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26 Jun, 9 tweets, 4 min read
This is what prioritising education looks like
@GavinWilliamson
@NickGibbUK
@KateGreenSU
@peterkyle
#edutwitter #r4today #ReleaseTheDataOnSchools
This is what allowing high transmission in students in hope of developing herd immunity via infection while not allowing vaccination looks like
Does UK schools policy look more like NYC or the herd immunity by infection strategy of Sweden and Netherlands last year?
What are the health consequences?
What do the scientists who have called it right a lot more often than the UK gov think?
If this isn't the case, why doesn't the government act?
Ventilating schools would be cheaper and more effective than mass testing with LFDs and provides additional benefits
Free school meals, pupil premium, CAMHS etc
The government also doesn't see education as a funding priority, levelling up?
My thoughts on what prioritising education should look like, instead government chooses to keep us underfunded and facing continual disruption from transmission that should be mitigated against.

Instead they seem very comfortable with student infections
I want to hear ministers asked

Why are you violating young people's human rights by not implementing simple mitigations?

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Karam Bales Profile picture
25 Jun
1/🧵Manipulating narrative is in part which stories editors choose to lead on.

Today
The Hancock story is going to suppress the more important story that the gov asked for SAGE to model high transmission in younger age groups to reach herd immunity via infection
#edutwitter
2/ Andrew Lloyd Webber another big headline. Data from trials is being suppressed, we are reminded that other data that could be positively spun was delayed.

But they won't mention case data in education still isn't being published since May
3/ When trials are reported on we are always told that they have been a success.

In reality its not as simple as much of the press makes out
Read 8 tweets
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23 Jun
Basically my whole day was managing students being sent home after more positive cases.

Media is filled with ppl saying scrap isolation, how about we try cutting transmission first?
1/
 #edutwitter
UK and kids

March 2020 children need to gain herd immunity

April 2020 kids rarely get infected
Kids rarely transmit
Its community transmission
At the School gates
Education workers fault

Oh stuff it, transmission is high but let's scrap isolation anyway

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23 Jun
December she says schools are safe, chance of transmission is minimal
Now she says just ignore covid in school
Why do media always find ppl arguing to remove isolation whi won't call for ventilation to cut transmission?
1/
2/ "80% of over 16s have antibodies"
Equating prior infection and 1 jab as immune is dangerous and wrong.
Prior infection means immune is an important narrative of the anti vax movement and she's propagating it
3/ 🤷‍♂️ Image
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23 Jun
2016 Tories set up OBON campaign registered to a pizzeria alongside 50k other companies
Receive media praise from Tory MP in a visit to a school run by a campaign founder
Get endorsed by DfE
OBON block educators who questions this

So when does purging the "unpatriotic" begin?
Read 8 tweets
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21 Jun
1/🧵Politics is all about controlling the narrative.

Machiavelli said democracies are the most stable government because you can trust a well informed populous to make the right decision.

Flip side of a democracy is anarchy,usually result of corruption and misinformed public...
2/Its why we currently face an onslaught of disinformation from foreign governments and the far right,creating confusion, undermining trust in institutions furthers their agendas.

The media should be vital for keeping the public informed.
3/Politicians have always deceived and mislead to one extent or another, however the hubris with which out current cabinet engages in outright dishonesty is astounding for its brazenness.

Johnsons speech to G7, you could hear the smirch in his voice, its a game to them
Read 18 tweets
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19 Jun
🧵DfE has released a new contingency framework for dealing with outbreaks and hotspots in education.
The last one was never used.

Link here
2/Whole principle seems that measures to cut transmission occur after the outbreak.

A reactionary rather than proactive approach to infection.
Takes a minimalist approach
3/To prioritise education they want the minimum number of measures for the minimum amount of time.

"Lift as soon as evidence supports"
What evidence? Whose evidence?

The evidence is saying we should already have these measures in place!
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