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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

11 months

This covid thing is so messed up. Wtf are we doing? There are so many studies showing the damage it does. It’s costing the workforce, the economy, education. The onus is on patients to protect themselves, children, employees from employers, population from policies. Why?…🧵

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

7 months

Has coughing become so normalised that people don’t even realise they’re not even bothering to make a token effort to cover their mouth?

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

5 months

A thread on being post-covid…or more accurately a thread on can we stop the sheer ridiculousness of pretending we are post-covid. 🧵

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

3 years

Not wanting kids subjected to covid on a mass scale is not a pathology, is not anxiety, is not refusing to ‘live’ with risk. It’s a rational response to an extreme policy. A policy that does absolutely nothing to protect children from a virus that has hurt thousands of them.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

11 months

Why is it better to actively spread it than isolate when sick? Where are the support mechanisms? Why can’t a dentist wear a proper mask, open a window, have a HEPA? Why should kids have to suffer the cognitive, behavioural and educational impacts just for attending school?…

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

11 months

Why is it ok for taxpayers money to be spent on the impact of so much covid, but not on reducing levels of covid? Why is it ok to use kids as guinea pigs, with this perpetual chickenpox party? Why is it ok that kids will be paying - yet again - for others delaying action?

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

4 months

In UK, this practice is called ‘school’

Prof Deborah Lupton Master of Public Health, PhD

@DALupton

4 months

These researchers sprayed unvaccinated research subjects with the COVID virus to see what would happen. Good grief. Ethics, anyone?!!

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

3 months

A couple of months after this tweet, I had a mild, school-acquired covid infection. It’s cost me my health, ability to be a mum to my young family, my business, my savings. The million sufferers you mention has now doubled. Kids doubled since last year. Please act quickly.

Wes Streeting MP

@wesstreeting

3 years

More than a million people are suffering with #LongCovid , which is impacting on their lives and livelihoods. That’s why I’ve asked Andrew to lead on this. His own experience makes him an ideal champion on this issue and I hope this reassures people how seriously we take it. 👇🏻

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

4 months

I’m sick of the contrived silence about covid from politicians. I’m sick of its impact on the workforce. I’m sick of its impact on the NHS and education - in the acute phase & for all the health conditions that follow. I’m sick of the huge health and economic cost of silence.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

11 months

HEPA filters have been shown to reduce absence, improve concentration, help asthma - why are our kids not worth a HEPA, but are worth lots of sickness and supply teachers? Why are so many teachers and parents not aware of what covid can do or the mental health impacts?

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

11 months

Why do we only talk about covid in terms of living or dying, excluding the vast amount of damage it causes in between? Why do we act as though it’s all or nothing? Same for health protections - it’s not do nothing or lockdown.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

11 months

Why is it that an education secretary or children’s commissioner can veto the words covid and illness from their vocabulary? ‘Ooh we hate this amount of absence - let’s address it’, whilst conveniently always ignoring that government stats show illness is the prime reason.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

1 year

@1goodtern Do you know which politicians have evolved enough to discuss hepa filters and well-fitted respirators?

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

11 months

Why is there no accountability? The current plan is utterly not fit for purpose and it’s beyond time it was addressed. It’s time for those in positions of responsibility to act like it.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

11 months

Why does the covid inquiry highlight issues like poor messaging on longer term health risks or that a mistake was thinking covid could be planned for like flu, yet this strategy is continued?

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

3 years

Feel like I’m living in a parallel universe sometimes. One where the government are pretty much forcing a generation to be mass infected with a novel virus linked to organ damage, just because children don’t die as much as adults (kids aren’t meant to, but that point seems lost).

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

1 year

‘…but I don’t even know anyone with long covid…’ 🧵

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

11 months

Why are we closing down measures of monitoring? Why are we offering antibiotics for covid infections, rather than test? Why are some people forced to weigh up if it’s safer not to access treatment for their health conditions because of such poor infection control in healthcare?..

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

3 years

Anyone else feel like a traitor to their kids for sending them into an unsafe environment as govt have made it clear illness & organ damage don’t matter in kids? At least not as much as using them for failed herd immunity to (again) protect adults.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

1 year

Johnson said long covid was ‘bollocks’. Now everyone in a position of power acknowledges it’s obviously very real. So can somebody please riddle me this….how would a covid policy stemming from the assumption that long covid is ‘bollocks’ differ to current covid policy? Thanks.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

4 months

@MoleyMECaroline I’m sorry. Someone nonchalantly said to me how I’ll be able to get out more when the weather improves, go for some walks etc. I prefer nice weather, true - wonder if she knew how extra gutting it was being stuck in bed on a ‘nice’ day. My illness isn’t limited to rainy days!

