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4 Jun, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Its like a PR spin doctor has been inserted into PHE to contradict the reports its staff have worked hard on.

This is preposterous
#ReleaseTheDataOnSchools #edutwitter Image
They quote data from March, ignore the data released yesterday which was only up to 11th May.

So this is before masks were removed in secondaries and wider restrictions were relaxed
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While the Treasury baulks at the cost of lost learning, Johnson seems comfortable with Delta spreading in schools which will result in more disruption.

Whatever this government says education clearly isn't a priority
When they removed masks in secondaries they must have known Delta was starting to spread in schools, yet they went ahead anyway.

The implications go beyond UK borders
Johnson took a big gamble Delta wouldn't be as bad as early reports suggested, unfortunately yesterday's releases are bad news

If gov strategy is to race the virus with vaccines, it could have bought more time for vaccination to get ahead, it chose not to

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4 Jun
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The government is suppressing data on Delta B1.617.2 cases in schools, this could have implications not just for the UK but for the rest of the world, and yet most our media are giving Johnson a free pass on this.
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Event tonight to discuss the implications
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31 May
What's the bet that as B117 was falling in the community, it was in education where B1.617.2 was increasing.

And whilst they knew this, they still went ahead with removing masks and suppressing the data instead of acting.
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I think the government is hoping to obscure scale of the issue in schools and gamble that hospitalisations are still low by 14th June, they will announce further loosening but keep masks in certain places so they can claim this is a sign of caution
Yet we still get voices in media claiming children are practically immune, that transmission is so low that UK schools don't need masks.

A lot of the world are shocked by the lack of measures in UK schools.
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26 May
Cummings said the Telegraph kept swaying Johnsons mind.
This is definitely the case with school policy,
Been charting how the disinformation leads policy every month
Skeptics➡️contrarian blue ticks➡️ Telegraph&CRG➡️Johnson changes policy
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You can see how disinformation becomes fact in RW media and then is adopted by others like BBC.

The push to remove masks, all evidence said keep them, but in the UK media masks are controversial
Media have been most negligent about schools policy complicit in dismissing safety concerns, unfortunately schools were barely mentioned in the meeting. Id like to know what Gupta and Henegan advised on schools.

Day masks are removed PHE, ventilation?
Read 16 tweets
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25 May
Whats bothered me for a year

March 2020 we called for schools to close
Herd immunity was the strategy and Gov spokesman said closing schools would be counter productive as it would reduce infection, transmission didn't just occur in schools it was vital
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 #edutwitter #r4today
2/ When 1st lockdown was announced there was a mas scramble to define keyworkers, set down guidence for remote learning etc.
No preparatory work had been done because they had intended on keeping schools open throughout but impact on transmission was too risky
3/ From April 2020 the message suddenly changed from schools as essential vectors of transmission to gain natural immunity in low risk groups, to "children don't transmit" "transmission in schools is low" "school gates..."

Bit odd isn't it?
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24 May
1/🧵If education was a priority as government says, then they would be doing all they can to prevent the disruption caused by outbreaks and isolation.
So why haven't they invested in ventilation? Why scrap masks in secondaries?
2/ In fact the government seems comfortable with infections in younger age groups, the argument (ignoring long covid) is that children are low risk and the government’s aim is to keep down hospitalisation and deaths ie the NHS won't collapse from outbreaks in schools
But this wasn't their own priority it was "keeping schools" open, they and their client journalists keep saying how concerned they are by lost learning.

They are investing heavily in a national tutoring programme to show how much they are concerned

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