Even clever people can be thick
This isn’t being “thick”, however, it’s professional negligence. The authorities have been ramming the message about movement outside the home down everyone’s throats because it is vital that everyone observes the rules, then the Chief Medical Officer decides to flout those rules for her own convenience. There will be a sizeable number of people out there today hearing this news and thinking that it is probably really OK for them to bend the rules a bit “if they need to”.
I’m not one for knee jerk reactions, but this does feel like a resignation is in order. How does she retain any credibility when she’s ignored her own advice?
Having just read one of the comments above, I hadn’t even realised she had done it two weekends in a row…