

Unfortunately, not even knowing about all this until reading it in here, and then having found out what he did and decided it was political noise, I just put myself in the position of the grandparent and commented accordingly. There is so much going on the world and the U.K. that I really cannot understand why everyone is up in arms. It’s political and nothing else....

So why bring the fact that you are a grand parent into it?

 

[Papa Shango]

In tory world its unthinkable that they wouldn't have access to a luxury second home on a farm. Ridiculously out of touch.

Did it have any donkeys in? That's the important thing to know.

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

Remember when the royals made a small (given their massive, well stocked bunker) but significant gesture of staying in London during the Blitz, knowing that they were setting an example, projecting an image of a country united and quelling panic?

Bet they felt daft when they realised they had some detached houses in the countryside spare.

 

[peteblue]

Why would they need a spare detached house? Your (and their) excuse for going was because the child needed looking after. The child isn't staying in the spare house on its own, is it? Send the kid to the relatives living in London, and you stay in your own home, isolating. You don't drive all that way under the pretense that you need someone to look after your kid, and then all three of you live in the spare house your parents have in your garden, with your family doing nothing but deposit food parcels on the doorstep. Not if you're pretending you went there for childcare support.

And that’s a fair argument if you wanted to put a potentially sick child with a family who are not. However and I’m probably wrong, but I thought the child and it’s parents all stayed in the detached house. If so it meant they all isolated and if the worst happened then family was immediately available on the doorstep.....

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

But that wasn’t my question was it. If they were both had the virus, and a young child, and you had a spare detached house in your garden, what would you have wanted......

What you want and what the guidelines allow is not the same.