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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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Aug 26
🧵So Musk has decided to go off on one about the UK again

Migrants, Rape Gangs, Lucy Connolly, tweeting Tommy Robinson, and backing Rupert Lowe over Nigel Farage

Just before Farage goes to the US in September and as big antimigrant protests are planned shortly afterwards Image
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2/ Some similarities to before the Southport attack and subsequent riots, creating a narrative and setting conditions to prime potential rioters for the next event that can be used as a match to start the fires
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3/ Musk offers to fund legal actions in the UK Image
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Aug 23
1/ Lucy Connollys appeal was funded by the Free Speech Union
Allison Pearson of the FSU led the media in supporting Connolly and promoted the crowdfunder that raised over £150k for Connolly (after Lawrence Fox took a 7% cut as it was his crowdfunding site that was used Image
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2/ The FSU was set up with support of Peter Thiel
James Orr a founding member of FSU is also on the Edmund Burke Foundation's board which organises NatCon, that Orr is also on the board of

JD Vance is Thiels minion, previously spent a record $15 million on getting Vance elected
3/ Vance has been leading the US attacks on free speech in the UK

The FSU has been busy backing anti-abortion and anti-trans legal cases, working alongside Christian Concern and US ADF, an important NatCon group

Vance is linked to NatCon
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Jul 13
Why is @Tony_Diver giving a full page interview to Malhotra in the Telegraph?
The self-titled "leading cardiologist" has become an antivax hero, who has to publish his papers via his own journal because they are as dodgy as anything Wakefield put out

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The platforming of disinformation grifters in mainstream papers, particularly Telegraph, Express, Daily Mail, GB News and TalkTv is contributing to the increase in vax hesitancy
People will die because of shoddy journalism from likes of @Tony_Diver
@Tony_Diver 3/ Describing Malhotra as "serious public prominence" and promoting his antivax papers without pointing out that he set up the journal it's printed in, is frankly dishonest journalism Image
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Jun 6
1/ Telegraph and Toby Young claiming "culture nationalism" being included is the latest attack by Labour on Free Speech is a lie

The Conservatives added this to Prevent in 2023 Image
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2/ From my October 2023 article for @BylineTimes on the updated Prevent training Image
@BylineTimes 3/ While they misrepresent Conservative policy to attack Labour complaining that cultural Nationalism was too broad a term, they didn't have a problem that socialism was also added to Prevent at the same time
bylinetimes.com/2023/10/19/ter…
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Feb 14
1/ So Toby Young, now a member of the house of Lords is directly receiving support from Musk, a member of a foreign government Image
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2/ This is after the FSU jumped onto a case of a teacher appealing against a school for being dismissed for their online posts, the case was being backed by Christian Concern and FDU piggybacked as an intervener Image
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3/ Worth noting the case centred around a petition from CitizenGo, an organisation identified as being part of a US/Russian network designed to undermine sexuality and reproductive rights Image
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Feb 4
🧵Trump 2.0 

While much of the UK media has focused on DEI, tariffs and confirmation hearings there's been less focus on what appears to be an attack on the US constitution, purges of people and scientific information, and efforts to supress opposition and scrutiny
2/ First a quick look at the pardoned Jan 6 rioters as an example

3/ The interim Attorney General for DC had defended some of the rioters

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