4/ Meanwhile @AllisonPearson is doing all she can to suggest boosters are some government plot because Sunetra Gupta phoned her to tell her so
5/ Molly Kingsley from UsForThem uses the tragic death of a boy and compares it to the vaccination programme for 12-15 year olds
6/ Molly Kingsley claims "the death of a child is a death of a child"
Except if they have absolutely any kind of underlying condition, as she's been very keen to say "only just 6 healthy children have died" repeatedly to oppose protective measures
7/ Looks like Lucy Johnson also got the call from Gupta
Omicron is not the flu
Children are cold because the ghouls with links to politicians won't support air filtration because it would hinder the pro infection plan of using students as vectors of infection
8/ Here Gupta is at the GBD launch explaining the desire for children to be infected
10/ Pro-infection crowd are clearly out in force since their false selling of herd immunity and "natural immunity" are in tatters with the Omicron reinfection data just like with "no second wave" last year, they'll double down on lockdown harms now
11/ But despite the whole herd immunity ideology collapsing on impact with Omicrons explosive growth, there's no contrition from the chief architects, no we should be apologising to them
12/ They claimed we had almost reached herd immunity throughout 2020, then deleted a lot of tweets
Told Modi India didn't need vax, then Delta ravaged the nation
Claimed Florida had solved Covid, then the State went on to hit record death tolls
13/ What was their response to getting it so wrong in Florida?
Don't apologise, delete the tweets and try to rewrite history, exactly what they are going to try to do again
14/ Here it is, a look at the latest defense of the GBD, the same small group have set up so many organisations they end up quoting themselves as evidence they were right
16/ I see Bhattacharya is celebrating a new friend
Molly has also been praising Malhotra's courage
Meanwhile concerns are raised about his claims regarding vaccine harms, so he's in good company
17/ Of course the let it rip crowd and suspicious centrists are have been telling us the "good news" based on anecdotal accounts that Omicron is mild,one person has been disproportionately quoted and their views overly weighted considering its 2 weeks old
18/ We also had "WHO say its mild" being quoted all over the place, but that's not what the WHO actually said, feels like they've been deliberately misquoted by a lot of ppl to the point it feels coordinated
19/ So forgive me if I'm skeptical of todays headlines that not a single death has been reported to WHO, deaths lag cases and have the deaths that have occurred in SA just not been sequenced yet.
Its not enough to pin a hopium strategy on
20/ We really are getting som some cracking takes of the current situation.
21/ Infowars appears to have ramped up with the emergence of Omicron
2/ Viners review searched through studies, many weren't on covid and those that did were based on Preprints and very early rough data sets, its clearly wrong and any reference to it should be withdrawn immediately
@RachelSJohnson on @LBC has a guest saying that restrictions are slowly down Covid's evolution into a mild endemic illness...
"Its well on the way to doing this"
More comments about Omicron being more mild
There is no data for this, just some anecdotes, said same about Delta...
Ah the guest was hereditary Tory peer Matt Ridley, looking at his track record I think he's done enough damage to this country without taking Pandemic advice from him
Ridley is a great example of the damage the privileged aristocracy can do
Educated at Eton, Zoology degree, becomes a writer for Telegraph, then gets a place on the Northern Rock board where daddy was boss...
Well that worked out well
🧵Nothing on schools? Where infection rates are already highest?
Even if Omicron doesn't turn out to be a big deal, we are already struggling, stretched sick and exhausted, also causing disruption and absence
3/ Here he is questioning the need of 2nd doses for students (rethink time)
Again talks about younger people getting a boost from infection, talks about endemic and testing being scaled back
Miriam Cates read out UsForThems petition against vaccination at Westminster Hall debate, quoted HART and is vice chair of an APPG set up by Great Barrington Declaration authors