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6 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The new covid sceptic All Party Parliamentary Group on Pandemic Response and Recovery is backed by Gupta and Heneghan's Collateral Global to the tune of over £30,000.

£5,000 in financial benefits plus £25,501 - £27,000 benefits in kind (CG is acting as their secretariat). Image
The details are included in the APPG register, updated tonight. This also confirms the group's officers include UsForThem fans Esther McVey and Miriam Cates, and climate change sceptics Sammy Wilson (DUP) and Graham Stringer (Labour). Go figure.

publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallpar… Image
The group also has possible links to anti-vax conspiracy cranks HART.

Jemma Moran (HART's media coordinator) seems to have sent out the press release announcing the group, and HART member Dr John Lee spoke at their inaugural meeting alongside former JCVI member Robert Dingwall. Image
Thanks to @NafeezAhmed and @BylineTimes for covering this story.

bylinetimes.com/2021/10/07/fou…

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9 Oct
Don't think @NakedScientists on @BBCBreakfast today were right to tell someone with 3 (!) +ve LFTs and 1 -ve PCR that they should consider themselves covid free.

Even if PCR is the "gold standard", getting 1 false -ve PCR result is FAR more likely than 3 false +ve LFTs in a row!
The fact is, there have been several similar anecdotal reports recently. We don't know if it's coincidence, an issue with the LFTs, or an issue with PCR testing.

Until we do, the precautionary principle would suggest treat yourself as positive, especially if you have symptoms.
There's a good explanation of the maths behind this here:

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6 Oct
I see HART are openly calling for a halt to covid vaccinations for 12-15 year olds, in the process spreading disinformation and recycling quotes they and their partner groups fed to "useful idiots" in Parliament.

Part of a long running anti-vax campaign.

Their latest story tries to scare teens and parents by talking about myocarditis (which is both more common and more severe after catching covid) and menstrual cycle disruption (which they play up, despite millions of women being vaccinated with no evidence of long term issues).
HART have previously discussed using widely discredited claims of covid vaccines supposedly causing fertility problems to put young women off getting vaccinated.

PS: the "wonderful doctor" they cite here is a far right extremist, arrested for taking part in the US Capitol riots.
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23 Sep
Covid denier Mark Sexton claims to have had a meeting with a "senior Conservative MP", also attended by Dolores Cahill, Anna de Buisseret, and a dozen other assorted fruitcakes.

Here's a quick who's who of the ones willing to be named...

h/t @firstname738951
Mark Sexton is an ex copper who now wastes his former colleagues' time by making vexatious crime reports against government ministers and claiming PCR tests are a terrorist attack. 🙄

Odd chap for a Tory MP to be meeting. But wait, there's more...

conservativewoman.co.uk/this-retired-p…
Anna de Buisseret is a HART member who even other HART members suspect is having some kind of mental breakdown.

She's the one who keeps banging on about Nuremberg Trials and hanging nurses...

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16 Sep
HART, their members and related groups have spent all year fighting to block teenagers from being able to get vaccinated, from coming up with ways to put kids and parents off getting vaccinated to threatening schools, councils and medical authorities with legal action.
When Oxford Uni started vaccine trials for children in February, HART members claimed "after this it may be too late for humanity", and suggested "holding to account people trialing it", attacking the ethics committee that authorised it, and "indicting the named investigator"!
By May HART was coordinating with other groups to "thwart the children's jab rollout". Val Fraser sent a wild message to other groups calling it "the biggest existential threat to humanity" and ranting about the "abominable horror" of "experimental medical procedures" in schools.
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30 Aug
One of HART's central claims is that vaccination drove surges in deaths around the world. But looking at data for England broken down by age and region, it's clear there's absolutely no correlation (let alone causation) between them.

Merely a coincidence in timing.
Here's London (top) and North West (bottom) by age, for example.

Vaccinations in over 60s are spread over several weeks, and jabs in each group peak at the same time in both regions.

But deaths peak simultaneously in all over 60s, and peak in the North West a week after London.
It's even clearer if you look at individual age groups. While vaccination in the over 80s just happens to coincide with deaths, there's no lag. And in every other age group deaths rise and peak BEFORE vaccination.

Here's the South East, for example. Again, no consistent pattern.
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27 Aug
Meanwhile across the Atlantic, far right group America's Frontline Doctors is raking in money by selling ivermectin to people who believe their anti-vax nonsense.

Many say they never received their orders or even got the initial phone consultation they paid for.

h/t @Aw_what
While they wait for unapproved medicines that never arrive and consultations that never happen, some people taken in by AFD are getting seriously ill with covid, or resorting to taking ivermectin pills intended as deworming tablets for livestock. With sometimes dire consequences.
Another scam is selling bogus legal aid to people who refuse to accept mask and vaccine mandates at work.

Again, many never receive the legal support they paid for, and if they do it's often completely useless.

Some are in danger of losing their livelihoods because of this con.
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