Morning @GavinWilliamson@NickGibbUK & @halfon4harlowMP - if you could put the Latin books down for a mo, there are millions of teachers, parents & secondary school pupils who’d be very interested in some answers. 1/
My guess is that you neither know or care how opening 🏴schools up in Sept WITHOUT ANY MITIGATIONS for an #Airborne 🦠will affect the HUMANS forced each day to study/work INSIDE the schools, especially those who’re unvaccinated or CV/CEV.
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But as a Dr could I ask..
1)How many children w/ CHRONIC DEBILITATING SYMPTOMS will worry you?
2)How many VERY SICK children is too many?
3)How many SICK STAFF will stop schools functioning?
4)How you will know the number of CV/CEV children who’ve been vaccinated by Sept?
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5)What support you’ll be offering to kids whose parents/close family members are badly affected by #COVID19 or #LongCovid?
6)How you can justify removing the few mitigations there were in 🏴schools whilst the #DeltaVariant runs riot in the young & case numbers are so high?
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7)How it is possible that A FULL ACADEMIC YEAR has passed since last summer & there’s been so little attention to improving #Ventilation, use of #CO2Monitors, #HEPAFilters?
Schools are not alone of course, #HygieneTheatre has become endemic in the UK!
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8)How you can REFUSE #COVIDVaccination for the >12s, approved by the @MHRA & being done safely in many parts of the world, when the UK has plenty of available vaccines & staff, indeed some 💉s are being wasted!
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9)Unless U know something we don’t @GavinWilliamson, the ONLY CONCLUSION we can draw from the #COVID19 “policy” for Sept 21, is that U & your #DfE colleagues ACTIVELY WANT CHILDREN to CATCH & SPREAD #coronavirus & view the AVOIDABLE DEATHS & MORBIDITY as reasonable collateral.
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I read with interest the @thetimes article on #schools which claimed triumphantly that daily #LateralFlowTests of close #COVID contacts is as good as or better at reducing ongoing transmission & that indeed “Schools do not spread COVID”. 2/
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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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! 2/
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?
The public health data says the exact opposite. I’m starting to think that to be a current #Conservative MP one must promise to ignore every single bit of scientific evidence that says #COVIDisAirborne!
Listening to @RicHolden makes me want to scream.
NO! We are NOT in a lockdown & no one is asking for all restrictions to go on for “in perpetuity”. #Tory MPs are spreading relentless #COVIDDisinformation
His comments are as unscientific as they are dangerous.1/5 @claremcdonnell1
There is another way ➡️ listen to the 1000+ experts (drs & scientists) who signed the letter that was published in @TheLancet last week.
Listen to @WHO!
This #Conservative government do not have our best interests at heart! @RicHolden - you are in the #NorthEast FGS!
1/ Sadly I can believe our government is pursuing a #HerdImmunityByInfection “strategy” ….but I am really struggling to accept that their senior medical & scientific advisors & those in @PHE_uk etc are condoning such a brutal & inhumane policy.
2/Assuming govt want #coronavirus to spread rapidly, despite the natural #Firebreak provided by the school holidays, they must be feeling rather satisfied that the numbers of cases are ⬆️ so rapidly.
Presumably they block out the ⬆️in hospitalisations & deaths so they can sleep?
3/ They avoid the issue of #LongCovid wherever possible so are unlikely to notice the iceberg of morbidity as it gets larger.
Even if they do, difficulties in accessing a PCR test because the symptom list is inadequate will ⬇️ the number of ppl who can prove they had #COVID.