This is yet more gaslighting, spent 2 hours in a room with no bloody windows, if the current ventilation was adequate we wouldn't have so many infected kids!
No need to invest in purifiers because everything is fine?
Disruption to be installed? Portable ones just get wheeled in and plugged in
Are they idiots or do they think we are the idiots?
Also Miriam Cates asked "whats the point in preventing transmission in schools"
Someone's been spending too much time taking advice from the GBD (she's vice chair of the APPG the herd immunity quacks are funding)
She's been calling to halt vaccination of children, claims masks don't work and keeps talking about the "superior natural immunity" children should be allowed to develop 🤯
Here Cates is again trying to argue there is no evidence masks work, sharing a dodgy evidence base drawn up by GBD author Bhattacharya,evidence that has been thrown out of multiple courts across the US for being misleading
"Unreliable witness" a judge said
🧵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
2/ Scrapping testing has been pushed by GBD advocates for over a year, gov has been considering ending free LFTs for some time with "operation ramp down" and scaling back test and trace, if Omicron hadn't arrived they'd probably already have announced this.
3/ Are they embracing "The pandemic stops when we stop testing" flawed stance?
Is it the idea that this kind of health spending damages wealth?
It does suggest they are seeing Omicron as the last variant they'll have to react to
Don't worry, apparently Long Covid is imaginary, forget those brain scans and micro clots, its just in your head..
From gaslighting long covid, to "transmission not an issue in schools its all that mixing at school gates and sleepovers", he does have a track record
Also using the language of antivaxxers around child vax in this attack on @IndependentSage for calling for 12-15 vax
There is a small group of paediatricians who have produced most the evidence to block measures in schools
They dismiss hospitalisations, deaths, total minimisers, they've provided the shield for Ministers to hide behind
Schools are so safe the Government expects so many staff to get sick that we will have to have 60-90 kids being taught in a hall due to staff shortages
This is literally the plan, keep going until your the last person standing, what do CEV staff do?
Heard several times yesterday that "the majority of teachers are young"
What about those that aren't?
What about young staff with diabetes, organ transplants, immunicompromised, cancer etc?
What about those with at risk family members?
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
🧵With reports from various authorities of an Omicron paediatric surge, I hope the JCVI decision to not offer vaccines to all 5-11 year olds doesn't end in disaster
I agree once again there seems to be a fixation natural immunity #edutwitter
2/ All the data for adults has shown that vaccination boosts protection regardless of prior infection, so why would it matter how many children have previously been infected?
Vaccination is better than unvaccinated
3/ I wonder if they discussed the increasing evidence of Omicrons impact on children