Dáil air is filtered while our children continue to get sick at school

The ongoing impact of covid infection is very real, but we still haven't managed the simplest mitigation for our children

The proportion of children chronically absent from school has doubled since we removed airborne protections and pretended the pandemic was over. Picture: Larry Cummins

10 March 2020, a sign on a local business door read: “Closed, covid-19 outbreak”. An occupant was removed on a stretcher by paramedics in hazmat suits. Close contacts, some of whom had kids in local schools, had not been contact traced. Villagers were panicking. I called my regional public health hub and asked “What’s the plan for schools?” 

Official: No evidence of an outbreak. No plan needed.