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[UnderCovid @Under_Covid]

This is thread👇is essential & urgent reading for every politician, for every journalist & for every campaigner - not just in the UK & US, but around the world

Please read, share & DM us if you want/can to help
#Palantir #COVID #COVID19 #COVID__19 #Corona #coronavirus #GenomeUK

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

1/. On 5 March 2020, the PM was asked why Britain hadn't locked down

He replied saying "one the theories is that we could #TakeItOnTheChin"

A year ago today - briefed by No.10 - @Peston revealed the govt strategy was to “allow the virus to pass through the entire population”.

[UnderCovid @Under_Covid]

@carolvorders 👇

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

On 21 Sept, SAGE warned of “catastrophic consequences” if the UK didn’t lockdown

At the same time Johnson & Sunak met lockdown-sceptics Gupta, Tegnell & Carl Heneghan (described as a “fuckwit” who “does not understand basic epidemiology”) @covidinquiryuk

[Gina Miller @thatginamiller]

This is serious datamining - the new gold making a new generation of tech billionaires Sunak is pushing

Our #NHS database is possibly the most comprehensive in the world. These datasets are crucial to build AI health systems from prevention to diagnosis and to treatment.

If these systems are built abroad, using our own rich NHS datasets and then sold back to the NHS, we'll be paying twice, totally reliant on these companies for the foreseeable future, and loose control of how its used.

Not only more appalling selling off our country's assets, but Palantir is described as the “scariest” of America’s tech giants. They started out working with data/data patterns for US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its tools enable the surveillance and analysis of data!

[Dr Philippa Whitford @Dr_PhilippaW]

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

[💚🌻RealBavarian💚🌻#StandWithUkraine #TeamHabeck @real_Bavarian]

@n3ll41 Sieh Dich bitte auch mal unter dem Hashtag #PalantirPlan um, wer und was hinter dieser Software steckt und warum die Anwendung dieser konkreten SW massiv problematisch wäre:

https://t.co/L5i962CQC2

[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

[Carl Dinnen @carldinnen]

NEW. The Cabinet Office has told the Covid Inquiry that it does not actually have Boris Johnson’s What’s App messages and diaries.

[UnderCovid @Under_Covid]

The person who wrote this piece - Bobby Friedman - isn’t an epidemiologist or a public health expert

He’s a barrister

[UnderCovid @Under_Covid]

The person who wrote this piece - Bobby Friedman - isn’t an epidemiologist or a public health expert

He’s a barrister

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

10/. Pressure on journalists not to dig too deep also comes from editors & other sources

On 13/3/20, @Telegraph ran an article with the chilling headline: “Those questioning govt COVID strategy are a danger to us all”

But it was those NOT questioning stategy who were the danger

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

@peterjukes @BorisJohnson @Schofe @hollywills @mvdct @afneil @JeremyVineOn5 @FullFact @Peston @JIMrichards1010 @astroehlein @clmazin @paulwaugh @IanDunt @Keir_Starmer @C4Ciaran @jonsnowC4 @cathynewman @AndyBurnhamGM @ronanburtenshaw @eddieizzard @bbclaurak @NickyAACampbell @ThatTimWalker @markaustintv @MrMarkBeaumont @MrMichaelSpicer @PaulLewis @HackedOffHugh @MattHancock @Telegraph @grantshapps @whippletom @thetimes @imperialcollege @MollyJongFast @mehdirhasan @johnpilger @ggreenwald @piersmorgan @GaryLineker @robdelaney @caitlinmoran @Jeremy_Hunt @realDonaldTrump @guardian @ForeignPolicy @doctorshaib 62/. More the significance of Boris Johnson’s #GreenwichSpeech - made on 2 February 2020, just after Brexit - is contained in the threads👇

It points to the bigger vision: restructuring society by means of deregulation &, in the longer term, harnessing the power of genomics

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

I remember an onslaught of journalists when myself and @StefSimanowitz pointed out the ‘talking it on the chin’, ‘herd immunity’ and Greenwich ‘superman’ speech in the early days of the pandemic. Were they ‘got at’ by Government?

https://t.co/bNVpRmCnql

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

@Peston @Telegraph Yep!

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Columnist for @thetimes and Sunday Times @matthewsyed says corruption goes wider and deeper than Zahawi....

We must fight on 💪🏼

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

“Do you own shares in Moderna #RishiSunak, ‘cos if you do, are we now talking about insider trading?” @carolvorders

Sunak co-founded a hedge fund that invested £1b in Moderna shares & refuses to say if he holds assets in the hedge fund & therefore Moderna

[mgemancipation.bsky.social @MGEmancipation]

You can't say they keep quiet about their worldview. This statement by Thiel should disqualify Palantir from any contracts with the NHS. Would the UK govt contract with a company that advocated ripping UK voting eligibility rules apart & starting over by denying women the vote?
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