Thread by @AlisonGeorge10

1/5 Dear @susannareid100 & @adilray & @gmb, millions of school children, families & teachers across the country urgently need your help.
Masks are no longer required leaving pupils & 1000s of unvaccinated/partially vaccinated adults <40 vulnerable to #COVID19 & #LongCovid.

https://twitter.com/adilray/status/1395000149785591812

2/ W/ case numbers of the #IndianVariant ⬆️ sharply in many parts of the UK, I’m utterly mystified that we’re allowing so many young ppl & children to be exposed to #coronavirus every day they’re in school.

We don’t know enough about this #COVIDVariant yet to be so reckless.

3/ Just like the failure to put #India on the #RedList soon enough, the decision to remove the 😷mandate from schools will certainly result in more #COVID & #LongCovid cases.
It is too early to know whether hospitalisations & deaths will rise too.
We can but hope they don’t.

4/ If this variant is allowed to “rip through” huge numbers of unvaccinated ppl it will soon spread into the vulnerable & older population. Vaccination does not confer 100% protection. A small % of a v large number is still a large number!! Avoidable, unnecessary suffering!

5/ The whole country needs protecting from this unscientific madness!

After everything we have collectively been through, why through caution to the wind with the lives of others now?

Please can you help us to reverse this decision &
#ReinstateMasksInClass?!

Thank you 🙏!

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