Few thoughts ahead of DC show...none of us decent people would normally berate a parent for taking pre-emptive steps to safeguard their child, to lean on family for help during illness, or to head for sanctity in the nicest possible surroundings...

...nor, as has been reported, would anyone blame him for wanting to support his mother through the grief of losing her brother, his uncle. Add in hinted-at issues linked to the child, and the natural response is one of sympathy. We understand....

...or more likely by a sense of duty. Brainwashed by weeks of messaging, we will have resisted those instincts and ‘done the right thing’ for our neighbours, the vulnerable, the frontline key workers, that much vaunted R rate...and some of us have to live with that choice forever

...we understand but these are not normal times. Most of us can point to horrific moments over the past 8 weeks when our natural instincts, love for each other, desire to be close and to comfort, to make the best choice for us and our family was pulling on us so hard...

...some of us, like DC, will have listened to those urges and found a way round them, or just openly flouted them, putting our own family and needs first. But many of us did not, constrained either by others - police, hospital or care home gatekeepers, other family or friends...

...a sense that the decisions we made, where we overrode those instincts for the greater good, were wrong after all. Nothing in the Govt response on this story has acknowledged that pain, at all...

...so most of us will carry on doing the right thing, because this vile virus has brought enough pain already. The Govt response to the DC story shows we were never all in it together - and if we read the rules closely we’d have known that, doh! #StayHomeSaveLives

...so when we hear someone who helped write the rules and promoted them, and his masters who extolled us all to be altruistic not selfish, tell us he was “being a good parent” and “following his instincts” what we are left with is a hollowness...