Thread by @AlisonGeorge10

Am I surprised to read of the number of cases in @DVLAgovuk offices? Not at all.
I’ll say again....@GOVUK (& @educationgovuk) advice for INDOOR settings is COMPLETELY INADEQUATE & UNSAFE!

#COVIDisAirborne....

BUT THE THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT ! 1/10🧵

https://twitter.com/hoppysaul/status/1353089303098896385

I ask EVERY patient where they work & I have to say that many workers & employers have been dangerously mislead.
#COVIDisAirborne, the advice needs to change URGENTLY!
Screens, sitting back-back/side by side may stop someone coughing in your face but it won’t stop air mixing.2/

Take a look at the advice-
In large rooms/whole floors full of office workers sitting 2m or less apart THE AIR WILL SOON MIX.
If the windows are shut, highly likely in winter, the exhaled breath of worker w/ #COVID19 won’t take long to be everywhere.
Think HOW SMOKE SPREADS! 3/

Have a good read.
“Steps that will usually be needed.”

NO MENTION OF VENTILATION OR MASKS.
NONE ANYWHERE....

#CovidSecure is a complete misnomer. 4/

“#COVID19 is a different type of risk to the risks you normally face on the workplace, and needs to be managed through social distancing, hygiene & fixed teams or partnering, not through the use of #PPE.”
But #COVIDisAirborne....! 5/

“These OTHER MEASURES remain the best ways of managing risk in the workplace...”
Minimising time spent in contact,
Using fixed teams & partnering for close up work,
And increasing hand & surface washing.

MASKS ARE NOT NEEDED for a virus that is #airborne.
Totally negligent!6/

The fact that #COVIDisAirborne IS NO SECRET!
That improving #Ventilation & advice to #WearAMaskIndoorsAtWork would #SaveLives, reduce #LongCovid & #ProtectTheNHS is well known.
“Advisors advise & ministers decide.”
SO IT MUST BE A CHOICE NOT TO UPDATE THE GUIDANCE?! 7/

If you’re an employer/worker please take this VERY SERIOUSLY. More colleagues will die or get #LongCovid if you don’t.
The #Lockdown will go on longer, more livelihoods will be lost.

OPEN WINDOWS & #WearAMaskIndoors EVEN AT YOUR DESK.
Such simple advice can #SaveLives 8/

The @GOVUK advice was updated on 6th Jan 2021.
If the aim was to let the new more transmissible #covidvariant spread widely & wildly through all indoor workplaces (& educational settings), then this would be a good place to start.
Irresponsible & negligent in equal measure. 9/

#COVIDisAirborne #MasksSaveLives #Ventilation #MakeWorkSafe #handsfacespacereplace #Covid19UK
@GOVUK @10DowningStreet @BorisJohnson @theresecoffey @grantshapps @adamhamdy @CMO_England @uksciencechief @DrEilirJones @mattprescott @DrDomPimenta @HoppySaul
@meenalsworld
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