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Sorry for the big rant below but I am so so angry.
Our whole household have had what we can only assume is Coronavirus. Being a parent is hard in this pandemic. My daughter has previously been under the pediatric respiratory consultant at the Royal London for 3 years so I was particularly worried as she started to show symptoms.
When my husband was ill I moved on to the sofa for over a week to try and delay any symptom onset in me in the hope we wouldn& #39;t both be sick at the same time, for the children& #39;s sake. One evening, laying on the sofa I read about poor Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab the 13 year old boy.
This was before they started to allow a parent to visit a sick child and I cried for him but also at the thought that my daughter might die in hospital scared and all alone. In fact as I type this my eyes well up again, the fear is real.
My parents too live in County Durham & are lucky enough to have space, green fields around them and a little cottage next to their house where we could have stayed. But we didn& #39;t, we followed the rules not for our benefit but so as not to put others at risk. Is& #39;nt that the point?
And I& #39;m lucky, how much more must a parent fear they will not be able to look after their children if they are singe/have no support network/cant afford food if made unemployed/ are high risk.
I& #39;m not angry he did it, lots do, I am angry the government are backing him up.
I& #39;m not angry he did it, lots do, I am angry the government are backing him up.
This isn& #39;t a matter of parents making a judgement for their young son, this is a matter of them believing their situation was in some way different to millions of others. We know its scary for parents, we are in the same boat, except he got a government approved airlift our!
Fianlly, please someone ask if it& #39;s now ok for a family to travel to another home if they are worried they may get coronations from a partner and they have a child? Can the answer show modelling of the effect on the R value if all families in that situation acted in this way?
