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Jan 30, 2022 17 tweets 6 min read Read on X
🧵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
4/ Tegnell was the the GBD crowd when they met UK ministers in August 2020, no proper details of the meeting have been released

Sweden have tried hard to encourage others to follow their lead
5/ Germany
A lot of effort has been put into coordinating disinformation in Germany, Federal system means influencing regional politicians works in removing measures

Once again schools are a key battleground, good timeline here

6/ Interesting to see Atlantic Bridge implicated in supporting the Skeptic movements development in Germany.

It's one of those shady groups linked to US corporate interests and Conservative Party MPs
7/ AFD Party also seems to be trying to take advantage of the anti-vax bandwagon

Far right and antivax has a long history
8/ So state governments are seriously asking the question, should we just let kids get infected?

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9/ Ireland, response increasing being influenced by the lobbyists, once again schools are proving to be a key battleground
10/ At time Ireland have had Sweden, Netherlands and England encouraging them to cut restrictions

Those involved in Swedens strategy appear to be influencing the Irish Government

Another good timeline
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11/ Netherlands had tried to pursue a herd immunity strategy, they keep opening up too far, wait too long then end up back in lockdown due to imminent healthcare collapse

The lobbyists impacts and politicians views seem quote clear
12/ Also disinformation groups are very active, they can even get away with running adverts against child vax in major newspapers
13/ Then again in the UK the Daily Express actually promoted the Lawyers4Liberty letter against child vax

L4L are involved in the "common law constables" currently harassing NHS workers

14/ Canada, like Germany a lot of the response is regional.

BC has been particularly bad, the messaging from politicians and media regularly filled misinformation
15/ Ontario also seems to be taking a fatalistic approach to schools, misplaced through bookmarked thread to demonstrate this, will try and find it and add later
16/ Then we also have Uganda...

Despicable behaviour from GBD and affiliates
17/ We are also seeing narrative impacting vaccination programmes, as is the UK currently Image

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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
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🧵Collateral Global is the UKs successor organisation to the GBD, original board here, a more recent addition is Kevin Bardosh

But if CG are sponsoring the Stanford event, who is funding CG? Image
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 Image
3/ The Donors Trust, the dark money ATM of the US right wing, where do they get their money from?⬇️

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donors_Tr…Image
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🧵So Shamez Ladhani, the UKs clinical lead on covid in children, member of a WHO TAG for covid in children, lead for most UK gov studies on covid in children, most cited paed in world on covid in children, has written another paper with Hoeg and Noble from Urgency of Normal Image
2/ Hoeg produced the VAERS dumpster dive that made headlines in UK about myocarditis damaging confidence in covid vax for younger age groups, member of Urgency of Normal, Norfollk Group and DeSantis/Ladapo's Ethics committee that includes GBD author Bhattacharya

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3/ Table of evidence collected
Look at choices of evidence, the same sizes, etc worth zooming in to take a look Image
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🧵A Russian disinfo influencer promoting the Wellness Company...

Well, well, well, that is interesting...
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2/ Wellness Company is fronted by McCullough, of Pandata, Truth for Health Foundation and others
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3/ Long detailed write up of The Wellness Company and associates is here
whowhatwhy.org/science/health…
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