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

6 months

The majority of cows will survive. It is important to continue as normal, with the healthiest cows getting infected to build up immoonity within the herd say the authors of the controversial Great Bovine-ton Declaration.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

10 months

2020: Children don’t have parties. Government do. 2023: Children don’t have new air cleaners in schools to help remove harmful viruses and pollutants. Government has new air cleaners in parliament. (DfE and MoD do too).

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

3 years

French teachers walk out of classrooms in strike over Covid strategy

French teachers walk out of classrooms in strike over Covid strategy

Tens of thousands take part in one-day strike, one of the biggest in the sector in recent years

www.theguardian.com

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

1 year

@1goodtern I think that ‘if you want your kids to attend school, infection is pretty much mandated’ is a fairly coercive ‘choice’ to access education. It’s weird because there wasn’t informed consent for this, despite body autonomy being a thing.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

3 months

‘All Ministry of Defence bases nationwide, including training and reception rooms, now have our VIU Mobile air purifiers in-situ removing harmful particulates from the air whilst irradiating airborne viruses, including COVID-19.’

Ministry of Defence | Purified Air

Nationwide

www.purifiedair.com

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

5 months

Hospital entrance sign: please wear masks HCW at appointment: you can take your mask off if you like Me: No thanks HCW: Is there a reason you are wearing one? Me: Thinks wtf & 10,000 things I want to say, but am mindful of the power imbalance & the injection they’re holding.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

9 months

If school attendance is a priority when ill, does that mean that spreading illness is a priority of education policy? Sick kids learn better? Sick parents help kids learn better? Sick teachers teach better? More long term sick pupils have better life chances? I don’t get it.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

3 years

@CarrollJackie99 @ColinField7 To be fair, current guidance already does pretty well at mass infecting school staff and kids.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

5 months

Dudes, there is an additional illness - covid - with average person catching it 1-2 times per year. Additional. As in on top of all the other illnesses that were caught and spread in schools pre-covid and which haven’t gone away and also led to absence! 2/

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

1 year

So…for those who are going to say ‘covid is just a cold’, as if there’s no known or unknown longer term impacts, you can continue to believe/pretend we don’t exist, but those of us who aren’t completely bed or housebound are all around you.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

5 months

We are being told in practice to encourage the spread of viruses in schools and then told that people shouldn’t be sick as a result. Children are told this. Their parents are told this. Their teachers are told this. Someone, somewhere, explain the logic. 7/

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

10 months

@1goodtern We have it here from school again. My kid with covid is doing ok, but is worried what it will do to my LC. I’m reassuring him. He, like hundreds of thousands of kids sees daily what covid can do-the kids with LC & the ones whose lives are impacted as siblings or parents have it.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

5 months

At this stage, I feel someone could absentmindedly light a cigarette as they walk into oncology, go to extinguish it when they realise what they’ve done and a health care worker would say ‘it’s ok, you don’t have to put it out’.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

5 months

We have done nothing to make school environments less welcoming to viruses. In fact we’ve gone the other way in many instances, some quarters even insisting that ill children will be magically better in school. 4/

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

1 year

Maybe - just maybe - they haven’t announced it to you. Do I want my clients to know about cognitive decline for example? No. They think I’m ‘busy’ on other projects - the calls are dwindling after 18ms anyway - suspect they’ve found replacements. Our costs have increased.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

5 months

The current situation is not a status quo. It is wilful obfuscation and blindness. There are many outcomes between being asymptomatic and dying. There are many choices between a lockdown and vaccinating some. We are not post-covid. It’s time politicians had a workable plan. 13/13

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

4 months

@1goodtern Furious about them working whilst infectious too.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

5 months

That covid or even illness rarely get a mention in discussions on absence smacks of wilful blindness. We can’t ‘will’ covid or its impacts away anymore than we can for other viruses. We are as post-covid as we are post-any other virus in circulation. 5/

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

1 year

Maybe it is one of the people who are still able to struggle in to the office, thankful they don’t need to commute daily. Maybe they’ve told a manager. Maybe they have nothing but work anymore, desperately trying to keep food on the table, but crash every evening & weekend.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

3 years

Why don’t we value kids in this country? To deliberately subject them to mass natural infection when there are links to organ damage is horrific. What is behind the policy choice to avoid measures that other countries have deployed to make schools safer? #SaferSchoolsNow

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

5 months

Cleaning indoor air helps reduce viruses for example. It’s great that this was addressed so quickly in certain work places - e.g. DfE, MoD settings, Palace of Westminster. Even WHO did it in 2020. Whatever science was behind that choice, let’s apply it to other places too. 12

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

8 months

Wouldn’t it be great if covid was as benign as many would like us to believe? If the hundreds of thousands of research papers were wrong? If the long term sickness data was wrong? If current policy of continual high levels were good for health, healthcare, education and economy?

