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Politics of development, water, sanitation, climate, covid; human rights; displacement; feminist; anti-fascist; Editor @envplane; views my own @Lylamehta@mas.to
Aug 15, 2021 12 tweets 8 min read
Schools return soon. The European CDC & US CDC have suggested enhanced mitigations in schools due to the delta variant but the UK is going the opposite way. Why this British exceptionalism again @10DowningStreet @GavinWilliamson @CMO_England @educationgovuk? Thread 1/ So many kids around the world have missed almost 1.5 years of in-person school with terrible consequences. I’m grateful that my daughter has been in class half the time. But the lack of attention to school safety in the UK has been v troubling for me as a parent & academic. 2/