Dominic Cummings has said that his decision to travel north to self-isolate near his parents' house was the right thing to do. I do not know enough about all the circumstances to say whether this is correct, but the implication is that it is down to each and every one of us individually to decide what is right when we take actions relating to the Coronavirus crisis. This makes a complete nonsense of having any rules regarding lock-down, and it all just becomes advice and guidance from the Government, which people can choose to take or leave as they see fit. This would mean that the police should have no powers to stop people doing what they think is the "right thing". However, this is certainly not the case, as there have been a significant number of charges made for breaking the lock-down rules. So perhaps it is just advice and guidance for those in senior positions, and more enforceable rules for the rest of us, who aren't as smart or as privileged as Dominic Cummings to know what is the right thing to do. I am still advocating follow the rules, do as they say, not as they do; but it gets harder and harder to do this with each example of poor behaviour from our Government, each bad decision, each misrepresentation of the truth, each lie.
What these senior people need to realise is that they have to stick to the rules just as much as the rest of us, or we start to think "Well, if it is OK for them to do it, it must be OK for us." It's called "leading by example", and many great leaders in the past have done this. Unfortunately we seem to have a pretty ineffectual bunch trying to lead at the moment, and they are just not up to dealing with the biggest crisis to hit the UK for a long, long time. We can only hope that it will open the eyes of many of those people who voted them in last year.
Gerontios
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