Thread by @sunnshiiny

The question remains...

Why are parents obeying the commands of a lunatic proto fascist operative (La Grange) who is hell bent on infecting kids and their parents with covid?

The first rule in Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Don’t obey in advance.

https://twitter.com/thebreakdownab/status/1395461869133975553

The next rule is Defend Institutions.

Parents need to defend Public Education.

Teachers, Administrators and custodians are human beings. Sending your kids to school is putting the lives of those people at risk & beneath your need to work and make a living.

If you want great teachers, maybe putting their lives at risk isn’t the best strategy.

While people wonder and try to comprehend the desire to open schools during a third wave, the answer is taxpayer funded child care while you perform work for pay. Stop performing and employers will demand UCP provide better supports for classrooms.

Or the next 4.5 weeks will be online learning to protect the population. It’s not hospitals that need protection, it’s the people who require them when they are infected with covid. No covid transmission, no overwhelmed hospitals. That’s how reducing transmission works.

There is abundant evidence that students in classrooms are a primary transmitter of covid.

Here is a study in the Lancet.

thelancet.com/journals/lanin…

Another Guardian article demonstrating how little is known about transmission, even after a year of the pandemic.

theguardian.com/world/2021/jan…

Another article about transmission of covid within schools.

theconversation.com/children-may-t…

There are plenty of studies that show it’s less likely that children transmit covid. But there are no studies that state children NEVER transmit the virus to peers and family members.

Because they do.

It’s a matter of risk.

Children’s risk is reduced in most studies. It’s the same in other studies. So what are the facts?

We don’t know for sure.

That’s how science works.

Do we know what causes brain aneurisms? Blood clots.

But that’s only evident after years of study by dissecting the brains of people who died from a brain aneurism.

We do not know the long term effects of covid because the disease has only existed for a little more than a year.

Science is cumulative. New discovery replaces old knowledge.

While many studies demonstrate that children don’t seem to be spreading the virus. It’s not a firm statement saying it doesn’t happen.

In more testing focussed studies, children are contracting covid, but don’t exhibit symptoms. The absence of symptoms has many confident that children aren’t contracting or spreading covid.

But the studies are not testing for asymptomatic covid and transmission.

Science only tells you what is asked.

Inferences are called hypothesis. Unproven hypothesis.

The studies that have tested asymptomatic disease in children find up to 70% show no symptoms.

The implications for adults who share space with children is enormous.

There could be 15/25 students that are asymptomatic covid carriers in one classroom and no one would know. Because we aren’t testing for asymptomatic covid.

It’s only fact and proven children don’t spread the disease if you actually test that hypothesis. Most studies don’t.

So the CMOH and Education Minister are telling half truths when they say children aren’t transmission drivers. How would they know.? Testing and tracing have been unable to keep up in schools. We have no idea if those statements are correct. And we have no way to determine truth.

I kept my child home from in school classes. Because we do not know the long term effects of children who do contract the disease. He has his whole life ahead of him.

Why would I gamble with his health for my convenience?

I wouldn’t. That’s why he’s full time online.

But I also read the book On Tyranny shortly after it was published and I’ve know for years that Kenney and Harper are autocratic tyrants. So, I literally trust nothing that emerges from Kenney or his ministers. Not one thing without verification from experts who I trust.

We cannot allow our children to be guinea pigs. To be experimented upon to determine transmission rates the hard way. This isn’t the HUNGER Games. Survival of the fittest isn’t a humane public healthcare strategy.

Demand the provincial government stop gaslighting the public.