🚨.@COVIDSelect (The US House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic) has released its scathing Final Report.

In comparison, the UK's feeble Covid Inquiry risks becoming an international laughingstock.

🧵KEY FINDINGS

1/5: SCHOOL CLOSURES

FINDING: Long Term School Closures Were Not Supported by Available Science and Evidence.

FINDING: The American Federation of Teachers Did Not Support Reopening Schools and Predicated Its Support for Reopening Schools on Non-Scientific Policies.

FINDING: Pandemic-era School Closures Adversely Impacted Academic Performance that Will Continue for Years.

FINDING: School Closures Significantly Contributed to Increased Instances of Mental and Behavioral Health Issues.

FINDING: School Closures Made an Already Alarming Trend in Declining Physical Health Worse. 2/5: OTHER NON-PHARMACEUTICAL INTERVENTIONS: MASKS, DISTANCING, LOCKDOWNS

FINDING: There Was No Quantitative Scientific Support for Six Feet of Social Distancing.

FINDING: Public Health Officials Flip Flopping on the Efficacy and Use of Face Masks Without Full Scientific Transparency Caused Mistrust in Public Health
Establishments.

FINDING: The Biden Administration Exceeded its Authority by Mandating Masks.

FINDING: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Relied on Flawed Studies to Support the Issuance of Mask Mandates.

FINDING: Forcibly Masking Young Children, Ages Two and Older, Caused More Harm than Good.

FINDING: Enduring COVID-19 Lockdowns Unnecessarily Harmed the U.S. Economy.

FINDING: Enduring COVID-19 Lockdowns Unnecessarily Damaged American’s Mental Health.

FINDING: Enduring COVID-19 Lockdowns Disrupted the Development of American Children and Young Adults.

FINDING: Enduring COVID-19 Lockdowns Unnecessarily had Severe Consequences for
Americans’ Physical Health.

🚨🚨 BREAKING - there was a key debate in the UK Parliament today on the Pandemic Treaty.

Link to transcript at end of thread.

Some important points made, but overall too many hollow reassurances from WHO-appeasing MPs who seemed to have not read the underlying texts.

Cont... In particular, those pointing to the reaffirmation of the principle of sovereignty contained in the preamble to the draft treaty appear not to understand that proposals contained in a separate text, the amendments to the IHR, cut across this.

Thousands of parents - many of whom have contacted us in exasperation - will be pleased and relieved to hear @educationgovuk is championing children against local authorities clamouring for continued restrictions on their education, @nadhimzahawi.

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thesun.co.uk/news/politics/… @nadhimzahawi please could you start by having a word with @hertscc public health director @jimmcmanusph?

His team appear to be fixated on a 'Zero Covid' outcome, with the children of Hertfordshire paying a heavy price for this extreme ideology.
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https://twitter.com/scotty459/status/1484190914197082119?s=20

Retweet if you agree it’s time to say NO to hypocrisy and YES to putting #ChildrenFirst

While our children eat their school lunches outside in the rain because of COVID restrictions…

Our leaders enjoy parties and fine dining in comfort

1/6 While you cancel the family holiday you saved hard for because of travel restrictions…

Our leaders book private jets

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📨UsforThem Inbox
Dear @nadhimzahawi
'As Ed. Sec. you should have the best interests of children as yr priority. Pls explain how children having yet again to endure the wearing of masks whilst at school is of any benefit to them...
@BorisJohnson @sajidjavid @Conservatives
1/4 ...Most children who have CV19 suffer very mildly and recover well. The psychological damage you are enforcing with mask wearing is cruel and we are yet to learn the long term damage...Facial expression is hugely important for development, understanding and communication...
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Dear @sajidjavid

It's October & we're still waiting for the promised end-September review of the policy of mass testing healthy children - where is it?

RCPCH called for mass testing to end, stating it interrupts school attendance

With 10.5% absence, this should be a priority

https://twitter.com/Mark_J_Harper/status/1437760751247183883

@RCPCHtweets 13/9/21:

"Routine testing of children without symptoms is still interrupting children and teenagers’ school attendance and we do not believe this should continue. Instead, schoolchildren should be tested only if they have symptoms of COVID-19"

Apparently @educationgovuk is making a decision tomorrow on its masks in class policy. A reminder of how we feel about that in this thread. We sent a pre-action letter to @GavinWilliamson @educationgovuk on 23rd March.

It has yet to be unanswered.

Snippets here.

So, school closures are back on the agenda and the "crunch meeting" between @educationgovuk and @10DowningStreet is today. So, before the inevitable tragic error is made for a second time, let's talk about the effects of #longschoolclosure We will start with the obvious, loss of learning. School closures deny children from all backgrounds the chance to get the education they need to build a bright future. It is estimated that every day of school closure equates to 40,000 years of lost education.