1🧵A Mad Plan, is this the only way?

If we had an adequate media then everytime a minister was interviewed they'd be asked about when the government will finally invest in ventilation.

All the evidence says this is one of the most important measures.
2.Even skeptics are going to struggle to portray clean air as an attack on our freedoms, if anything we have a right to clean air.The impact of pollution on health and in particular on children is clear

Can anyone remember the last time a minister was asked about ventilation?
3. Can anyone ever remember a minister being asked about investing ventilation in the whole pandemic?

UK government's total failure to address this is stark

So is the failure of the media to hold the gov to account for this glaring hole in their Covid strategy.
4. Just look at how close contacts are identified in schools, within 2ms of a positive case for at least half an hour.

If you're 3ms away for 3 hours in an unventilated space then you won't class as a close contact and can stay in school.
5.They spent a fortune on questionable LFDs and not a penny on ventilation. Secondary students were only recommended to wear masks in class for 40 school days during the whole pandemic.

Which countries have had a similar schools strategy?
6. Now details emerge that the LFDs reliability is not just very questionable but so is the companies background and finances.

Looks like yet another contract scandal

5. I think I see a simple solution, a tried and proven path to success.

Set up a shell company for a consortium of ventilation companies
Crowd fund a donation via the shell company to the Tory Party

I think the going rate is probably going to be around £100k-£150k
6. Plus maybe another £50k-150k in total to grease the wheels with smaller donations to somewhere between a handful and a dozen MPs, a Secretary of state, few junior ministers and then the CRG/ vocal backbencher

Maybe throw in a few future non jobs as non-exec directors
7. Should be able to get our shell company "VentiCore" anywhere between a few hundred million to a billion pounds that we could distribute to our ventilation companys so our schools and workplaces can finally have appropriate safety measures

Reminds me of watching The Sopranos

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Karam Bales

Karam Bales Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @karamballes

13 Jun
🧵Several @LBC callers today have been quoting disinformation they read in the @Telegraph

The narrative in the article here is wait 4 weeks then let it rip because that will be the sweet spot.

So the idea is to get the over 50s double dosed and then away a Delta wave to spread
2/ Why will we reach a sweet spot in 4 weeks?

I assume that's when the over 50s have been double dosed.

It also means schools will be about to break up, and although the gov pretends otherwise they know schools are acting as Delta hubs.
3/ Been saying for a while I think the government believes the quickest route to herd immunity with what they consider an acceptable death and health toll is
2 jab over 50s
1 jab 18-50s
Natural infection for under 18s

Its a gamble based on impatience and pandering to lobbyists
Read 25 tweets
10 Jun
So the next question is, did the UK government know?

We've been raising concerns about how unreliable these seem when used in the real world.

Also wondering, did the UK gov produce findings that seemed to match the manufacturers claims that the FDA disputes?
Quick scroll through bookmarked threads....

Boom🧨

Gov claiming they have studies that back the manufacturer

So have FDA missed the Oxford study?
Is the Oxford study wrong?
Is the UK gov misleading?
Have I got it mixed up?

Do other countries use these?
Reading back through my original thread when they announced mass testing, I got sent the link to the Heads test and trace briefing on last day of term, only around 500 attended, most were probably too busy notifying close contacts.

First section was of logistics of mass testing
Read 12 tweets
10 Jun
🧵Concerns are raised around the DfE continuing with experiments to use LFD to scrap isolation when only close contacts are asked for consent.

No suprise Munro pops up to explain that actually it would be unethical not to experiment in schools.

This isn't reassuring. Image
Here's the thread so you can see his arguments made for continuing the trials.

Having read his reasoning, I do have some questions.
Read 8 tweets
8 Jun
NEU and Unison press release on protecting education
#edutwitter
#ReleaseTheDataOnSchools
1/4 Image
2/4 Image
3/4 Image
Read 5 tweets
7 Jun
1/🧵@MattHancock just now in the Commons
Secondary students are seeing largest rise of Delta cases.
Children are much less likely to be harmed but they are "more transmissible"

Then he twice ignored questions about why masks have been removed in secondary
2/ Higher transmissibility in school children

Higher transmissibility in school children!

No answer on masks

No answer on masks twice!
3/ Which is a bit odd seeing as I've been fed a daily diet of being told that there's no sign of meaningful transmission in schools and that children hardly transmit

Media have found lots of experts and pediatrics quite certain theres nothing to see here
Read 15 tweets
6 Jun
🧵Somehow in the UK we have a narrative that vaccines and masks are important for everyone except children.

Every hour experts and gov advisors are in the media claiming school arent really contributing to infection rates and arent driving Delta growth Image
How can children not be impacting infection rates when so many are being infected?

If over 40% of cases in my LA are in schools,how is that not significant? Local PH director says it is, PHE report says it is,yet PHE blog disagrees with own report?
vip.politicsmeanspolitics.com/2021/06/05/bor…
3/ UK reports find infections high in children, other countries look at UK data as sign of the impact of schools on transmission, yet the reporting of these studies and data seems to completely minimise children's role in transmission.
Read 10 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

:(