A graphic showing a recent article from the Globe and Mail titled "Spit kits' offer opportunity tp test for RSV, influenza and COIVD-19 in Toronto schools this fall" published October 11, 2024. The letter grade of "D" has been applied by the Canadian Covid Society.

A graphic with the text "The Globe and Mail provides important coverage of a good program, but fails to provide critical context."

A graphic with the text: "Credit given for: [CHECK MARK] Coverage of the testing program / [CHECK MARK] Actually printing the "C" word"

A graphic with the text: "Points deducted for: Speaking of the pandemic in past tense False equivalency of all respiratory diseases No context on the dangers Covid poses to children Not encouraging masking for symptomatic people (at the very least) No information about ways to prevent Covid spread in schools"

It’s a bit ironic that this October 11th article from the Globe and Mail about tests doesn’t pass ours, right?
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#BackToSchool #COVID #SafeAirTest #CleanAir #BCEd #AbEd #SKEd #MbED #ONed #EduQc #NBed #NSed #PEIed #NFLDed #NWTed #YKed #Nunavuted

A graphic with text: “You’d think schools would’ve been the ones to LEARN to live with Covid”

Instead of learning to live with Covid, schools are forcing kids to learn with the constant threat of Covid hanging in the air.
#BackToSchool #COVID #SafeAirTest #CleanAir #BCEd #AbEd #SKEd #MbED #ONed #EduQc #NBed #NSed #PEIed #NFLDed #NWTed #YKed #Nunavuted

A graphic with the text: Cleaning the Air 101 Covid is airborne - which means you get infected by simply breathing contaminated air. Cleaning the air isn't just theoretically possible, it's something schools can do today.

A graphic with the text: Ventilation Modern and efficient mechanical ventilation can help reduce the prevalence of COVID in the air - but even just opening a window can help.

A graphic with the text: Filtration High-quality HVAC filtration, "Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes" and portable HEPA filter purifiers are proven to clean the air and reduce infections.

Schools don’t need to be scientists to clean the air - they just need the will. We have the tools, why aren’t we using them?

#BackToSchool #COVID #SafeAirTest #CleanAir #HEPA #CRBox #BCEd #AbEd #SKEd #MbED #ONed #EduQc #NBed #NSed #PEIed #NFLDed #NWTed #YKed #Nunavuted

A graphic of a child in school with the text: Back to school... Back-to-back waves.

COVID isn’t seasonal. We see waves in every season - and, without fail, back to school has typically led to a surge. 1/2

#BackToSchool #COVID #SafeAirTest #CleanAir #BCEd #AbEd #SKEd #MbED #ONed #EduQc #NBed #NSed #PEIed #NFLDed #NWTed #YKed #Nunavuted

A graphic with the text: "It's time schools learn a lesson about clean air."

Learning to live with COVID means actually learning. Schools have had over four years to make the air safe - and most haven’t.

#COVID #SafeAirTest #CleanAir #BCEd #AbEd #SKEd #MbED #ONed #EduQc #NBed #NSed #PEIed #NFLDed #NWTed #YKed #Nunavuted

an image of a woman at home with a sick child and the text: "Sick of sick days”

Covid isn’t harmless for kids. Period, full stop. But even if it was, wouldn’t you prefer not to spend so many holiday days at home with a sick kid? 1/2
#BackToSchool #COVID #SafeAirTest #BCEd #AbEd #SKEd #MbED #ONed #EduQc #NBed #NSed #PEIed #NFLDed #NWTed #YKed #Nunavuted

A graphic with the text: The history books will not be kind about how we let kids get infected in school

We can’t wait for COVID to be history either. But for now, the lack of safe air in schools is what the they’ll write about in history books about today.
#BackToSchool #COVID #SafeAirTest #BCEd #AbEd #SKEd #MbED #ONed #EduQc #NBed #NSed #PEIed #NFLDed #NWTed #YKed #Nunavuted

Is 2024 the year that schools have finally learned how to provide a safer environment for kids to learn in? 1/3
#BackToSchool #COVID #SafeAirTest #CleanAir #BCEd #AbEd #SKEd #MbED #ONed #EduQc #NBed #NSed #PEIed #NFLDed #NWTed #YKed #Nunavuted