Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Bruce Wayne]

Worrying this:

Time to change the Tory Scum thread title?

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Sadly, it means 111 are directly contradicting the health secretary and the prime minister as well, as they've bent over backwards to defend his actions. So you've got both the police and the health service saying he was wrong, and the government saying he was right. I know who I believe to be true, but it's precisely this mixed messaging that meant he should have gone straight away. I don't think what either he, Ferguson or Calderwood did was likely to have resulted in mass infections, but in the interests of both consistency and fairness, the guidelines have to be ruthlessly applied, and all three mucked up, so stood aside so as not to compromise on the guidelines. Except Cummings that is, who the government have preferred to compromise the guidelines over instead.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Tacky billy cans with Cummings face adorned on them?

 

[marnie]

Watch Fatima trying to get in on the act here. lol

 

[Toast]

Cracking opening batsman was Fowler.

 

[Harryflashman]

Cracking opening batsman was Fowler.

Quality Foxy

 

[LinekersLegs]

Tacky billy cans with Cummings face adorned on them?

 

[Jebus_lives]

Sadly, it means 111 are directly contradicting the health secretary and the prime minister as well, as they've bent over backwards to defend his actions. So you've got both the police and the health service saying he was wrong, and the government saying he was right. I know who I believe to be true, but it's precisely this mixed messaging that meant he should have gone straight away. I don't think what either he, Ferguson or Calderwood did was likely to have resulted in mass infections, but in the interests of both consistency and fairness, the guidelines have to be ruthlessly applied, and all three mucked up, so stood aside so as not to compromise on the guidelines. Except Cummings that is, who the government have preferred to compromise the guidelines over instead.

Aside from the fact that NHS111 is largely subjective based on how people respond and articulate their symptoms (which can cause a range of wildly different outcomes) - they are the ones correctly giving the advice based on what needs to be done to protect health.

Cummings and the Government, at this moment in time, are not.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Sadly, it means 111 are directly contradicting the health secretary and the prime minister as well, as they've bent over backwards to defend his actions. So you've got both the police and the health service saying he was wrong, and the government saying he was right. I know who I believe to be true, but it's precisely this mixed messaging that meant he should have gone straight away. I don't think what either he, Ferguson or Calderwood did was likely to have resulted in mass infections, but in the interests of both consistency and fairness, the guidelines have to be ruthlessly applied, and all three mucked up, so stood aside so as not to compromise on the guidelines. Except Cummings that is, who the government have preferred to compromise the guidelines over instead.

Agree totally. Their reaction to this has been more disgusting than the actually breaking of the rules. Should have just got rid of Cummings and then no one would be talking about it.

 

[ramacca]

Maybe if Cummings was charged, convicted and paid his fine like ordinary members of the public have had to do, some of the resentment might subside.

It's the pathetic off-the-cuff attempts by various Tory spokespersons, from the PM down, to justify him that drives me mental.

It was at the time that he was reported is when they should have fined him, if they could that is. Which doesn't mean he can't subsequently be fined.

Durham police first issued a statement saying they spoke to an individual who'd traveled from London and it was to do with 'covid isolation'. Just after 4 and before Cummings gave his statement they released another statement saying they talked to him about 'safety issues'.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Gotta love how it's being described as a "witch hunt"

 

[LinekersLegs]

Gotta love how it's being described as a "witch hunt"

 

[Harryflashman]

Hounded by the media and witch hunt , it’s all sounding horribly familiar

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Hounded by the media and witch hunt , it’s all sounding horribly familiar

This is what really winds me up:

Cabinet minister says everyone should 'move on'

Everyone should "move on" from the row over whether Dominic Cummings broke lockdown rules by travelling 260 miles to his parents' house in Durham, a senior cabinet minister has said.

Robert Jenrick, the housing secretary, said the prime minister's chief aide should not resign from his post over the row, arguing that he had "acted reasonably and legally".