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24 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Remember few months ago the bbc 5 live phone call from a woman who said she had a hospital ward of children with covid

Certain high profile pediatrics called it fake news, bbc rushed out an apology

Well...
#edutwitter
reuters.com/article/uk-hea…
We were seeing increased hospitalisation at the time, but the statement from pediatrics completely shut down that conversation
The same pediatrics who don't feel long covid is enough of a major issue to have been more cautious around school safety. The same ones who downplay transmission and don't worry about education workers safety

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25 Mar
1/ 🧵Culture wars in education, indoctrination, and baiting.

Despite what the media says, not all educators are hard left Marxists intent on indoctrination, some aren't even left.

I'm worried alt-right in education are going to engage in deliberate baiting.
2/ Don't know what this teacher was thinking, might have been an error of judgement trying to spark a difficult debate, however we are going to get cases or deliberately provoking an angry response, so they can play victim against the "hard left"
3/ Here we go, man's now a free speech martyr, by Timothy who has been quite positive about the discriminatory policies of Orban in Hungary.

These will be the same people who questioned if BLM should be discussed in schools. Image
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25 Mar
1/ Short 🧵 I wonder how much damage has been done due to the gaslighting by UK government, client journalists and suspect experts on transmission in schools?
Their stance and selective use of data and studies has impacted policy in other countries.
2/ Europed now discovering B117 is more infectious in children,also Merkel said more dangerous in children, similar data in other countries

This was raised in UK around New year, and pediatrics stepped in,the media closed circle and the story disappeared
3/ They should have been warned, been prepared to put increased safety measures into schools, but this information was stifled for ideological/political purposes, UK told them not to worry.

Then we exported B117 to those countries.

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24 Mar
1/🧵I wonder how many people who contracted covid but didn't get a positive case due to lack of testing in first wave or being asymptomatic will suffer long covid.

It has employment and education implications.
2/ Long covid is varied, there will be workers and children struggling with long covid who don't even know they had covid.

Without knowing long covid is the cause workers could find themselves in capability issues, students could be labelled as school refusers.
3/ We have had our department isolating multiple times due to outbreaks, I tried recebtly to get us antibody tests as these could confirm who had covid even if they didn't get a PCR test,this would allow me the ability to negotiate adjustments if they started suffering long covid
Read 5 tweets
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23 Mar
1/ 🧵Third wave gamble
Its clear government is taking a gamble, frustrating, as they did after the 1st wave they risk unnecessary suffering due to impatience.

Looking at SAGE modelling they've already decided around 30k lives is a fair price to pay.
2/ I guess this is a consequence of a government of financiers, PR, and hacks with a liberal sprinkling of edgelords.

They're used to gambling without personal risk, particularly while they have a protective ring of client journalists around them.
3/ They might get away with it, or as they expect, they might be able to edge it without collapsing the NHS, avoiding a dangerous new variant and keeping thr death toll down to numbers they deem manageable.

I worry they've messed up timing and measures.
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14 Mar
1/🧵Beware the Catch Up stalking horse

For anyone who has seen how some of the worst practices of the private sector have been imported into education since Gove and Cummings got into the DfE, the awarding of Covid contracts should come as no suprise.
2/ As we hopefully move out of the pandemic through this year the government will have two focuses for education policy.

First is culture wars, they see this as a route to electoral success. It drives division, destroys sensible debate and creates enemies of opposing voices
3/ It also manufactures the outrage required as an excuse for rapid far reaching reforms, throw in disruption of Covid and Brexit and combine it with the governments audacity to lie and misinform its impossible to know how far this lot are willing to go.
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2 Mar
1/🧵
@ReicherStephen has explained how we have to be careful LFTs don't give a false sense of assurance leading to changes in behaviour.
DfE advert seems to be encouraging the wrong behaviour for political purposes.

#edutwitter
2/DfE is also running radio adverts claiming that staff will be protected with ventilation.

The Government hasn't invested in ventilation, open a window, if you can, thats what the advice says.

Its a propoganda campaign.
3/ Government is worried parents won't send their children back, would show a lack of public support, and so to keep the desired narrative they are will to distort the truth, fudge figures and they're also willing to go for outright coercion.
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