Children

Just some quick basic facts then a video to watch.

• Children tend to have less severe acute reactions to a Covid infection, often completely asymptomatic - so it is easy to be persuaded that they are not being affected.

• The hidden longer term internal damage that Covid inflicts affects children in the same ways it affects adults.

• Schools are known to be the main source of community transmission - it is simply ridiculous to pretend children are not getting infected with Covid repeatedly

• Over 60 thousand children in the UK are already living with Long Covid

• School absence is at record levels

• Schools can be made safer with basic ventilation and air cleaning, multiple studies have proved sickness levels are reduced when Hepa filters are deployed. In the UK even where parents have bought filters and tried to give them to schools, in almost all cases the head teachers are refusing to allow them to be used hiding behind government guidelines.

• Schools are demanding parents send their children to school even with a positive Covid test “as long as they feel OK” and demanding the same of teachers. Attendance officers are even threatening and taking legal action against parents. At the same time we are listening to the Covid inquiry and saying how shocking it is that the government ignored the science “during the pandemic”, seemingly being incapable of making the mental leap to realise that this is happening right now.

• Heading into the end of 2023 the 0 to 4 years age group is experiencing the highest level of covid related hospitalisation other than age groups over 60

• We are supposed to keep children safe, not hide from information about Covid so we can keep going to restaurants.

This video is from an Independent Sage online meeting, the incredible Dr Rae Duncan who is a cardiologist and Long Covid expert.