UK has quit the European Medicines Agency which rapidly authorises pandemic vaccines so those medicines will cost us more & take longer to arrive. We also quit the EU's pandemic warning system & refuse to take part in the daily conference call of European health ministers. Why?
If you have elderly people in your family or your acquaintance, teaching them how to Facetime, Skype or WhatsApp call — if they don't know how to already — would probably be a good thing. Social distancing is going to be very hard on the elderly.
G Brown is rightly receiving retrospective praise for his handling of 2008 financial crisis..yet at time he was monstered by most of media and subject of internal coups by MPs who would've been almost as bewildered as B Johnson in the face of epic crisis..changing perspectives.
Teacher friends, me and the team @helloadapt have been working furiously on this free resource for over a year now- please RT and share with any schools or students worried about #GCSE and #ALevel time management in the event of #coronavirus#schoolclosures! @TF_Ambassadors
Here’s a tip I’ve been trying in the evenings: every time you feel yourself wanting to terror-scroll through Twitter, put your phone out of reach and read a book. Managing your mental health in the next few weeks is going to be essential.
You know who are also heroes? Those working the checkout counters and stocking shelves at supermarkets and pharmacies. Their work, at some risk to their own health, is vital to the health and safety of our country.
Please please can we be hygienic, patient and polite towards supermarket workers. They are keeping our country going at the moment - alongside our public sector workers - and deserve our kindness and support.
Hullo from London! Where, to counter potential anxiety, I have made you a video of my little hot air engine... which is powered entirely by the heat of MY CUP OF TEA
Just read that Chinese medical team sent to Italy to fight Covid-19 comprises mostly experienced doctors from Sichuan. Sichuan folks still remember how Italy rescue team during the devastating 2008 Wenchuan earthquake saved many lives. The world needs more help with each other
As we have seen an unprecedented demand across our range, we will be limiting customer purchases to four units on all products to ensure all of our customers have an opportunity to purchase them. We thank you all for your patience during this time. (2/2)
“We call on DfE to postpone the KS2 SATs in May, with a view to these taking place later in the term, if at all this year. We also ask for contingency plans around GCSE and A-levels to be made clear before the Easter break and abolition of league tables in 2020.” Michael Pain.
If everyone who has ever been grateful for the NHS followed and retweeted we would reach a million by midnight
It takes just one click and your support would mean a lot, especially right now
You do wonder, when all this is over, whether all the people panic buying toilet roll might have developed a bit more empathy for the people fleeing war in Syria and trying to stop their kids drowning in the Mediterranean.
But I doubt it.
Dropped my wife off at the hospital this morning for her 12hr shift. While 95% of the world is distancing from the #coronavirus, health professionals are putting their armor on and attacking it. My wife is a hero. #covid19Canada#HealthCare#frontlines
This is, quite literally, life under a right-wing British government where the population is confused & frightened. We all need to demand better from our leaders, Darren, wherever we may stand on other issues. I hope your secretly-funded employers permit you to endorse this plea.