Thread by @Chaela1982

🧵69000 children But you're too busy enjoying afternoon tea to care Until it affects YOUR CHILD. Why are you OK letting them sing in class with no ventilation, no mitigations? You talk of mental health & what these kids have missed? Ha ALLOW ME to inform you what they've missed

Just UK nos: 69000 have long covid (ask them about their mental health)
112 are dead (you can't ask them)
12000 kids have been orphaned or lost a caregiver, thousands more are now acting as carers as their parents struggle with the disease. But you want to talk mental health? ...

Show me 1 kid who's been damaged as a result of swapping singing in a non ventilated room for something equally as exciting in a lesson plan. Do Percussion? Rhythm & clapping? How about use SIGN LANGUAGE to a song? You know that inclusivity you bang on about PUT IT INTO ACTION!

I bet you got emotional at strictly and the silent bit? Yeh? (I don't watch it but I believe that bit was profound) yet in another argument you say kids will suffer if they don't sing? Or perform? On your bike, if you're worth your salt ADAPT PERFORMANCE and song.

When you lose someone you love. And not from old age but way before their time. Only then could you possibly comprehend how precious life is, how fragile the balance is and how sudden & devastating it can be. Its true we can't protect our kids from everything but we can from this

We should from this. Kids don't deserve future health problems because you are double or even triple jabbed. It's selfish. I follow so many Dr's & scientists on here who are saying the same thing. Who have all voiced these concerns in interviews & studies submitted to government

Early studies are worrying even in mild infections, links to lewy bodies, degenerative conditions, early onset dementia. Why risk that for your child? Your taste and smell going...you know that's down to the brain right? Just so you know! This virus gets into your brain!

I mean come on! I am going to list Dr's, Professors & scientists (yes actual scientists not the DfE) Epidemiologists too! I know right? I'm talking independent sage scientists, Oxford Professors, those who go on TV to amplify our voices and their own concerns

You can choose to keep burying your head and say my kids are fine! It'll just be a sniffle for them (god I hope you're right) but even the "sniffle" of this disease has long term potential impacts. Anyway I'll list below soon. You should read their pages. #SafeEdForAll

69000 children.

Thankyou to each and every staff member at schools who are trying. Thanks for flinging those windows open, wearing a mask, calling for further mitigations, asking for transparency & hepa filters. Spreading awareness. Sorry to those who've gone off with stress as no one listening.

Sorry to those who became long term ill. The rest... speak up. Mitigations don't mean restrictions. But certain things we should adapt until cases are much lower, 1000 kids a month hospitalised is not ok. Over half of whom have no other conditions. #NotOk

So @suffolkcc with Christmas productions coming up in the local high schools tell me how this makes sense when the kids have to wear masks in the corridor? When we are an enhanced emergency area and our local hospital is struggling?

Don't take my word for it that we need to mitigate for an airborne pathogen: @dgurdasani1 @globalhlthtwit @chrischirp @trishgreenhalgh @Dr2NisreenAlwan @DrAmirKhanGP @AlisonGeorge10 @fitterhappierAJ @DrEricDing @doctor_oxford @devisridhar @theAliceRoberts @Zubhaque @denise_dewald

#SafeEdForAll feel free to add to the list of people that the doubters can check out. I also recommend @TigressEllie for up to date data and finding of the gov data/ONS on children,hospitalisations and sadly deaths #COVIDisAirborne

By the way if you're not from the UK you should know we have no masks worn in high school or primary school including by the staff (unless they choose to, which is rare). Its not mandated at all. In some "emergency areas" like ours they say schools can bring mask wearing into

the communal areas OUTSIDE of the classroom (corridors basically) this is students in high school only! COVID told not to enter class. we have NO vaccines for 5 -11. Only a small percentage of 12 to 15 have had vax BUT only offered one dose & ONLY after thousands were infected.

There are NO mitigations in schools the message is largely focused on hand washing & you're not to bring in PE kit/lunch box if your child forgets them due to SAFETY over covid. (I know) NO masks, NO vaccine, NO hepa filters, NO ventilation...but watch out for that lunch box!🙄

My kids schools rejected the hepa filters I bought for class as its "not in the government guidance" sons high school continue to have lessons in rooms without ANY windows, choir with 100s of kids. Daughters primary have often had closed windows & continue singing sea shanties

My children will continue to wear FFP2 masks, take mini hepa air filters for their desks and open windows whenever they see them shut. Why? Because at 11 and 9 they understand aerosol transmission and listen to science NOT crazies. Oh & I will continue to bring them home whenever

reckless activities such as singing occur in the school day during a pandemic with cases as high as we have here with ZERO mitigations in place. DO BETTER!!!#COVIDisAirborne #LongCovidKids END!