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Jul 27

HART caim to be " a group of highly qualified UK doctors, scientists .. and other academic experts", but in private they have some truly bizarre beliefs, including that vaccines make you magnetic or are designed to turn us into zombies that can be remote controlled using 5G. 🤪

Many HART members believe that covid vaccines cause "shedding". Basically, they think vaccinated people walk around in a cloud of spike proteins that can "infect" those around them. They blamed everying from unusual periods to rising covid cases on alleged "vaccine shedding".

Christine Padgham was particularly active in "vaccine shedding" discussions. Initially questioning if it was "mass hysteria" or "nonsense", within weeks she was asking fellow members if anything from a child with shingles to a baby with a temperature could be due to shedding.

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Jul 13

HART and Together member Tony "Magneto" Hinton has finally been suspended by Twitter, with cranks running a copy-and-paste campaign to reinstate him.

In memoriam, here are a few of his greatest "hits"... 🧵

Tony Hinton got his nickname "Magneto" after we found out his fellow HART members had stuck magnets to his arm in a pub after a protest march in London last year. Many of them believed crazy stories about covid vaccines making you magnetic, and used Hinton as their guinea pig. 🤦‍♂️

Tony Hinton apparently thinks that the SARS-CoV-2 virus has never been "properly isolated".

This is, of course, completely and utterly wrong.

And a common trope for conspiracy theorists and outright covid deniers.

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Jul 10

Crank Twitter is having a meltdown over the Tory leadership contest. Unsurprisingly nobody meets their approval, especially after their pal Steve Baker pulled out, while the nuttier end of the spectrum think the whole thing is rigged by the WEF anyway. 🙄

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The main issue for cranks is most candidates were in the Cabinet, and therefore voted for "vaccine passports".

Side note: the UK has never had vaccine passports. You could also get a covid pass by testing negative or (until Omicron) having had covid before and recovered from it.

1) Jeremy Hunt (called a "lockdown fanatic" by one Cabinet minister) clearly isn't popular with cranks, and they're angry that Esther McVey is backing him.

McVey is an UsForThem fan and chairs an All Party Parliamentary Group run by anti-vax conspiracy theorists from HART. 🤦‍♂️

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Jul 7

@SteveBakerHW

Before you get too excited about Boris Johnson resigning, whoever replaces him may be even worse. Take @SteveBakerHW, who has worked with anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers and other assorted nuts, and is "seriously thinking" about a run for the top job. 😬

https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1544966453199257602

Naturally covid cranks are rallying around Steve Baker. Hopefully his fellow Tory MPs aren't that daft. But they voted for Boris Johnson, despite knowing full well that he was a liar and a cheat, so...

More endorsements for Steve Baker from the covid cranks.

Crank pros: he opposed lockdowns and doesn't think we need to worry about climate change.

Crank cons: he "needs time to educate himself" about vaccines, because apparently he's still in favour of them. 🤦‍♂️

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John Bye

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Jun 25

This week on GB News: HART member David Paton blames all our economic woes on lockdown, and UsForThem co-founder Molly Kingsley blames school absenteeism and parental abuse on lockdown.

This week on GB News: Dominique Samuels nominates suspiciously well connected and opaquely funded "children's campaign group" UsForThem as this week's "Greatest Briton".

UsForThem spent the entire pandemic campaigning to get as many children sick as possible. 🤦‍♂️

Meanwhile on the other side, Talk TV has UsForThem founders Molly Kingsley and Liz Cole on to promote their new book, and HART ally Laura Dodsworth (who has 79,000 followers) complains about Twitter's algorithm. 🤨

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Jun 22

While supporters of the Great Barrington Declaration frequently whinge about being "silenced", a report today from a US Select Committee details how the Trump administration held meetings with its authors and embraced a herd immunity strategy.

coronavirus.house.gov/news/press-rel…

The report mostly focuses on herd immunity enthusiast Scott Atlas, who (despite initially claiming that covid would only kill about 10,000 people in the USA) was hired as a White House advisor. Once there, he pushed for a strategy of getting "low risk" people infected.

Bizarrely though, Atlas spent his first two weeks at the White House trying to hide the fact that he was on the payroll from other officials and the public, under the direction of Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. 🤔

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