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Jan 29 • 51 tweets • 17 min read
1/🧵Some questionable stats, studies and statements over past 6 week

Examples and evaluation

First of all its worth looking at the impact some studies and articles have had in recent months
2/ As always theres been a focus in gaslighting around schools and children

In the UK education is facing serious disruption due to a lack of measures so adults can pretend everythings back to normal while politicians still chase the herd immunity unicorn
3/ Those minimising the impact on schools and children are an important part of the disinformation ecosystem

Each country has a small group of over publicised academics fighting against all measures backed up by astroturf campaign groups
4/ These academics provide a statistical shield for policy makers to justify not taking transmission in schools seriously

Their minimising of risks is also used by antivaxxers to reinforce their beliefs

An example from US is Emily Oster
5/ There is a reoccurring theme of dividing children into "healthy" and "comordity" then dismissing concerns an individualistic approach to measures leaves vulnerable children greater risk

Same vulnerable children they claim to champion when convenient
6/ Having minimised covid harms, they find themselves playing down the benefits of vaccination

For example in the US, Vinay Prasad has ended with messaging likely to increase hesitancy and embolden antivaxxers

A look at an example of this⬇️
7/ Yet when caught or called out there will be clarifications and accusations of being misinterpreted and taken out of context, never contrition.

Playing both sides on PH messaging doesn't work
7/ Examples of how Noble, Ghandi and Prasad have undermined public health messaging
8/ More examples of Ghandi
9/ In the US a load of them have teamed up for

Urgency of Normality

However schools can't have normality whilst policy makers and other adults accept high infection rates Image
10/ As a full time school worker the idea we can get back to normal in the short term is a joke

The "toolkit" they've produced is another example of the weaponisation of mental health to support pro infection policies
11/ Already seen the "toolkit" being promoted by the usual characters in the UK, must have seen the concerns raised about it but they'll carry on anyway

12/ More on those concerns
13/ Last year Hoeg was one of those behind the paper that dredged VAER massively inflating the risk of myocarditis from vax

Turner of the Telegraph promoted it poisoning the debate on child vax in the UK
14/ Misuse and misrepresentation of VAER is a standard tactic of antivaxxers

15/ If you're willing to support the pro-infection agenda then it seems you'll be offered a short cut to gaining a large platform

16/ It also appears there's been manipulation o VAER to support these dredging tactics

Thousand of adverse reactions reported from a single IP 🤔
17/ What we are dealing with is not just a difference of opinion between experts, its deliberately muddying the waters and there seems to be concern that its the antivaxxers and conspiracy theorists who are lapping this up
18/ Appears Kulldorff has been deleted off LinkedIn

19/ More time and effort has been spent on gaslighting to keep measures out of schools than any other aspect of the pandemic

It is after all the key part of a pro-infection herd immunity strategy

Great read here on Bhattacharya⬇️
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20/ Issue is that its Bhattacharya who the CRG MPs currently quoting as they oppose all measures in schools, calling for masks to be completely banned

21/ The CRG and the APPG sponsored by the GBDs Collateral Global fill the media with disinformation on a daily basis

The APPGs recent attempts to halt vaccination of under 16s shows how far they've embraced the ideology
22/But remember its the GBD who see themselves as the martyrs of the pandemic, forge about their meetings with politicians, their support from swathes of the RW media, their the ones being silenced Image
23/ Just look how Sunetra Gupta was silenced last week by writing an article in the Telegraph that reached a large audience.

She now says herd immunity means constant reinfection, thats how we protect the vulnerable 🤷‍♂️
24/ Other examples

Misuse of statistics on lockdown harms to children, just as the urgency of normality have done

No suprise to see Lucy Johnson at it
25/ And Molly Kingsley of UsForThem also at it in the Mail
26/ We saw the usual ppl trying to minimise the scale of the Omicron wave by blaming testing
26/ Some in the BBC also responsible for trying to normalise preventable deaths ImageImage
27/ In the UK we have Munro, Ladhani and Dingwall minimising long covid
28/ Now there's another one on children which they are all quoting as "incredibly robust", its not rare, no need for measures

A look at the issues with this study⬇️
28/ We even end up with articles encouraging us to speed the spread of covid

29/ We also have new astroturf organisation and campaigns not just against mandates but also putting out a lot of disinformation
30/ We have the "I'm not antivax but..." NHS guy who Javid spoke to quickly being handed a platform and given prominence by the disinformation groups/campaigns

31/ Even the Mail had some questions about him
32/ Now we have a midwife as well, "I'm not antivax, but..."

