Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Jenny Harries says the is of your child dying in a road traffic accident “is probably higher than their risk from #COVID”.

Especially if Dominic Cummings is behind the wheel!
#schoolsreopening #Corona #COVID19 #BackToSchool
It’s extraordinary that the same govt scientists who got it wrong on lockdown, testing, screening etc are still in charge

12/3 - Contact tracing halted
26/3 - Harries says community testing is “not an appropriate mechanism”
5/5 - Harries changes her story
In answer to @Jeremy_Hunt, Jennie Harries told the @DHSCgovuk Select Committee that the govt had abandoned test, track & trace strategy due to lack of capacity NOT because it was “an inappropriate mechanism”

But the govt had claimed otherwise for 6 weeks!
On 6 May, @Keir_Starmer asked the PM if he could explain why the UK had been lied to about the real reason for abandoning contact tracing on 12 March.

He couldn’t!

@BorisJohnson’s answer to this simple question show a deeply disturbing lack of knowledge
When Whitty announced the decision to “pivot” away from community testing on 12 March, experts made it clear that this was the 100% wrong thing to do.

But theses voices were largely ignored.

Only a handful of journalists (like @piersmorgan) spoke out.
On 11 March, in a carefully choreographed interview with @BorisJohnson, Harries said public outdoor events are safe & that “we don’t want to disrupt people lives”.

That week, @LFC played Real Madrid & 250,000 people went to the Cheltenham Festival.
#COVID
Going against the scientific consensus, the UK took a different path.

@BorisJohnson: “What [the scientists] are telling me is, slightly counter-intuitively, things like closing schools & stopping big gatherings don’t work as well perhaps as people think.”
On 14 April, Jenny Harries described UK approach to the #Coronavirus pandemic as “an international exemplar” of preparedness.

The UK was WOEFULLY underprepared despite the warnings from intn’l scientists, intelligence reports & our own #ExerciseCygnus.
On 14 May, Jenny Harries was asked why the govt had stopped sharing intn’l #COVID19 death statistic tables.

Was it because the UK had the worst death rate in the entire world?

“I& #39;m absolutely delighted to discuss death statistics comparisons.” #COVID_19
So an appeal to journalists:

Next time Jenny Harries & govt ministers draw comparisons btw the danger of kids going to school & traffic accidents, please point out https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👆" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach oben" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach oben">& refer tohttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten">(our safe #school guide - developed with experts & based on recent research. https://www.undercovid.org/articles/safe-schools">https://www.undercovid.org/articles/...
Notice Jenny Harries& #39; v careful wording.

"Children very rarely get severe disease...When children do get infection it is usually very mild & sometimes asymptomatic. And so the overall risk to the child themselves is very very small."

The key words: "asymptomatic" & "themselves"
Everything that Jenny Harries says is true.

But she fails to answer the question: "Is is currently safe to open schools."

Instead she answers the question "Are our children at risk of dying from #COVID19?"

Acknowledgment asymptomatic infection, shows she& #39;s aware of the danger.
This sleight of hand & spin by govt & their scientists is happening every day!

Why didn’t the journalist say: “But I’m not talking about the threat to the child. Science shows asymptomatic children have the SAME viral load as adults severe #COVID cases.”? https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(20)31023-4/fulltext">https://www.jpeds.com/article/S...
One of the most moving things I& #39;ve witnessed over lockdown has been the way in which children have been so strict with social distancing rules.

For a child to think they might be responsible for the death of a parent or grandparent is a burden too huge for their young shoulders.
With Parliament on recess, SAGE sidelined in favour of the secretive #JointBiosecurityCentre & journalists given very little opportunity to ask the vital questions, there is zero transparency or accountability

It& #39;s something to add to the growing list for the 2022 Public Inquiry
Dr Harries puts me in remind of my favourite two lines from Nineteen Eighty-Four

"One had the impression that there was dust in the creases of her face." Page 24

"In the better light of the living-room he noticed that there actually WAS dust in the creases of her face." Page 28
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