Thread by @karamballes

Didn't the DfE set a 10% threshold in a cohort for action?

So can we count all secondary students as one cohort when they hit 10%?

https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1448969941143724050

Time for a trip down memory lane

Where were we in October 2020?

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1315067136394625032?t=z_imtFjlWwq7zI4nc_NozA&s=19

Where we were by February 2021

After keeping their heads down for a month, the "there will be no second wave crowd" were back to explain why there would be no third wave

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1361066362920173569?t=4feUKibCw8cHFgNtZuJM9w&s=19

Schools went back on 8th March, 3 weeks before Easter, LFT testing in secondary and year group bubbles, bubbles in primary

Secondary finally got masks...
...they were removed after about 40 school days

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1396713604746031108?t=wCYEEf_aDmw06LBDXioasw&s=19

Just found a thread on the DfEs Back to School campaign in March

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1366861740374392832?t=_g3i5ucBhSWT4rBQ7AI4jQ&s=19

After schools went back the government ignored warning about Delta, various ppl told us Delta wasn't going to be a big issue

@carolecadwalla found out PHE on scale of Delta outbreaks was being suppressed as they decided to remove masks in schools

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1400356295400726536?t=xBJUaouVyKE26uzUf4YY4Q&s=19

The DfE has refused to provide the evidence it based the decision to remove masks on "not in the public interests"

But they do have a track record on refusing FOIs, however opposition and most media can't be bothered to push for answers

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1394912343914655744?t=xBJUaouVyKE26uzUf4YY4Q&s=19

As Delta ripped through schools Freedom Day was justified as "the sweet spot" with school holidays acting as a firebreak, well the holidays over and we are back to firefighting

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1404001350078418947?t=xBJUaouVyKE26uzUf4YY4Q&s=19

The Government adopted a hybrid immunity strategy, thinking it was fine to just let Delta rip through younger age groups

They expected these high infection rates in children, and are comfortable with it

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1404821022570860544?t=7c1ZwYuku5OJsFHXlqMv9w&s=19

They didn't want masks, they didnt want to invest in ventilation, that left vaccination as the best protection left.

Poll before MHRA approval was 90% pro 11-17 vax

But coordinated antivaxxers and conspiracy theorists were getting mainstream platforms

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1431880055358169092?t=WFyC3UyiA2NiHKr61ByzPg&s=19

So while the rest of the world starts offering vaccines for students we end up in the insane discussion of Infection vs Vaccination

The way many tried to justify not approving vaccination really lit a fire under the smouldering anti vax movement

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1417865527578578945?t=WFyC3UyiA2NiHKr61ByzPg&s=19

Deeply questionable

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1419283292247953411?t=UyuzsP9X4NMaC4b4aPcZhQ&s=19

We end up with SAGE being ignored with unvaccinated students returning to schools without mitigations

Threshold set for possible action 10% of students infected in a group, doent fully explain what we should class as a group

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1427774955102552066?t=Vmv_adtu8b0s5G9lhjsRFw&s=19

As vaccines are approved for 11-15 a coordinated disinformation campaign is already in full swing MPs and elements of the media coordinating with antivaxxers and conspiracy theorists

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1443965128890793987?t=Vmv_adtu8b0s5G9lhjsRFw&s=19

Feels like those who wanted to return to normal without accepting reality have allowed something really nasty to begin growing out of control

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1447123449244172288?t=6jZQOSjU9bOEYouQJP9S0g&s=19

And now we have these figures

And this shambles in our testing

Now we have a new lie

Back to normal
Becoming endemic
No longer novel
Becoming like the flu

The reality is we need to be worried about repeat reinfections, covid increases morbidity, making you more vulnerable to covid

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1445627310053330952?t=qWbQEWBxA2x4UOi0Nx6IlQ&s=19

Despite understanding airborne transmission, despite having vaccines, despite knowing more but not all of the impacts of covid on health, we're being set on a course that leads to a viscious cycle

Look who turned out to be right from last October

https://twitter.com/HZiauddeen/status/1449009117230768133?t=qWbQEWBxA2x4UOi0Nx6IlQ&s=19