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23 Jan, 8 tweets, 5 min read
*Networks of disinformation: a thread.*

The covid-sceptic campaign group @pcrclaims have deleted all their tweets from before the last couple of days.

They are trying to cover their tracks & look more 'respectable' by deleting stuff like the below (from 16 December). 👇
But they still claim Covid is a "pseudo epidemic".

Their website features Clare Craig saying:

"it is all based around false positive test results, when there is no real disease behind it, and I think that's what we are seeing here." (2/3)

pcrclaims.co.uk/video/Clare-Cr…
Concerningly, it seems to be part of a network of slick disinfo sites:

pcrclaims.co.uk
ycampaign.org
hartgroup.org
chinafiles.org / @china_files

The sites share people. EG Mike Yeadon has his own site & *was* a spokesman for PCRclaims.
I say *was* because, strangely, 11 of 13 people previously listed as spokespeople for PCRclaims have been deleted. Cached version left, new on right.

(Thomas Binder is a prolific conspiracy theorist. Nick Hudson runs another covid-sceptic website, PANDA)

web.archive.org/web/2021010109…
Some of these sites may also have been registered around the same times to the same server (though I'm no techie)

Despite the track-covering and multiple front orgs, they are all pushing the same disinformation: to deny or minimise Covid.

And they're still getting pickup from mainstream media - e.g.

This has real world consequences. I talked to an elderly constituent the other day who won't get vaccinated because of this sort of stuff.

People spouting rubbish online leads to him being at higher risk in the real world.

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Postscript: a connected domains search shows that Mike Yeadon's campaign, "PCR claims" and the "new" HARTgroup are all connected by an IP address.

New fronts, same old agenda.

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Neil O'Brien MP Profile picture
20 Jan
Another top covid-sceptic, Dr Clare Craig, has deleted all her tweets from last year.

Unfortunately for her attempts to cover her tracks... Google cached them, so we can take a look at how she’s used her professional qualifications to spread dangerous disinformation.

A thread:
On 18 October she claimed in a now-deleted tweet:
“No-one is going to die of it (only with it).Flu diagnoses have been replaced by COVID. This happens when you overtest people dying of respiratory failure until you get the result you are looking for.”
She also claimed in a deleted tweet: “the epidemic has passed. It’s over. We are now in the midst of a false positive pseudo-epidemic.” She added that, “The elderly are not catching it”
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14 Jan
How to handle the Covid pandemic is the most important issue facing MPs right now.

So I wonder why Julia objects to me questioning the claims of her fellow covid-sceptics?

Here's a thread on some of the things *she* has claimed:
"Every journalist and MP should be asking the PM & Health Secretary: why are we using a Covid-19 test that has 90% false positives?"

Twitter, 20 September 2020
"THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT: Matt Hancock told me on @talkRADIO that the False Positive Rate of Covid tests in the community is "under 1%". Sounds good, doesn't it? WRONG!An FPR of 0.8% when the virus prevalence is so low means that at least 91% of "Covid cases" are FALSE POSITIVES."
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As the UK tragically hits a record number of Covid-19 deaths, Covid-sceptic-in-chief @toadmeister appears to have deleted all his tweets from last year.

That's not surprising. Here are some of the things he claimed over the last year - a thread.
"Should we be worried about the uptick in cases? Almost certainly not. It’s due to recent increases in testing capacity... Given the over-sensitivity of the PCR test, the rise in new cases is telling us just how many people have had Covid-19 in the past"

Telegraph, 7 September
"as we sceptics are fond of pointing out, almost no one has the virus any more."

Spectator, 15 August
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3 Jan
>We are facing a major crisis<

The current wave of the Coronavirus crisis is in many ways *worse* than the original spring surge. Quick thread:
The proportion of people tested who test positive has gone screaming up everywhere. Data up to 29th December:
The number of positive tests is going up everywhere - and is sky high in the greater south east...
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1 Jan
The Daily Telegraph leader today says: "Let's admit what we got wrong in 2020, and shake things up in 2021".

Great idea. I have some suggestions. How about:

telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2021/0…
...The Telegraph publishing this piece by Toby Young in June, which claimed: "there will be no “second spike” – not now, and not in the autumn either. The virus has melted into thin air. It’s time to get back to normal."

telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/2…
... or this Telegraph leader at the end of October, saying, "The Government is wrong to put England into lockdown".

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26 Dec 20
The below is wrong at several levels. In England and Wales, 65,000 aged 65+ have died with it, plus over 7,400 working age people. Many had prior medical conditions, but we don't hold their lives to be valueless because Britain isn't a fascist state.
About one in ten had no prior conditions. But having a prior condition doesn't mean you are about to die! EG about 10,000 had diabetes. Theresa May has it and was Prime Minister! A study by Glasgow Uni suggested the average victim would have had another ten years - that's a lot.
Also: all that is *with* social distancing. Without it many more would have died as health services were overwhelmed.

To see what happens if you do nothing, look at Manaus, Brazil, where excavators dug huge trenches for bodies dumped in mass graves.

theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
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