Those who've juggled childcare with coronavirus symptoms on their own are angered by Cummings' 'arrogance' – and the PM's defence of his man.
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The single mum tells HuffPost UK she feels “insulted and angry” by the actions and excuses of Boris Johnson’s special advisorwho drove his wife and child from London to Durham during lockdown after his wife developed Covid-19 symptoms. “To try and get around it by saying he was just trying to be a good dad is insulting and a kick in the teeth.”Mead first started to feel poorly and fatigued about a week after UK lockdown began. It soon got to the point where she could not get out of bed for two days as she was so exhausted and full of aches and pains.
At one stage, Mead heard Sam telling his sister: “No, you can’t sharpen a knife with a pair of scissors.” In alarm, she dragged herself out of bed despite feeling completely “out of it” and tried to supervise them from the sofa. “It is the sheer arrogance and an example of the patriarchal society we live in. Dominic Cummings was well enough to drive 260 miles from London – but not well enough to look after his son. The thought of looking after his own son seems to have been against what he thought he should do.. We have to take the burden and weight and practical worries all on our own without anyone to share it with.”
Russell, who lives in Hove, says that lockdown’s taken her back to the isolation she experienced when she first became a single parent nine years ago. Her kids’ father is a surgeon who was redeployed to Covid wards so to prevent putting them at risk, he could not see them for the first month of lockdown.
″There were two of them and they both have good jobs. They should have been able to manage without breaking the lockdown rules.Wendy Doyle, 42, who lives in South Shields in the North East, isn’t a single parent but
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