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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

What’s been extraordinary during this pandemic is realising just how much more valuable a human life is in New Zealand than here in the UK.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

1 year

I can’t help thinking - all this cash being given to private healthcare companies to “help” the NHS - wouldn’t it much, much more efficient to give it directly to… the NHS. Where there are no shareholders taking profits?

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

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3 years

1820 people died today. And those deaths are a completely predictable outcome of a disastrous strategy: a path that was deliberately chosen by politicians who have repeatedly chosen to ignore sound scientific advice. It is desperately sad. And we should all be angry.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

8 months

Last summer, my son, then 9, swam in an English river and suffered 6 whole days of diarrhoea and vomiting. It was very worrying. His friend was almost hospitalised. And now we’re told the only way we can have more houses is by sacrificing any hope of cleaning up our waterways.…

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

4 years

An Orwellian phrase if ever there was one. “We’re ending free movement to open Britain up to the world.”

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

2 years

I’m still reeling over the US Supreme Court ruling to regress woman’s rights. And also chilled to the bone that a UK MP publicly applauded the decision.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

5 months

I’m wading into this debate. I don’t even know why it’s a debate. I’d love Greece to have its beautiful Parthenon marbles back. I mean, it’s been really lovely to have them on extended loan, but they’re not ours.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

4 years

On the day the pubs open again, the government stops sharing daily coronavirus testing and mortality statistics on Twitter. What a strange coincidence.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

5 years

I'm taking a holiday from Twitter for a while. I've argued for reason, compassion and empathy in discussions about sex and gender. That's opened me up to more hate, bile and even misogyny than I've experienced before. I'm sad and shocked. Humans can be so much better than this.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

Academics can be so supportive.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

I've said it before. I'd really hoped I wouldn't have to say it again. Good luck, herd.

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@theAliceRoberts

4 years

Good luck, herd.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

1 year

We should have plenty of money to pay all those NHS workers reasonable wages, keeping up with inflation, shouldn’t we?

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

11 months

Thoughts on turning 50, a week on… I have found treasure in my life, real treasure: family & friends. I am lucky to have found such love, friendship & hope in my life - especially at times when I have felt very lost & fragile. Pass on love - it’s the best we can do, as humans.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

2 years

We've seen so many advances in human rights over the last two centuries. But today is a dark day for women's rights. #roeoverturned

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

1 year

Just popping in here to brighten up your day!

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

7 months

Notes from a civilised country…

Henrik Larsen

@larsen_hb

8 months

@theAliceRoberts This is one of the two sewage plants in Copenhagen. It has the capacity to clean sewage water from 750.000 people. It's so effective that people can bathe safely in the harbour. The waste is used to make biogas, supplying 60% of the gas needed in Copenhagen. Pure win win.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

When this pandemic started to take hold, I knew it would be brutal. But I never imagined that the virus would find itself so many human allies - people who would reject science and argue for a medieval approach, rejecting masks, vaccines, even ventilation - as the devil’s work.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

Something to bear in mind tomorrow: if you’re anti-mask, anti-distancing and anti-ventilation - you’re pro-lockdown.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

2 years

I've been told I have to go on BBC impartiality training. (Interesting, as I am not presently working on any BBC content). Should I live-tweet?

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

I’m still reeling from seeing an elected MP launch a personal attack on a highly respected scientist - presumably because he dislikes her expert analysis - and grabbing an image from a right-wing gossip blogger to do it.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

1 year

They missed me, walking down the steps of the @britishmuseum !

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

4 years

176 lives lost to coronavirus in the last 24 hours. Is this just accepted as the new normal?

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

4 years

I’m staying home.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

2 years

Nursing degrees will be the first to go, then.

Sky News

@SkyNews

2 years

Sunak vows to crack down on university degrees that do not improve 'earning potential'

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

2 months

There was something very odd in the PM’s speech last night - something which infuses RE in the primary school curriculum too: the idea that everyone in this country is religious in one way or another, when we know from polls that over half the population is not religious. 1/7

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

1 year

Exactly how old and/or qualified does a woman need to be before some people take her seriously?

