Thread by @AlisonGeorge10

1/11 🧵 Just watched @BBCPolitics in utter dismay!

Waiting/hoping for SOMEONE to mention #VENTILATION or kids wearing #MasksInClassrooms, using EXTRA spaces to create #SafeSpacesToLearn...etc
Have all commentators been forbidden to mention these options, have they been gagged?

https://twitter.com/bbcpolitics/status/1354052280446812161

2/ If this ⬇️ is SAGE’s own assessment in Dec20.

3/ And we think this ⬇️ regarding risk dependent on location, time, masks etc.

4/ Then #schools w/out MITIGATION ARE a HIGH RISK environment for pupils, staff & families.

INDOORS, CROWDED, POORLY VENTILATED, FEW MASKs, PEOPLE SPEAKING ALL DAY LONG!!

In the RED AREA ABOVE ⬆️

Why won’t someone just be HONEST & say it as it is?

5/ WHAT AM I MISSING?

If schools open fully WITHOUT MITIGATION AGAIN & only a small % of ppl PARTIALLY VACCINATED (even smaller % FULLY vaccinated), 10s x1000s more ppl will die, 1000s will get #LongCovid , countless more families will bereaved & we’ll need another #lockdown etc

6/ Are #Dfe saying this chart ⬇️ isn’t true?
Then release the full stats of staff #Covid19 illness & deaths for the public to see. @educationgovuk @GavinWilliamson

7/ The #COVIDVaccination rollout CANNOT be the ONLY egg in our management basket to allow #schools to open SAFELY!!

Please tell me there is more...

The @NEU recovery plan 4 education, given to the #Primeminister LAST SUMMER for example?
Do read it @BorisJohnson it’s FANTASTIC

8/ British kids CAN #WearAMask in classes.
They CAN wear warm clothes so ventilation can be improved.
They CAN use other #SafeSpacesToLearn like museums & conference suites.

THEY CAN & THEY WOULD IF ALL THE GROWN UPS WOULD LET THEM!
BRITISH EXCEPTIONALISM is DEADLY.

⬇️ ⬇️⬇️

9/ #COVIDisAirborne - please stop pretending that our kids washing their hands countless times & sitting in rows facing the front will stop #coronavirus spreading.

IT WON’T 😡!

THE VIRUS 🦠 IS IN THE AIR!

10/ When will someone LISTEN...... be HONEST about the risks....... & MAKE A PLAN to ACTUALLY #MakeSchoolsSafe (& #earlyyears settings too)! Then we can all stop going round in ever-decreasing circles & get on top of this virus!

PLEASE 🙏🏻!
@GavinWilliamson @NickGibbUK @NEUnion

@educationgovuk @annelongfield @ChildrensComm @NAHT @tes @MaryBoustedNEU @10DowningStreet
@Kate_Green @Keir_Starmer @SecondaryTeach6 @EYAlliance @adamhamdy @mattprescott @HoppySaul @_NatashaDevon @gmb @Channel4News @BBCNewsnight @susannareid100 @lewis_goodall @krishgm End!