BISWAS Nov 1 Issue 18 | Page 55

UNICEF has said that closing schools during pandemic was the biggest mistake. There is no relationship between pandemic and schools functioning.

Experts have confirmed that letting children catch Covid may be safer than giving them vaccine. Allowing children to catch Covid may be better than exposing them to the "risk" of vaccines, a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has said

Prof Robert Dingwall said children may be “better protected by natural immunity generated through infection than by asking them to take the ‘possible’ risk of a vaccine”.

We are messing up with our children's future. Online education is offered 2 to 3 years old children! This is not sensible. One should not just keep mum.

It is necessary for sensible people to collect together and give memorandum to the government, the collector collectors and other responsible officials and ask them to start schools regularly, looking at all the scientific evidences. Children don't need mask, they don't need distancing. It is our responsibility to see that their present and future are not spoiled.

By Dr Maya Valecha

*Senior doctor and activist based in Surat

Children don't need mask, they don't need distancing. It is our responsibility to see that their present and future are not spoiled.