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

1 year

Maybe it’s the friend who has gone a bit ‘flakey’, keeps cancelling, ‘stuff’ keeps coming up. Maybe they’re convinced they’ll feel better or at least able to physically cope with meeting up with you soon, but don’t want to mention they’re struggling with their health.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

9 months

Measles! “…Fully immunised 5 year old boy who likes to defeat the statistics ( had covid 6 times)”

Measles! | Mumsnet

So took my son to the doctors as he had "the signs and rash" just to get the all clear so that he could go to school to get the bombshell that he has...

www.mumsnet.com

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

5 months

Even if we ignored impacts of hospitalisations, long term effects & higher susceptibility to other illnesses after infection etc on attendance rates, a proportion of those catching covid will still feel too rough to attend. It’s so ridiculously obvious! 3/

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

5 months

@CovidSolidarit1 People wonder why there is so much illness around - short and long term. Mystery!

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

1 year

There are those who are comfortable not telling their colleagues, clients, parents, friends etc when they have covid, even whilst closely interacting with them as ‘it’s their business’. Why do they think they would be informed when someone they know has long covid?

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

5 months

As increasing numbers of adults become too sick to work, people wonder at all this disability. We put people through the cruellest of hoops for a pittance, making many reapply, pushing some to suicide. We say they’re not trying hard enough, imply it’s a lifestyle choice. 8/

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

5 months

It always seems weird when people say ‘we need to get attendance back to pre-covid levels’. 1/

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

1 year

Maybe it’s the person you don’t see at the gym or church or the pub anymore. Maybe it’s the woman who has cut their hours at work. Maybe it’s the kid that used to go to cubs or football with your kid, but is now bedbound. Maybe it’s the neighbour who doesn’t use his car anymore.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

3 years

“It’s about minimising the risk” “It’s a horrid virus”. This was @sajidjavid to @KayBurley today. What about kids, teachers and their families - safer schools shouldn’t be a pipe dream? What about carers/NHS/their families using public transport where masks aren’t mandated?

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

1 year

Maybe it’s the parent you see on occasional school runs who said/you’ve assumed has given up work to focus on family, (yet can’t really focus on family as the school run task alone has wiped them out for the day).

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

3 years

@AdamJSchwarz What is the fucking matter with us?

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

2 years

@AllisonPearson Stating views on school closures is one thing. Continuing with this disinformation that covid doesn’t harm kids is wrong. It is not right to minimise deaths of children, the thousands with long covid, the mental health impacts on kids of pretty much enforced infection at school.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

2 years

If you’re a school with a slogan like ‘every child matters’ or ‘you can be whatever you want to be’ etc, yet refuse a HEPA, you might want to rethink those slogans and state something more truthful instead.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

1 year

Maybe they’re clinging onto the hope that they’ll be one of the lucky ones. Maybe they still believe that most people with long covid ‘recovered’ back to how they were.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

1 year

Maybe it’s the person who runs the after school activity that hasn’t started up again due to ‘unforeseen circumstances’. Maybe it’s the kid who has mental health or behavioural issues following infection. Maybe it’s the person contemplating suicide as there is no cure for them

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

3 years

We have moved on so much since March 2020. Back then, some said kids didn’t even spread covid, or get sick from it. Two years on, lots of research on organ damage, thousands of kids with long covid for over a year, thousands kids hospitalised, kids dead. Answer-do nothing. 🤷‍♀️

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

5 months

Even if we insinuate people with long term sickness are liars & offer them no or ltd financial, educational or health support, the speed at which large numbers of people are getting harmed is bad for the economy. Do something to GENUINELY reduce the amount of illness around. 11

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

3 months

@ShaunLintern Infection control - we need this back to improve patient outcomes, staff attendance, staff retention (fewer will get long term health conditions from e.g. covid), reduce nhs pressure rather than adding to it. Clean the air, masks, isolate when contagious.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

11 months

This article from 2021 on the Bradford School air cleaner study cites Jenny Harries @UKHSA talking about potential lessons to be learned for pandemic preparedness if it’s successful. Can air cleaners reduce COVID-19 in schools? | University of Leeds 1/7🧵

Can air cleaners reduce COVID-19 in schools?

