1/. All the claims about our preparations & how everything was in order were basically completely hollow, but we didn’t figure this out until the back end of February”
#Cummings claims he was lied to by Hancock & others about the preparedness for COVID
These were not “mistakes”
2/. “Lots of COBRA meetings are just a bunch of PowerPoints & not very useful”
#Cummings explains why he didn’t bother to attend any of the 5 Crucial COBRA meetings in Feb 2020 & didn’t advise @BorisJohnson to attend either
He sent ‘his friend’ 33-year-old Ben Warner, instead.
3/. #Cummings has referred to Ben Warner a dozen times
Ben isn’t an epidemiologist, virologist or public health expert
His 2014 thesis was “Engineering the properties of magnetic molecules through the interaction with the surface
#Cummings has now mentioned his brother, Marc👇
4/. WTAF!
“Attempts to reach out to people who ran the government, such as himself, seem to have met with total neglect....The overwhelming impression is that we have been led by a bunch of raging inadequates. While hardnut talk is sadly understandable” @MarinaHyde on #Cummings
5/. @DawnButlerBrent asks #Cummings about #FacultyAI & #Palantir who both have links to #CambridgeAnalytica🔥
“@amnesty say the govt quietly granted access to millions of UK health data records including to controversial data-mining firm Palantir – to build a Covid19 Datastore”
6/. The @amnesty quote is from this article👇
They also say
“We could close our eyes & pretend that contrary to all the evidence, #Palantir is a rights-respecting company or we can call this façade what it is: another company placing profit over people, no matter the human cost”
7/. #Cummings claims he doesn’t know anything about #Palantir
He does
He claims all data is anonymised
It isn’t
He claims it’s very complicated
It isn’t
Govt contracts with #FacultyAI & #Palantir reveal an unprecedented transfer of personal NHS info to private tech firms
8/. In Sept 2020, the UK launched a ten-year strategy, #GenomeUK, which will transform the NHS & put genomics at the heart of the PM’s programme for govt
Incredibly it was launched quietly (on a Saturday!) & received no media coverage
#Palantir appear to have a central role.👇
9/. Seven months the launch of #GenomeUK journalists are still managing to ignore it!
Seven months after the govt began to seize - & sell access to - the health data of every person in the UK, the @FT finally reported it yesterday!
Patients aren’t asked & can’t opt out #COVID19
10/. “What I’m sure of is that #FacultyAI do not have personalised data at all” #Cummings
Faculty are LITERALLY running the #COVID Data Store - a lake of NHS data - with #Palantir
Thanks to @DawnButlerBrent for asking this question. It leads to many more
11/. The #JointBiosecurityCentre (#JBC) took over responsibility for the UK’s #COVID19 strategy in July 2020
SAGE advice is fed to the JBC
They don’t published minutes
Its run by a senior GCHQ staffer
It’s membership is secret but now we know #Cummings attended #JBC meetings!
12/. In Dec, the PM was asked why the country wasn’t in lockdown
He passed the question to @uksciencechief who said:
“The Tier decisions aren’t for me”
If lockdown decisions aren’t for Vallance/Whitty/SAGE, who are they made by?
Is the answer the #JBC?
13/. The #JointBiosecurityCentre, was launched as a £9 billion directorate of @DHSCgovuk, on 1 June 2020
It was set up by counter-terror chief, Tom Hurd (son of Douglas) who was at Eton & Oxford with the PM who was replace by Claire Gardiner, a senior cyber expert from GCHQ👇
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