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Dec 22 • 25 tweets • 13 min read
🙏🙏 Thanks to all your amazing donations (£3,512!), encouragement, and support - today I delivered my last #CorsiRosenthalBox to a family just in time for Christmas. It got me thinking about what we've achieved over the last 3 months... A monster thread🧌🧵1/24 Image
It all started in late summer, when @PeteUK7 sent me the kit to make a #CorsiRosenthalBox 2/
Not long after, people suggested I should set up a Go Fund Me to build more... 3/
Soon enough, I started to receive some criticism for daring to campaign for #CleanAir (haven’t we all…) 4/
When I had enough funds I began to offer free air filters to local schools in #Somerset 5/
@GHRSouthWest were the first to cover the story 6/
@NeuSomerset Branch made a massive donation after inviting me to their meeting in #Street (thanks to @Robin_Neu2!) 7/
...which @BBCNews covered! 8/ bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
The campaign ramped up, and a lot of local schools got free air filters such as this one in #WestCoker 9/
And this one in #Yeovil 10/
One school became the first in #Somerset to have an air filter in every classroom. Could not have done it without the support of one amazing family (you know who you are!) 11/
Then #CleanAir in #Somerset got a mention in the House of Lords thanks to @SalBrinton 12/
Spoke with @StaceyPooleITV as part of her mini-series on #longcovid in children 13/
Did my bit for @WorldVentil8Day 14/
Got invited to demo a #CorsiRosenthalBox build at the @NEU_SAFETY Conference in #Bristol (thank you, @Ian_Watkinson1!) Also met the inspirational people behind @LongCovidKids and @hazardscampaign 15/
...had a blast! 16/
Then got made a Long Covid Kids Champion! 17/
Once local schools had been offered air filters I started offering them to warm hubs in #Somerset.
Here's #Langport 18/
#Yeovil 19/
...and #Ash near #Martock 20/
I'm delighted to have played a small role in moving the dial on warm hub safety in #Somerset 21/
Once local schools and warm hubs had been offered air filters, I started offering them to families to use over Xmas 22/
Here’s the last one being delivered to a family today! 23/ Image
What next? …well, that’ll have to wait until 2023. For now I’m taking a break from social media and from campaigning to spend some time with my much-neglected family. See you all in 2023!
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I have 3 children (I know: yawn 🥱). But they’ve all been ill over the last month. Vomiting. Fevers. Headaches. All = time off school (naturally). Our youngest (6 weeks) was admitted to hospital 2 days ago with a fever. It was, frankly, terrifying - and I can’t help feel…
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Soon I’ll have no money left for #corsirosenthalboxes! Requests are coming in thick and fast, and soon I’m going to have to start saying “no”…

⁉️Got me thinking though: why the surge in interest…?
A thread 🧵 1/
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On 24th November 2022 (time stamping for future ref), the Department for Education (@educationgovuk) wrote to all their mailing list members (Local Authorities and signed-up schools). They stressed the importance of ventilation to tackle Covid and flu in schools this winter👇 2/
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Nov 23
WARM HUBS NEED FRESH AIR || @SomersetCouncil’s Public Health Department has published this ⭐️ outstanding ⭐️ poster for warm hub organisers in #Somerset. A thread 🧶
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✅ There is a clear message on ventilation, how to measure it, and when action is needed

🚨 >1,500ppm is “UNSAFE”
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✅ There is also a clear message on masks👇
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Nov 21
UK GOES IT ALONE… (with 🇸🇪) || In September 2022 the @ECDC_EU published a detailed, country-by-country report on Covid vaccination strategies across Europe. The UK is doing it differently… A short thread 🧶
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First: see this map. UK is in grey because we’ve turned our backs on Europe - worse still, we’ve not just decided to go it alone geopolitically and economically but, it seems, medically as well👇
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…because, as of September, the Covid vaccine programme for children ended for those turning 5 from now on. They can’t get it unless clinically vulnerable or living with someone who is. This makes us an outlier in Europe where nearly everyone else is vaccinating ALL (bar 🇸🇪)
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Sep 27
As expected - now my campaign for clean air in #Somerset schools blows up (ha), I am coming under fire in all directions. Important, I think, to clarify a few things. A 🧵…
gofund.me/3691a0c0
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1️⃣ It’s not “my idea” and I didn’t just make it up. I’m quite literally standing on the shoulders of giants. Namely doctors and scientists in the 🇺🇸 like @JimRosenthal4 and @CorsIAQ; as well as @rhysthomas, @PeteUK7 and others in the 🇬🇧
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 In Wales, 40 of these DIY filters are already in schools
👉👉ceredigion.gov.uk/resident/news/…
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Sep 25
Over the last few days I have faced some criticism for my Air Filters for #Somerset Schools campaign👇🏻 Please donate! 🙏🏻

One such criticism is that I should be raising money for more school resources as that’s a bigger priority (a🧵)
1/ gofund.me/3691a0c0
My response to this? Imagine a school didn’t have any fire extinguishers or fire alarms. It had them last year (and the year before), but it got rid of them this year because all the adults are fire-safety trained now anyway
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Now imagine there’s a fire. It’s only small, but it’s coming our way. Someone notices, and says we should probably get some fire blankets and extinguishers back in the classroom as a precaution

“No”, someone cries, “you shouldn’t do that until teachers are better paid.”
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