Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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tsubaki said:
They’ve not been undermined but the government response is delusional. He broke the regulations and they said they would have told him to go home. This is not “responsibly and legally”.
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What would happen if the police pulled someone over and they said they were driving to the beach for the sake of the mental well-being of their child or some other half baked excuse? Especially if we go into lock downs again.
 
tsubaki said:
A very carefully worded statement that cannot but be read as him breaching the conditions.

Obviously they’ve ignored it again.

One thing it doesn’t say is that they’ve checked to see whether there were any other breaches / ANPR hits for his car (which there may be even with Cummings account).
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They‘ve probably not checked with Interpol, MI5 or MI6, nor asked for Satellite footage for the period. A ‘minor breach’...time to give it up really, the only people who will get rid of Cummings will be Tories with a chip on their shoulder, and they will quickly be put back in their boxes....
 
JimmyJeffers said:
What would happen if the police pulled someone over and they said they were driving to the beach for the sake of the mental well-being of their child or some other half baked excuse? Especially if we go into lock downs again.
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They’d be told not to be mugs and to go home. If they didn’t then they’d get fined. This is what’s happened all over so they aren’t making an exception for him.

However as I said it’s what they haven’t said there that is important.
 
Bruce Wayne said:
I can't recall exactly when the app was first announced, but if you presume development of it started relatively early on, then they've had several weeks to recruit and train contact tracing personnel and get that side of things in order. Have other countries had similar issues? It just seems that with the number of unemployed at the moment that there will be no shortage of willing bodies.
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California rolled its contact tracing out last week.
www.gov.ca.gov

Governor Newsom Launches California Connected – California’s Contact Tracing Program and Public Awareness Campaign | Governor of California

Governor asks Californians to answer the call to help keep our families and communities healthy and on the path to reopening SACRAMENTO – In the ongoing efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19…
www.gov.ca.gov www.gov.ca.gov

Only 500 trained at launch but 300 more scheduled for this week with an eventual target of 10,000
www.politico.com

How California's contact tracing army could serve as model for nation's reopening

California is among the few states considered to be ahead of the curve in developing their tracing programs.
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214 hospital deaths announced today, 2 up on yesterday, 185 from English hospitals again 2 up on yesterday with 171 occurring in the last 10 days
 
Here is the full statement issued by Durham Police to say Dominic Cummings will not face further action.

On March 27 2020, Dominic Cummings drove to Durham to self-isolate in a property owned by his father.
Durham Constabulary does not consider that by locating himself at his father’s premises, Mr Cummings committed an offence contrary to regulation six of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020. (We are concerned here with breaches of the regulations, not the general Government guidance to “stay at home”.)
On April 12 2020, Mr Cummings drove approximately 26 miles from his father’s property to Barnard Castle with his wife and son. He stated on May 25 2020 that the purpose of this drive was to test his resilience to drive to London the following day, including whether his eyesight was sufficiently recovered, his period of self-isolation having ended.
Durham Constabulary have examined the circumstances surrounding the journey to Barnard Castle (including ANPR, witness evidence and a review of Mr Cummings’ press conference on May 25 2020) and have concluded that there might have been a minor breach of the regulations that would have warranted police intervention. Durham Constabulary view this as minor because there was no apparent breach of social distancing.
Had a Durham Constabulary police officer stopped Mr Cummings driving to or from Barnard Castle, the officer would have spoken to him, and, having established the facts, likely advised Mr Cummings to return to the address in Durham, providing advice on the dangers of travelling during the pandemic crisis.
Had this advice been accepted by Mr Cummings, no enforcement action would have been taken.
In line with Durham Constabulary’s general approach throughout the pandemic, there is no intention to take retrospective action in respect of the Barnard Castle incident since this would amount to treating Mr Cummings differently from other members of the public. Durham Constabulary has not taken retrospective action against any other person.
By way of further context, Durham Constabulary has followed Government guidance on management of alleged breaches of the regulations with the emphasis on the NPCC and College of Policing 4Es: Engage, Explain and Encourage before Enforcement.
Finally, commentary in the media has suggested that Mr Cummings was in Durham on April 19 2020. Mr Cummings denies this and Durham Constabulary have seen insufficient evidence to support this allegation.
Therefore Durham Constabulary will take no further action in this matter and has informed Mr Cummings of this decision.
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'Retrospectively take no action'. They should have taken action at the time like they did with these two people. Most people have been fined under the guidance and not the regulations and that is why their convictions have bee quashed.

Coronavirus: Durham police lockdown travel fines revealed
By Sebastien Ash & Daniel KraemerBBC Political Research Unit
  • 27 May 2020

Durham Constabulary headquarters
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Durham police issued fines to two people - from different households - who travelled together from London to County Durham during lockdown.
The force is currently considering whether to take action against the prime minister's chief aide Dominic Cummings over a similar journey.
Mr Cummings made the 260-mile trip from London to Durham with his wife and four-year-old son.
The two individuals fined by the force travelled to nearby Peterlee.

One rule for Cummings another for the rest of us is the new motto for Durham police. Cover up.
 
The party of law and order but the law never applies to them. See Gove who used to sniff coke then becomes minister for law or whatever and seeks harsh penalties for drug users. They're just scum. Its always been one law for us and another (or more like none) for them.
 
peteblue said:
They‘ve probably not checked with Interpol, MI5 or MI6, nor asked for Satellite footage for the period. A ‘minor breach’...time to give it up really, the only people who will get rid of Cummings will be Tories with a chip on their shoulder, and they will quickly be put back in their boxes....
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Unfortunately I think the media will be like a dog with a bone and they will keep on at this until the public messaging is pointless.

It's incredible the extent to which this Government have gone to, in order to protect a man who simply could've apologised.

You live by populism, you die by populism.
 
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