Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[bennett]

1 minute ago, DrewDon said:

When posting these pics you really need to use something that isn't obscure, so that context can be gained.

[Arch Stanton]

PP taking bets on what the c**t will say in his statement.

[Mark Connolly]

[Gaz]

He's going to say that his child has a health condition, my money's on autism or another ASD, which means he requires specialised childcare. That's why the local relative wouldn't have worked and he had to go somewhere where they knew how to give that childcare.

[welshbairn]

2 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said:

PP taking bets on what the c**t will say in his statement.

Was going to lump on Barnard Castle but it's down to 4/6.

[Mark Connolly]

1 minute ago, Gaz said:

He's going to say that his child has a health condition, my money's on autism or another ASD, which means he requires specialised childcare. That's why the local relative wouldn't have worked and he had to go somewhere where they knew how to give that childcare.

Except they can't make their minds up on whether or not they actually used childcare

[Gaz]

Just now, Mark Connolly said:

Except they can't make their minds up on whether or not they actually used childcare

No, but he's going to say that the likelihood was that he and his wife were going to both get ill and if so there was a strong possibility they would require childcare.

 

[Arch Stanton]

2 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

Was going to lump on Barnard Castle but it's down to 4/6.

The 6/4 on him not being in his current job on 1st June is tempting.

[Detournement]

So the Daily Mail, CoE Bishops and former Police Chief Inspectors are calling for him to go.

Let's hope he mugs them all off later. 

[Gaz]

If - and it's a big if - his child does have autism, then I do have a (very, very slight) degree of sympathy for him, given my own circumstances.

That being said, there will be a large amount of parents of autistic children around the country who have gotten ill and soldiered on with no external childcare as that's what they believed they should be doing.

My own kids haven't seen any of their friends / family for nine weeks. Granted my wife and I haven't been ill.

Edited May 25, 2020 by Gaz

[The DA]

1 minute ago, Mark Connolly said:

Except they can't make their minds up on whether or not they actually used childcare

I don't understand the differentiation people are making between making sure childcare was available if needed and then actually using it.  If the pair of them were down with CV-19, it would be a bit late to go looking for childcare then.

Not defending Cummings - he's an entitled c**t and shouldn't be allowed anywhere near government - but the 'did't use it after all' argument is unsound.

[dirty dingus]

Just now, Mark Connolly said:

Except they can't make their minds up on whether or not they actually used childcare

If his child is autistic and the family are there to administer the special care needs and with him and his wife having jobs in the city, do they get up extra early to drop the kid of at nan's daily?

[The DA]

Just now, Gaz said:

If - and it's a big if - his child does have autism, then I do have a (very, very slight) degree of sympathy for him.

That being said, there will be a large amount of parents of autistic children around the country who have gotten ill and soldiered on with no external childcare as that's what they believed they should be doing.

There's a greater amount of suitable childcare in London for autistic kids than there is in Durham.

[Gaz]

Just now, The DA said:

I don't understand the differentiation people are making between making sure childcare was available if needed and then actually using it.  If the pair of them were down with CV-19, it would be a bit late to go looking for childcare then.

Not defending Cummings - he's an entitled c**t and shouldn't be allowed anywhere near government - but the 'did't use it after all' argument is unsound.

Yep. I know if there was a high likelihood that both me and my wife were going to be ill, the last thing we'd be wanting to do is to wait until we were both ill and then try to arrange some childcare.

[coprolite]

4 minutes ago, Gaz said:

He's going to say that his child has a health condition, my money's on autism or another ASD, which means he requires specialised childcare. That's why the local relative wouldn't have worked and he had to go somewhere where they knew how to give that childcare.

I reckon he won't actually say that though. The bots have put it out on the twitter so all he has to do is drop a heavy hint or two that he may have had particular requirements for the kid. That way he won't actually be lying. 

[Gaz]

Just now, The DA said:

There's a greater amount of suitable childcare in London for autistic kids than there is in Durham.

Well, that depends very much on the child.

[Gaz]

Just now, coprolite said:

I reckon he won't actually say that though. The bots have put it out on the twitter so all he has to do is drop a heavy hint or two that he may have had particular requirements for the kid. That way he won't actually be lying. 

Yeah, that's a strong possibility. He could drop it as something like 'our family's own circumstances'.

[The DA]

1 minute ago, Gaz said:

Well, that depends very much on the child.

Boris could, have looked after him - he's already had the virus and he'd be at roughly the same mental age as a 4-year-old.

[bennett]

2 minutes ago, The DA said:

There's a greater amount of suitable childcare in London for autistic kids than there is in Durham.

Autism can have very specific terms for certain children. 

[Gaz]

2 minutes ago, dirty dingus said:

If his child is autistic and the family are there to administer the special care needs and with him and his wife having jobs in the city, do they get up extra early to drop the kid of at nan's daily?

Perhaps they can both manage when they are both well. Perhaps they take turns with childcare. It's not outwith the realms of possibility that they don't need childcare when they are both fit and well, even if they are both working. Perhaps the child goes to an existing childcare provider that is not currently open.