Risk Assessment for children wearing masks at school for prolonged periods
Dear Public Health Agency for Northern Ireland,
With reference to the video in the link below by PPE and respirator expert Megan Mansell, has the health agency conducted a health and safety risk assessment for children in NI secondary schools who have been recommended to and coerced by the Department of Education and school teachers, to wear face coverings for prolonged periods during school hours. If such an assessment has been done by your department please forward a copy. I would expect this to detail possibility of oxygen deprivation, carbon dioxide inhalation, bacterial infection probability due to masks becoming contaminated through touching, sneezing, coughing, using the bathroom etc., Ideally any social and psychological impacts mask wearing would have on young people should be included.
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Yours faithfully,
Tricia McGuigan
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Catherine Edgar left an annotation ()
You may be interested in the most recent update. The below is from update 4.
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-m...
"...Neither the government nor the school has assessed the risk of physical or psychological harms from wearing masks throughout almost all the school day (in classrooms, in corridors and on public transport)..."