Thread by @karamballes

#r4today Telegraph literally ran a disinformation campaign in regards to schools and covid, they have a massive self interest in shaping the narrative
#HARTleaks

https://twitter.com/CDPNetworkMap/status/1631059708176900102?t=_7dVu2aBcLVLbR1Wwz575Q&s=19

Oakshott shows her agenda in an interview with @bbcnickrobinson says she was acting in the national interest, "lockdowns were forced on us with flimsy evidence"

She says no journalist could sit on a cache of information and not inform the public

So will @IsabelOakeshott be reporting on the #HARTleaks?
Over 6 gigabytes of internal chats showing how media and MPs worked with groups of anti valuers and conspiracy theorists to undermine public health with disinformation?
…terdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/internal-cha…

Somehow i doubt it as it directly implicates the Telegraph and many of the alternative experts she likes to quote
…terdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/the-emails-t…

#HARTleaks have been public knowledge since mid 2021, but having worked for GB News and now for TalkTV I imagine the #HARTleaks provide inconvenient truths for her
…terdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/hartleaks-re…

Oakshott says schools were closed repeatedly on flimsy evidence, quoted the 100k children missing from education stat

This has been repeatedly debunked, stat comes from IDS' CSJ think tank, they aren't missing its actually the stat of students with severe absence

Severe absence is missing 10% of school in a term, DfEs own stats provided to JCVI shows that the vast majority of severe absence has been due to sickness from covid

Evidence is all here⬇️

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1542033071188463616?t=DpBxB5Om22QUEOvXSBBJQg&s=19

Oakshott claims flimsy evidence for the January schools decision, one of the alternative experts GBnews, TalkTV and Telegraph love the most is Carl Heneghan
Heneghans own account of his Sept 2020 meeting with gov shows that even he thought schools shouldn't return at start of Jan

She also seems to get just how deadly the Alpha wave was, yesterday she was upset Hancock wasn't following the scientific advice on care homes but ignores the fact the scientific advice on schools was to take a more cautious approach

While she will argue that children are low risk, she will completely ignore the safety of education workers, schools only went back for one day on 4th of Jan because a large number of workers rightfully enacted Section 44 of the Health & Safety act

The government didn't fight this because they knew they would lose the legal battle and the public were likely to be made more aware of the govs negligent attitude towards the safety of the workforce

If Oakshott wants to find out important information to inform the public there's one vital bit of data on schools that is unavailable..

How many education workers have died?
I contacted ONS and they don't have the data

The DfEs schools workforce is supposed to have this data, however since the start of the pandemic the data on deaths is missing
Only 18 deaths are registered but the last ONS occupational deaths
in 2021 it was around 570

Cover up?

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1559963641184763905?t=aRzS-aoVZT533sHV1WzDRQ&s=19

Telegraph article on schools shows good examples of selective quoting to build a narrative

"No robust rationale" for rule of 6 for under 12s, but this wasn't the expert opinion, it was the views of ministers

So when the Telegraph criticised ministers for ignoring expert advice on care homes, but when it comes to schools they are on the side of ministers ignoring expert advice

See how this works?

Claim masks were introduced despite CMO saying "no strong reasons" likely an example of selective quoting of the CMO considering SAGE were recommending masks in June 2020 and in 2021 after masks were removed

They were removed against scientific advice

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1282220319894315008?t=Jw62VotUo1asP693e_qkww&s=19

Then we are back to tired old claims about false positives which is two years out of date as an argument worth engaging with

Throughout 2020 and even into 2021 the Spectator continued to push the narrative a significant number of cases were false positives, this was long after it was clear false negatives were much more of an issue, so why is the Telegraph talking about false positives again?

It's because they are trying to set out the minimisers/GBD narrative that transmission wasn't an issue in schools

"iT wASnT cAsEs iT wAS fALse PoSItIVes"

Once measures like testing and isolation were removed, sickness rates increased