Thread by @StefSimanowitz

“We were guided by the science. We didn't always follow the science" @MattHancock

So @BorisJohnson was lying when he said “we stuck to the science like glue”

Were they following the cod behavioural science of Halpern’s Nudge Unit & the ‘data science’ of #Palantir & #FacultyAI?

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

2/. On 13/5/20, I broke the #CareHomeScandal

On 2/4/20 the govt had INSTRUCTED hospitals to send people “who may have #COVID19” to care homes WITHOUT TESTING

The govt KNEW about asymptomatic transmission in Jan/Feb 2020

The question is which Minister signed off this directive.

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1260665437790130177

3/. Hancock claims that no one knew about ASYMPTOMATIC SPREAD

This is not true

The govt knew asymptomatic transmission of #COVID19 was likely in Jan & had this confirmed in Feb

SAGE minutes on 28 January 2020 state that early indications suggest there was asymptomatic spread.

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1280502057452044289

4/. Hancock says he knew about #coronavirus from the very beginning of January & told the PM "right at the start"

Neither Halpern nor Vallance can remember who came up with the concept of #BehaviouralFatigue

How can @BorisJohnson claim that #COVID19 was “an invisible mugger”

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1261780103551475718

5/. Wow!

@MattHancock blames care home workers for care home deaths

Staff didn't have adequate PPE or testing

#Hancock says only "1.6% of cases going into care homes came from people leaving hospital"

“We did test in care homes throughout"

PM & Harries made similar claims

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1397963963854360578

6/. “The honest truth is that Britain had some of the best border controls in the world”

Which bit of “honest” & “truth” doesn’t @MattHancock understand?

Britain’s #COVID19 border controls were farcical

This was because the UK followed an unscientific #HerdImmunity ‘strategy’

https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1347461517835444225

7/. On 9/3/20, @OliverDowden told @rachelburden cabin crew were trained to spot #COVID19 cases & do “enhanced checks” on flights from Italy

He told @KayBurley: “If we have any concerns about passengers we're able to track them”

He made the same claims to @piersmorgan in June.

https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1272128483641167872

8/. “I don’t recall...”

@MattHancock seems to be experiencing the same amnesia we saw from Vallance, Halpern etc

Without proper minutes - SAGE minutes = a few pages long & the #JointBiosecurityCentre haven’t published ANY minutes for a year - prospects for an Inquiry are poor.

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1257689846098931720

9/. The #JointBiosecurityCentre or #JBC is the body that took over responsibility for the UK’s #COVID19 strategy in July 2020

Advice from SAGE is fed to the JBC

The JBC hasn’t published ANY minutes for almost a year

Its membership is secret & it’s run by a senior GCHQ staffer.

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1316166161067921409

10/. We know - thanks to a question by @DawnButlerBrent - that Cummings sat on the #JointBiosecurityCentre

Does he still?

Who else? Ben Warner presumably

Hid brother Marc from #FacultyAI?

Someone from #Palantir?

Why’s the govt’s #COVID19 decision-making process so secretive?

https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1397823699584229376

11/. We KNOW the govt was pursuing a #HerdImmunity “strategy”

We KNOW this strategy continued throughout the 2nd & 3rd lockdowns

We KNOW herd immunity is an outcome NEVER a strategy & they must’ve known it would cause countless deaths & damage the economy

The question is WHY?

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1370281854067179521

12/. “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

Is “the plan” a #DataGrab (UK/US etc) to collect population-wide genomic data? #PalantirPlan

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

13/. “Are you aware that #Palantir & #FacultyAI have links to the discredited #CambridgeAnalytica?”

“Er..um...er...I don't think I'm aware of that, no”

@DawnButlerBrent tells @MattHancock that Palantir rptdly taught #CambridgeAnalyica to scrape data!

14/. The NHS is the most trusted brand in UK

#CambridgeAnalytica is the least trusted

Yet #Palantir & #FacultyAI who have links with Cambridge Analytica are RUNNING run NHS COVID data store

Hancock doesn’t think he knew this

I don’t think I believe him

15/. Last week, the media finally reported on the biggest NHS #DataGrab in history

This week the 23 June opt out deadline was pushed back & everyone breathed a sigh of relief

But the govt have been sharing our data since Sept 2020. There was no opt out

Are we already too late?

https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1401180896552796162

16/ We know that Big Tech mine & sell our data, but the new frontier lies not in our consumer behaviour, but in our biological selves

Population-wide genomic data

Unparalleled power that could be used for good or for bad

The last frontier of our privacy

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

17/. In September 2020, @MattHancock launched #GenomeUK, a 10-year strategy that will transform the NHS & put genomics at the heart of the entire programme for govt

It was launched on a Saturday(!) with no media coverage

Here’s @didoharding with #CambridgeAnalytica’s Alex Nix👇

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1401800134191726597