🧵Skeptic MPs team up with members from disinformation groups Collateral Global, HART and the Great Barrington Declaration to pen a letter demanding an end to child vaccination
Put out via Toby Young Daily Skeptic by Will Jones, who doesnt mention hes a HART member
2/ I warned about this APPG right from the start, its funded by the opaquely funded Collateral Global who also act as secretariat, its a continuation of the Great Barrington Declaration linked to Koch institutions
4/ Anyway, let's have a look at the Daily Skeptic article and this letter
They claim the benefits of vax were marginal, and now Omicron is here there is even less risk to children
They claim natural immunity is far superior to vaccination
5/ This completely contradicts the evidence, Omicron is leading to record numbers of child hospitalisations around the world, US data shows vaccination has a considerable impact on the risk of a child being hospitalised
This group have constantly argued that child vax is a political decision, children should be allowed to be infected
They've also been very selective with this CDC quote who have shown vax is far more preferable to infection
7/ Here's Collateral Global/GBD author Gupta saying no one under 30 should be vaccinated!
Notice this was on Lucy Johnsons of the Express's podcast
This whole network of interlinked groups really love infecting kids
8/ The letter starts with quoting the JCVIs analysis, issue is the JCVI analysis of the harms of Covid on children were questionable, relying on limited studies which used total population rather than estimated infections as a denominator for risk
11/ They claim vaccinations aren't needed because we pretty much have herd immunity...
Yes they are still flogging that dead horse
12/ They then quote a very questionable study regarding myocarditis in boys thats received a lot more press than it deserves
13/ "We suspect the benefits of vaccinating children has evaporated"
"Negligible risks of covidnto children"
"Benefits of infection"
More suggesting infection is better than vaccination
14/ They also claim vaccination provides zero benefit after 3 months and that vaccination doesn't prevent infection or transmission, an already tired trope
15/ GBD have consistently argued that only the elderly and vulnerable actually need vaccination and we see that here
Also "50 years of healthy life expectancy is an interesting choice of phrase considering eugenics allegations leveled at the GBD
16/ Their summary says we need to reasses vaccine harms and "superior natural immunity"
Quite remarkable really
17/ Actually Gupta has now gone one further and now says only over 70s need vaccinating, its minimising to the point its pretty much become denialism
18/ List of signatories, these are the "freedom fighters" who want to remove from parents the freedom to choose if their children are vaccinated
19/ I would love to know what data this lot are looking at to claim Omicron is negligible for children
This is dangerous disinformation and its appalling how this is coming out of an APPG
20/ These MPs are also involved in the CRG, whose own funding is deeply questionable having recieved money from Luke Johnson who runs a risk management company and appeared at a Pandata event
22/ Another signatory was Philip Thomas whose model in March 2020 claimed lockdowns would kill hundreds of thousands, now writing spectacularly wrong predictions in the Spectator
23/ Will Jones who put this out is a HART member, Daily Skeptic is a constant source of disinformation praised by the AIER who were behind the GBD, hes quoting his own group who are quoting themselves as evidence
24/ GB news have also been pushing the narrative that children shouldn't have the choice of vaccination, they are covering the Letter, they are knowingly platforming disinformation
25/ Lucy Johnson from the Express has been actively working with disinformation groups to undermine vaccination was also quick off the press to promote the APPG/Collateral Global letter
No suprise to see Molly from UsForThem jumping onto this
26/ Lucy Johnson is just one of several in the print media who are part of a deliberate disinformation campaign.
28/ Switch on @LBC to hear Tominey interviewing Brookes, signatory of the GBD and this new APPG letter, he talks about the letter and how it asks important questions, doesn't mention he wrote it
Quoting themselves again,
Tomineys been involved with HART
29/ Also the myocarditis claims in the MPs letter made use of self reported unverified VAER system to produce these statistics, VAER states its data cant be used to draw correlations,this is a standard antivax tactic bmj.com/content/374/bm…
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Toby Young to join House of Lords
Ridiculous, consider the content of his Daily Sceptic which produces a daily diet of climate change denial and antivax stories
I bet he continues to complain about elites and the establishment whilst wearing his ermine
Consider how he set up Free Speech Union after Jordan Peterson and James Or (Edmund Burke Foundation/NatCon) went to Peter Thiel for support who then sent his chief of staff to help set up FSU
And then there is Toby Young’s support for "progressive eugenics" the belief that the rich are rich because they rich are genetically superior while poverty is a result of being genetically inferior
🧵The latest Republican Covid Oversight Committe provides a clear picture of the alternative reality that will soon be taking charge of US health institutions
It's worth considering the implications for the FDA when the grifters become gamekeepers
2/ It's hard to know which came first, claiming a cure for covid as a reason for removing all measures, or the grift, likely it depends on the individuals.
Lets look at a timeline of the promotion of alternative treatments that continued to be promoted once proven ineffective
3/ The first example of people producing an alternative treatment protocol that I know of is from the AAPS linked organisation that rebranded as Truth for Health Foundation
There has been ongoing attacks on the CCDH since they published their disinformation dozen report years ago on the biggest antivax promoters online, this named RFK Jr and others who have been embraced by MAGA appearing at a conveyor belt of conferences
3/ Despite their claims they aren't political this crowd and their ecosystem of overlapping groups is very close to the centres of power like Thiel who are driving the modern day Republican Party
🧵 Amazing when RW media decide to care about SEND students
When it comes to VAT on private schools they are suddenly worried about SEND pupils, but they backed austerity, the dismantling of CAHMs real terms cuts to school budgets, and loss of 20,000 support staff mainly TAs
2/ I think it was autumn 2017 we had a protest regarding SEND students being let down over 80,000 educators and SEND parents gathered outside Westminster, it didn't get a single mention in the media from any outlet
3/ 2016 ATL conference motions booklet
Look at the issues we were trying to raise, issues largely ignored, and only raised when suits a narrative
2/ Initial funding for CG
Von Opels who have been large Conservative Party donors and also gave Gupta £90,000 after her April 2020 paper claiming herd immunity was on the horizon
Luke Johnson, funded anti-lockdown MPs and appeared at a Pandata event
Opaque Baudouin Foundation and
3/ The Donors Trust, the dark money ATM of the US right wing, where do they get their money from?⬇️