Cummings vs Cummings

A kind soul on Twitter send me a copy of Mr Cummings wife's original account of their household's run in with Covid-19 in the Spectator.

According to this Cummings came home on the 27th and then collapsed within 24 hours and couldn't get out of bed for 10 days... 

Whereas according to Cummings account he came home and immediately drove to Durham without stopping within 24 hours before he became ill. 

So which is true?  Here's the BBC timeline. The only way his story can be made to match his wife's is if he drive through the night on the night of the 27th?  Little wonder he couldn't get out of bed in the morning then he would have been up for...? 

Well, Boris announced he had the virus at midday on the 27th.  Cummings is seen running home shortly afterwards... 

"So I drove the three of us up to Durham last night, arriving roughly at midnight. I did not stop on the way. When I worked the next morning, Saturday the twenty eighth of March, I was in pain and clearly had Covid symptoms, including a bad headache and a serious fever."

So... According to AA route planner this is a minimum 5 hours drive which means if he got home at 2... Then he made the decision to drive to Durham within 5 hours. That's the only way the two timelines work. 

Other amusing tit bits include Mrs Cummings converting to Catholicism for complex theological reasons like the Pope had better opening hours...