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Apr 8, 2021 7 tweets 5 min read Read on X
The Disinformation Playbook ucsusa.org/resources/disi… via @ucsusa
@Its_Airborne

Great read for all those wondering how anyone could argue against the fact that #COVIDisAirborne.

[IMO airborne transmission = dominant in nearly every setting...although I could be wrong!]
For a masterclass in medical disinformation tactics, try this [from 28 mins]:

I especially like this part. After discussing how important it is to ‘be careful and use your critical appraisal skills and common sense’...
Prof John Conly then engages in an advertising ploy - anchoring. He goes on and on and on and on incredibly negatively about how peer review at PNAS is rigged and how these methods are terrible....[it just happens to be an airborne transmission manuscript, obv]
Before saying but hey, maybe it’s not so bad after all because he and ALL his colleagues can use this as a great teaching case about how not to do terrible science so it’s great...[it just happens to be an airborne transmission manuscript, obv]
This is right at the start of his presentation.

This is not science: it’s advertising.

And it is killing us.

REALLY looking forward to the debate tomorrow @kprather88. 🙏🏻
#COVIDisAirborne
#BadScienceKills
PS any SARS transmission event in a healthcare setting is the healthcare workers’ fault.
Message from Prof John Conly, July 2020.
You’re welcome.
@Linzofm87 @microlabdoc @mjb302 @theRCN @KGadhok @CIBSE_NatVent

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Sep 30
Incredible testimony** today @covidinquiryuk

Sir Frank Atherton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Chief Medical Officer

‘Healthcare leadership has lost its way. Its foundation should be in love, not lies. We are truly sorry for what we have done’

** ‘testimony’ 🙃

/🧵 Image
‘We knew SARS2 transmission was airborne in Jan 2020, but instead of showing love to healthcare workers & being honest with them about the RPE shortages, we lied to them & kept on lying’

‘…we are truly sorry for what we have done’

/2 Image
We knew AGP-only aerosol risk was a smokescreen - a thinly disguised rationing tool for RPE - but instead of being honest with HCWs, in love, we lied to them & kept on lying’

‘…we are truly sorry for what we have done’

/3 Image
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Sep 26
If you missed what Prof Sir Chris Whitty said on IPC & PPE, or just couldn't carry on watching after the amazing @Kevin_Fong [God bless you sir, & thank you for all you do 🙏]

TL/DR

/1 JVT early 2021 in a vaccination centre - his personal 'covid green' risk assessment => FFP2. All other HCWs in FRSM as per national IPC guidance. JVT knows his AGPs
Sir Chris worked shifts on the wards in every wave

Wore FRSM mainly - as per IPC guidance, he said

HCID declassification had no bearing on IPC guidance

"I am not an expert on IPC'

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On national IPC guidance:

'quite a lot of people had partial responsibility'

Q: Who was ultimately responsible?

A: The IPC Cell

/3
Read 9 tweets
Sep 19
Now we've seen IPC Cell minutes from 22/12/2020 & the plea from 'CB' for wider FFP3 use because:

'Our understanding of aerosol transmission has changed'

🚨Would you like to know whether very late 2020 was when *all* 🇬🇧Gov departments knew of the importance of aerosol risk?

/1 Image
Obtained via FOI request

🚨From the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

🦺Working safely during coronavirus (COVID-19)
10 July 2020 update

'You should ensure that steps are taken to avoid people needing to unduly raise their voices to each other...

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'This includes...refraining from playing music or broadcasts that may encourage shouting, including if played at a volume that makes normal conversation difficult. This is because of the potential for increased risk of transmission, particularly from aerosol transmission.’

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Read 8 tweets
Sep 18
Over the last 2 days at @covidinquiryuk the NHS has shown its dark & ugly side

There was never going to be an apology from IPC guidance authors whose guidance drove disproportionately high rates of death & COVID19 in non-ICU HCWs & huge rates of nosocomial SARS2, but…

/1
the level of obfuscation, evasion & incompetence on display from those tasked with keeping HCWs safe, is jaw dropping

I was one of the lucky ones: my NHS Trust ALWAYS provided HCWs with FFP3 when caring for those with COVID19 - my IPC remained precautionary

As a result…

/2
by Dec 2020 the number of consultant staff working on Covid wards testing positive was: 0

🚨The ONLY deviation from national guidance was universal FFP3!

The last & most vital line of defence - FFP3 - *is life saving* @SMHopkins

How does this compare with other units?

/3
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Dec 18, 2023
'I would like to highlight evidence demonstrating that Professor Heneghan may be in breach of Section 35(2) of the Inquiries Act 2005'

Am looking forward to hearing your response @carlheneghan

covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/inq0…
TL/DR in evidence to @covidinquiryuk, CH stated SARS2 transmission is via large droplet & fomites

But:

Following peer review triggered changes 6 Jul 2022, CH's own work stated that SARS2 transmission is via 'fine aerosols & respiratory droplets, & to a lesser extent...fomites'
Why omit the empirical truth that SARS2 transmission occurs importantly via the airborne [aerosol inhalation] route?

Why do this, particularly as David Heymann's 13th Oct 2023 evidence to the PI clarified the @WHO position:

WHO knew SARS2 transmission was via aerosols, Jan 2020
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Oct 13, 2023
🚨David Halpern Cabinet Office

'Arguably the most fundamental misstep in the UK response was the presumption that covid would be an unstoppable flu-like wave'

This

underpinned the early (Chris Whitty) position on T&T, & the Vallance view on 'herd immunity' (later air-brushed)' Image
Aside

Early SAGE minutes clarify the UK rationale for stopping community SARS2 testing: it was deemed unnecessary because with rapidly increasing case numbers there was no point in testing, as there were insufficient personnel to contact trace

Good to know whose plan this was
'But there was an alternative'

'This led us to question...though we found ourselves quietly dismissed as not understanding the science'

'Ironically, the pride in our science & our capabilities, slowed our ability to learn lessons from other countries'

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