Ten weeks ago, Sage warned No.10 about mutant #COVID19 strai

Three weeks ago, @YvetteCooperMP asked @BorisJohnson what the UK was doing to stop the #SouthAfricanVariant

The PM didn’t have an answer

We need answers from the secretive #JointBiosecurityCentre https://twitter.com/yvettecoopermp/status/1349446660494135302
On 21 Sept, SAGE warned UK faced a “very large epidemic with catastrophic consequences” without immediate action

But PM & @RishiSunak weren’t at that meeting

Instead, they were meeting anti-lockdown scientists Anders Tegnell, Prof Heneghan & Prof Gupta! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8767427/Number-10-briefed-Swedens-controversial-anti-lockdown-epidemiologist-Anders-Tegnell.html
Number 10 was briefed by Sweden's anti-lockdown epidemiologist

The Prime Minister and his Chancellor Rishi Sunak reportedly received a briefing from the expert, and from Oxford University's Professor Carl Heneghan, who supports the new restrictions.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8767427/Number-10-briefed-Swedens-controversial-anti-lockdown-epidemiologist-Anders-Tegnell.html
In December, the PM was asked why the country wasn’t in lockdown

“The Tier decisions aren’t for me,” Patrick Vallance replied

In a system seemingly designed to ensure the buck stops with no one, decisions are made by the secretive #JointBiosecurityCentre
The fact that the govt ignored SAGE's advice on #circuitbreaker lockdown doesn't come as a big surprise

SAGE has been increasingly sidelined since the #JointBiosecurityCentre took over in July

The JBC hasn’t published ANY minutes & it’s membership is secret

It is run by a spy. https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1316166161067921409
The central role of the intelligence service's in UK #COVID19 response, raises questions of political control/scientific autonomy

The role of data-mining military contractor, #Palantir, in running the NHS data store, raises questions

Palantir rprtdly trained #CambridgeAnalytica https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1310607600422133771
The govt said, after the pandemic, the datastore would be wound up, data destroyed & any extension put out to public tender

But then extended #Palantir’s contract

We finally got to see it

Detail of what ‘health data’ is being collated has been redacted.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/controversial-tech-firm-palantir-23m-nhs-data-deal/
The govt said, after the pandemic, the datastore would be wound up, data destroyed & any extension put out to public tenderBut then extended #Palantir’s contractWe finally got to see itDetail of what ‘health data’ is being collated has been redacted. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/controversial-tech-firm-palantir-23m-nhs-data-deal/
The govt said, after the pandemic, the datastore would be wound up, data destroyed & any extension put out to public tenderBut then extended #Palantir’s contractWe finally got to see itDetail of what ‘health data’ is being collated has been redacted. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/controversial-tech-firm-palantir-23m-nhs-data-deal/
The govt said, after the pandemic, the datastore would be wound up, data destroyed & any extension put out to public tenderBut then extended #Palantir’s contractWe finally got to see itDetail of what ‘health data’ is being collated has been redacted. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/controversial-tech-firm-palantir-23m-nhs-data-deal/
The govt said, after the pandemic, the datastore would be wound up, data destroyed & any extension put out to public tenderBut then extended #Palantir’s contractWe finally got to see itDetail of what ‘health data’ is being collated has been redacted. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/controversial-tech-firm-palantir-23m-nhs-data-deal/
The NHS is Britain’s most trusted ‘brand’

#CambridgeAnalytica is the least trusted

And yet, #Palantir & #FacultyAI - companies with links to #CambridgeAnalytica - run the NHS digital platform & have access all our health data, including genetic material

And is not just UK data https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1330491530117853184
Why has #Palantir been given such a central role in the #COVID19 strategy in the UK, US & around the world?

Could there be a link with genomics?

In Sept, the UK launched #GenomeUK, a 10yr strategy that "puts genomics at the heart of the program for govt" https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1330489040387366914
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