All of this. The rhetoric around immigrants in the UK media is dehumanising. We're treated as if we don't contribute, take up resources, and are unwanted. Despite bringing vital skills to meet shortages, contributing actively to the economy and society. 🧵
It's devaluing to see how we are depicted in the media. The immigration system in the UK is hostile- anyone who has been through it knows that. The Windrush scandal wasn't an exception in home office policy- it's very much the rule as to how the home office treats migrants.
Every aspect of home office policy is hostile
-This includes the NHS surcharge, no recourse to public funds while paying full tax, NI.
-paying £2000/visa
-'deport first, appeal later' policies

Home Office has lost 75% of their appeals against applicants for refugee status
The Home office has tried to deport hundreds of highly skilled migrant workers, the majority of whom had lived with their families in the UK for >10 yrs. Most of these were overturned at tribunal/judicial review, which shows that these activities by the home office are unlawful.
It's no wonder there has been a huge exodus of immigrants since Brexit, and there are now shortages across multiple sectors including healthcare, where they're having very real impacts on ability of the NHS to provide even basic routine care to communities.
This is an act of self-harm by the government. Their rhetoric on immigration over the past decade has spurred anti-immigration sentiment, and racism. Immigrants contribute hugely to society & there will be key skills shortages without immigration.
A struggling NHS that has been devastated by a pandemic & lack of govt response *and* been underfunded for a decade means we are unable provide people with even routine care. Staff leaving from a combination of being hung out to dry during a pandemic + Brexit will worsen this.
So now we have difficulties with provision of even basic routine healthcare, food supply shortages, medicine supplies, and energy supplies. The government were warned about this repeatedly. And they did nothing to avert it, continuing to demonise immigrants for their own failings
I'm astonished that the govt expect people to come in to fill in these shortages by giving them *3 month visas* to help tide over an entirely self-created crisis.

People won't come if they don't feel valued. Why should they?

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26 Sep
Or just look at the data. These 2 graphs- one of PHE data by @ProfColinDavis & the second from a random survey- the ONS- so not based on testing. How can infection rates in these groups be *higher* than anyone else in the community, rising rapidly if schools aren't driving this?
Frankly, all the data point to a very clear role of schools in transmission. Denying this means denying so much real world evidence at this point, that it's just not tenable. If only the energy spent on denial of evidence had been spent on mitigating & vaccinating kids....
I don't say this lightly, but scientists that have supported unevidenced positions saying schools don't contribute substantially to transmission are also responsible for where we are. Children being mass-infected in schools, with all the impacts of that on them & others.
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25 Sep
When do we say a nation has failed?
-policies deliberately put children at risk - & penalise parents who try to safeguard children against govt policy
-lack of access to routine & emergent healthcare
-lack of social nets for the poorest
-4 million children living in poverty
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-reduction in life expectance from preventable disease
-Fuel & energy shortages
-food supply shortages
-increased reliance on foodbanks
-government corruption with minimal consequence
-non-independence of state media
-non-independence of public health institutions in a pandemic
-lack of basic protections for frontline workers
-infiltration of scientific discourse by disinformation and misinformation lobby groups and pseudoscience
-lack of accountability for a media promoting misinformation
-gagging and victimisation of whistleblowers (e.g. NHS)
Read 5 tweets
25 Sep
This is our local hospital. I've had to go there many times in the middle of the night to access urgent care for myself or my family. Terrifying to see people who come into A&E not even being able to get into the building - waiting outside in the cold.
It's not even winter yet.
Just want to say this issue isn't just limited to our local hospital- this is being reported in hospitals across the UK, but not getting much media attention. Here are a few more stories:
Read 5 tweets
23 Sep
Gladly.

Study published in Science on 500K parents where mitigation measures, most of which were *inside* classrooms correlated with risk of infection in their parents. So transmission in classrooms not only leads to infected kids, but infected parents.
science.org/doi/full/10.11…
CDC study on masks and ventilation *inside* classrooms reducing transmission:
cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…
But don't even believe these. How about genome sequencing? Where the same virus is found in a cluster in school among people who never came into contact outside school? Hard to explain that through transmission outside, isn't it?

wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27…
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22 Sep
It's 'inevitable' we'll import new variants,
It's 'inevitable' many more people will lose loved ones
It's 'inevitable' children will get infected

It's NOT inevitable.

It's only inevitable if you don't even bother putting in the most basic public health measures in a pandemic.
How on earth can they stand up and say it's inevitable, when so many countries have managed to protect their public from all of this. And their children. After 18 months we have almost no mitigations in schools. We're keeping infected children in classrooms fuelling spread.
And we could've at the very very least offered vaccines to adolescents when they became available. Did we?
No, we didn't- we decided to do this after almost every other country in Europe, and much of the rest of the world.
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22 Sep
Very glad to see @bmj_latest correct their previous piece to highlight the problems with the Hoeg preprint on vaccine myocarditis. The methods of the study- using vaccine adverse event reporting data in the way they have make the results invalid.

bmj.com/content/374/bm…
All global data suggest vaccine associated myocarditis is a rare and typically mild side effect of vaccines in adolescents, and benefits from vaccines *far* outweigh risks even at much lower incidence rates than we have currently in the UK.
Lot's of data now to suggest myocarditis is strongly associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection, and recent work also suggesting COVID-19 related myocarditis is far more common than vaccine associated myocarditis (in 16+ adults at least).
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