Thread by @MamaToronto

@opcouncil

Happy Tuesday,

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

Because you can.

Why wouldn’t you?

https://twitter.com/MarieTattersall/status/1522039218817675267?s=20&t=xST0q-uqY6iQ6w8kEamWm

#6ThWave
#MAIM
#LongCovidkids
#onted

Context

Please make a #SafeLunch & snack plan outdoors,

b/c you can

Why wouldn’t you?

#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
#onted

@OPCouncil

Context:

Please make a #SafeLunch & snack plan outdoors,

because you can

Why wouldn’t you?

H/T @MarieTattersall

https://twitter.com/MarieTattersall/status/1522088698443141125?s=20&t=vjjOto2EWpn3IKmLlkW6aw

#6thWave
#MAIM
#LongCovidkids
#onted

@OPCouncil

Context

Please make a #SafeLunch & snack plan outdoors,

because you can:

Why wouldn’t you?

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
#LongCovidkids
#onted

@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
#onted

@OPCouncil

Context:

Please make a #SafeLunch & snack plan outdoors,

because you can

Why wouldn’t you?

83,463 ON children infected in the last 131 days

= 39% of all kids cases since the beginning of the pandemic

H/T
@MerlinofCanada

#6thWave
#MAIM
#onted

@OPCouncil

Context:

Please make a #SafeLunch & snack plan outdoors,

because you can

Why wouldn’t you?

Canada:

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

H/T
@MoriartyLab

#6ThWave
#MAIM
#onted

@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

How is it ok for kids?

thestar.com/news/gta/2022/…

@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:

Safe Lunch has always been a concern,

and has never been properly resolved.

Please move lunch and snacks outdoors,

Because you can.

Why wouldn’t you?

H/T @LisaPetsinis:

toronto.com/news/as-kids-r…

#6ThWave
#MAIM
#LongCovidKids

@OPCouncil

Context:

Please make a #SafeLunch plan outdoors,

because you can

Why wouldn’t you?

H/T
@JacobShelley

#6thWave
#MAIM
#LongCovidkids
#onted

Context:

Please make a #SafeLunch & snack plan outdoors

b/c you can

Why wouldn’t you?

You understand why masks are important
= you understand how unsafe it is not to have one on indoors
= lunch & snack every day

https://twitter.com/OPCouncil/status/1501699940867010560?s=20&t=q2-BMCET6lbRnkiaJ6TRbg

…

#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

@OPCouncil

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

#onted

@OPCouncil

Moving lunch & snacks outside

with good weather

is a simple thing

that you can do

to prevent infection

& make schools safer

Why wouldn’t you?

Time to infection, no masks = 1.7 min with Omicron

H/T @PoPNB_kindness

#6ThWave
#MAIM
#LongCovidkids
#onted

Please announce moving lunch & snacks in your schools outside publicly

Because you can

Please focus on where you have agency

& exercise it

Please protect children & staff in this simple & doable way

Because you can

Why wouldn’t you?

#6ThWave
#MAIM
#LongCovidkids
#onted

@OPCouncil

How about now?

https://twitter.com/farid__jalali/status/1524135123955855360?s=20&t=nwSZeiDyhucySItaBFWLAg

#6thWave
#MAIM

#LongCovidkids
#onted