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I know this wont be a popular view but I really don't care about Cummings. He is as far as I know not an elected official and again afaik he isn't a scientific or medical advisor so I wouldn't even attempt to hold him to the same standards. Yes, he's an important advisor but I'm not sure that necessarily means he should be automatically expected to be cleaner than clean in all matters.
The lockdown will be interpreted differently depending if you're pro or anti but I'd bet that the voices calling for his head would be shouting for different reasons if the government tried to tell them what they could or couldn't do if C19 entered their families and small children were involved. I suspect a lot of this boils down to good old politics and hating him for being a Boris boy or for his role in Brexit, just my vho. Before I even clicked on this thread I know who some of the posters would be and what their opinion would be.
If caught by the police a member of the public doing what he did (allegedly) may or may not have been fined or turned back or allowed on their way or "given advice" but possibly not hounded out of their job. However, this is the shrill knee jerk UK where we love to target people and tear them apart and he's a nice target so humanity and understanding or even reason is out the window.
Mostly I don't care and in the context of group hugs, street parties and idiots coughing over everything and other people at ASDA I can't see what he did months ago mattering one jot so wouldn't necessarily want to punish him too much if any of this was really down to doing what he thought right to protect his child and wider family.
I care about lies though and it's possible someone here is lying. If it's Cummings, witnesses or the media I don't know. Maybe all of them to some degree and none are imo above suspicion. These days couldn't we get at least near some truth with phone tracking? If for example Cummings was in the same area as a witness who said they saw him walking by the Tees (or where ever he was or wasn't) that's at least a clue but if one of them was somewhere else, or at least their phone was, that could be another matter.
The government DID tell us all what to do if Covid entered our family. Stay home, in our primary residence. Do not have any contact with other people.
That's what my family did when we were ill with it.