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But didn’t he quote the rule saying that in cases like the care of the young child, the rules may not be practical and should be applied as well as practically

• sideshowb 6y ago
  Tbh I haven't checked the details, but if that was the case, then the government was criminally poor at communicating the rules given the sacrifices others have made in attempts to follow them.
• makomk 6y ago
  Yes, which made all the bullshit media emotional appeals about how other people who followed the rules were forced to wait as their loved ones died alone in hospital, how they couldn't comfort them and go to their funerals, etc rather dubious. (Especially since coronavirus spreads really well through funerals and hospitals and really badly through brick walls and visits to outdoor locations after the end of the likely infectious period.) What made that tactic especially fragrant was the fact that Cummings also had a dying family member in hospital who he and his other family members couldn't visit, comfort, etc during the same time period and rather than consider that maybe this might be a reason to step away from that argument, everyone seems to have doubled down and used his family's grief as proof that they were right.