1/. Today marks 3 years since the govt INSTRUCTED hospitals to send people “who may have #COVID19” to care homes WITHOUT TESTING
The govt KNEW about asymptomatic transmission in Jan/Feb 2020
Tens of thousands died
Which minister signed this off…& why?
See #CareHomeScandal👇
2/. “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” @sarahkendzior
Last week marked the 3rd anniversary of the US “nursing home scandal”
Parallel strategies?👇
3/. The evidence of a parallel UK/US #COVID19 strategy was striking, but it was circumstantial
👉an unscientific herd immunity strategy
👉soaring death rates
👉ignoring WHO warnings
👉delayed lockdown
👉lack of PPE etc
Then details of parallel contracts with Palantir came out👇
4/. BUTLER: “Are you aware that #Palantir & #FacultyAI have links to the discredited #CambridgeAnalytica?”
HANCOCK: “Er, um, er...I don't think I'm aware of that, no”
I’d stumbled on the centrality of Palantir whilst trying to comprehend COVID strategy
5/. The NHS = the most trusted brand in the UK
Cambridge Analytica = the least trusted
Yet #Palantir reportedly taught CA how to scrape data
Is the big plan deregulation in order to allow the hoovering up of genomic data to give levels of power & control only ever dreamed of
6/. Palantir’s largest office is no longer in the US
It is in the UK - in London & in a new base near to NHS Digital HQ
From the start of the pandemic #Palantir worked on the NHS COVID data store with #FacultyAI - a company with ties to Dominic Cummings👇
7/. In 2020, @amnesty warned that Big Tech firms (eg Palantir), working with govts, might use the COVID crisis to hoover up population-wide genomic data, obliterating the last frontier of privacy: our biological selves
Bio-invasive surveillance capitalism
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
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