People follow rules when they are clear:
"KEEP LEFT ⬅️"

Any ambiguities result in uncertain outcomes:

"Try to keep left if it feels right for you"
would probably result in a lot of accidents.

1/🧡
Imagine having to explain to your car insurance following an accident, in such circumstances wouldn't be easy...

When we have clear information individuals, employers, healthcare, schools, and businesses can act with certainty.

Rules help to protect lives and health.

2/
If you change the rules you need to carefully consider the consequences for all people in all circumstances.

Many new emergency laws were passed during the height of the pandemic which had notable negative effects on lives.

3/ COVID-19  Temporary restrictions   [Red sign]
Balancing decision-making for any government was not easy. Even when apparently simple rules were applied the knock-ons were complex.

There was therefore a huge pent-up desire from *everyone* to reclaim that old normal and forget this global trauma.

4/
It is important to highlight this is what we *all* desire (including vulnerable people), a return to normal life. To wake up from what feels like a bad dream, to move on and let the memories fade.

5/
However, vulnerable people simply cannot when our lives and health may depend on it. As such, we are the only people for whom any semblance of pandemic rules remain.

But not clear "KEEP LEFT" rules.

6/ Guidance COVID-19: guidance for people whose immune system m
Instead, we have vague suggestions that don't assist individuals, employers, healthcare, schools or even friends & family.

"You may"
"You might"
"If it feels right for you"
"If you can"
"Consider"

All decisions/consequences are left to us in a world that has left us behind.
7/ https://www.gov.uk/govern  Consider asking visitors to your
There are no guarantees of "reasonable adjustments" in workplaces because vulnerable people aren't all protected under the Equality Act 2010.

So where does that leave us?

It isn't easy...

8/
People don't like to be reminded of past trauma.

We know they can respond negatively to masks:

πŸ’™ We experience verbal abuse
πŸ’œ Coughs aimed at us
πŸ’— Told we don't need masks
πŸ’™ Some ignore us completely

The least privileged are experiencing the greatest challenges.

9/
Employers can refuse remote options, just as schools had done before. Risk assessments are frequently not protecting people.

We have
πŸ‘¨β€βš•οΈ lost jobs
🏑 lost homes
πŸ₯ been denied safe access to healthcare
πŸ‘ͺ children locked out of education / in unsafe schools
πŸ•Š lost freedoms

10/
The world has changed irreversibly since the advent of Covid-19. This is not a nightmare we can simply wake up from, it is an ever-present ever-evolving biohazard.

11/
"Personal responsibility" is no way to handle public health as it places the greatest burden of "responsibility" onto those with the highest risk and the least agency.

12/
Clinically Vulnerable people must to be recognised as a distinct group with distinct characteristics and needs so that they can be addressed.

Ignoring the problem simply won't make it go away.

At the very least, #CleanAir must be a 'reasonable adjustment'.

13/ REASONABLE ADJUSTMENTS We believe HEPA Air purifiers should
3 years on and we still haven't learned to live with Covid-19.

Air filtration #CleanAir is at the top of our list.

Public support for other protections (even those worn on the faces of other people) is at an all-time low.

14/
Our #FreedomDay will only come if we actually #LearnToLiveWithCovid.

Everyone is 3yrs older.
Everyone is 3yrs more vulnerable.

By acting, we improve the quality of life for those still shielding, we reduce Long Covid and save lives.

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This family had 2 children with a rare genetic condition which limits their ability to respond to infections.

They had RETURNED to school for a year when their Local Authority issued a summons.

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The prosecutions related to absences from a time *before* these highly vulnerable children were vaccinated.

The parents went to court, initially before Christmas without representation due to incredibly short notice (postal strikes were blamed).

They pleaded "NOT GUILTY".

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We told them. We phoned, we emailed, we attended an APPG on Coronavirus.

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Without public health, government guidance has already trampled on the Human Rights of the Clinically Vulnerable, which are carefully packaged as personal choice / responsibility. However, there's little choice when a life is threatened.

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@Wera_Hobhouse NB/ NOT a lawyer, but it seems to us that many of the items on this list apply to us. Either directly, as indicated in the government planning whiteboard or indirectly.

Read the 'advice' for the severely immunosuppressed above. Our 'Freedom Day' never came.

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@Wera_Hobhouse 3 years on and we cannot protest in the streets.

Our rights diminished as others, often coping with their own pandemic trauma, try to put it behind themselves.

But people are still locked away. Friends and family fading as they are often reminded "Covid is over".

3/
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Shocking new data from the ONS reveals that 0-4yos have a similar risk ICU / HDU risk to 65-74yos.

We can fix this easily #vax4kidsπŸ’‰ needs URGENT approval.

@SteveBarclay
@CMO_England
@uksciencechief ONS data available here:  https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopul
MHRA approval was granted on 22nd December 2022 for the 6m-4yo vaccines.

Why are our families still waiting?

The US authorised use on the 8th December.

#vax4kidsπŸ’‰

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The UK instead denied new 5yos their first doses in August.

No big fanfare πŸŽ‰ - they were quietly withdrawn. Children aged 5 and over  Children who turned 5 on or after
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#Vax4KidsπŸ’‰

πŸ—£πŸ“£ You need to be shouting about this!
*** Contact your MP ***

TLDR
🚫 We have * NEVER * approved Covid vaccines for current Yr R and younger

🚫 The JCVI and CMOs consistently undermined children's vaccines

🚫 Kids Covid vaccines are being withdrawn

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β†ͺ️Myocarditis risks (mild) from vax much touted in the media by 'experts', yet risks from infection are not only higher but more severe.

β†ͺ️This has, predictably, resulted in not only low Covid vaccination rates but reduced uptake in other kids' vaccines.

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This is interesting because there was a BIG push to vaccinate this year. Yet the average uptake has been dropping.

Expanding eligible age ranges is the only way to get more doses out.

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We are delighted that the Houses of Parliament has seen the value in AND invested in #CleanAirπŸ’¨.

We hope that everyone will have this right soon, in all workplaces, schools, healthcare and public places.

1/
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It seems the whole of His Majesty's Government is also benefiting from purified air. Fantastic news!

Not only that...

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The MoD upgraded in 2020.

"Towards the end of 2020, Purified Air was commissioned to supply the Ministry of Defence with our mobile virus irradiation units (VIU Mobile) to help reduce the spread of airborne COVID-19 the indoor environment."

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