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?🤷♂️
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
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
3/ The Bill also permits 14-18 year olds to be targeted with political marketing
🧵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
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
In total over $707,000,000 in funding between 2009-2018 was identified by the Tip Of The Iceberg Report published 2021
🧵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
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
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
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