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We're now live and discussing how today's data shows a dire situation in the UK. School outbreaks have contributed hugely to this.
Stephen Reicher; There's been a shift from ignoring the data to suppressing the data.
Safe Ed For All: From a parent's perspective, parents just want to be able to make informed decisions. The fight to get any information has been very hard.
Parents who ask questions are gaslighted. Parents are told they're over-anxious. You're basically a nuisance to the school.
Carole Cadwalladr explains that @dgurdasani1 has been at the forefront of the demands for information about schools. Deepti says that the small amount of data released is shocking.
Deepti: It's criminally negligent, the way they are putting children at risk.
Paul-Olivier Dehaye: We should be doing forward tracing from country to country. We saw it when the virus jumped from China to Italy. We didn't react swiftly enough.
The data must be shared with citizens of the UK but also other countries.
I haven't seen a good justification for this secrecy. There is a moral obligation for individuals and governments to share information.
Carole Cadwalladr: Daniella has been collating all the outbreaks of the variant she can find in schools around the country. An amazing grassroots effort.
Stephen Reicher: The democracy of science is, you don't go by who is telling you, you go by the data. But if the protocols aren't published, we don't know how much weight to put on that data.
Deepti Gurdasani: There are powerful anti-mask lobby groups in the UK with undue influence and access to government.
Long Covid Kids: The narrative has been all along that children are unaffected by Covid. We started a group and we now have 2300 members.
Karam Bales: If the government strategy is based around vaccines, why are they allowing transmission to occur freely in schools?
All we're asking for is for scientifically recognised mitigations in schools. @SafeEdForAll_UK
Deepti: It's as though children don't exist in the government strategy. Now we have a new variant spreading and all this was preventable. The government are talking about travel and freedoms while they suppress evidence that could be used to hold them to account.
Thanks so much to all our speakers and everyone who joined us tonight.
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