Thread by @StefSimanowitz

1/. “Some may argue decisions made by the Dutch govt were just a series of errors of judgement. They were not. They were deliberate decisions. To allow the maximum number of people to get #COVID without overwhelming hospitals.”@SylvanaBIJ1

Sound familiar?

https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1372460227619135493

2/. The Dutch #COVID19 strategy mirrors the British👇

Described as “a masterclass in framing & gaslighting” PM Rutte announced in March their ‘strategy’ was #herdimmunity then tried to deny it

Is the involvement of shadowy company, Palantir, in both strategies pure coincidence?

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1274305487404744706

3/. Palantir, who rptdly taught #CambridgeAnalytica about data scraping, are in charge of the #COVID Data Store in the UK together with #FacultyAI the firm Cummings used for the #VoteLeave referendum campaign

Palantir are doing the same in dozens of other countries #PalantirPlan

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1330489040387366914

4/. Last week, @guardian & @derspiegel revealed how Greece, UK, Netherlands & “at least 4 other EU countries” have given #Palantir vast amounts of population-wide personal data in secretive agreements which might violate privacy laws

Genomic/genetic data?
google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg…

5/. Gathering population-wide genomic data in dozens of countries has huge implications

In 2014, Prof(s) Rose singled out #PeterThiel, the billionaire founder of #Palantir, as the most prominent
“of visionary philanthropists dreaming of a positive eugenics for the 21st century”.

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1310607600422133771

6/. In political & scientific circles, the recognition of the truly transformative power of genomics or ‘positive eugenics’ is known

But it has huge social & ethical consequences

Properly regulated, it can be a huge force for good

But in the wrong hands

7/. Are Big Tech & govts using the #COVID19 crisis to obliterate a last frontier of our privacy: our biological selves?

Collecting population-wide genomic data isn’t just “bio-invasive surveillance capitalism”

It is a Bell-Curve eugenicist’s wet dream.

8/. The idea of sequencing the genomes of millions of people for medical & scientific use isn't new

In 2012, a US biotech firm paid $415m for a company to get access to the genetic data of the entire pop of Iceland

But Iceland is no longer the world’s only genomic laboratory.

9/. We know Cummings & his ‘super forecasters’ are obsessed with genomics

Geneticist @AdamRutherford warns Cummings & others like Andrew Sabisky are “bewitched' by science they do not understand”

But the plan is already being rolled out in the UK

Yet NO ONE talks about it👇

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1378967171502592004