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May 30, 2023 17 tweets 7 min read Read on X
So, the latest #AntiVax bandwagon is that “no *healthy* young people died of covid in Israel”

As ever, given we know many under 50s died from Covid in the rest of the world, does this seem likely?

What do you think?!🙄

Let’s have a look at what’s going on….

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I went to the link on @stkirsch’s tweet first (I always feel a bit yucky clicking on those, but I braved it!💪🏼)

And, as is often the case, this claim has come from a Freedom of Information request. This is a classic technique, to get an answer you can misconstrue.

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Here is a Google Translate of the FOI that was sent to the Israeli Ministry of Health.

The first three questions were about the average age of covid deaths in the vaxxed vs the unvaxxed.

The unvaxxed died younger - but unsurprisingly the AVers ignored that bit!🙄

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It was the 4th Q that they’ve jumped on:

Basically it’s the classic “how many people under 50 died of Covid without underlying health conditions.

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The answer was:
Of the patients that the MOH had details of an epidemiological investigation on, whose parents has CHOSEN to share underlying conditions, all the covid deaths happened in patients with an underlying condition
They state they don’t have access to medical records
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So these were clearly only a subset of the deaths in under 50s AND only a subset of THOSE where parents had given details of whether they had other health issues.

But of course, the AVers jumped on that and claimed “no healthy under 50s died”

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Let’s not even go down the road of what “healthy” and “underlying conditions” means.

A 20 year old with Asthma who dies from catching covid is a very REAL covid death and should NEVER be dismissed.



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And it got worse….

The Israeli MOH got wind of this misinformation thanks to Elon Musk retweeting it (because, of course he did 🙄).

So they issued an explanation.

But was that sufficient to put the falsehood to bed?

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Nope, of course not!

@DrEliDavid decided to screenshot their response, deliberately cutting it in half to remove all the context🤦‍♀️

At this point there can be no doubt that he knows he’s spreading lies.

But he knows his followers believe every word.

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So @IsraelMOH have had to issue a full explanation, all because some AV grifters, who get a kick out of lying to their followers, felt the need to twist an FOI (as I said, that’s a really common trick).

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So to clarify:

356 people under 50 have died from Covid in Israel so far.

Of those, the MOH itself only had records on 184 of them.

Of those, only 27 had the question on underlying conditions answered by relatives.

Presumably those without, didn’t answer the question?

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The MOH has no access to medical records.

So asking THEM for the info was, I’m guessing, a deliberate attempt to get a twisted answer.

Just another day, and another AV lie.

It’s exhausting and frustrating- to see their followers never once questioning anything🤷‍♀️

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So please call out this stuff when you see it

These grifters are pivoting strongly towards trying to stop all vaccinations, despite childhood vaccine programmes the world over saving millions of lives, especially in the developing world

#VaccinesWork
#VaccinesSaveLives

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Jun 8
What do we think?🤔

Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.

Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!

So, what’s going on here?

Let’s take a look!👀

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It’s a story about a young boy who was told he couldn’t be referred to their NHS Occupational Health therapist because he went to private school.

There are a handful of other examples in the article - all children being “denied” NHS education related occupational health care

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So why would that be?

Well, the Children and Families Act 2014 meant that educational services such as speech and languages therapy and occupational therapy provided by the local authority to state schools, aren’t available to non special independent schools

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Jun 6
Oh @NeilDotObrien…..

Where do we start?

Disingenuous?

Ignorant?

Or just deliberately misleading for political gain?

A quick 🧵 to take a look!

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Neil claims that Labour have ABANDONED their pledge to recruit 6,500 more teachers *over the course of this parliament* because teacher numbers were down for the 24/25 year.

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Anyone who knows anything about education knows that staffing for the 2024/2025 academic year will have been broadly set BEFORE July 2024.

Before Labour came to power👍🏼

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Jun 1
Nigel Farage has been making some big populist promises.

But behind the soundbites lies not only a financial black hole, but tells us a lot about the future he sees for Britain:

Let’s take a closer look

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Last week, the leader of a party with just 5 MPs unveiled plans including:

📍Reinstating the winter fuel allowance (£1.5bn)

📍Removing the 2-child benefit cap (£3bn)

📍Raising the personal allowance to £20k (up to £80bn)

📍More tax breaks for married couples (~£4bn)

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Now some of those are entirely sensible.

Populists usually do come up with “popular” policies - the clue’s in the name!👍🏼

Where his plans spectacularly fall apart is on the other side of the balance sheet.

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May 21
Well this is grim….

Rotherham Borough Council has a new Mayor.

And the Right are absolutely up in arms about the fact that she’s a Muslim woman.

And they are of course spreading vile lies about her.

So let’s just do a little sense check shall we?

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Rukhsana Ismail was born in Sheffield

In ENGLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 👍🏼

All they see is the Hijab.

They don’t care that she started volunteering for a domestic abuse and human trafficking charity while doing her A Levels.

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They don’t care that she was:

A care worker
A school governor
A magistrate
A trustee for a Domestic Abuse charity
A trustee for a hospice charity
On the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Panel

Because she wears a Hijab

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May 18
Ok - you’ve seen the headlines about the “secretive” government agency planning on “dimming” the sun?

Sounds like something out of a Marvel film or a 1960’s James Bond, right?

Here’s a 🧵on who the government agency is and what *exactly* it is that they’re funding

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First let’s tackle the “secretive” agency:

ARIA - Advanced Research and Invention Agency

Set up to be the UK equivalent of DARPA in the US

Japan has Moonshot R&D

Germany has SPRIN-D

Govt agencies that support the most ambitious cutting-edge science and innovation

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DARPA in the US can take some, if not all, credit for:

GPS
Drones
Personal Computers
mRNA vaccine technology
Weather satellites
Stealth technology

Funding 1000s of projects that may or may not work - but when they do they can be game changing for humanity.

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No sooner have I debunked one set of headlines about refugees, along comes another one….🙄

Let’s do a quick fact check on this one so you can choose to be angry (if that’s your thing!) from a place of knowledge rather than media-driven emotional outrage👍🏼

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Firstly - these are REFUGEES - not “illegal immigrants” (aka asylum seekers).

These are people who have been through the grueling and long drawn out asylum process, have proven their claim and have been granted Refugee status.

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This process used to take 6 months but now only 12% of cases are decided within that timeframe

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