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Karam Bales Profile picture
@karamballes
Nov 1, 2021 • 12 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Very little media coverage of the JCVI minutes, except @DailyMailUK that decides to take a pro infecting children stance

And do so by platforming Livermore who was a member of antivax HART group.
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Some basic journalism would have helped

"Human shields" wasn't an Independent SAGE comment, it was a US MD who writes extensively about covid disinformation

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Article then gives a platform to people who have been constantly wrong, including GBDs Livermore, and goes on to try and create concern for 5+ vaccines Image
Livermore says vaccinating children for herd immunity is scientifically week, he's spent best part of the past two years arguing for children to be infected to "protect the vulnerable" with herd immunity Image
Weak*
He was happy to be in HART despite them producing lots of antivax content and conspiracy theories, involved with Russia Sputnik, the one they are accused of stealing from AZ....
Apparently we already see signs of herd immunity, during half term holiday

But this is the best bit
Says risk of ICU is 1/500,000
Later says 259 ICU admissions

259×500,000
So 129,500,000 children have been infected in the UK?
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Then we have Viner, whose April 2020 paper claiming unlike flu children seem to have little impact on transmission, far less likely to be infection and adult to child transmission is very rare

Basis against school measures around world for a year
Viner argued to remove masks, then after masks had been removed claimed we had masks in classrooms improved ventilation and social distancing in schools would continue to keep us safe

Outright lies
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Then Dingwall....

BTW JCVI accepted without vax they'd expect all children to become infected, so choosing not to vax was choosing infection instead
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Apparently its a cultural divide, those crazy Americans try and avoid infection Image
Oh and Dingwall was at the launch party for Collateral Globals purchase of an All Party Parliamentary group, with HART helping to host of course
This Mail article is a preemptive attack against vax for 5-11, pushing a pro infection stance, encouraging hesitancy and attacking who will be most vocal critics of abandoning children to infection

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Jul 3
🧵A thread of links on Reform's general election
2/ Worth noting this other UK based coordinated disinformation network includes Together Declaration

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3/ Casting doubt on validity of UK voting process
Read 21 tweets
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Jun 26
🧵Oh what a suprise, Together Declaration are part of this network, and members of the Exec like UsForThem founder Kingsley accused anyone who said they were a hard right political project of smears and defamation
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2/ Founded as anti-lockdown but going straight into anti-vax talking points, Together then switched to anti Ulez, anti net zero heading towards climate change denial
3/ They have been one of the main groups peddling nonsense about the WHO pandemic treaty, starting two years ago with Farage then becoming the leading face of a new astroturf group
Read 6 tweets
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May 24
🧵The Covid in Schools Scandal

While much of the media claims the inquiry is accomplishing nothing, its slowly revealed the gov knew transmission occurs in schools and causes harm to a not insignificant number of children
2/ The much delayed testimony of Simon Case reveals that covid in schools policy ignored the science and was designed without expert advice

Macnamara
"Genuine suggestion that we secretly do different things in schools in places to see what the impact is.. last straw for me" Image
3/ Sunaks appearance revealed that the senior scientific advisors had warned that schools were the most significant risk to transmission

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Apr 24
1/ Contrary to its name, changes in the Data Protection and Information Bill further shifts the balance of power towards commercial interests
2/ The bill gives the Secretary of State the power to add to the list of interests that can access your childrens data through secondary legislation avoiding parliamentary scrutiny Image
3/ The Bill also permits 14-18 year olds to be targeted with political marketing Image
Read 7 tweets
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Apr 24
1/ The thing is, the UK is institutionally not curious about identifying harms directly caused by covid

For instance it's been a year since they stopped collecting and publishing data on long covid
2/ Many families of children with long covid have faced gaslighting and struggled to access meaningful care
3/ More and more evidence emerges of the long term harms caused by covid, but the UK govs preferred paedatricians continue to peddle claims that with enough infections children will develop lasting immunity
Said this would occur after 1 infection, what is it now? 5? 7? 10?🤷‍♂️
Read 15 tweets
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Apr 11
🧵Cass Review
Not had a chance to read the whole thing yet, but have had time to look through the main points

What positives can be taken from it? The time spent on waiting lists was identified as a major issue, all children's services are massively underfunded at the moment
2/ I would like to think that this will lead to an investment in all children's support services like CAHMS, more pastoral support in schools etc

That would be a positive outcome, regardless of what else is included in the review, unfortunately real terms cuts are the reality
3/ What matters is how government interprets the review and what it chooses to implement, additional funding for children isn't going to be prioritised over tax cuts to appease RW papers
Imagine if the billions from last round of tax cuts had instead been invested in children
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