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It has since gained almost 18,000 followers on its Instagram page, more than 20,000 people have signed its petition calling for a plan for schools to urgently reopen a position that aligns with the state Liberal Party and it has featured in reports from the ABC, Channel Seven and the Herald Sun.

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Ms Blackwell said she was not motivated by politics and argued the group was valuable because kids dont have unions they have mums.

We arent anti-vaxxer, anti-lockdown or anti-government, she said. We supported the lockdowns last year, but we want a plan for schools to go back and experts to be consulted.

Kid are losing their spark. They have missed so much school; thats socialising, sport, education We dont have answers for them anymore when they ask what date theyre going back.

Influencers including Rozalia Russian, whose husband Nick Russian unsuccessfully ran on an unofficial Liberal party ticket for lord mayor last year, Nadia Bartel and Rebecca Judd have recently promoted Shadow Pandemic Victoria on their Instagram accounts. Judd landed in hot water last year after she referred to Premier Daniel Andrews as Dictator Dan on her Instagram account.

The group recently shared a tweet from Victorian Liberal MP and former opposition leader Matthew Guy, who said he was fed up with the government telling him that home-schooling was somehow good for kids and they should learn to enjoy it.

Multiple state Liberal and crossbench MPs have contacted Ms Blackwells group in the hopes of collaborating. The group has declined these approaches in order to avoid a perception that it is aligned to a party.

Data from Google Trend shows interest in the phrase shadow pandemic is isolated to Victoria and peaked on the weekend of August 24.

The group has rallied against the governments playground ban, which was the lockdown measure that arguably generated the most negative media attention. The Andrews government overturned the ban on Wednesday despite recording the highest number of daily cases in more than a year.

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