1/. NYE in Rio on the day Brazil’s #COVID19 death toll hit 195,000

Brazil has the world’s 3rd worst outbreak outside US & India

Is it a coincidence that these countries are run by populist nationalists?

Palantir are big in Brazil

Are they in India?👇
https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1330489040387366914
2/. In 2017, Steve Bannon asked @Nigel_Farage be part of a "convening authority" to "knit together a populist nationalist movement around the world".

He mentions Modi in India, but Bolsonaro in Brazil, Trump in US & Johnson in UK would also be part of it. https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1125022414860095490
3/. Why were some of the most advanced economies in the world so woefully unprepared for #COVID?

The parallels btw UK & US flawed COVID strategies are uncannily similar:
- ignoring WHO warnings
- late lockdown
- lack of PPE
- introducing face masks on the same day, 4 months late
3/. Why were some of the most advanced economies in the world so woefully unprepared for #COVID?The parallels btw UK & US flawed COVID strategies are uncannily similar:- ignoring WHO warnings- late lockdown- lack of PPE- introducing face masks on the same day, 4 months late
3/. Why were some of the most advanced economies in the world so woefully unprepared for #COVID?The parallels btw UK & US flawed COVID strategies are uncannily similar:- ignoring WHO warnings- late lockdown- lack of PPE- introducing face masks on the same day, 4 months late
3/. Why were some of the most advanced economies in the world so woefully unprepared for #COVID?The parallels btw UK & US flawed COVID strategies are uncannily similar:- ignoring WHO warnings- late lockdown- lack of PPE- introducing face masks on the same day, 4 months late
3/. Why were some of the most advanced economies in the world so woefully unprepared for #COVID?The parallels btw UK & US flawed COVID strategies are uncannily similar:- ignoring WHO warnings- late lockdown- lack of PPE- introducing face masks on the same day, 4 months late
4/. The most disturbing parallel is the role of Palantir, the shadowy data company, founded by right-wing billionaire, Peter Thiel

#Palantir, who control data for the NHS (the UK's most trusted brand), taught #CambridgeAnalytica (UK's least trusted brand) https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1341152725355081731
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