Just So We Clear, D C Should Have Sacfrificed His Kid, Is That What The Left Journos Are Saying?

[ToraToraTora]

Can someone explain what he should have done?

[andy-hughes]

FCC, premier league footballers don't advise the Prime Minister.

Spot the difference?

[gness]

Roy - the Common Travel Area meant that (until lockdown) there was unhindered movement between an infected UK and a relatively uninfected Ireland - add in the ludicrous decision to allow Cheltenham Races to go ahead and you have a disaster imported to here before our Government could get the UK to agree to limiting movement.

[naomi24]

The only people damaging the country are those dragging their bottom lips along the ground screaming for his resignation or dismissal. He did it - it’s done - his employer thinks he’s worth keeping on. Get over it. I too would have put my child's welfare first.

[sunny-dave]

Agreed, gness, although the most shockingly culpable acts were actually those of the Italian authorities who knew of the infection in their ski resorts and chose to keep them open through sheer naked greed.

I will never forgive Italy, and the Northern Italians in particular, for killing tens of thousands of people - including many hundreds here in Ireland - for the sake of a few filthy euros.

[royfromaus]

allow Cheltenham Races to go ahead and you have a disaster imported to here




Imported by the Irish, I would imagine. It wasn't compulsory to attend Cheltenham.

[sunny-dave]

Well you are a shining example then, Naomi, and will be lauded by some and vilified by others.

I personally wouldn't have your principles on a roll in my toilet - but hey - opinions are free and sacred and I respect your right to be different.

[New Judge]

//I too would have put my child's welfare first.//

But he didn't, naomi. His flawed thinking achieved precisely the opposite. It was just about the very worst thing he could have done (if indeed that was his reasoning, which is debateable since childcare wasn't mentioned initially).

[gness]

Of course it wasn't, Roy. But we do have a problem with the Dubs. The rest of the country was way ahead of what we needed to do and acted well and quickly. When it was decided to go ahead with Cheltenham we knew where our problems were going to come from.
Luckily our government knew what the Dubs would be doing when they returned from Cheltenham and fancied a weekend in their country holiday home and managed to prevent a disastrous spread by giving the guards the power to stop travel.

No Cheltenham....less imported covid.

[gness]

Nj. It staggers me that people think he was doing something good and safe for his child. He wasn't. He was endangering his child.

[royfromaus]

gness, it's your own countrymen/women at fault for attending.

My club has a gang that goes to Spain every year and I expected them to cancel it. They didn't. If they came back with Covid I wouldn't have blamed the Spanish, I would blame them for going.

[gness]

Of course we blame the horsey Dubs, Roy....you should hear what we say about them over this....socially distanced of course...and the UK for allowing Cheltenham to go ahead.

[Spicerack]

We? Are there a lot of plastic paddies in Kerry, Gness?

[gness]

Sorry, Spice....I don't understand that...explain?

[naomi24]

NJ, having read the reports and listened to him tonight I think he did put his child’s welfare first. He made sure that if he and his wife were unable to care for the child, there was someone reliable who could. Rules such as those in place at that time can only ever apply in normal circumstances. Those rules have since been tweaked to take into consideration the needs of the autistic - which his son is - and those with special needs - something that seems to have been overlooked at that time. Extraordinary circumstances require extraordinary measures.

[jim360]

"Duty bound" has never meant so little as when you abused that phrase.

[royfromaus]

and the UK for allowing Cheltenham to go ahead.





That's ridiculous.

[andy-hughes]

Naomi, I could drop this and move on right now if Mr Cummings had offered a hint of something along the lines of 'I was wrong and I'm sorry ...'.

Fat chance of that.

[Peter Pedant]

no wonder people complain about me ....
youre all mad ....
have a good time anyway - on what is it now? FIVE threads

[naomi24]

Jim, //"Duty bound" has never meant so little as when you abused that phrase. //

Try thinking about the phrase 'extraordinary circumstances'. I know it wasn't mentioned in the thread that you're referring to, but do try.