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Jan 9 6 tweets 2 min read Read on X
@SGriffin_Lab This is effectively the NHS laissez-faire guide to COVID in schools which WILL result in more transmission, more hospitalisations, more long COVID, more deaths, less workforce availability, and lower economic growth.

Scientifically, ethically, financially and morally bereft. Image
@SGriffin_Lab So the NHS thinks that your child doesn't need to stay at home or avoid contact with other people if they HAVE symptoms of COVID but haven't yet had a recent positive test (yes SARS-COV-2 can transmit when asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic) Image
@SGriffin_Lab This is the *nudge nudge wink wink* NHS approach to how your child getting COVID (repeatedly, as they surely will if they don't wear an effective well fitting respirator mask) doesn't need to disrupt your ability to go out to work

Why go to the time & expense of a test, eh? 🤦‍♂️ Image
@SGriffin_Lab Of course what they don't say is how your child could still end up with long COVID, or acutely sick, the same could happen to you, the rest of your family & anyone else they go near, so for their good & the common good they should try & avoid catching & transmitting it to others
@SGriffin_Lab If you pay & do the COVID test they told you that you don't need to do any more, NHS throws in that your child should stay home & keep away from others for 3 days, which we all know is much shorter than the length of time people often test positive & may be infectious for 🤦‍♂️ Image
@SGriffin_Lab It's much simpler & more cost effective to mandate effective reusable well fitting masks in schools, workplaces, hospitals, & on public transport, & to require use of HEPA filtration.

Why break the NHS, the schools, & the economy?

Because to act now shows up past failures! ⚠️

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"Viral persistence in children infected with SARS-CoV-2: current evidence and future research strategies"

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"Based on the evidence that the virus can persist in adults, we have done a literature review and analysed studies that looked for SARS-CoV-2 RNA or antigens in children"

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wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/29…
Don't you think that the CDC should be warning the public loud and clear about this?

Please let them know how you feel!

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"The Epstein-Barr virus and the pathogenesis of lymphoma"
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Since the discovery in 1964 of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in African Burkitt lymphoma, this virus has been associated with a remarkably diverse range of cancer types. Because EBV persists in the B cells of ...

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Why did I not join the dots before? 🤦‍♂️


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"UCL is home to the archive of the man who coined the term “Eugenics”"

independent.co.uk/voices/eugenic…
"UCL makes formal public apology for its history and legacy of eugenics"

ucl.ac.uk/news/2021/jan/…
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Is this the smiling face of eugenics?

Did many die who really didn't need to during the COVID pandemic, because a few rich, lazy, arrogant, powerful, old men not care enough to protect the vulnerable?

Was Patrick Vallance one such? Image
I don't know, I'd hope not, surely we all hope not, that those in govt & advising them have our best interests at heart?

But I've seen too much evidence of reckless failure to retain any confidence in that.

So let's check out what Patrick wrote himself? Image
The above quote from recent reporting on the COVID inquiry

theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/o…
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"... trophectoderm cells. This permissiveness could be attenuated with blocking antibodies targeting S or ACE2. When exposing human blastocysts to the live, fully infectious SARS-CoV-2, we detected cases of infection that compromised embryo health. Therefore, ..."

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