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Karam Bales Profile picture
@karamballes
Mar 19, 2022 • 35 tweets • 14 min read • Read on X
🧵A failure to accept reality, the unsustainability of normality, and those seeking to rewrite history.

To start with the living with covid plan hasn't even been fully implemented yet and we already see a new wave rising
2/ First of all @sajidjavid made claims cases and hospitalisations were still falling, and wasn't pulled up in an interview that this wasn't true.

Then we are told rising cases are no cause for concern, the we are told to "brace", but at least we have more "freedom" than others Image
3/ Messaging is pandemic over, I thought the plan was to treat it like flu and other viruses, however the "Living with Covid" plan doesn't do this, instead it tries to pretend covid no longer exists

Chicken pox is notable in schools but not covid?
4/ Gov guidance is still that you should isolate if possible, yet DfE recommends child minding continues in positive households

Looks a lot like encouraging infection
5/ Looks a lot like herd/hybrid immunity strategy
"Booster infections" anyone?

Was suggested at JCVI as a benefit of not offering vaccination to children
6/ We see lots of workplaces struggling to do the right thing, should they allow staff to isolate? Pay full wage?

Two mates isolating at the moment, one works with several older guys, to protect them only gets statutory sick wage so losing money, some won't even get that
7/ Reminder the government isn't following the science from SAGE or WHO

SAGE February Meeting⬇️
8/ Stripping away the covid infrastructure like testing and isolation, the Government is basically following the GBD approach where herd immunity now means constant reinfection 🤷‍♂️

Gupta GBD author and Collateral Global⬇️
9/ Many Tory MPs seem to think it was the measures reducing access to care, not a deluge of covid patients flooding hospitals

Is the NHS back to normal?
No chance
10/ How is this sustainable?
Staff are eroded from stress of pandemic, illness from the virus, over burdened with workload

These numbers will just keep going up, even if gov didn't care about health and wellbeing, they're wrecking the workforce Image
11/ What about schools? Isn't is great they're back to normal without all the disruption masks or clean air would cause?
Stop testing kids they said, that's the problem,

So how's that working out?
Year groups shutting due to lack of staff ImageImageImageImage
12/ Mocks getting missed, supply agencies running dry, students facing constant cover, thinking exam season could be a disaster with lots of students off sick, ImageImageImageImage
13/ I'd like to point out all these screenshots are from one of my WhatsApp chats from one morning.

We're about as unsustainable as the NHS ImageImageImageImage
14/ Meanwhile terms for the covid inquiry seem to skip over education, this can't be allowed, the negligence of the DfE throughout this needs to be examined, as does how they managed to consistently ignore the scientific advice on schools
15/ 2 years on and still no serious investment in ventilation and filtration

DfE did a back of the fag packet survey and concluded over 96% of classrooms have good air quality!

Meanwhile Italy just passed a clean air act for classrooms
16/ GBD/Pro infection crowd think they've won, when it all goes wrong they'll just delete lots of posts and carry on regardless, like they did after the second wave they claimed wouldn't happen

And as I've repeatedly warned, they will now seek to rewrite history
17/ This is why Halfon wants schools included in the inquiry, he wants the record to say that schools should never have closed and transmission in schools played little impact, ignoring the fact schools were going to shut March 2020 and Jan 2021 cos we were running out of staff
18/ It wipes the govs hands clean of one of the most negligent areas in regards to safety, it also provides a key stone in the narrative the GBD were right all along

No suprise to see @nadhimzahawi seeming to join in
19/ The work to rewrite the history of the pandemic to portray the GBD as the silenced heroes who fought on began properly in the UK when GBDs Collateral Global bought itself an APPG
20/ The APPG funding by Collateral Global is providing a platform for Collateral Global and HART to put parliamentary stamp onto their disinformation

Been busy trying to halt child vaccination
21/ Disinformation groups flooded gov with FOIs, now Collateral Global are using FOIs on FOIs to produce questionable stats and to build a narrative around the FOIs

Bringing back the classic crap, like questioning PCR tests
22/ Expect more of these FOI type reports, 2 in short succession from Collateral Global

Has the same level of scientific integrity as VAER dumpster diving
23/ Of course you can depend on the Telegraph to platform anything Collateral Global produce ImageImageImageImage
24/ Telegraph were responsible for the worst and most damaging example of VAER dumpster diving

That Turner has just been promoted says a lot about the Telegraph
25/ Almost like Telegraph writers have been meeting with disinformation groups behind closed doors
26/ Same is happening in the US, here's Brownstone which is mainly GBD/AIER with colleagues overlapping with Collateral Global via Pandata

Once they rewrite history, they'll then have someone to blame,and will then call for justice
27/ As is Paul E Alexander, former Trump advisor, also involved with Brownstone and other disinformation groups

These are extremists but they get platformed not silenced, they get the ear of politicians
28/ They want a rigged inquiry that agrees with them, they want to blame others, calls for trials...

They're playing to the Nuremberg 2.0 crowd, the extremists who are increasingly violent in their choice of language
29/ That this group has such influence over UK politicians, CRG, the APPG, media links etc is appalling

They complain about being silenced, play thr victim, but whose promoting violent rhetoric?
30/ Can see what Collateral Global are doing, their message is

"Don't trust..
ONS
MHRA
NHS
UKMSA
Etc
They are lying to you"

This is a group who argues no one under 30 should be vaccinated and hints at alternative agendas for lockdowns
31/ And this is the issue with Heneghan and co, the only way they can twist figures to fit their agenda is to sink into the realm of suggesting conspiracy

When does Oxford University ditch the quack, because that's what he's become

32/ Also have Conservative Woman and others pushing the conspiracy angle around two failed court cases about vax, once again relying on HART, Collateral Global etc as their evidence

They go full on antivax
33/ And it continues, are they really going back to droplets?
🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
34/ And LFTs appear to have been switched off before 1st April when they were supposed to Image
35/ Zoe App also scrapped

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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
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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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