Also linked to the new disinformation campaign
33/ And what a suprise Steve Baker of CRG is also in on the action
34/ Then we see those involved in the NHS astroturf campaign linked to the #TogetherDeclaration campaign also have far rights links, and Russian links
35/ We see groups of politicians, media, astroturf, academics, the far right all coming into alignment and cooperation to undermine the pandemic effort with disinformation and political pressure on a weakened Prime Minister who only cares about his job
36/ Once again its the same ecosystem of overlapping groups and narratives in the US

"Defeat the Mandate" also came with a festival of fruitloops
37/ Of course the far right groups like the Proud Boys have joined in, starting to look like the antivax movement is being subsumed into the far right
38/ Special shout out to Tenpenny for most insane comment of the month

Quantum entanglement to steal your bank details!🤯
39/ In the UK we see another attempt at a Proud Boys tribute act, some people really want aggressive paramilitaries on UK streets

Also seeing a poliferation of "common law constables"
40/ And the grift is growing
41/ $2.5million just from subsstack, where Nawaz from LBC is now plying his conspiracy theories
42/ Just America's Frontline Doctors alone are estimated to have taken in at least $15 million for consultations and alternative treatments
43/ Once again another Ivermectin study turns our to be junk
44/ Recently we had @DavidDavisMP getting his facts from a podcast and claiming deaths had been massively overstated
45/ And of course this can easily be debunked, Davis surely must have seen the corrections fill his TL, yet its still up and being quoted by others

Doesn't help those falling for conspiracy theories to have MPs spreading this crap
46/ Good money in podcasts
£30k a month good, thats part of the issue, many of them do this full time while those of us fighting for sense are working full time
46/ But don't worry it's not like the Health Secretary @sajidjavid is asking for advice from a guy who thinks we should just covid rip through schools kids, the kind of guy who has to qualify his statements with "this is not eugenics"....

Oh shit Image
47/ And finally,

GBD, Tucker from AIER/Brownstone, Clare Craig from HART etc are operating in Uganda to increase vax hesitancy and build the antivax movement

In how many other countries are they doing the same?
Heinous

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Jan 30
🧵A look at the advance of the pro-infection agenda on policy in other countries

Sweden, posterboy of Herd immunity thanks to Tegnell, less need for disinformation groups when government is fully signed up
2/ In Sweden the media are also fully signed up to a pro infection strategy, dissenting voices struggle to be heard

Listen to the interview linked here and then read the rest of the thread on how the WHO response was misrepresented
3/ Swedens has an impressive track record of government disinformation, particularly on schools
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Jan 22
UK has embraced the Tegnell/ GBD plan

Key part of this strategy is to gaslight the shit out of anyone with the help of time experts and a complicit media

Frame dissenting voice as alarmist fringe, dismiss international comparisons
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Heads being told stay open no matter what

Example
Primary with 15 out of 35 staff off, DfE over rules local public health
"Schools have improved ventilation"

Lies

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Jan 21
Telegraph "Schools defy PM on Masks"
Zahawi to write to schools demanding no more masks
UsForThem have 100 angry parents

UsForThem have constantly reminded parents they can opt out of masks for any reason

Schools have never been able to force mask use
#edutwitter #r4today
1/ Image
2/ It was guidence not an enforced mandate, some schools are recommending students continue in masks

So what UsForThem and @nadhimzahawi are doing is trying to ban and remove the choice of wearing masks in schools

UfT click their fingers and Secretary responds on their behalf!
3/ They must have a hot line to DfE, @halfon4harlowMP and @ChildrensComm

Yet all three have refused repeatedly to meet with groups like @SafeEdForAll_UK and @Parents_Utd representing CEV children and parents

Why are the vulnerable ignored and silenced?
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Jan 20
Death merchants on manuovers again

One declares pandemic over
Other says herd immunity is constant reinfection throughout society to protect the vulnerable

How is constant reinfection immunity?
How does the virus know to avoid the vulnerable? ImageImageImage
2/ Right let's take a look at Guptas article

Covid "has stubbornly resisted all attempts at eradication"

NO!

Many governments at Guptas urging have resisted attempting eradication

And its not endemic Image
3/ The GBD crowd have literally done all they can to undermine any attempt at suppression, even going as far as to team up with antivaxxers, supporting them to pump out disinformation
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Jan 20
"Johnson came out fighting"
Once again mistaking confidence for competence
This is politics not performance art
Fact check his statements, analyse his policies
#r4today coverage is superficial
#r4today spent time discussing the benefits to nightclubs on scrapping covid passes but doesn't think removing masks in schools is worth looking at?
They evaluate yesterday through lens of party political games and Johnsons career rather than impact on real lives
Should be asking "Has Johnson put internal party politics ahead of public health? Does appeasing the CRG take priority over protecting the vulnerable in society?"

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Jan 19
@TomSwarbrick1 as you have Rosindell on, could you please ask him why he's been working with antivaxxers from HART to spread covid disinformation

#HARTleaks even has the emails
Bloody hell, Rosindell was asked what Johnsons priorities should be

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