And w/ Prof Dingwall throwing his “let’s not bother improving ventilation” oar into the ring, there’s diminishing hope that 🇬🇧children & staff will be offered anything other than an OPEN WINDOW to protect them from #coronavirus. 3/
“For British children?
Don’t be so utterly ridiculous, British children have different lungs & different immune systems!
The very notion that they might do what children across the world are doing, without complaint, is frankly preposterous!”
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It’s absolutely extraordinary that the UK govt remains fixated on kids GETTING #COVID rather than PROTECTING THEM FROM IT!
The callousness & lack of compassion needed to be able to “switch off” the INEVITABLE HUMAN COLLATERAL DAMAGE of unnecessary deaths, #LongCovid, grief…!
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No 😷s, no bubbles, no HEPA filters/CO2 monitors, no isolation of close contacts, the list of NOs goes on...
A shocking & unconscionable dereliction of duty of care, obviously aimed at spreading #coronavirus rapidly through the school population & into the rest of UK society.
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When is someone going to make this brutal, avoidable, & unnecessary #SurvivalOfTheFittest madness stop?
Just for a moment put the children, staff & families who’re being unnecessarily exposed to #COVID19 day after day in schools that are almost completely MITIGATION FREE.
Who’ll be caring for #COVID patients in the INEVITABLE, but AVOIDABLE surge that we’re at the start of?
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WHO Mr Williamson?
My HCP/NHS colleagues have for 18/12, & will continue to, put our lives, & those of our loved ones, at ⬆️risk to provide the care that patients w/ #COVID19 need across ALL healthcare settings & in their homes.
For anyone who hasn’t realised just how deep the #BackToNormal lunacy runs, take a look at some of the “nearly 50” @Conservatives who are actively supporting @UsforThemUK’s dangerous & irresponsible campaign to make 🏴schools #COVID19 MITIGATION-FREE!
This is v disturbing from @halfon4harlowMP
Could it represent a CHILD SAFEGUARDING ISSUE on a NATIONAL SCALE?
It’s clear that the CHAIR of @CommonsEd has absolutely no understanding of the significance of the #COVID19#DeltaVariant & is a cheer leader of #COVIDIsOver idiocy! 1/9
Watch it for yourself….his entire focus is on PRE-PANDEMIC “NORMALITY” for SCHOOLS, pushing back against bubbles, any sort of restrictions & makes no mention at all of how to protect CV/CEV children, families or staff as cases rise. @ChildrensComm@Rachel_deSouza@cv_cev
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His views on consent for 12-15yr olds are obvious.
Is it possible he will be able to intervene in @CMO_England’s decision?
Does he have training in advising <16yr olds on such important matters?
Has he even heard of #GillickCompetency? @drcarolinej@vickyford@LaylaMoran 3/
If we consider the age groups of schoolchildren & their parents & the overall numbers of #COVID cases currently, the return to 🏴schools will almost certainly result in a rapid increase in infections that is avoidable, unnecessary & predictable. 1/9
That the vast majority of schoolchildren <16yrs have been DENIED ACCESS to an @MHRAgovuk approved vaccination & that the #JCVI assessment did not include deaths from #COVID, #LongCovid, effects on parents/close family, educational disruption etc is shocking in itself!
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How can the #JCVI not consider at all that most schools have zero effective mitigations to ⬇️transmission of #airborne🦠s & that children/staff will no longer #WearAMask , putting schoolchildren & unvaccinated staff at significant risk of exposure to #coronavirus 5/7 a week? 3/