Thread by @karamballes

🧵Feels a bit like we are flying into the new year blindfolded, testing issues, gaps in data from Christmas and more coming over new years

Government will claim they don't have enough data to justify any measures to cut transmission in schools

Now comes the gaslighting...

https://twitter.com/thepetitioner/status/1476166223654273026

2/ To be honest I don't think it matters what the data says, they've embraced a fatalistic ideology, a let's get this over and done with, shit happens attitude,

3/ We've reached the gaslighting section of the covid merry go round, it wouldn't be a school holiday without the usual papers trying to drum up false outrage at schools

https://twitter.com/Samfr/status/1475957211318915074?t=OyBdhI6xFZQ9d01ufo9Wgg&s=19

4/ Remember this one from January?
Both attack on schools and promotional piece for private tutoring company that just so happens to have links to Ministers and MPs

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1353485230393479170?t=OyBdhI6xFZQ9d01ufo9Wgg&s=19

5/ We are also back to the "with not from" section of the cycle. If hospitals hit breaking point some will continue to claim its all a lie

6/ RW media have pushed the no pressure on NHS narrative in the past, we have also seen fake nurse accounts putting out this disinformation in the past

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1252325963582582784?t=RXott8JEjds4KCqtA08afA&s=19

7/ As expected one incredibly misleading newspaper story then spills out onto the broadcast media, doesn't help when the presenters seem equally uninformed

https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1476126462491209733?t=NJeqFIIhe_kZfXEiCzUKQQ&s=19

8/ Triggle at the BBC is also busy trying to explain away hospitalisations

https://twitter.com/ConcernedofBri1/status/1476161887544954883?t=EUFCADHfWgfr-GnuX8MaLg&s=19

9/ The issue is that while a chunk of the RW media are pushing disinformation, most the rest of the media aren't scrutinising the role their peers are playing and they arent calling the CRG MPs links to disinformation groups

Theyre delusional

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1473077598393675779?t=MSJf17FqevlCmff9rp0jeA&s=19

10/ The usual characters are hard at work misinforming the public and celebrating like they've won some form of victory over SAGE who they've turned into the villains of the pandemic.

"Victory over science, confidence over competence"

11/ The Mail was pushing the hospitalisations "with not from" a week ago, it clearly wasn't right, as with the school article it seems that media is being deliberately disingenuous to continue with this narrative

https://twitter.com/john_actuary/status/1474110478498549768?t=-O4xZt7Gb21tqlLmOaObvw&s=19

12/ They have been very keen to repeatedly tell us us about Omicron being mild as an arguement to return to herd immunity

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1465343149560283139?t=crnDqN37ha6vPBJyLYO5CA&s=19

13/ Yet seem to willfully fail to understand the implications of exponential growth and that a small percentage of a massive number is still a big number

https://twitter.com/ProfColinDavis/status/1473847036881604608?t=bERjs5ZsMEzZaH006FI5kQ&s=19

14/ But they have failed to draw attention to the warnings around the world of increases in child hospitalisations as omicron has grown, once again this appears an intentional decision to ignore

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1475050734165143554?t=B8w2LrnvLmadRhWuyUpcOA&s=19p

15/ And we can already see the consequences here in the UK, England in particular

https://twitter.com/Antonio_Caramia/status/1476253858036912134?t=fB4lU3nSfxB64crKfZMCVQ&s=19

16/ However it seems like the government are going to make no changes to try and reduce transmission, some schools aren't going to last very long, government must know the knock on effects this will have on additional household transmission

https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1476281383685398540?t=kiOcXi7VaOqtygbPS4YO2g&s=19

17/ Our Education secretary thinks the answer to too many staff getting sick is to send in former staff from higher risk groups

The Ed Select Chair is working with UsForThem and @ChildrensComm to demand schools stay open

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1466138172597968906?t=YT55uvLHDTuHoy3G9BDp2w&s=19

18/ I bet we won't even get masks in classrooms because @nadhimzahawi is being lobbied by those pushing the GBDs disinformation on masks being no use in schools

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1463601767590027266?t=UjDQxKtxpp9XSG9eADXVIQ&s=19

19/ It seems accepted that Johnson loathes doing anything due to pressure from RW press and around a hundred rebel MPs. Internal party politics drives covid policy not public health, so where is the scrutiny of these MPs and their links?

