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What level of threat to life and health should be acceptable to vulnerable people?

If we can improve safety the majority of vulnerable families would be happy in school.

#CleanAir supported #MasksInSchool

Working remotely must remain an option for all vulnerable employees.

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There are children and adults at risk from Covid infections?

Yet children are not allowed to test without medical approval, and if positive they must return day 4 whilst still infectious.

Some schools even pick up children to make sure they return.

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📈 Workplace and school absences are rising.

These two recent stories have put the spotlight on how we are simply NOT

#LearningToLiveWithCovid

How do we deal with it?
*Learn* how to make it safe?

- No, force unfit people back to the grind.

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https://t.co/zW9NeN2v89

GPs may be asked to limit fit notes as part of 'ridiculous' government plans

GPs may be encouraged to recommend people with long-term sickness return to work and therefore reduce the number of fit notes in ‘ridiculous’ Government plans. 

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Let's say it while he is still with us. #JimmyCarter was a FAR better #president than his times could admit, and the best ex-president we have ever had.

That's the highest you can attain in that job.

ECHR calls on UK Govt to respond to 'credible allegations' of interference in Brexit referendum

"This is about protecting the integrity of our politics, our democratic system and our electoral process", Ben Bradshaw said.

The London Economic

Entertainer, childhood literacy advocate, and scientific philanthropist Dolly Parton was born #OTD in 1946.

Mostly known for singing and songwriting, Dolly's Imagination Library program has distributed over 100 million free books to kids around the world.
https://dollyparton.com/imagination-library

Normally I do #OTD posts for scientists and mathematicians, or important discoveries. But Dolly Parton has done as much as any living person to promote childhood literacy so I am proud to include her on the list.

Welcome to the official, historical archive of Dolly Parton

The official, historical archive of Dolly Parton including awards, books, family history, entertainment, milestones, movies, music, philanthropy and TV.

A social insurance model for healthcare (subsidised health insurance) perhaps gets more media discussion than opinion and politics currently justifies. As our poll showed there is very little support for it in the UK. Which is probably why the main parties all reject it. #C4News
@alexlac51 thanks for posting it Alex😊
@alexlac51 I remember watching him, when I was young, with my dad. Happy memories. Thank you.

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Rishi Sunak, who promised a new era of accountability in Downing Street has not given his new "independent" ethics adviser any new powers. Laurie Magnus will not even have the power to instigate an investigation into a minister, if Sunak doesn't want him to.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1605930735159984130

Adam Bienkov on Twitter

“Rishi Sunak, who promised a new era of accountability in Downing Street has not given his new "independent" ethics adviser any new powers. Laurie Magnus will not even have the power to instigate an investigation into a minister, if Sunak doesn't want him to.”

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