Thread by @MamaToronto

@OPCouncil

Happy Monday

With warmer weather, I am looking forward to your announcement that #safelunch & #safesnacks are moving outside.

Because you can.

https://twitter.com/MarieTattersall/status/1522039218817675267?s=20&t=xST0q-uqY6iQ6w8kEamWmg

#6thWave
#MAIM
#LongCovidkids
#onted

@OPCouncil

Context:

Please make a #SafeLunch plan outdoors for children,

because you can:

Safe Lunch has always been a concern,

and has never been properly resolved.

H/T @LisaPetsinis:

toronto.com/news/as-kids-r…

#6ThWave
#MAIM
#LongCovidKids
#onted

@kprather88

Lunch = High Risk in her #CovidIsAirborne #SafeSchool plan

Bio:
Aerosol science leading expert
30 yrs experience
240+ publications on aerosols
#CovidIsAirborne interdisciplinary papers
Elected to the APS “for promoting useful knowledge”

@OPCouncil

Context:

Please make a #SafeLunch plan outdoors for children,

b/c you can

82,993 children infected in ON in last 128 days

H/T @MerlinofCanada

64% hospitalizations, 55% ICU, 49% deaths during Omicron 19<

H/T @MoriartyLab

#6ThWave
#MAIM
#onted

@OPCouncil

Context:

Please make a #SafeLunch plan outdoors for children,

b/c you can

#LongCovidKids as high as 1 in 4

Data=80,071 kids, 21 studies, 4 continents

euronews.com/next/2022/03/1……

Govt of Canada=No treatment/cure

canada.ca/en/public-heal……

#6thWave
#MAIM

@OPCouncil

Context:

Please make a #SafeLunch plan outdoors for staff,

because you can:

PHO = #LongCovid = as high as 51-80%

publichealthontario.ca/-/media/Docume……

Govt of Canada = No treatment or cure

canada.ca/en/public-heal……

#6thWave
#MAIM
#onted

@OPCouncil

From @CPHO_Canada

"We probably anticipate that the impact of long COVID is going to be quite substantial”

cbc.ca/news/politics/…

“…up-to-date research indicates it could actually be as high as 50%”

beta.cp24.com/news/2022/5/6/…

#6thWave
#LongCovidKids
#MAIM

@COVIDSciOntario

“Someone was asking me…whether it’s a good idea to go for lunch indoors w/ friends. I said ‘no, it’s absolutely not a good idea.’ We’re still too early..b/c we still have a really high force of infection,” Jüni

Indoor lunch unsafe

thestar.com/news/gta/2022/…

@OPCouncil

Context:

Please make a #SafeLunch plan outdoors for staff,

because you can:

H/T
@JacobShelley

#6thWave
#MAIM
#onted

Please do so

@OPCouncil

Context:

Please make a #SafeLunch plan outdoors for staff,

because you can:

https://twitter.com/laurenpelley/status/1518235075338452993?s=21

…

#6thWave
#MAIM
#LongCovidKids
#onted

Please do so

https://t.co/w9DK6aVRjC

@OPCouncil

Context:

Please make a #SafeLunch plan outdoors for staff,

b/c you can

In your own words,

you understand why masks are important

=you understand how unsafe unmasked indoors is

=every lunch & snack daily

https://twitter.com/OPCouncil/status/1501699940867010560?s=20&t=nb9pyuj8rNtoxyLNxRSfpw

#6ThWave
#MAIM
#LongCovidkids

H/T @drkerrynphelps @RealOzSAGE

“Covid is not a harmless disease.”

“…can cause a debilitating long term condition called #LongCovid even in people who have been 💉”

“Getting infected with Covid doesn’t stop you from getting infected again & again”

https://twitter.com/drkerrynphelps/status/1502956516911230978?s=20&t=kiLOyYzmyArvfwLeksPl-g

Consequences of not preventing transmission, UK:

H/T @dgurdasani1
Epidemiologist

#LongCovid
#LongCovidKids

https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1522507242439913472?s=20&t=xST0q-uqY6iQ6w8kEamWmg

#6ThWave
#MAIM

@OPCouncil

Moving lunch & snack outside

w/ better weather

is a simple effective thing

you can do

to prevent infection

& make schools safer

Please do so

Infection Time no masks = 1.7 min w/ Omicron

H/T @popkindness

#6ThWave
#MAIM
#LongCovidKids
#onted

Please announce moving lunch and snacks in your schools outside publicly

Because you can

Please focus on where you have agency

Please exercise it

Together

Please protect children & staff in this simple & doable way

Because you can

#6ThWave
#MAIM
#LongCovidkids
#onted

H/T @MerlinofCanada @MoriartyLab

H/T @PoPNB_kindness for Time to Infection chart