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Apr 6 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#r4today "Cases appear to be peaking in children"

Herd immunity? Or is it that some areas have already started Easter holidays and lots of schools have gone to partial closures due to lack of staff?
#edutwitter
Yesterday we had "more children back in school" claiming there was less covid absence, only problem with that is that absence increased, just illness logged as covid went down, due to sick kids being off but not tested
As you can see in this joint letter from the school leaders unions

Funny how cases always peak as school holidays begin, it's almost like lots of children get infected in unventilated, unmitigated schools, but can find plenty who still claim "community transmission"

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Sir Karam Bales ✊ 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Apr 6
🧵Even the language the government is using is straight out of the GBD play book, well they've got everything they wanted now, when we see the full consequences remember who is responsible

It's why GBD are busy trying to rewrite history
2/ We have an attempt to declare that lockdowns and all measures don't work, this is about absolving the pro infection crowd of all responsibility
"This was inevitable, nothing could have stopped these deaths and damage to health"

Using UK APPG to do this
3/ They go beyond this, to trying to shift blame.

Tucker of AIER/Brownstone supported by GBD and others calling for vengeance

This is incitement to violence, they know the target market for this message
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Apr 5
Short🧵
2020
Summer they promised Test and Trace as a way of removing measures and then test and trace didn't work

Autumn they promised schools a containment framework and then didn't implement it when needed
2021 they promised data not dates, then ignored the data on Delta and removed measures

This is what they do, they give false assurances to get what they want and then renage on them straight away

We see it on funding, on taxes, on organisational changes to institutions
The "we have anti virals now so no need for any measures" was GBD sophistry, production is limited and will take a while to scale up so making policy decisions that considerably increase demand of a bottlenecked supply wasnt going to work well
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Apr 4
🧵Ofsted report on early years

This is getting a lot of media attention, being help up as the harms of lockdown, many using this to argue measures should never have been introduced and lockdowns were a mistake

I don't think the report shows this
gov.uk/government/pub…
2/ To start with, how was the report produced?

It's survey based, no stats or numbers included.

70 providers were inspected over the chosen time period
38 childminders
32 nurseries

So starting with a very small pool Image
3/ They then sampled some of these inspections, so a fraction of the 70, maybe only a handful of each type of provider

"Cannot assume the findings to be representative" The whole report is merely illustrative Image
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Sir Karam Bales ✊ 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Apr 2
🧵UK Childrens Commissioner

Look at their responsibilities

One of the rights they are supposed to uphold is the right to health and to be protected from infectious disease

All de Souza and previous incumbent have done is call for "normality"
2/ They speak for all children but with a particular focus on thr vulnerable

Any mention of CEV children at risk of covid particularly the immunicompromised?

Nope
3/ They are there to hold the government to account over the impact of its policies on children, so let's put covid to one side

Independent analysis shows Sunaks decisions will drive many children into poverty, we have the evidence, we can crunch the numbers, we know this
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Apr 2
🧵Thoughts on UK government covid strategy

They never abandoned the March 2020 strategy, just adapted it.They haven't learned to live with it, as they've done no learning, it's just herd immunity with the addition of vaccines
2/ We know they aren't following SAGE who warned Omicron could be a fluke, future variants could be worse, recommended ventilation and filtration and keeping testing and surveillance infrastructure
3/ We know CRG and others are listening to HART/Collateral Global,Ministers have met with Gupta, Heneghan and Tegnell

Gupta has redefined herd immunity as regular reinfection, thinking if we get infected often enough we won't get severe disease
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Mar 31
This is nuts, children go back to school 3 days after testing positive, without testing before returning, no one in my school had cleared the virus to test and release on the 5th day

Looks like using children as "booster infections" is the actual strategy now
#edutwitter
Zahawi claims majority of classrooms have good ventilation, I currently spend at least a couple of hours a day in a room with no windows, CO2 is around 2500ppm by the end of the lesson Image
Immunicompromised? Looks like the government has decided education will no longer be accessible to you Image
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