The issue is that Lucy Johnston and Sarah Knaptons idea of protecteding education is to allow uncontrolled transmission and mass constant reinfection of students, for this end they platform disinformation and argue against vaccination #edutwitter
Lucy will even retweet Simone Gold, founder of antivax Trump linked America's Frontline Doctors, she was also arrested for her involvement in the Capitol Hill Insurrection
Here she is promoting the APPG funded by opaquely funded Collateral Global which quotes members of Collateral Global and HART calling to halt child vaccination
Who she platformed on her skeptic podcast that Halfon has appeared on
So should Halfon be appearing on this podcast which is just a disinformation channel, and regularly pushes antivax misrepresented stats and false narratives?
A friends unvaxxed brother died this week because he listened to the lies and disinformation put out online, platformed by mainstream RW media and given credibility by MPs
Lucy Johnson and all the rest have blood on their hands
To support the GBD, Lucy is happy to use dodgy stats to minimise covid harms while grossly exaggerating the harm of measures, she just churns out this crap endlessly
And another link in one of the other threads I'd like to highlight
Lucy Johnsons been an antivaxxer for years, Express has gotten into trouble for her pushing Wakefield scares over MMR and then she did the same with HPV
Same people producing the disinformation Lucy Johnson is putting out are the same people behind the APPG, a fringe group has swamped the narrative due to the work of media and MPs
The Spectator with its history of defending far right groups and trying to rebrand eugenics is also just a GBD pro infection mouthpiece for vested interests
No suprise Halfon is also being very vocal about opposing net zero and scrapping green taxes, the climate change denial/minimalising lobby overlaps massively with covid disinformation
🧵Canadian Truckers, a case study on how the International Covid Disinformation Network operates to distort political debate and radicalise with the aim of destabilising democracies.
It's a cross border project
2/ To start with, the antivaxxers and disinformation groups are hiding behind anti mandate banners around the world are celebrating the Truckers, its no coincidence start of the convey coincided with Antivax fest in the US, expect copycat events elsewhere
3/ The convey is very similar to a 2020 Truckers rally in Mitchigan, same messaging, actions and even ppl, the aim is to bring the city to a halt, several UK commentators supporting this whilst they were all for locking up climate protestors last year
2/ The papers authors have been open supporters of the GBD which recieved support from Koch funded AIER and some of this papers authors are linked to the Koch funded Cato Institute
Where are the culture wars coming from?
Theres a lot of money being invested in division and hate
Koch network and the CNP has been facilitating this for years
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