Jo Summers (@joissummer from Twitter)

Like a HEPA filter? I have at home too.

They’ve always been germ pits, but the pressure to attend when unwell or contagious, plus addition of covid is having an impact.

Just over a month into school.
Nits, chickenpox, conjunctivitis, vomiting, diarrhoea, heavy “colds”, excessive tiredness, appetite loss, hand foot and mouth, fever. That’s just what I know of in classes.
What % of kids are not learning due to illness - whether in school or off?

Dear Bridget Phillipson, Please Can We Talk About Health? Dear Bridget Phillipson, Please can we talk about health? It’s autumn 2025. We’re one month into the school year, in England. Two of my children are ill, again.With Covid, again.It&#821…

This open letter from @75thunderroad.bsky.social to the Education Secretary captures what so many of us are feeling.
Please read and share.

stevebheadteacher.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/d...

I am angry.

Where are all the people that were so concerned about children?

Where is the coverage on the covid inquiry? Why are only certain children newsworthy?

I am angry.

Where are all the people that were so concerned about children?

Where is the coverage on the covid inquiry? Why are only certain children newsworthy?

Dear Bridget Phillipson, Please Can We Talk About Health? Dear Bridget Phillipson, Please can we talk about health? It’s autumn 2025. We’re one month into the school year, in England. Two of my children are ill, again.With Covid, again.It&#821…

This open letter from @75thunderroad.bsky.social to the Education Secretary captures what so many of us are feeling.
Please read and share.

stevebheadteacher.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/d...

The long Covid legacy: 'People don't want to think about us' Around 2million people are still thought to be living with long Covid in the UK

Despite large numbers of adults and children with long covid, the devastating impact, people are encouraged to spread covid whilst contagious and wash their hands for an airborne virus. For many, this Christmas will be their first with long covid.

metro.co.uk/2025/09/20/l...

Some schools seem to monitor everything to the nth degree. Imagine if they had a daily clickbox rating “how well do you feel today”?

Children are human - they learn better when they’re well. Their peers are human too. Their health & education shouldn’t be repeatedly compromised.

It’s morbidly fascinating how we now actually award people for spreading covid. There may be some tiny schools somewhere which don’t have pupils with long covid, but statistically the majority of schools will.

A: It’s not 2020

B: Er, I know

A: So why mention covid?

B: Sorry, I didn’t realise you wanted to play the time-travel game again. Fine, let’s pretend it’s Summer 2019. Again

Attendance is important - especially in the first week.

The second week is clearly less important which is why we do nothing to curb infections in schools - even in the midst of a current covid wave.

How many will spend this Christmas as their first one with long covid?

A: You've had headache, fever, diarrhoea, but feeling a bit better this afternoon so popped over to me? 😡

B: Don't worry, its only covid

A: Phew. I don't mind me and my family having those symptoms if it's just from covid. Wait - you tested? WHY DID YOU TEST - COVID IS OVER?!

Thanks.

Thank you. How does France measure prevalence of long covid and how has it changed over time? We used to have the ONS survey here.

Many excellent points here on #LongCovid and prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection 🔥 @winslowsp.bsky.social

I wonder if govt ditched drink-driving laws and there was an increase in accidents how much of this we’d see:

- it’s only a drink, most people survive
- accidents don’t exist
- sure, you can’t stop all accidents, so why stop any
- life limiting injuries mustn’t be acknowledged

People who become disabled after an arbitrary date are unsustainable. Have I got that right?

@TweetingCollins thank you for raising the issue of long covid in children & the desperate situation so many thousands of kids find themselves in. This is especially welcome in a week where @wesstreeting said we’d beaten covid, as though long covid, hospitalisations & deaths aren’t still happening.

Either case estimates are astoundingly wrong or nearly everybody is being hospitalised with it. Which is it? Does the media question these oddities?

“947 patients admitted in the week up to May 31.”

“Cases have also risen by 6.9 per cent with 1,211 cases in the week up to June 4.”

Either case estimates are astoundingly wrong or nearly everybody is being hospitalised with it. Which is it? Does the media question these oddities?

“947 patients admitted in the week up to May 31.”

“Cases have also risen by 6.9 per cent with 1,211 cases in the week up to June 4.”

It’s a shame kids have to pick up the slack from so little resilience in schools.

“Hey Fred, just up your steroid inhaler even more to try to counteract the poor air in schools.”
Recommendations for classroom air remain unmet, despite poorer standards than comparable countries.

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 does current covid policy differ from one that assumes long covid is ‘bollocks’? Thanks.

3 million with long covid (UK, 2024).

Those responsible for public health and prevention “Hold my beer. In for a penny, in for a pound.”

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

⭐Excited to share this article I wrote for @TeachPrimary magazine! ⭐
I ask WHY #Teachers and #Pupils are STILL left to repeatedly catch airborne diseases in schools when we KNOW that #HEPA filters would reduce sickness and improve #attendance?
Full magazine here: cdn.teachwire.net/e-mag/Teach-...

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If you’re in the UK, please sign this petition to force the government to respond to requests for increased protection against airborne viruses.

Please sign and share. Today is the last day. Let’s help reduce risk to health outcomes in the short and long term.

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