3/ Delta is more pathogenic, the question is by how much, surely this means the chance of risk is increased for everyone, children will still have lower risk than someone older and unvaccinated
4/ But I guess its important to say that there are other ppl who agree we don't need to worry about Delta in schools
6/ Viner says children have innate natural cross protection from T-Cells.
He has a paper to back that up, from Ladhani
7/ Remember recently where they divided deaths by total under 18 population, death rate is low but this minimises
Now who was using that stat recently?🤔
8/ Vaccinating will save some children's lives but not that many.
9/ Viner says don't worry about long covid, vaccine risk could be higher, but does he have a study I hear you ask.
Certainly does, written by Ladhani and co.
10/ Long Covid, transmission, vaccination, DCT rather than isolation, masks, they've got a while body of evidence for why we don't need mitigations or vaccination for students
13/ Viners April 2020 study has been one of the UK government’s main source of evidence that children are less likely to transmit, its guided policy and is in the updated green book (local gov rulebook)
14/ Viner has consistently gaslighted campaigners on school safety,
I think the interview on #r4today after masks had been removed shows him making factually incorrect claims about UK school safety measures
15/ After schools moved to keyworkers during the Alpha wave DfE select committee had a meeting where they concluded schools hadn't played a meaningful role in transmission and this wasnt why they were closed
The second screenshot is arguing against vaccinating now.
17/ Still arguing there's very little evidence that transmission occurs in school
18/ Ladhani works with PHE, 1. What he claims happens with positive cases
2. DfE Guidence that education settings have been following
In secondary we were checking seating plans and sending home who they sat next to #edutwitter
19/ I like how they use the "Children need a union line"
I mean every child does needs someone to be their voice, but do they want that voice to be arguing for their right to be infected?
20/ Yep, Children really need a voice to explain why its unethical not to run experiments removing isolation in schools without asking for consent of other pupils if they want to be sitting with a close contact.
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