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

1 year

Wow, my timeline’s full of men questioning my academic credentials and telling me to shut up. Why do people feel the need to resort to ad hominem attacks? We should surely be able to engage in discussion and debate without throwing virtual vitriol over each other.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

6 months

Some thoughts about the revelations from the COVID enquiry. It is now blindingly clear that we were lied to. We were signed up to a massive medical experiment - “herd immunity” - without consent. 1/5

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

2 years

Given how groggy and short of breath I’m feeling with COVID - after 3 jabs, I dread to think how bad it would have been if I’d been unvaccinated.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

1 year

Finally, I can let the cat out of the bag! I'm in the Detectorists this Christmas!

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

4 years

This announcement happened while I was away, in a field. I'm so delighted to have received this awesome award from the Royal Society. I look forward to giving my lecture when it's safe to do so, and I hope you'll all come!

The Royal Society

@royalsociety

4 years

We are very happy to announce that @theAliceRoberts has been awarded the Royal Society David Attenborough Award and Lecture for her outstanding contributions to public engagement ranging across medicine, anatomy, biology, evolution & archaeology. #RSMedals

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

“How could we have possibly known that if we ignored the scientists, things would turn out so badly?”

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

8 months

Extraordinary to hear Steve Barclay on @BBCr4today this morning, arguing that doctors cannot be offered a fair pay deal to make up for the huge depreciation in wages over previous decades - because teachers are paid so little. We should pay teachers more too! Why should these…

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

4 years

P is for PUPPY! Introducing Lupa. She is a poppet.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

My heart goes out to those who are vulnerable, and who fear that they will be fending for themselves on 19th July. But I know that there are many, many community-minded people out there who will keep on trying to keep others safe. It's up to us all now.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

1 year

Just heard on the radio that the Church of England won’t be marrying same sex couples any time soon. Just another reminder that religious institutions tend to be a drag on progress in human rights and moral advancement in society.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

2 years

Some more lovely feedback arrived in my inbox this morning.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

What kind of stubbornness does it take, 18 months into a pandemic, to look around the world and see examples of best practice, where mortality is minimal, economies least damaged and liberties least infringed - and then say: But obviously that’s not what WE’RE going to do!

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

Getting vaccinated isn’t just about the individual. By having the vaccine, you’re helping to protect the whole community. You’re helping to protect the vulnerable.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

Hoping that things will just, sort of, work out if you leave them alone - that we can just take a deadly pandemic on the chin, that food will find their way to shelves and homes somehow, that fuel supplies will sort themselves out - isn’t really what you could call “government”.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

2 years

No medicine, no vaccine, is risk-free. But do the benefits outweigh the risks? I decided yes - for measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, polio, hep B, TB, Japanese encephalitis, yellow fever, flu. And yes, for #COVID19 vaccination.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

I suspect that if you think #BrexitIsntWorking , you may not have considered who it was designed to work for.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

If this government wants state schools to be more like independent schools, they could do with funding them better. Latin’s brilliant, but smaller class sizes would be even nicer. And perhaps even, for September, some ventilation?

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

4 years

Good luck, herd.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

1 year

Very worrying. “… it emerged that the Guardian, BBC, Daily Mirror, Independent & i newspaper were not invited [on Rwanda trip]. The home secretary will be accompanied by journalists from organisations including GB News, Daily Mail and Telegraph”

Braverman criticised for shutting out Guardian and BBC from Rwanda trip

Home secretary accused of rewarding favourable coverage on visit aimed at reinforcing government’s migration plan

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

It's a very uncomfortable feeling - knowing that when policy-makers mentioned herd immunity back in March - & found out how objectionable that was to most people - they clearly decided to pursue it anyway, and just pretend they weren't. Reopening schools with no protection fits.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

4 years

Wear a mask in shops. Don’t wear a mask in school (even if spending hours in a smaller, badly ventilated room, with 30 others). Social distancing is key. Unless you’re in school - no room. Children are safe. Teachers are safe. Families are safe. Very, very, very, very, very safe.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

Countdown to lockdown starts tomorrow. I’m so bored of this.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

1 year

Would anyone actually have voted for Brexit if we’d been told the country would be 4% poorer forever?

