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Mar 23 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
⚠️ Hobson's Choice - #StillHome ⚠️

Decisions presented as *choices* - but with no viable options - have meant that #3Years since lockdown our members continue to live reduced lives.

@RishiSunak's government do not care for vulnerable people & they don't want you to hear us.

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We have lost our JOBS and HOMES.

By not making workplaces safe Clinically Vulnerable people have had to choose between lives and livelihoods.

One in four severely immunosuppressed people reported having lost a job due to the risks from Covid.

Most *chose* to quit.

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We have lost SCHOOLING.

Over half of Clinically Vulnerable Families report being encouraged by schools / local education authorities to withdraw their children from education by threatening fines and prosecutions.

1 in 5 have *chosen* home education.

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 schoolsweek.co.uk/dont-call-us-g…
We have lost HEALTHCARE

💙 Mask use no longer enforced
💜 No testing
💗 Covid+ mix with vulnerable

91% of our families have or would delay or cancel medical appointments due to high Covid risks.

Their *choice*.

4/ 91% of Clinically Vulnerabl...
Of the 9% some have no *choice* due to the need to access essential life-giving or saving care.

Immediate risk VS a possible risk

They have to take 'personal responsibility' to protect themselves under difficult circumstances.

5/ Don't ask! One way masking ...
⚠️ Most adults are 1 yr post boosters⚠️

No *choice* to get further vaccines now as the campaign has ended. This also affects those living in vulnerable households.

Vaccines reduce transmission.

Transmission will increase *no choice*.

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⚠️ The Covid Infection Survey ends ⚠️

In a few days we will close our eyes to Covid and its consequences. This was an integral promise which came with 'learning to live with Covid'.

Our alert system to new variants dismantled.

*No choice*

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#CleanAir💨 benefits us all.

In the context of Covid it will give us choices it will bring us lost freedoms and enable choices.

Support and follow @CovidPledge as they strive to make everyone safer. Ask your employers to protect workers.

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We are not living with Covid, instead we continue to die from it.

Please help us to regain

💙 Livelihoods
💜 Life chances
💗 & Liberties

*Everyone* deserves a choice.
Please join the fight for freedom 💪

Nobody should be forced to remain #LockedUpSinceLockdown

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Mar 12
⚠️ Clinically Vulnerable people are struggling.

We are * 3️⃣ YEARS * into a pandemic (ask the @WHO) and our needs have not been addressed.

Protections were withdrawn one by one and the removal of these measures has unfairly disadvantaged us.

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We are STILL HOME.
We are living part lives.
Our freedoms have been lost.

If you are not in a vulnerable group this information will likely have slipped you by. You will not have noticed us struggling because we are no longer in your view.

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We move around like ninjas.
We avoid crowded places.
We probably don't meet with you any more.

This is not through choice. This has been thrust upon us, by the same government that joked they would

"Let the bodies pile high in their hundreds of thousands.".

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Mar 10
Dear @ONS

We are concerned about the abrupt end to the Covid-19 Infection Survey which we feel will unfairly result in barriers and disadvantages to protected groups:

Disabled (those who are Clinically Vulnerable), Elderly and Ethnic Minorities.

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@janemerrick23 explained the gold
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Mar 7
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.

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

Rules help to protect lives and health.

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

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Mar 6
⚠️ Another Clinically Vulnerable Family in court.

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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Mar 1
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@CamillaTominey might be interested to know that the government *do* know where the missing kids are.
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Feb 11
@Wera_Hobhouse @Wera_Hobhouse
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.

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

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