Hi headteachers in 🏴 👋…I’ve just returned from another challenging day at work to read this👇🏼….I can’t deny it’s hard to control my fury & astonishment that you’re proceeding with such obvious super spreading events like this.
Do some of you not understand the gravity of the current situation?
We’re on the edge of yet another avoidable catastrophe, to be frank we’ve probably gone over the top already, because ppl like @nadhimzahawi think they can outwit a virus….or maybe they simply don’t care😞?!
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Putting the obvious risk of acute & #LongCovid to individual children, families & staff aside for a moment, can you explain to me why my colleagues & I should keep putting ourselves at risk whilst some headteachers are behaving in such a reckless & irresponsible fashion?
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If you’re fit & well w/ no co-morbidities, live in a large home w/ a garden, have no financial worries/personal stresses, can easily WFH, do not have to care for a vulnerable adult or child & have access to private healthcare & education, I suspect you may not understand!
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If you have space at home for your children to learn in peace & they have access to high quality IT equipment, or you have a nanny to teach & supervise them, you may not appreciate the struggles of ordinary parents who have to juggle childcare & work commitments. @nadhimzahawi
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Since #FreedomDay I’ve been to Scotland, Majorca & Berlin.
In ALL, 😷wearing in indoor public spaces is routine, accepted & no one other than the 🏴 make a fuss!
All staff in hospitality #WearAMask & guests wear one when walking through the building/going to the loo.
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Vaccine “passes” have not caused the ridiculous outrage seen here & no one has a hissy fit when asked to show proof of vaccination on entering a bar, restaurant, museum, theatre..bc it actually makes ppl feel safer!
Are the English think so different or “special”?
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How are we meant to explain to parents, families & staff the rationale for having zero mitigations, numerous super spreading events as exponential growth of the #OmicronVariant occurs, in the 10/7 before #Christmas?
Guess which of the 38 #Tory MPs who voted AGAINST requiring 😷s in most public spaces during a pandemic ALSO voted for schools to have NO MITIGATIONS & are indeed PRO-#COVID! 1/8
With the knowledge that #COVIDisAirborne & a new variant on the loose, only a dangerous or selfish fool would want to remove all protections 10 days before #Christmas! 3/
😷s are just 1 part of an array of mitigations needed in schools (+other indoor spaces) to ⬇️#COVID19 transmission.
#LivingWithCOVID is a complete misnomer, it’s a lazy, irresponsible, selfish & unscientific approach that’ll result in many AVOIDABLE deaths.
Is that ok with U?
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Whilst child deaths from #COVID19 are thankfully uncommon, did you know that 1 child per week has been dying in 🏴for many weeks now?
Many 1000s of children have #LongCovid & 100s have lost parents or v close relatives.
As @BorisJohnson wakes, smug in the knowledge that he’s successfully confused/mislead & betrayed the 🏴public yet again, we must sadly acknowledge that beyond this inward looking nation there are leaders who actually care, who put their ppl first.