Thread by @NonymousTeacher

So my FOI request for data on deaths per occupation, as was produced in 2020, came back to say they haven't & won't collect such data. So for the past year, we will have no idea how many teachers/nurses/bus drivers caught covid & died whilst working through lockdowns etc. 🧵1/

The Office for National Statistics referred me back to the previous year's data: Deaths per Occupation March-Dec 2020, which is what I'd asked them to replicate for this year. Underneath the heading out now says this type of report is 'discontinued'. 2/

We know from the original data, that nurses/carers/bus drivers etc disproportionately died from Covid caught on the job as they were not protected, forced to continue working, in unsafe conditions, in contact with many infected people/kids. The government didn't protect them. 3/

By deliberately refusing to collect data on which professions died of Covid in 2021, the government is covering up all the key workers who have risked their lives in successive lockdowns in crowded, unventilated, unmasked spaces, to provide care, food, medicine & education. 4/

The UK government is deliberately neglecting its duty of care to keep us safe. Prime example of how the narcissists in charge are #ToryGaslighting us: if they know we will ask for this data, they don't collect it as then it can't be used as evidence against their inhumanity. 5/

BUT, ONS brushed a major error under the carpet: they told us teachers were not dying of Covid at a higher rate than other professions, but they *lied*. This amendment to the Deaths per occupation 2020 chart, shows male secondary school teachers DID die at much higher rates. 6/

I'm not a scientist & the figures show teachers didn't die at higher rates than some other occupations, but it's shocking that we were gaslit by gov't for a yr when colleagues died of it. ONS data also didn't include exposed non-teaching staff like school secretaries who died. 7/

How will we know how many more nurses, carers, bus drivers, TAs died in 2021 if nobody is keeping count? If they managed to keep a tally in 2020, how can they claim GDPR means they won't be able to for 2021? It's clear Boris Johnson doesn't care who dies but the rest of us DO. 8/

Yes, it is. The government clearly only care about money. Not who lives or dies. They are infecting school kids instead of vaccinating them, despite half the world having vaccinated kids. It's not mismanagement, it's a policy of deliberate infection. Kids are dying. For what? 9/

https://twitter.com/jackiescoones/status/1464389598918946817

It shouldn't be up to ordinary people to try & get the truth from the narcissists in charge. It should be LAW. They should legally *have to* record who died & what jobs they worked when they caught it. How else will those responsible for this shitshow ever be held to account? 10/

I'm wondering if @GoodLawProject might know how the gov't can do this? Don't they legally have to keep record of who died; which occupations? We're still in peak pandemic, when the new variant hits here deaths will soar again. Every death needs to be counted. They *all* matter.