Thread by @AlisonGeorge10

What hope is there for the health & safety of school children in🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 when the chair of @CommonsEd continues to promote & support the views of @UsforThemUK & @lensiseethrough which are ANTI-#COVID MITIGATION on every level!
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https://twitter.com/halfon4harlowMP/status/1420453294552633348

Whilst @educationgovuk policy on #COVID19 mitigations in schools is so heavily influenced by this group, & others, there is little chance of any tangible change before 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿schools reopen in September.

16 months in to the pandemic, children here are FAR LESS PROTECTED, not more!
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https://twitter.com/jneill/status/1420764935760482313

Does @halfon4harlowMP realise that school children are being unnecessarily exposed to #coronavirus as part of the government’s #HerdImmunityByInfection “strategy” which has been internationally condemned as an unscientific & barbaric way to proceed?

#Murderous #COVID19UK
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https://twitter.com/allthecitizens/status/1416344082822189057

Do the other members of the @CommonsEd realise what #UsForThemUK stand for & the links they have w/ prominent #antivax, #antimask groups & others who are signatories of the #GreatBarringtonDeclaration?

@hartgroup_org @SteveBakerHW @rwjdingwall
@drcarolinej @IanMearnsMP
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The ongoing anti-scientific rhetoric & articles written by Molly Kingsley in @Telegraph ,@TheSpectator et al, have significantly contributed to #DfE decisions to ⬇️⬇️protections in schools leaving children, families & staff here seriously under protected against #COVID19.
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#UsForThemUK have relentlessly sought to remove all mitigations from schools & repeatedly undermined the vital public health messaging on how to ⬇️ #COVID transmission within schools.

They are not interested in HOW to make schools safer, they just want them to be “NORMAL”!
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They clearly do not understand #COVID19!

Constantly likening it to flu & repeating ad nauseum that “children are barely affected by it”.

This attitude is not just ignorant, but is deeply insensitive to the kids/teens who have been badly affected & their parents.
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#UsForThemUK have ignored #LongCovidKids & downplayed the effects of acute #COVID19 & #LongCovid on parents, families & staff.
Many children have lost parents, or close loved ones, an experience that will be devastating & truly life-changing.

Do these children not count?
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https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1417513507935948810

Our schools have been the perfect environment for #COVIDVariants to arise since last Sept & we’ve already recklessly “given” the world the #AlphaVariant.

High levels of viral transmission in an unvaccinated population w/ ZERO MITIGATIONS in place…Sept 2021!
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If things weren’t bad enough, #UsForThemUK are also supporting #BeverleyTurner ‘s crowdfunding campaign against the @MHRAgovuk & their approval of #COVIDVaccination for 12-15yr olds.

Do @drcarolinej & @halfon4harlowMP realise that?
@CommonsEd
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There is NO MENTION of concern for CV/CEV children or families by @UsforThemUK & @lensiseethrough, who tell us “we should put children first…”.

CV/CEV children/families are expected to return to school in Sept with ALL PROTECTIONS REMOVED & just “get on with it”?

Really??
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@halfon4harlowMP’s ongoing open support of @UsforThemUK suggests that HE ALSO WANTS CHILDREN TO GET & SPREAD #coronavirus w/in our schools, KNOWING that a few will get seriously ill & about 10% will get #LongCovid.

❗️The chair of the Education Select Committee WANTS THIS❗️
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The support of such a brutal, ignorant, selfish & unscientific “strategy” that’ll result in further significant, avoidable harm to individuals/families/communities/the nation & the global community, is simply unacceptable & unforgivable!

#HerdImmunityByInfection #Covid19UK
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So tell me @BorisJohnson

WHAT IS THE POINT of an Education Select Committee if the SAFE EDUCATION of ALL CHILDREN during a pandemic is not an absolute priority?
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