A study has been launched into the feasibility of using air cleaners to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in 30 primary schools in Bradford. It is a major investigation into how environmental technology...

www.leeds.ac.uk

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

1 year

Maybe it’s the kid who has ‘food issues’ - everything tastes revolting to them now. Maybe they’re too young to articulate that properly. Maybe it’s the person who keeps getting migraines now. Maybe it’s the person gaining weight as they can’t exercise anymore or cook as healthily

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

1 year

Maybe it’s the person whose periods have stopped after their infection. Maybe it’s your colleague dealing with erectile dysfunction. Maybe it’s the boss hiding skin issues. Maybe it’s the person with tinnitus and whose teeth are now crumbling.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

1 year

Maybe the mum you see doing more school/club pick ups/drop offs than previously isn’t because she’s wfh, but because she’s had to take unpaid leave (again) as her husband has ‘crashed’ after a hospital appointment. Or a shower.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

2 years

Not content with sticking two fingers up to all who sacrificed during lockdowns, the PM now sticks two fingers up at all who have in v recent weeks lost friends, relatives, health by saying we are ‘out of covid’. Imagine trying to cope with those losses and hearing that.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

3 years

Just another day when loads more kids will catch covid, a proportion of them will be hospitalised, a proportion will infect their families, a proportion will get very ill, a proportion will be affected long term, some forever. When will schools be safer for kids, staff & families

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

1 year

@1goodtern My dad had some heart issues and breathlessness. It eventually righted itself. They came on suddenly after covid. Doctors were asking all sorts of questions about sudden onset but didn’t ask if he’d recently had covid! Uncle caught covid in hospital and didn’t make it out.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

1 year

Maybe it’s someone who breathed a sigh of relief that their initial covid infection was mild, that their vulnerable family member who caught it off them was ok. Maybe they couldn’t understand what was happening to them shortly after they thought they’d recovered.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

1 year

‘Surely I’d know more people with long covid though - I know a lot of people’. Hmmm. Here’s a thought…

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

1 year

Covid seems everywhere at the moment, right? 1.2m just in symptomatic cases alone in UK at the moment. There are also currently roughly 2m with long covid. I don’t know the overlap - i.e. how many with long covid also have covid right now.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

7 months

@joeolivermd Wish people would take their glasses off so I can see their eyes properly.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

6 months

There are many people who are v sick. Govt: So? Many are too sick to work anymore. Govt: We’ll redefine sickness. They’ll still be too sick though won’t they? Govt: We’ve redefined lots - hospitals, public health, acceptable death rates, living standards Fair point.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

5 months

We do the equivalent of making a rape survivor beg to be believed, on the off chance that one might be lying. We make it so horrific to ask for help that many don’t. The numbers that don’t get help completely dwarf the numbers twisting the truth. We act like it’s the opposite. 9/

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@JoIsSummer

1 year

Maybe your kid’s friend has stopped asking your kid for play dates as they know their parent can’t manage it anymore. Maybe your kid’s friend has seen their parent struggling for breath too many times.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

3 months

Clean air for children in schools – is the Government hiding the evidence? - North West Bylines

Clean air for children in schools – is the Government hiding the evidence?

Two years after a government-funded randomised trial on protecting children from airborne viruses in schools started, revealing results remain unpublished – why?

northwestbylines.co.uk

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

1 year

Maybe it’s the son or daughter of someone who has had to go into a care home as they can no longer look after themselves, let alone their parent.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

3 years

@klts0 It can jump between species but can’t spread in schools.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

1 year

@long_covid @taracobham @Independent Had a little cry on Friday in response to a client email asking when I would be free again. I can’t tell them I have long covid - it’s taken away all I could offer them. Can’t manage to even drop kids at school sometimes. They think I’m on other projects. I want my life back.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

5 months

Education and healthcare are hanging on by a shoestring - both operating on a ton of goodwill. However, politicians and some press DO care about the economy. 10/

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

5 months

How beyond stupid would a politician sound if they said ‘post swine-flu’ as we were in another wave, or shortly after it was shown that 1/30 currently have ‘long swine-flu’ - roughly 1/3 of those from the last year alone. 6/

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

3 years

@Charlie070809 Spoke to MP’s office today. Was told that much more is known now than at start of the pandemic, there’s very little risk to kids, it’s felt it’s better for them than lockdown. FFS. I don’t want lockdown. I want mitigations to protect health & keep schools open. KIDS DO GET SICK!

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

2 years

There is something so obscenely back to front about people demanding others ‘stay home’ to avoid covid, rather than staying home themselves if they have covid. Can the class please stay home this week with the exception of Fred and Jim who have chickenpox/D&V/measles. Thanks.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

3 years

So…what’s the plan for less disruption to education this term then? What’s the plan for impact on mental and physical health of no mitigations in schools? What’s the £ for treating those with long covid? Taking time off to care for those? Taking it home to loved ones? 1/

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

10 months

@1goodtern One of the authors was taking the mickey out of masks (below), so I asked him if GBD questions and answers needed updating then (below)…unsurprisingly there was no reply. His posts normally fall into four statements / answers - ‘science TM’, RCT, lockdown or minimising.

Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

10 months

@1goodtern I asked him to clarify this a while ago👇, but he didn’t reply. Here’s a screenshot of page I referred to

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

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There is absolutely no point washing your hands after doing a number two. We can’t ensure EVERYBODY washes their hands so it’s pointless. Similarly, there is no point observing the norovirus rule - the ‘vulnerable’ need population immunity, plus what we can’t stop all noro…

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

3 months

@SkyNews Good for her. An adult in the room.

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@JoIsSummer

1 year

@annitht If you have the bandwidth, I’d formally complain. The GP gave a ‘medical’ view based on zilch medical expertise of the topic - there is enough info out there that even a cursory glance through an odd LC journal article would show how baseless, dangerous and unprofessional this is

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

7 months

@educationgovuk @ChristmasRowena @NHSuk I keep hearing about the broken ‘social contract’ between schools & families. The messaging below doesn’t just break it, it smashes it to smithereens. Irresponsible, dangerous and outright abhorrent. It’s time to stop wrecking kids’ health & education with so much school illness.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

4 months

@Independent_ie Thank you to Tess Finch-Lees and Irish Independent. It is unfortunately rare to see the reality of covid and the irresponsible actions of public health portrayed in the media. Hypocrisy of politicians pretending there is no issue whilst ensuring mitigations for themselves.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

8 months

@ThePOTSPostman Sometimes it’s like tip of the tongue on a perpetual loop. Others it is not knowing how to get from A to B, despite going there numerous times. It’s forgetting stuff-important stuff. It’s questioning your sanity & memory. Sometimes it’s sheer clarity & a step back to life before.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

6 months

@NateB_Panic When people talk about lessons learned from the pandemic response so far, it’s implied that decision-makers would choose to improve outcomes - economic, health, education. I feel lessons also include learning what they can get away with not doing for as long as possible.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

8 months

@educationgovuk @DamianHinds @GBNEWS It’s a conundrum. How do we get attendance levels back to before we had a new virus circulating at high levels that - shock horror - also affects kids, tens of thousands of whom have long covid (until we stopped bothering to count them)? Who can solve this mystery of mysteries?

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@JoIsSummer

1 year

@CoastalK8 @NickTriggle From covid Inquiry: “ when the virus first came round we thought it was a respiratory virus, like the flu virus, it affects more people who have respiratory diseases…..we were surprised that a lot more people with diabetes and cardiovascular disease wore affected with this.”

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@JoIsSummer

2 years

Does anyone know if there’s a threshold for how many people get long covid via schools before there may be some basic actions to try to reduce prevalence? Address air quality perhaps? @nadhimzahawi

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@JoIsSummer

3 years

I know people say we have to live with it, but I’m struggling. Deliberate mass infection of a whole generation of kids. No protections. None. Some older ones offered vaccines very late in the day. Absolutely abhorrent and evil. They are kids.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

4 months

Politicians be like: The first rule of learning to live with covid and long covid is we don’t talk about the impacts of living with covid and long covid.

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

3 years

I support #SchoolStrike2021 . Help schools stay open and protect school communities by putting in mitigations. Address ventilation as other countries have done. Let’s not knowingly pursue a strategy that will leave many with long covid. @Sandyboots2020 @SafeEdForAll_UK @HoppySaul

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

1 year

@1goodtern Similarly, why is the covid inquiry the only place they seem to acknowledge it’s not like a flu?! How can it be said NOW that they inaccurately thought ‘x’ back then, but in public messaging imply it’s ‘x’ now?! How do you reason with this?! The mental gymnastics are exhausting!!

Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

1 year

@CoastalK8 @NickTriggle From covid Inquiry: “ when the virus first came round we thought it was a respiratory virus, like the flu virus, it affects more people who have respiratory diseases…..we were surprised that a lot more people with diabetes and cardiovascular disease wore affected with this.”

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Jo Summers (joissummers att blue sky)

@JoIsSummer

6 months

Do you feel guilty for being ill due to the relentless push to deny the amount of illness around? If not, why not? What can we change to make you feel more guilty and further impact your longer term health?

BBC Morning Live

@BBCMorningLive

6 months

Last year NHS England gave out 11 million sick notes. It has nearly doubled in a decade. Have you ever had one? Have you ever had a sick note from work or not? If so, did you feel guilty about it?

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