CovidMemorialDay

23rd March (UK) - light a candle - sit on a hill - take a moment to remember & to grieve - #CovidMemorialDay - #CovidMemorialGardens @CovidMemoryGdns

[CovidMemorialDay @CovidMemoryDay]

The first act of @JoeBiden & @KamalaHarris when they came to office was to organise a
#COVIDMemorialDay

We have been asking @Conservatives @UKLabour @CarolineLucas @LibDems etc for a big “official” day to remember

Tmw = an official
#DayOfReflection
https://t.co/qiO6Nycf4x

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

“If you see me - shivering & dumbed with loss - stand by me, because grief needs a witness”

Tmw - on the anniversary of the UK’s late lockdown - take a moment to grieve

Put candle in your window & observe a minute’s silence at 8pm.
#CovidMemorialDay #DayOfReflection
#COVID19

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

@PeterStefanovi2 #MattHancock claims asymtomatic spread wasn’t known about

28/1/20- govt published a paper on asymptomatic spread

26/2/20 - @Dr_PhilippaW asked Hancock about asymptomatic spread

63/20 - WHO said "80% of infections are mild or asymptomatic” #CovidInquiry�

[Dr Philippa Whitford @Dr_PhilippaW]

Yet again? I raised it repeatedly! In Feb 2020!

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

76/. It’s interesting that Johnson should tweet about genomics as one of the key Brexit benefits👇

Echoes of UK as “superman” - the “supercharged champion” he talked about in his post Brexit #GreenwichSpeech

Deregulation to unleash the power of genomics?

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

The NHS = the most trusted brand in the UK

Cambridge Analytica = the least trusted

Yet #Palantir reportedly taught CA how to scrape data

Whilst #PartyGate is scandalous, there is a FAR worse scandal that #BorisJohnson & his govt are getting away with�

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

3/. Asked on #BBCQT why the govt had deliberately transferred people from hospitals to care homes without testing @Helen_Whately first tried the “we were guided by science” line, THEN falsely claims “the world” didn’t about asymptomatic spread of #COVID19!

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

2/. Here’s @Helen_Whately attempting to blame scientists for the govt’s policy of transferring #COVID19 patients from hospitals into care homes without testing

@KayBurley wasn’t impressed

BURLEY: You can't stick this on the scientists

WHATLEY: I can

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

1/. The Care Minister @Helen_Whately refuses to back @MattHancock's claim that a "protective ring" was put around care homes as #COVID19 inquiry hearings begin

In a 2020 @SkyNews interview👇with @kayburley, Whatley attempted to blame the scientists for the #CareHomeScandal

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

75/. Remember, Hancock's meeting with #Palantir & Babylon who went on to win £1.3 billion in COVID contracts were declared 21 months late

27 meetings in April 2020 with companies that won £1.14b in govt contracts were omitted from DHSC’s original records
https://t.co/KIclUMEfBH

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

74/. Yikes!

“Ethics...is becoming essentially a mathematical discipline...it has to be tackled as a technical field of study”

Marc Warner, #FacultyAI who work with #Palantir on NHS data

These are the people building the algorithms & harvesting our data!

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

73/. “To me this is a deal that is done. It’s is going to happen. The implications of this deal are going to be MASSIVE”

This #Palantir watcher/fan thinks that the £480m data contract with #NHS is “already in the bag”

This weeks announcements have led me to the same conclusion

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

72/. “I think people should fear these things” Alex Karp replies to @bbcnickrobinson when asked about privacy fears about a US data company who may “want to get their hands on all that data that the NHS has”

#Palantir’s biggest office is ALREADY in the UK

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

71/. Yep!

“The UK has a pragmatic understanding of data protection…If you’re a company & you want to do research on a medicine you’re going to be able to do things in the UK that you would not be able to do easily in the Continent” #Palantir’s Alex Karp
https://t.co/pjhoarXsbq

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

70/. “The flagrancy is part of the point” (Orwell)

What’s most disturbing about Sunak’s meeting with #Palantir’s Alex Karp is the flagrancy

Rather than the usual behind-the-scenes meetings, they’ll go to a baseball game together

Is the #PalantirPlan coming out of the shadows?

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

69/. Be afraid! Be very afraid

Rishi Sunak will meet Alex Karp, boss of US tech firm Palantir that has embedded itself in the NHS & aims tp expand its data contracts

Ystdy, #Palantir announced it will open its new European HQ for AI development in the UK
https://t.co/6zMBzKbn2x

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

BREAKING: “Rishi Sunak who promised a new era of accountability & integrity, is now taking the Covid Inquiry to court in order to avoid handing over all the ministerial WhatsApps it requested”@AdamBienkov

These threads👇help explain govt the actions/inactions during the pandemic

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

Ministers will avoid questions about the deaths of thousands of care home residents during the #COVID19 pandemic until after the general election, says @covidinquiryuk

Hearings won't take place until the summer of 2026 #CareHomeScandal #CovidInquiry https://t.co/yJ5e3DPsB7

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

Very sad to hear about the death of
ITV News Health Editor @emilymorganitv

Here she is in August 2020 reporting on the debilitating symptoms of what would later be known as long #COVID

She also investigated many other vital #COVID19 stories & scandals

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

Dear Health correspondents

Isn't this a story that should be covered?
@NickTriggle @BBCPallab @cathburns @emilymorganitv @SkyNewsThomas @SkyNewsIsabel @vsmacdonald @ashishskynews @hannahdev @eilishor @katlay @PickardJE @TulipMazumdar @JamesTGallagher
@janedreaper @BBCFergusWalsh

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

“The most sophisticated tyrannies are ones that have a showman as their frontman. Clown or blowhard. Jester or villain. The type of showman doesn’t matter. The public will love them just the same”

This is NOT about a man ruffling up his hair

It is far more sinister than that👇