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SCOTTISH MEDICAL CHIEF QUITS AFTER BREAKING EXTREME VIRUS RULE

Either way, she's an idiot - but did she break her rules because she secretly realised they were over-the-top and made little difference?: "Scotland’s chief medical officer, Catherine Calderwood, has resigned her post after coming under intense criticism for breaking her own rules to twice visit her second home during the coronavirus outbreak."

Either way, she's an idiot - but did she break her own rules because she secretly realised they were over-the-top and made little difference?:  

Scotland’s chief medical officer, Catherine Calderwood, has resigned her post after coming under intense criticism for breaking her own rules to twice visit her second home during the coronavirus outbreak...

Earlier it emerged that she had visited her seaside holiday home in Fife twice over the last 10 days, including with her children this weekend, despite repeatedly warning the public that non-essential journeys risked lives...

As the controversy intensified during the day on Sunday, a Scottish government advert featuring Calderwood’s warnings against all unjustified travel was still being broadcast, in which she said: “This is a vital update about coronavirus. To help save lives, stay at home. Anyone can spread coronavirus.

“Only go out when absolutely necessary for food, medicine, work or exercise … Stay home. Protect Scotland’s NHS and save lives.”

Labour and the Liberal Democrats urged Calderwood to quit on Sunday after the Sun published photographs of Calderwood, her husband, three children and dog taking walks near their second home in Earlsferry, in the East Neuk of Fife, on Saturday. That included a visit to a nearby beach.

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