🧵UK MPs and RW media have had "enough of experts"
Some examples of the disinformation and ideology we are up against
Swayne describing SAGE as "Dr Strangeloves"
2/ Swayne again, claiming road accidents and flu are killing more people than covid
They aren't
3/ Bridgen claiming infection is 20× better than vaccination at providing immunity
4/ Morgan equating basic public health measures far below a lockdown as tyranny
5/ Mcvey ( Chair of Collateral Global APPG)
"Pushing back against the lockdown fanatics"
6/ Mark Harper Chair of CRG being quite blunt in his criticism of Johnson and SAGE
7/ Graham Brady Chair of the 1922
"Authoritarian nonsense"
"Labour would have us in permanent lockdown"
8/ "The Saj" Our health secretary has gone to Balloux for advice
Couple of weeks ago he claimed UK wouldn't reach 100k cases...
9/ Meanwhile Lucy Johnson in the Express weaponises child deaths from abuse with a very misleading use of the statistics to fit her agenda
10/ Pearson of Telegraph claiming the government will manipulate hospital figures
O'Sullivan reckons Omicron won't kill anyone
11/ Carl Heneghan is also across the media, written and broadcast
Still claims masks don't work, claimed there would be no second wave, Collateral Global member
12/ Good article linked here on Heneghans track record
BTW he deleted the whole of his twitter from 2020 after all those claims covid was over
Sidenote:For accuracy Balloux 100k comment was more than a few weeks ago
14/ Then Fraser Nelson gets into a discussion with a SAGE member which the typical characters jump on as if its some smoking gun
15/ We then get people in the media arguing with scientists about what modelling means
16/ Doesn't matter how clearly its explained, their confirmation bias won't allow them to understand now.
This is why UK policy is a mess
17/ As this is the message the hardcore rebel MPs are giving Johnson
Your lockdown or your political life
18/ One person who doesn't get it is MP Marcus Fysh, he calls for the removal of the scientific advisors
This lot are like Trumpian Republicans with posher accents
19/ Telegraph reports that at least a dozen ministers blocked measures
So Johnsons hands are tied until the ideological libertarians in his party decide the situation is out of control
We're screwed
20/ 21st and Ian Duncan Smith is quoting Heneghan on #r4today 🤦🏽♂️
21/ And now we're back to the with not from arguement, so what's happening in London @johnredwood?
A mass outbreak of clumsiness?
22/ We shouldn't be in this situation, failure of accountability and lack of scrutiny has led us here
23/ How representative are the MPs opposing our current measures?
24/ And Triggle at the BBC appears to be hooked up on a hopium IV
25/ Christopher Chope sounds like a cultist
26/ Daily Mail intent on maintaining its usual journalistic standards
27/ All in this together
CRG, Great Barrington Declaration, RW media
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