Thread by @karamballes

🧵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

https://twitter.com/allthecitizens/status/1417097654102806530

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

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1416160075266330634?s=19

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