Indeed.
Travelling to another country, though? Surrounded by close contacts, apparently not socially-distancing or wearing masks? When he's 100 years old, therefore in a very high-risk group?
This seems to have got awfully polarised very quickly in the media, where either you worship at the altar of Sir Captain Tom or you're an evil troll guilty of "victim blaming". I think it's possible to steer a middle course, say that it's great that he raised so much money for the NHS - although plenty of people do plenty of charitable work and don't get free holidays stumped up for them by BA - but also question the wisdom of him and his family taking up that offer in December 2020. Regardless of it being "perfectly legal" at the time, as such intellectual heavyweights as Phillip Schofield and Piers Morgan tell us.
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Well Morgan has a vested interest in saying it was “perfectly legal”. See below.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 2 Feb 2021, 18:41,
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I was just making a joke. Of course travelling to barbados in a pandemic is a stupid thing to do
if it wasn't covid it would have been AIDS, the streetwalkers there don't wash between johns
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 2 Feb 2021, 21:35,
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