🧵Telegraph and Times decide to run smear articles on @IndependentSage over the weekend

Monday starts skeptics calling for their execution

Last year Mail ran a smear article against NEU, later that day I recieved death threats

Political violence is facism
I'm not calling iSAGE and NEU big P political, but they are small p political in that covid and education policy are political decisions made by politicians.

They have tried to persuade a change of policy through public engagement, providing evidence based alternative policies
Which is a different approach to the lobbyists much of the media has been platforming, the public facing coms is secondary to meetings with ministers, MPs and certain journalists behind closed doors
Interesting how likes of Guido make such a fuss about those criticising the government (without remuneration) while having nothing to say about GBD funded by RW billionaire Koch, or their subsidiaries like HART etc
What are the "political" aims Guido and Telegraph are getting so angry about

Better contact tracing and financial support
Border control
Investment and regulation of ventilation in all work places
How have we reached a point where the media consider clean air a political agenda but the preventable mass infection isn't and doesn't deserve investigation into the backgrounds of those pushing this policy?
Thats why they are attacking the people and not the policies, why they try to make out how someone voted in a referendum 5 years ago, or what parties they've supported is relevant to public health policy.

They know it isn't about that but they want the public to think that

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More from @karamballes

19 Jul
Had to make notes of what I just heard on @lbc from Maajid Nawaz

It's a selection of dangerous skeptic nonsense.

He's now saying we need all the children to get infected as we cannot counter the seasonality of covid so lets get it over to done with before September.
"Long covid is rare, of the minority who catch covid only 10% get Long covid, a million people might have Long covid but there are 70 people in the country, so its a minority of a minority"

Couple mins ago he explained we should expect everyone to catch it...
70million*
Read 9 tweets
19 Jul
Prediction Complete

Took a while but they finally got back to mass infection and acceptable deaths as official strategy, and most media are busy telling this is the only sensible course to take

Very March 2020
#DowningStreetBriefing @ToryFibs
"Some of you shall die so the rest can be free (a bit quicker at less cost)"

How we ended up here, compare to April 2020 prediction
Why is this predictable?

State Capture ⬇️
Read 4 tweets
18 Jul
@HelenEBedford arguing hard against child vax, why do so many professionals and experts in the media say we need to wait until its approved, the MHRA have approved it, have JVCI replaced the regulator?
Do these experts no longer trust MHRA? Ah she's just answered..
@StephenNolan
She says the MHRA approving a product doesn't mean its safe, makes out that children are at higher risk from the vaccine, we can hit HI without child vax, and says risks to children of covid are nearly zero
Flinn of the JCVI was on yesterday. Wouldnt confirm the Telegraph story but then went on about balance of risks, the main argument im getting from the JCVI members is that their calculation of covid risk including long covid are incredibly low
Read 6 tweets
18 Jul
🧵HART was set up with support of ppl linked to GBD, they also have links to the astroturf disinformation group UsForThem
While HART is not openly vax, it is a collection of anti vaxers, their account only posts negative stories about vaccines.
2/ While claiming to be an independent non political group they have a lot of link to RW politics, Conservative party, Brexit Party etc, writing for various Conservative blogs, Spectator etc

Last autumn Spectator kept platforming GBD claims we had HI
The kind of disinformation HART put out includes claims that Delta is actually more mild and isn't more transmissible.

But somehow is rapidly outcompeting all other variants Image
Read 10 tweets
14 Jul
🧵 I think we do have a testing problem.

Across my union networks I'm getting feedback that waits for test results is increasing, also seeing this in one LAs daily school cases update that I get to see.
#edutwitter #JohnsonVariant
Also on the network's the app is pinging more often, but the time to isolate is a lot shorter. Ppl are getting 5 sometimes 3 days to isolate.

I think test and trace is struggling with the case load, means its probably going to get worse
We have a dip in testing, but cases are growing rapidly
Read 15 tweets
14 Jul
@halfon4harlowMP Not certain how they had to fight to be heard when they have been meeting with Tory MPs behind closed doors throughout the pandemic and are directly supported by the Telegraph and are part of a coordinated disinformation network
#edutwitter
Reminder that UsForThem have had private meetings with Johnson and other ministers, @halfon4harlowMP also invited them to provide evidence to the education select committee.

Just found one of my first threads on UsForThem, @BylineTimes
have done a lot since which is worth reading
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