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Apr 24 15 tweets 4 min read Read on X
1/ The thing is, the UK is institutionally not curious about identifying harms directly caused by covid

For instance it's been a year since they stopped collecting and publishing data on long covid
2/ Many families of children with long covid have faced gaslighting and struggled to access meaningful care
3/ More and more evidence emerges of the long term harms caused by covid, but the UK govs preferred paedatricians continue to peddle claims that with enough infections children will develop lasting immunity
Said this would occur after 1 infection, what is it now? 5? 7? 10?🤷‍♂️
5/ We seem to be fed an endless diet of articles about how lockdowns that ended over 3 years ago are responsible for harms that are continuing to rise Image
6/ Doesn't matter how many papers are published regarding the consequences of covid on the brain or immune systems

What if repeated mass infection isn't a "harmless" act
8/ There is also a lack of curiously in most the media as well
Very similar to how people with ME have been treated
9/ There has been an intentional campaign to blame everything on lockdowns including continuing student absence despite the data clearly showing illness is the main cause
10/ The children's commissioner from 2020-2021 Anne Longfield provided a long witness statement and attended a hearing for the covid inquiry while failing to make a single mention of long covid
11/ In 2021 we saw the creation of a term which previously hadn't appeared in any paper on PubMed, immunity debt didn't just shift focus away from harms of covid, it created a narrative that infections are beneficial for children
12/ The small group of paedatricians who have acted as gatekeepers on the narratives regarding covid in children have relied heavily on an academic slight of hand which just so happens to provide the answers the gov needed to justify its policies
13/ We were told:
Children 50% less likely to be infected
Infections not occurring in schools
No evidence of a child infecting an adult
Children have natural immunity due to the other common coronaviruses
School staff aren't infected in classrooms, it was the unused staff rooms
14/ No link to diabetes
Only 6 "healthy" Children had died (second half 2021)
No impact on immune systems
Long covid is no different to any other post viral fatigue
Don't need vaccination if they've been infected because of broad immunity
Masks don't work
Air filters don't work

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More from @karamballes

Apr 24
1/ Contrary to its name, changes in the Data Protection and Information Bill further shifts the balance of power towards commercial interests
2/ The bill gives the Secretary of State the power to add to the list of interests that can access your childrens data through secondary legislation avoiding parliamentary scrutiny Image
3/ The Bill also permits 14-18 year olds to be targeted with political marketing Image
Read 7 tweets
Apr 11
🧵Cass Review
Not had a chance to read the whole thing yet, but have had time to look through the main points

What positives can be taken from it? The time spent on waiting lists was identified as a major issue, all children's services are massively underfunded at the moment
2/ I would like to think that this will lead to an investment in all children's support services like CAHMS, more pastoral support in schools etc

That would be a positive outcome, regardless of what else is included in the review, unfortunately real terms cuts are the reality
3/ What matters is how government interprets the review and what it chooses to implement, additional funding for children isn't going to be prioritised over tax cuts to appease RW papers
Imagine if the billions from last round of tax cuts had instead been invested in children
Read 11 tweets
Mar 11
Miriam Cates and Ranil Jayawardena's offices were very insistent that speaking at this conference didn't constitute "sharing a platform" or speaking "alongside" the other speakers

Cates' office even threatened legal action if those words were used
Interesting how Tory MPs and RW media consiser going on marches to call for a ceasefire in Gaza will have ppl labeled as being part of a hate march, but speaking at the same conference as multiple ppl named in a EU report on US and Russian dark money shouldnt draw associations Image
In total over $707,000,000 in funding between 2009-2018 was identified by the Tip Of The Iceberg Report published 2021 Image
Read 14 tweets
Mar 3
🧵This article by Camilla Turner is a great example of how antivax talking points are laundered into the mainstream by those trying to claim excess deaths are being caused by vaccines

Group of MPs call for data to be released insinuating there's a cover up Image
2/ They claim they need data on dose and deaths, worth noting this has come from McVeys anti-lockdown APPG and UsForThem whose founder is supporting Bridgen and RFK Jr Image
3/ However I'm not certain what data they claim is being withheld as data on dose and death stratified by age is publicly available from the ONS

Right here⬇️
Read 16 tweets
Feb 24
1/ "We have to learn to live with covid"
Sunetra Gupta said the West needed to become more accepting of deaths

Now her supporters are baffled by excess deaths, blaming them on vaccines even though most the UK haven't had access to a booster for over 2 years
2/ They said we should just let covid circulate in schools, now her supporters struggle to understand why there are high absence rates, blaming "immunity debt" or simple claiming parents no longer care about sending their kids to school
3/ They are confused by why so many workers have dropped out of the labour market, claiming ppl just can't be bothered to go to work anymore
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