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Something big happened this week that may have passed you by

Maybe it was meant to

I've been reporting on the numerous #COVID19 scandals for last 5 months & but this one is urgent

On Friday, the govt's game-changing 10-min test received the green light. google.co.uk/amp/s/www.med-…
The finger-prick anti-body tests will be rolled out this month & the govt plans to "ship millions of them in the coming months"

If you missed it, it's not your fault

The story only appeared in the Clinical Services Journal, Medlink & PharmaField (et al).

Luckily I subscribe!
3*) Back in April, it was reported that 50 million British-developed anti-body test kits had been ordered by the govt.

The tests had been developed by the Rapid Test Consortium (RTC)

One might expect the approval of this test would be big news.

But no!
4*) Rather than being heralded as a "world-beating triumph of British scientific phwoarrrr!" by the PM & plastered across the headlines, the story went almost unnoticed.

But why?

Could it be that the govt are holding back this announcement, & if so for what possible purpose?
5*) As someone who has been calling for testing since the start of March, news of a mass testing regime is welcome.

But why the secrecy?

As @amnesty said: "People need to be able to trust that when they take a #COVID19 test that their data is protected.
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1) On 19 March, with the UK still not locked down, I noted that the role of #DavidHalpern & his Nudge Unit is key to
the ever-growing #HerdImmunityScandal

It was widely assumed the Unit had come up with the idea of #LockdownFatigue / #BehaviouralFatigue
2) Ignoring the horrific evidence from Italy & advice of @WHO & their own behavioural scientist group (SPI-B), the govt - supported by Vallance & Whitty - pushed out this absurd idea that if we locked down in early/mid March, people would get bored.

The media didn't question it.
3) On 14 March, 700 behavioural scientists published an open letter calling out #LockdownFatigue as cod science

It would later emerge that earlier in March, Spi-B & SAGE had said there was limited evidence for the idea of #BehaviouralFatigue

Clearly the govt ignored the science
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1). The Head of Tech at @amnesty warns in @Newsweek:

“As companies scramble to create an even more intimate marketplace of our data - one that trades in insights about our biological selves - you don't need to strain hard to imagine the endgame”. #COVID
newsweek.com/biological-pri…
2). The article by @TanyaOCarroll of @AmnestyTech, warns how some companies want to “to capture more data about your body than has even before been possible - combining genetic sequencing, data from frequent blood tests, microbiome insights.” #COVID19 amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
3). The piece points out that "while tech companies are renowned for moving fast, they also famously break things. One of the things that could be left broken [after the #coronavirus pandemic] is our right to privacy if bio-invasive surveillance creeps in as a new norm." #COVID19
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Unseen footage from 10 March, shows #DavidHalpern talking about the idea of lockdown fatigue: "You don't want to cry wolf - you want to start asking people to do these things...when they're likely to be effective.”

This was the non-scientific grounds govt used to delay lockdown.
On 14 March, 700 behavioural scientists signed an open letter calling out the non-sensical use of #BehaviouralFatigue to justify delaying social distancing.

But the scientific guidance against #LockdownFatigue was entirely ignored by the govt & the media.
sites.google.com/view/covidopen…
The crucial questions we have been asking since early March are:

1) Where did this idea of lockdown/behavioural fatigue come?

2) How did it gain such prominence in govt strategy & in the media narrative?
#COVID19 #HerdImmunityScandal #coronavirus #COVID
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