This from January 2022: https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/expert-advice-on-reopening-schools-defies-rights-and-puts-children-at-risk/41219699.html
"Justifying giving
schools the go-ahead to reopen, Dr Holohan tweeted: “The Irish and
international experience of the pandemic continues to give us reason to believe
that schools are a lower-risk environment for the transmission of Covid-19.
Wrong. The WHO and ECDC agree that risk in schools is only lowered with ventilation, masks, contact tracing, testing and low community transmission. Dr Holohan has doggedly resisted these scientifically proven school protections".
"Instead,
Ireland is reopening the most overcrowded schools in Europe with the highest infection
rates in the EU (which could be 80,000 cases a day) with hand-sanitiser and
open windows as our children’s primary defence against the highly infectious
Omicron.
The rest of Dr Holohan’s tweet
read: “The majority of children who are infected experience a mild form of this
disease.”
It’s deeply concerning that the
man responsible for the country’s public health advice is apparently
normalising the mass infection of children, which for some may not be mild and
could result in hospitalisation, long Covid and possibly death".
"The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) states that
the best interests of the child must be a primary consideration in all actions
concerning children (Article 3) and that all the rights guaranteed by the UNCRC
must be available to all children without discrimination (Article 2).
Enshrined within the convention is the right to access education, safety, health and life. Ms Foley’s failure to provide airborne mitigations disproportionately impacts disabled and immunocompromised children (or children within immunocompromised families), denying them the right to safely access education.
"Every child has a right to be
educated in a safe environment".
"We have solutions, but they’re not being implemented.”
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