Thread by @carolecadwalla

It was this article by @Gmvolpi that set my alarm bells wildly ringing a year ago today. Cummings & the tech bros planning a land grab for NHS data in support of a chilling herd immunity strategy. A year on, every one of the fears has come to pass
wired.co.uk/article/domini…

I’d spent 3 years trying to find out what Cummings had done with data in EUref. And this article was huge flashing red alert. My personal clanging alarm was focussed on the govt’s refusal to disclose this data, or publish the evidence behind the decision to let the virus rip

The 11 days from March 12-23 were some of most difficult I’ve experienced on here. And speaking out had consequences that still affect me personally & professionally. But it was also blindingly obvious that every day of inaction would cause 1000s more deaths. And so it turned out

Those 11 days haunt us still. The decision to let the virus rip but not lock down is front & centre of why we’ve suffered the truly appalling number of deaths we’ve had. And it’s why, personally speaking, the anniversary of these 11 days until March 23 has fallen like a shadow

A shadow of death. Because 125k people weren’t pre-destined to die. It wasn’t inevitable. It didn’t have to be this way.