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

2 years

Very glad to hear of another nail in the coffin of fascism. And a vote for hope, a better future. We can - and must - escape the darkness and divisiveness of the past.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

1 year

I love a carol, but can’t shake the feeling that children singing about a religious myth where a young girl is impregnated by a deity is just a bit weird.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

1 year

Feeling a bit cross today at the news about how Britain's recession is going be worse than that in the US or the Eurozone. Someone, somewhere, has clearly made some bad choices.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

5 months

Apparently it’s anti-British of me suggest that Greek things should be given back to Greek people.

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@stop_ulez_scam

5 months

@theAliceRoberts Their ours if we say they're ours Alice. Please stop being anti British we all need to come together ❤️

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

One of the most precious abilities that humans possess is the capacity to learn from mistakes. One of the deepest tragedies is to refuse to admit to a mistake, and lose that opportunity to do better.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

I’m not sure what this is. But it’s certainly not effective public engagement with science. #nextslideplease

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

1 year

No-one makes the decision to go on strike lightly. Teachers are striking today because they, and our schools, are under-funded and under-valued. Failing to invest in education is future-discounting. It’s letting our children down. #TeacherStrike

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

After a nasty bit of casual rankism from a fellow academic today, I’ve been overwhelmed by all the positive messages here - both from dear friends and kind strangers. I’m working away from my family right now, so I appreciated this support even more at this moment.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

1 year

All these years… I had not realised that turquoise meant ‘Turkish’!

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

More than 200 people recorded as dying from COVID today. When did this get normalised? As COVID rips through schools, why are we not doing more to protect children and prevent spread? We could be doing much more but a decision has been made that it's not (financially) worth it.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

Really worrying.

Simon Gosden. Esq. #fbpe 3.5% 🇪🇺🐟🇬🇧🏴‍☠️🦠💙

@g_gosden

3 years

MP Steve Baker just bluntly told Sophy Ridge that Paul Dacre is being put in charge of OFCOM because he wants UK News to be censored by "conservatives". When fascism arrives it will come in a smart suit.....

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

7 months

I'm very pleased to have had my COVID vaccination today - having had 3 vaccines before, and having had COVID 3 times too, I know this year's vaccine will protect me from the worst of this virus and help protect others too.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

4 years

I think this is Twitter gently telling me it’s time to go to sleep.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

Project Herd Immunity for children and young people due to start on March 8th. I’ve said it before. Good luck, herd!

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

2 years

This all sounds great, Prime Minister. But what about schools? What about children? Nothing.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

2 years

Why do would-be PMs feel the need to declare a “war on woke”? Are they going to attack empathy, stab sensitivity to death and finally crush compassion as well?

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

Thank you for all the lovely messages, kind people of Twitter. I will keep sharing good science, speaking out - and work on growing that tougher skin!

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@theAliceRoberts

3 years

Dr Anthony Fauci: "We have lost more children from SARS CoV2 than we ever lose from influenza. And we vaccinate against influenza"

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 months

Ready for the evening!

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

This is now starting to seem more than a little sinister. For the record, Professor Christina Pagel is the director of the Clinical Operational Research Unit at UCL.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

2 years

Happy New Year everyone. Let 2022 be the year we come together around the world to protect everyone from the pandemic. Let’s have vaccine equity, a commitment to reducing our impact on the environment and all the other species on spaceship Earth, tolerance, peace and love.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

The awful truth I've dealt with, over this last year and a half, is that I don't think the government of the country I live in cares for vulnerable families.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

Utterly devastating. “One email dated 22nd March 2020 shows Dr Jenny Harries, now Head of Test and Trace, and officials in the Department for Health, discussing the fact that care homes on the ground did not want to take people from hospital without a negative test…

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

The teaching unions are listening to scientists. And following the science.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

4 years

Rules may be open to interpretation. But here are three words which must retain their precise meaning, for our society to function at all, for us to trust each other: Integrity, honesty, responsibility.

