Bridgen and the rest of the CRG have been getting briefed by HART since January 2021,I think likes of Baker and Harper found them useful to undermine public health for libertarian ideology but Bridgen seems to have become a truth believer 1/
2/They have been using APPGs to add a veneer of credibility to disinformation created by HART, Collateral Global and now Malhotra who seems intent on becoming the new Wakefield
5/ @BylineTimes has covered it extensively, @whippletom has been one of the few ppl at a big newspaper to cover HART disinformation, others are busy platforming them instead
6/ Consider how groups and individuals calling for those involved in the vaccine roll out to be put on "Nuremberg 2" trials likening ppl like Chris Whitty to Nazi war criminals have been promoted by MPs and RW media
8/ @ChildrensComm and @halfon4harlowMP in support of UsForThem even saw changes to the schools bill based on misrepresentation of "Ghost children" created by Iain Duncan Smith to create "harder hitting" harms of lockdown after a meeting with Molly Kingsley
🧵Unfortunately anti-abortion protestors are being supported by the usual US culture war creeps, just the same as with debating trans rights, CRT scare stories, covid disinformation, "they want to erase our history" nonsense
3/ The APPG system is regularly abuser by these opaque lobby groups, there's an anti abortion APPG and no surprise the usual culture war characters from Living Marxism/Spiked and Turning Point are involved in platforming them
The problem is the UKs clinical lead for covid in children is still claiming over 90% of infections in children occur outside of school and that children aren't index cases
Also claim vast majority of long covid is psychological and refuse to acknowledge biomarkers
BMJ Inquiry paper questioned this, and the ppl who create the UK govs evidence base had a hissy fit they weren't included to mark their own homework, resulting in attack articles in the Telegraph …terdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/bmj-study-qu…
The response to the BMJ article that was lauded by other minimisers and shut down debate on the paper was a absolute junk, for instance claiming authors didn't consider a specific paper when the BMJ paper had a whole table analysing the paper in question
@lewis_goodall on @LBC covering Strep A
Guest speaker has bit if a diff take to some reporting, is saying its a more toxic strain of Strep, says antibiotics supply isn't the issue its have the right formulation (liquid) available
At least a couple of times a month @FraserNelson makes the same pro infection arguements, workplaces made short term measures seeing what was on the horizon, this wouldn’t have been sustainable without gov action like furlough
There's something dystopian about a first hand account from a parent whose child was seriously ill with Strep A that ends with the parent saying that while their daughter has suffered kidney damage children need to build up their immunity