Thread by @karamballes

They said..
Scrap masks to get back to normal
Stop isolating contacts
Stop testing
Stop isolating positive cases
That will end the disruption

Over 200k student off sick last week and schools moving to rotas due to lack of staff

So this is back to normality then?
1/

https://twitter.com/SafeEdForAll_UK/status/1506897743616294912

2/ They said the best place for children is in school

We said we agree, but if schools aren't made safe then we will face continued disruption and increasing burden on staff and students health

They said
Ventilation and filtration wasn't needed
Long covid wasn't an issue

3/ Masks were damaging education
Transmission in schools wasn't an issue

They claimed it wasn't the virus causing disruption, it was the measures

So all the measures are gone, they got their way, yet the disruption is increasing

Looks like issue was the virus not the measures

4/ @halfon4harlowMP @ChildrensComm @lensiseethrough answer is a bill that if passed would prevent school closures by demanding they stay open

How does this work in the real world when schools run out of staff?

It's like demanding the tides stop
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Canu…

5/ However we do have ways of reducing the size of the waves as they wash through education

We could have invested in ventilation and filtration,but this hasn't been supported by those claiming to care about education

Some argued just let the kids get infected and it'll be over

6/ We could have had masks, FFP2s which have been shown to cut transmission, but it was argued this would impact learning and cause harm

As much harm as covid is causing to health? Are the harms of masks greater than the harm of time off school and disrupted learning?

7/ More importantly, where is the evidence for the harms of masks?
I saw the UsForThem dosier, mostly selective quoting from papers that stated minor inconveniences and concluded masks were beneficial

Usual group of paediatricians made similar claims, still waiting fir evidence

8/ We've also had the same paediatricians go on about "stop testing healthy children" making out as if testing was harmful

Wheres the evidence for this?
Now we are stopping testing healthy children, we will just end up with more unhealthy children

9/ Harms of measures aren't evidenced, removing measures means more disruption in schools

It's pretty fucked up that high profile paediatricians are supporting gov policy on the basis not that many children will die

https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1506920793455972354?t=2iMQqCpwRBIDwmDXKlvlZw&s=19

10/ They got what they wanted and so they need to own this

The deaths, the impacts on health, the children out of school disruption to learning, the lack of consistency, the educators leaving the sector and the lack of trainees

Own it, it's on them

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1505289638361145350?t=To67ZeVI4RbrM2B1YD021w&s=19