1/🧵 Questionable ethics in experiments with unvaccinated adults and children
Indian variant found in Leicestershire, few days later a Leicestershire school announces it will be entering experiments to not isolate close contacts.
Wise?
This is how the trials work, screenshots are from the official documents sent out to schools taking part in the trials and the SPI-M-O paper the government put out as its scientific evidence for conducting these live experiments.
4/Here's the letter than went home to parents, asking for consent for children to not isolate, NOT asking for consent to have your child share a space with an identified close contact
5/ In the local news the Head says they are proud to be helping suppress the virus with this trial.
SPI-M-O said isolation is most effective, so a riskier strategy is being advertised as increasing safety.
6/ Parent raises concerns with lack of informed consent. Directed to the official Test and Trace letter at bottom of Heads letter to parents.
Problematic letter, mentions additional risk but then makes out these are negligible.
7/"if your household has health concerns you may wish to isolate rather than LFD"
How does this protect the family?
If the student has already been identified as a close contact its too late to protect the family.
It doesn't make sense
8/ Example of another parent seeking answers on ethics and consent.
Noticed that results of the trial wont be released until the summer, like final PCR tests aren't released for 2 weeks. A lot can go wrong in the time waiting for this information.
2/ Some similarities to before the Southport attack and subsequent riots, creating a narrative and setting conditions to prime potential rioters for the next event that can be used as a match to start the fires
1/ Lucy Connollys appeal was funded by the Free Speech Union
Allison Pearson of the FSU led the media in supporting Connolly and promoted the crowdfunder that raised over £150k for Connolly (after Lawrence Fox took a 7% cut as it was his crowdfunding site that was used
2/ The FSU was set up with support of Peter Thiel
James Orr a founding member of FSU is also on the Edmund Burke Foundation's board which organises NatCon, that Orr is also on the board of
JD Vance is Thiels minion, previously spent a record $15 million on getting Vance elected
3/ Vance has been leading the US attacks on free speech in the UK
The FSU has been busy backing anti-abortion and anti-trans legal cases, working alongside Christian Concern and US ADF, an important NatCon group
Why is @Tony_Diver giving a full page interview to Malhotra in the Telegraph?
The self-titled "leading cardiologist" has become an antivax hero, who has to publish his papers via his own journal because they are as dodgy as anything Wakefield put out
Deeply irresponsible
The platforming of disinformation grifters in mainstream papers, particularly Telegraph, Express, Daily Mail, GB News and TalkTv is contributing to the increase in vax hesitancy
People will die because of shoddy journalism from likes of @Tony_Diver
@Tony_Diver 3/ Describing Malhotra as "serious public prominence" and promoting his antivax papers without pointing out that he set up the journal it's printed in, is frankly dishonest journalism
1/ Telegraph and Toby Young claiming "culture nationalism" being included is the latest attack by Labour on Free Speech is a lie
The Conservatives added this to Prevent in 2023
2/ From my October 2023 article for @BylineTimes on the updated Prevent training
@BylineTimes 3/ While they misrepresent Conservative policy to attack Labour complaining that cultural Nationalism was too broad a term, they didn't have a problem that socialism was also added to Prevent at the same time bylinetimes.com/2023/10/19/ter…
1/ So Toby Young, now a member of the house of Lords is directly receiving support from Musk, a member of a foreign government
2/ This is after the FSU jumped onto a case of a teacher appealing against a school for being dismissed for their online posts, the case was being backed by Christian Concern and FDU piggybacked as an intervener
3/ Worth noting the case centred around a petition from CitizenGo, an organisation identified as being part of a US/Russian network designed to undermine sexuality and reproductive rights
While much of the UK media has focused on DEI, tariffs and confirmation hearings there's been less focus on what appears to be an attack on the US constitution, purges of people and scientific information, and efforts to supress opposition and scrutiny
2/ First a quick look at the pardoned Jan 6 rioters as an example