Thread by @dgurdasani1

Let's be under no illusions- we are in a country where our government is taking steps to maximally expose our young to a virus that causes chronic illness in many. Our govt is ending all protections for our children including isolation of contacts of cases in schools & bubbles.🧵

They've been told millions will be infected, predominantly our young. Our own CMO has said that we will see 'significant increases in long COVID among our young'.

But this isn't inevitable. This is the path our govt has chosen with support from our CMO

https://twitter.com/ReicherStephen/status/1412475841699852292?s=20

Case rates in 2ndary school children are >700/100,000. When we talk of >800,000 children being absent from schools, this isn't because of problems with bubbles, it's because our govt is allowing hundreds of thousands of children to be exposed to this virus every wk.

Media are talking about a 'pingidemic' where the NHS apps are pinging, more people need to isolate & workplaces are struggling. Its not a 'pingidemic' . It's an unmitigated pandemic. It's just that millions are being exposed to infection every wk

https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1415782904832090112?s=20

The solution to this isn't reducing sensitivity of apps, or asking exposed children to stay in classrooms and infect others. This is a fire -it's going to keep burning & destroying everything until we act to extinguish it. Switching off the smoke alarm is not the solution

It's not just cases rising among children. While this is on a log scale, and hosp in children are much lower than older groups, they are rising every day. How many children in hospital are acceptable? How many adults in hospital are acceptable?

https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1415741014543933440?s=20

The govt has been told we may reach 2000 hosp/day or even more, with millions of cases. They've been told that there is a risk of more long COVID, workforce absences, virus adaptation which would have huge impact in the UK and globally. This is from a SAGE document on 9th July.

So let's not be under any illusions. This is a deliberate stripping away of protections from our public in the middle of a raging pandemic. They have chosen to put our health at risk, fully knowing this will leave a generation with chronic illness & disability.

Sajid Javid has told us that the NHS backlog could reach 13 million because of hospitals being overwhelmed with COVID - which will have health impacts on millions of people. But we should just accept this. Because it's inevitable? It's NOT inevitable
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-577931…

This is the strategy our govt has deliberately chosen. I'd say this is huge act of self-harm, but I know this won't harm them. It'll harm the young, the already disadvantaged, the vulnerable.

What sort of government does this to its public? With impunity.

And to members of the scientific community- if you've been complicit in endorsing these dangerous and unethical policies that will impact hundreds of thousands, if not millions, you are part of the problem. We can't keep silent, as our govt endangers the health of millions.

We cannot accept this. Please join our emergency summit at 12pm BST today, where we will talk about how the world is looking at the UK, as the current crisis unfolds - one that our govt has herded us into:

https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1415733269983907842?s=20