Ultimate Freedom Day is forcing the most vulnerable into impossible situations.

How can we #StaySafe?
No testing. No isolating.

How can we judge our risks?
No ONS data, no government data.

How can we even access healthcare?
No masks.

1/

news.sky.com/story/covid-se…
With no masks and no isolating how can forced return to F2F work be viable in these circumstances?
We are choosing between #LivesAndLivelihoods

How can we send our children to school safely?
We are choosing between #educationANDlives

2/
Why is the answer ONLY more vaccines?
Severely immunosuppressed may not have made a response to 4.

Where is the real world evidence this will make a difference?
No other country is offering 5 doses.

What about the other CV / CEV?
Vaccines waning.

3/
independent.co.uk/news/health/co…
How will we respond to new variants?
UK data has been highly valued by the global community. We are simply closing our eyes allowing more spread and taking our chances.

This far from #FollowingTheScience.

The WHO, SAGE, SPI-M and @IndependentSage are all sounding the alarm.
4/
Where are @CMO_England & @uksciencechief?
Government advisors, not our advisors, but we pay their salaries and it is our public health at stake.

Why are pharmaceutical the only answer?
Very few of those who qualify can even access antivirals.

5/
inews.co.uk/news/health/cl…
What about @LongCovidSOS?
They require NHS resources and are becoming more Clinically Vulnerable.

How will we improve the death rate?
~200 deaths a day.
Closing our eyes won't make it go away.
The @CovidJusticeUK bereaved families wall will continue to grow.

6/
2 years into the pandemic and the most depressing thing is that we have so many answers thanks to our amazing scientists.

We aren't talking about #covidzero (yet) but reducing transmission *is* possible.

Lower transmission, lower risks.

7/
independentsage.org/category/strat…
💨 We need clean air e.g. #HEPA

😷 FFP2 / FFP3 #BetterMasks

🥄Testing to track variants

⛔️ Isolation and financial support

📉 Surveillance data

💊 Antivirals for all at risk

📣 Better Gov messaging

...and something we seem to have lost along the way, empathy.

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Focus = attendance

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He emphasises the fact that schools must not use the following mitigations: bubbles or isolation of contacts.

Whilst insisting on the need to improve attendance "maximising school attendance a top priority" in a #Pandemic.

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🧵A letter, signed by Prof Jennifer Harries OBE, has informed parents of Clinically Extremely Vulnerable children that they are not CEV anymore.

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"It is important that your child continues to attend their school or other educational settings."

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With no

#vax4kids
#MasksInSchool
T&T billions supporting in-school contact tracing
HEPA
Quarantine of those taking PCRs
OR of households with +ves
Updates on Delta symptoms
Reductions in class sizes

How can CV/CEV households keep safe exposed by schools?

We need #SAFESCHOOLS
Families are in impossible situations.

We don't want to withdraw our kids and deny them formal education. We want our human rights to be conserved #educationANDlives.

#RemoteEd - extended to those isolating denied to those with households at risk.

What choices do we have?
If we take any days off we face fines, prosecutions and social services. Blunt tools aimed at those taking term-time holidays or school refusers.

Last school year, families had to battle for lives.

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Some schools had been supportive.

Others had allowed people to remain On-Roll but not given resources.

Whilst many families were threatened with fines/prosecution/child services.
Education is a HUMAN right.

Life is a HUMAN right.

These are continuing to remain in conflict *for ALL vulnerable CV/CEV families* as we are generating further vaccine escape.

That is *why* CV & CEV will be offered boosters in the Autumn.

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Children in exam years will lose their rights to vital qualifications.

This is what will happen if your child stays at home to learn next year:

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Nadhim Zahawi announced:

"The JCVI recommends vaccines for children 12-15 who have severe neurodisabilities, Down's Syndrome immunosuppression and profound or multiple learning disabilities."

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"The JCVI advice also recommends offering the vaccine to children and young people aged 12-17 who live with someone who is immunosuppressed."

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Whilst this is a start and we welcome the offering of vaccines to these children to protect incredibly vulnerable families, we feel this does not go far enough.

CV/CEV households all need #vax4kids urgently. We don't understand the risks posed by all of these vulnerabilities.
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