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1471383210139525122?t=kLjxyeNr-GRbIqdcrt2eFg&s=19

20/ Meanwhile the Spectator which platforms members of disinformation groups and claimed an end to the pandemic just before every wave struck, is busy attacking the concept of masks in class

https://twitter.com/spectator/status/1475961141675405314?t=kLjxyeNr-GRbIqdcrt2eFg&s=19

21/ Of course they platform Carl "no second wave, masks don't work" Heneghan, Spectator attacks SAGE modelling, how have Heneghans predictions panned out?

https://twitter.com/john_actuary/status/1475509611310551042?t=kLjxyeNr-GRbIqdcrt2eFg&s=19

22/ Theres been almost no questioning of the JCVI decision not to offer vax to all 5-11

Looking at warnings coming out of the US a decent media would be asking about the potential repercussions

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1475824437362675712?t=7TnBEj5SJhjS3sReg9xQUA&s=19

23/ Then again the press attacked those who criticised the JCVI after criticising previous minutes which discussed the benefits of infection and children providing "booster infections" to parents, which i worry is the thinking now

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1459052164781854721?t=54NqAJwVnmF6fmFHyM6F0Q&s=19

24/ They also keep using data on child deaths and hospitalisations up to February 2021, pre delta, pre Omicron and they discount many deaths to claim "only 6 healthy deaths"
Were at over 120 deaths

25/ Latest data from the US showing same trend as in the UK, yet where is the reporting on this?
Where is @RCPCHtweets?
Where is @ChildrensComm?
Where is @halfon4harlowMP?
Where is @nadhimzahawi?
Where is @LabourParty?

26/ I don't hear any of the above calling for protective measures to cut transmission instead we have

Stop scaremongering, long covid isn't an issue
Hospitalisations the same as flu?!
And can we make the final assumption in regards to Omicron, the US doesn't think so

27/ We will never get control of the pandemic until we take transmission in schools and clean air seriously

But schools without measures are essential to a herd immunity strategy, thats why so much effort has been put into gaslighting and disinformation

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1401482979071909891?t=gTWPzyj_GX3rjp8dbqDr0A&s=19

28/ Just consider narrative disonance
March 2020 schools must stay open to support herd immunity
April 2020 students infecting adults is rare

Schools aren't hubs of transmission but Freedom day must happen in summer to make use of "firebreak" school holidays

Doesn't add up

29/ In the summer those who said Freedom Day was a return to herd immunity were dismissed, then Europe hit autumn spikes and we were told the strategy of building up immunity from infections had been a clever strategy

They'd denied this was the plan

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1404001350078418947?t=gTWPzyj_GX3rjp8dbqDr0A&s=19

30/ And they will continue to claim its a binary choice, schools must stay open while doing nothing to change the conditions that will see many close and they accuse anyone calling for measures of wanting lockdown

There are sensible alternatives

https://twitter.com/HZiauddeen/status/1475919935796883462?t=CwpMg6ZOmYNqM7KfG650-Q&s=19

31/ Government are going to try and push through this, they are going to gamble the NHS

At the start some did say 250k vulnerable ppl dying was a price worth paying to keep the economy going

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1247678149778866178?t=kSEvtx4gletF0ZZv39Awpw&s=19

32/ When they realised that was unpalatable to majority of the public they swiveled to "focused protection" same Darwinian policy but dressed up as compassion

A long timeline of the disinformation network

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1432482157101035522?t=kSEvtx4gletF0ZZv39Awpw&s=19

33/ So we will get "no data to support measures in schools" even masks, yet they've seen enough in the data to start planning for over flowing hospitals.

They know the consequences of their policy choices

https://twitter.com/doctor_oxford/status/1476336100994076676?t=kSEvtx4gletF0ZZv39Awpw&s=19

34/ This is entirely a political choice, to put money into field hospitals rather than ventilation and filtration

If they did it last year it would probably already payed for itself

And the sad thing is I doubt there will be enough staff for these

https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1476267708102721549?t=kSEvtx4gletF0ZZv39Awpw&s=19

35/ England passes 2k hospitalisations, 1 doubling away from the Alpha peak

Silence from the government...
Media selling hopium instead of applying scrutiny

https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1476699633380474881?t=h7_7LiPFZnCghtQOEPF-Nw&s=19

36/ What happens when schools go back?

https://twitter.com/jneill/status/1476701258392211456?t=h7_7LiPFZnCghtQOEPF-Nw&s=19