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"Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit" (bell hooks) || journalist || campaigner || @amnesty || Easily distracte

Oct 12, 2021, 12 tweets

1/. #BREAKING #COVID NEWSFLASH: The “official scientific advisers" behind the #HerdImmunityScandal were in reality were political advisors, appointed by politicians, who's advice had little or no basis in science (e.g. “Dr” David Halpern who has a doctorate in Political Science)

2/. Today’s findings are not new

The truth has been in plain sight from the start

We didn’t need #Cummings to tell us

Indeed, @Dominic2306 ‘revelations’ raised far more questions than answers

It was clear that #HerdImmunity was the strategy & they didn’t “pivot away” from it

3/. Every epidemiologist, virologist or public health expert will tell you that #HerdImmunity is an “outcome” NEVER a “strategy”

Without a vaccine it would involve sacrificing the vulnerable in vast numbers

This “strategy” would also clearly damage the economy

So why do it?👇

4/. I’ve been trying to make sense of this since 8/3/20 when I dug up the PM’s #TakeItOnTheChin interview

A month later, me & @peterjukes broke the #GreenwichSpeech story which strongly suggests that a #HerdImmunity ‘strategy’ was the govts’ plan as far back as 3 February 2020!

5/. Ironically, the 5/3/20 - the day that @BorisJohnson told the nation that “one of the theories is that we could take it on the chin” - was the same day that the first Briton died of #COVID19

So #CovidMemorialDay & #TakeItOnTheChin are on the same day.

6/. Once it’s understood that #Herdimmunity was a deliberate “strategy”, then seemingly incomprehensible decisions - such as the govt INSTRUCTiNG hospitals to send people “who may have #COVID19” to care homes WITHOUT TESTING (guidance issued 2/4/20) - start to make horrific sense

7/. The govt’s claim to have put “a protective ring” around care homes is a lie

They knew about asymptomatic spread, yet hospitals were instructed to transfer patients to care homes without testing

Which minister signed this directive

Why have journalists failed to ask govt?

8/. The failure to put basic questions to Ministers (e.g. who signed this 2/4/20 directive & why”) have been a feature of COVID

One senior journalist told me last year: “I’ll guess we’ll find out one day, hopefully”

No

We’ll find out when journalists start asking the questions

9/. The main question which I started asking in early March 2020 was WHY the govt followed a strategy that they knew was unscientific, would kill many people & wouldn’t protect the economy?

It’s the question journalists should have been asking & leads to some disturbing answers

10/. Repeated blunders set out in the #COVIDReport weren’t ‘mistakes’

@sarahkendzior writes
“They cover up crime with scandal & cover up malice with incompetence. They want to project an image of being inept, instead of as having a cruel & well-defined plan”

So what’s the plan?

11/. This thread👆& linked threads expose the apparent logic behind the otherwise seemingly illogical #HerdImmunity ‘strategy’

The #HerdImmunityScandal led me to
genomics & raised questions about two companies that run the NHS COVID Data Store: #FacultyAI & CIA-backed #Palantir

12/. The NHS = the most trusted brand in the UK

Cambridge Analytica = the least trusted

Yet Peter Thiel’s #Palantir rprtdly taught #CambridgeAnalytica how to scrape data

#FacultyAI who jointly run the data store also have links with Cambridge Analytica

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