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19 Dec, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Another Sunday, another wildly misleading article and tweet from @thelucyjohnston, this time cherrypicking one sentence from a 31 page study by @collateralglbl to claim 40% of excess care home deaths weren't caused by covid. That figure is only for the first wave, and it's wrong.
The article does at least say this figure is only for March to June 2020. But it doesn't mention that many (possibly most) of those "non-covid" excess deaths are believed to have been undiagnosed covid, which in the elderly can look a lot like dementia.

We've long known covid deaths were under counted in the first wave. Concerns had already been raised in April 2020 that, in the absence of testing, care home death certificates weren't mentioning covid, even when it was suspected to be the cause of death.

Since then a number of studies have suggested that undiagnosed covid is likely to have been responsible for many of the supposed excess dementia deaths in care homes during the first wave.

For example:
manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/…

ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
In fact, the opening paragraphs of the story seem to be pure fantasy. The CG report doesn't say anything about people dying from "broken hearts", or UK deaths being caused by neglect. And the horror stories of people dying of thirst and starvation are from other countries!
This comes after @thelucyjohnston posted another wildly misleading story last weekend, which falsely implied 223 child abuse deaths were caused by lockdown.

It seems she has an agenda to push, and is happy to twist every tragedy to fit her narrative. 🤨

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15 Dec
This paper by several HART members misses an obvious explanation for some odd looking ONS data, ignores the ONS' data definitions, then manipulates that data to falsely claim the vaccines cause a (non-existent) spike in deaths!

(Repost / update, as I broke the original thread)
The data oddity that caught their eyes is a bump in deaths per 100,000 in unvaccinated people in each age group, soon after that group starts being vaccinated.

But as the overall mortality rates show, there is NO spike in deaths during the vaccine rollout.

So what's going on?
The paper's authors wrongly believe the vaccines are killing us, so they present the data like this.

I replicated this graph from the raw ONS data, and it is correct. BUT it has an obvious explanation that doesn't involve claiming the ONS is deliberately miscategorising deaths!
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4 Dec
Anti-vaxxers have been going wild over this paper from several HART members. But it misses a blindingly obvious explanation for the odd looking ONS data, ignores the data definitions, then manipulates the data to falsely claim the vaccines cause a (non-existent) spike in deaths!
The data oddity that caught their eyes is a bump in deaths per 100,000 in unvaccinated people in each age group, soon after that group starts being vaccinated.

But as the overall mortality rates show, there is NO spike in deaths during the vaccine rollout.

So what's going on?
The paper's authors wrongly believe the vaccines are killing us, so they present the data like this.

I replicated this graph from the raw ONS data, and it is correct. BUT it has an obvious explanation that doesn't involve claiming the ONS is deliberately miscategorising deaths!
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28 Nov
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This group seems to be the brainchild of Ian Clayton, who's also associated with Ivermectin pushers BIRD.

He's threatened violent opposition to covid restrictions, and has a noose in his Twitter profile pic.

Hinton follows him, so must know what he's getting himself into.
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A number of politicians, including the CRG and senior backbenchers like @SirGrahamBrady, have been working with anti-vax group HART.

One member of the House of Lords even joined the group, and offered them media training to help them get their message across!
At the beginning, HART's strategy (set by founder Narice Bernard and political fixer Bernie de Haldevang) was to work as a "scientific partner" to the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee and Covid Recovery Group, providing them with evidence to use to sway government policy.
Andrew Rosindell (Con, Romford) provided an early opening in mid January, before HART officially launched.

Bernie claimed to be "quite pally" with Rosindell, who was "completely on side".

He then uses Rosindell as a gateway to Liam Fox and the CRG's Mark Harper and Steve Baker.
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The @ukmfa1 are spreading anti-vax disinformation from America's Frontline Doctors, the far right group whose co-founder was arrested for taking part in the US Capitol riots.

Unsurprisingly the AFD article is wrong, and partly based on an old, widely misinterpreted study.
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As explained before, that's because the study only counted pregnancies that had ended, and most of the women were still pregnant when the data was compiled.

The article also cites a study claiming fertility rates are lower in countries with high vaccination rates.

Hardly surprising when those are mostly wealthy, western countries with lower birth rates to start with.

When they correct for this, they end up with an almost flat line.
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