1/🧵 Questionable ethics in experiments with unvaccinated adults and children
Indian variant found in Leicestershire, few days later a Leicestershire school announces it will be entering experiments to not isolate close contacts.
Wise?
This is how the trials work, screenshots are from the official documents sent out to schools taking part in the trials and the SPI-M-O paper the government put out as its scientific evidence for conducting these live experiments.
4/Here's the letter than went home to parents, asking for consent for children to not isolate, NOT asking for consent to have your child share a space with an identified close contact
5/ In the local news the Head says they are proud to be helping suppress the virus with this trial.
SPI-M-O said isolation is most effective, so a riskier strategy is being advertised as increasing safety.
6/ Parent raises concerns with lack of informed consent. Directed to the official Test and Trace letter at bottom of Heads letter to parents.
Problematic letter, mentions additional risk but then makes out these are negligible.
7/"if your household has health concerns you may wish to isolate rather than LFD"
How does this protect the family?
If the student has already been identified as a close contact its too late to protect the family.
It doesn't make sense
8/ Example of another parent seeking answers on ethics and consent.
Noticed that results of the trial wont be released until the summer, like final PCR tests aren't released for 2 weeks. A lot can go wrong in the time waiting for this information.
🧵Oh what a suprise, Together Declaration are part of this network, and members of the Exec like UsForThem founder Kingsley accused anyone who said they were a hard right political project of smears and defamation
2/ Founded as anti-lockdown but going straight into anti-vax talking points, Together then switched to anti Ulez, anti net zero heading towards climate change denial
3/ They have been one of the main groups peddling nonsense about the WHO pandemic treaty, starting two years ago with Farage then becoming the leading face of a new astroturf group
While much of the media claims the inquiry is accomplishing nothing, its slowly revealed the gov knew transmission occurs in schools and causes harm to a not insignificant number of children
2/ The bill gives the Secretary of State the power to add to the list of interests that can access your childrens data through secondary legislation avoiding parliamentary scrutiny
3/ The Bill also permits 14-18 year olds to be targeted with political marketing
3/ More and more evidence emerges of the long term harms caused by covid, but the UK govs preferred paedatricians continue to peddle claims that with enough infections children will develop lasting immunity
Said this would occur after 1 infection, what is it now? 5? 7? 10?🤷♂️
🧵Cass Review
Not had a chance to read the whole thing yet, but have had time to look through the main points
What positives can be taken from it? The time spent on waiting lists was identified as a major issue, all children's services are massively underfunded at the moment
2/ I would like to think that this will lead to an investment in all children's support services like CAHMS, more pastoral support in schools etc
That would be a positive outcome, regardless of what else is included in the review, unfortunately real terms cuts are the reality
3/ What matters is how government interprets the review and what it chooses to implement, additional funding for children isn't going to be prioritised over tax cuts to appease RW papers
Imagine if the billions from last round of tax cuts had instead been invested in children