Thread by @elleprovocateur

#Rockefeller is rolling out the "largest public health testing program in American history" & aims to form a "#Pandemic Testing Board" that utilizes US national guard to deploy testing.

#COVID19 #Surveillance System
#digitalization

Thank you @hagarrish for the critical link.

https://twitter.com/hagarrish/status/1252692962342866947

Embargoed until 12:01am EDT, Tuesday, April 21, 2020: The #Rockefeller Foundation has created a National #Covid19 Testing Action Plan intended to serve as a resource guide for the "largest public health testing program in American history".

"The effort will ultimately grow to billions of dollars per month although innovations in testing technology should eventually drop costs...Coordination of such a massive program should be treated as a wartime effort, with a public/private bipartisan #Pandemic Testing Board..."

Plan includes: "launching a Covid Community Healthcare Corps so every American can easily get tested w/ privacy-centric #ContactTracing; a testing data commons & #digital platform to track #Covid19 statuses, ... a clearinghouse for data on new technologies;..."

#4IR

Plan also includes "a Pandemic Testing Board, in line w/ other recommendations, to bridge divides across governmental jurisdictions & professional fields. - Together, we can do this"

"Fully controlling the #Covid19 epidemic requires that we test the majority of the pop. weekly."

"Some #privacy concerns must be set aside for an infectious agent as virulent as #Covid19, allowing the infection status of most Americans to be accessed and validated in a few required settings & many voluntary ones."

#digitalidentity
#GlobalGoals

"Create an Emerg. Network for Covid-19 Testing (ENCT) to coordinate & underwrite the testing market. An overarching analysis of the testing supply chain both in the US & globally should be undertaken immediately."

Human Capital Markets, Digital Identity:

wrenchinthegears.com/2020/03/12/hum…

"#Apple & #Google have announced a joint effort to bolster #ContactTracing by building software into #smartphones that relies on Bluetooth technology to track users' proximity to one another. #Facebook is participating in a similar effort led by the #MIT."

#Rockefeller proposes "Pandemic Testing Board": "Craft recommendations for states to use the #national #guard to deploy testing in conjunction with business, labor, #nonprofits, & #academia.

#Together - we can create a new war on terror. The enemy - & the product - is you.

"If necessary, be authorized to create a Pandemic Response Corps, comprised of tested civilians, to assist in the testing. ["We recommend Congress appr. sufficient resources to fund the Board & massively scaled up testing prod. & deployment"]

Mar 23, NYT: nytimes.com/2020/03/23/opi…

"We therefore propose the creation of a Pandemic Testing Board (PTB), akin to the #War Production Board that the US created in World War II, in order to massively scale up production & #deployment of testing."

Framing. Language. War metaphors: dangerous political rhetoric.

"Oversight of PTB would include: "Prohibit members of [] PTB from purchasing #stock in any company related to the PTBs activities for the duration of their time on the PTB plus an additional year."]

Profit incentives for shareholders. No $ for healthcare.
Data is the new oil.

Authors of PTB include Rajiv Shah, pres. of #Rockefeller Foundation. Shah has worked on #vaccine financing for #Gates. "His bio is the embodiment of the current phase of "green" #imperialism (@cordeliers) w/ a new woke patina of "equality" & "stakeholder #capitalism".

Authors of PTB also include Glen Weyl: Founder of RadicalxChange, #Microsoft Office of the Chief Technology Officer, #Bloomberg Top 50, Wired Magazine’s 25 leaders shaping the next 25 yrs of tech, & one of Coindesk’s most influential people in #blockchain for 2018.

At a 2019 conference RadicalxChange explained how people will be able to "buy & sell their #data, rather than having it taken without their knowledge or permission - as part of a more humanizing future for #AI and attention economies."

#Blockchain = block & chain
#HumanCapital

Cited in the #Rockefeller Report:

April 7 2020, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy: "A National #COVID19 #Surveillance System: Achieving Containment"

[Paper: healthpolicy.duke.edu/publications/n…]

"This Duke-Margolis resource on #COVID19 response policies is intended to inform & help guide policy makers addressing the evolving COVID-19 pandemic in the United States & around the #globe, & will be updated as the #pandemic & response capabilities change over time."

#data

"Timely & efficient #implementation of such a #surveillance system will require ongoing coordination between health care providers & state and local public health authorities, w/ Federal support coordinated through the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (#CDC)"

#COVID19

"... to achieve effective implementation throughout the country as soon as possible, and certainly in time for the Fall, when #COVID19 may become a seasonal threat."

2015: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Gives #Duke Global Health Inst. $20M Grant:

globalhealth.duke.edu/news/bill-meli…

At this same time, April 20 marked the tragic anniversary of the #Ludlow Massacre, described by Howard Zinn as “the culminating act of perhaps the most violent struggle between corporate power & laboring men in American history. #Rockefeller #Capitalism

Following the killing of 25 people, including 11 children, Rockefeller discovered the magic of PR, foundation $ & tax evasion. Ruling class scorn for the #workingclass would be re-framed as #philanthropy. The most ruthless transformed into iconic symbols to be emulated/admired.

Trillions of $ (theft of labour) empowered the most ruthless capitalists of 20th cent. to shape/mold/engineer whole societies via Foundations (funneling trillions into #NPIC)

#Together they reframe #capitalism: a kinder, gentler exploitation. #NewNormal

While labourers & peasantry & literally starve/die in #India, #Africa, etc. from Covid hysteria #lockdowns, "Indré Rockefeller Is Making Travel More Sustainable Amidst #COVID19 w/ #luxury travel goods brand.

worth.com/indre-rockefel…

"The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, w/ luxury items for the few & toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line w/ drugs, television & armed force."