🧵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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🧵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
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
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 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
3/ The Bill also permits 14-18 year olds to be targeted with political marketing
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?🤷♂️
🧵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