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@karamballes
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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Karam Bales Profile picture
Jul 3
🧵A thread of links on Reform's general election
2/ Worth noting this other UK based coordinated disinformation network includes Together Declaration

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3/ Casting doubt on validity of UK voting process
Read 21 tweets
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Jun 26
🧵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
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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
Read 6 tweets
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May 24
🧵The Covid in Schools Scandal

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 much delayed testimony of Simon Case reveals that covid in schools policy ignored the science and was designed without expert advice

Macnamara
"Genuine suggestion that we secretly do different things in schools in places to see what the impact is.. last straw for me" Image
3/ Sunaks appearance revealed that the senior scientific advisors had warned that schools were the most significant risk to transmission

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Apr 24
1/ Contrary to its name, changes in the Data Protection and Information Bill further shifts the balance of power towards commercial interests
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 Image
3/ The Bill also permits 14-18 year olds to be targeted with political marketing Image
Read 7 tweets
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Apr 24
1/ The thing is, the UK is institutionally not curious about identifying harms directly caused by covid

For instance it's been a year since they stopped collecting and publishing data on long covid
2/ Many families of children with long covid have faced gaslighting and struggled to access meaningful care
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?🤷‍♂️
Read 15 tweets
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Apr 11
🧵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
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