Thread by @karamballes

🧵To say let we just need to accept vulnerable deaths when we haven't bothered to invest in ventilation and filtration is just barbaric, we probably can't get to zero deaths but we can reduce deaths without inconvenience

https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1482637275292909568

2/ Though its not surprising, some of us have spent years campaigning to remove asbestos from schools, we know where it is, we just can't get policy makers to release the funding to remove it, instead we get "monitor it, we'll act once it breaks up"

3/ I have friends whove lost loved ones from aggressive cancers from asbestos in their schools
Mate Hank Roberts had to fight to reveal cover ups where ppl knew asbestos was breaking up but they just couldn't be bothered to admit to it and cough up the cash

4/ We know the DWP benefits sanctions have been applied unfairly eg sanctioned for missing an appointment due to a heart attack, left unable to buy food

Ppl have starved to death while those now pretending to champion the vulnerable looked the other way

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1462213927035617282?t=CGLTfAGY3zVPjhXxV6m6Vw&s=19

5/ RW papers dismissed the UN special report as "playing politics"
Disability mobility allowances were removed meaning ppl lost jobs as they could no longer get to work, reduced to trapped in their homes with inadequate support

6/ "Freedom" champions didn't care about these ppl who have essentially been locked down for years

They're a forgotten inconvenience, freedom fighters never gave a toss

7/ No of these ppl cares about over 50k children disappearing from school registers in 2018

@ChildrensComm was the leader of one of the trusts with the highest off rolling rates and now she's campaigning with UsForThem cos "children need to be in school"

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1462215317736898560?t=IrEvRIO7N73NrlJ_nmBekA&s=19

8/ The hypocrisy of these people knows no bounds, look how vulnerable and disadvantaged students lost out to austerity and academisation, some of the loudest freedom voices now backed Goves reforms to the hilt

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1276454783818387458?t=IrEvRIO7N73NrlJ_nmBekA&s=19

9/ They tried to sell us 250k elderly and vulnerable deaths was a price worth paying for freedom and the economy

When they discovered the general public weren't as sociopathic as them it was obvious how they'd set out to spin covid

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1247678149778866178?t=n-mHhjQ3yDt7G-fhHK2NPg&s=19

10/ Opaquely funded think tanks set up a disinformation network working across borders, to deny and minimise. Skeptics bang on about "Nudge" but the disinformation network has those behind Cambridge Analytica advising them

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1420136026505457664?t=MSAqNxvFVxJUVVaFDcZPsQ&s=19

11/ "Focused protection"
"They want to lock us down forever"
"Live with the virus"
"Endemic"

They sloganised, memed, discredited opposing views, produced "alternative facts",created a whole ecosystem

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1432482157101035522?t=wGQcZFdA6mWch_LXD1FOjw&s=19

12/ It was never about freedom, Japan and South Korea have had more freedom and less death and suffering, we could have enacted a clean air act and be in a stronger position by now

Its about values, its about fostering individualism over social collectivism,

13/ They are giving you a false choice between your own freedom and the lives of vulnerable people, because this is the mentality they need to foster so they can further advance interests like 2 tier healthcare and dismantling the welfare

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1462187180382724100?t=VGR1LJ0ILi0nbFCDszdiPw&s=19