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@theAliceRoberts

3 years

Pretending it doesn’t exist doesn’t make it go away.

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@theAliceRoberts

7 months

I’ve gone a bit Blondie!

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

Hugging with caution. What an idiotic oxymoron.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

1 year

The census results today are surely something to celebrate. We are a glorious multicultural society with such a rich diversity of heritage and worldviews. And contrary to the bleating of bigots online - it's wonderful!

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

4 years

76 years ago, my grandad drove a tank onto Sword Beach. Like so many others, he risked his life to fight against fascism. #June6th #DDay #LestWeForget

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

Recorded deaths usually drop at the weekend. 1348 COVID deaths have been recorded today in the UK, mostly in England. All those people. All those families. My heart goes out to them. But make no mistake - this a tragedy we could have avoided.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

4 years

Someone, somewhere has made the calculation that it’s too expensive to try to protect the lives of vulnerable children, parents and teachers through this pandemic.

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3 years

When Boris Johnson said "take it on the chin" - he knew some people would never get back up. When politicians say "we must live the virus" - they know that many will die unnecessarily, that many will become chronically ill. They're prepared to accept that. Are you?

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

Picking over a family’s relationships when they are mourning a death is not news. It’s purely malignant gossip.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

2 years

In the Telegraph: some Christians who think that non-Christians are incapable of tackling moral questions. They are so convinced of their moral and intellectual superiority. What an objectionable headline.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

4 years

How is it possible to describe a classroom situation with 30 pupils in one room which doesn’t allow social distancing, no mask-wearing and no routine testing as “Covid secure?” #backtoschoolsafely

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

We are in a critical situation. Scientists have advised the government to close schools. Unions have advised their members to follow the science and not ignore health and safety at work - for staff, pupils, and families’ sakes. There’s an obvious decision to be made here.

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3 years

Just a little reminder today. Dead people - don’t come back to life.

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@theAliceRoberts

2 years

I reckon about 6% people on my train are wearing masks. So, around the same frequency of people who are presently infected with COVID. We’re not really protecting the vulnerable, are we. 😥

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@theAliceRoberts

3 years

Oh no! Why did I watch it. My eyes! My eyes!

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@theAliceRoberts

3 years

For those saying: hindsight is all very well. In the FT, last March:

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

3 years

The definition of “key worker” seems to have expanded somewhat in this lockdown.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

1 year

No one denies maths is a fundamental subject. But in our current system, imposing maths would narrow students’ choices. As with so many headline-grabbing educational policies, I want to know about the evidence supporting this idea. Show us your working!

Rishi Sunak wants all pupils to study maths to age 18

In his first speech of 2023, the PM also set out his priorities, including dealing with NHS backlogs.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@theAliceRoberts

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The cat’s out of the bag “keeping schools closed is economically unsustainable” says Mark Harper - so what is the real driver behind this idea that schools should reopen quickly, with no extra safety measures? The needs of vulnerable children - or the economy? @BBCr4today

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

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GPs (always) seem to be getting a lot of flak. But what do patients really think? I love the fact I can do my annual asthma check online, but can still get an urgent face-to-face appointment when I need one. Seems a much better system.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

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I’ve never liked singing Land of Hope and Glory. Expansionist, exploitative imperialism just doesn’t do it for me. Much prefer the Foo Fighters.

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

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Looking on the bright side, at least our government has stopped trying to pretend they're interested in protecting everyone. At least they've come clean about pursuing herd-immunity-by-infection now, for those not lucky enough to be fully vaccinated. Including all our children.

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@theAliceRoberts

3 years

Yesterday, Boris Johnson spoke to Andrew Marr saying that scientists had told him schools were very, very, very safe. On this evening’s PM on radio 4, John Edmunds - who is on SAGE - said “over the autumn the most important route of infections into the home was schoolchildren”.

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3 years

I’m starting to think there really must be a strategy - to embrace chaos and keep the population in a high state of anxiety...

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I find it very strange to watch a politician being interviewed and crying - because something they fought for tooth and claw came to pass and then it’s undone, and this is now apparently what they’ve wanted all along. It’s not just strange; it’s scary.

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