Sir John Bell, regius chair of medicine at the University of Oxford, said stubborn NHS bureaucrats were standing in the way of a high-speed mass inoculation programme that could prevent many further deaths.
“The NHS has the theoretical capacity to immunise everybody in five days if they want to, but I don’t get the sense they are really motivated,” Bell told the Times.
Prof Whitty commended the public for their efforts to stop the spread of Covid-19 and noted the hope offered by various vaccines, but he echoed other experts in saying it would be some weeks before the jabs start to reduce the number of people taken to hospital.
(today)
Another police car, siren blaring, driving through residential neighborhoods with the sole purpose of terrifying the public into submission. A far greater infringement of civil liberties than the FLQ crisis 50 year ago.
(09.01.2021)
(2) Clearly what is happening is a reclassification of deaths. Non-Covid deaths are being reclassified as ´Covid deaths’ by means of ramped up PCR testing. Which begs the question: why are they doing this, if not to justify lockdowns and other restrictions?
(10.05.2020)
Palantir was co-founded in 2004 by Paypal owner and billionaire Peter Thiel. What the blog doesn’t reveal is that Palantir’s client list has included amomgst others, the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, the Centre for Disease Control, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, Special Operations Command, West Point and the IRS.
Furthermore, in 2016, it was revealed Palantir had a $34.6m contract with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and helped the Customs and Border Protection Agency create the Analytical Framework for Intelligence (AFI) system to track immigrants.
Nor does the blog mention that Palantir worked for UK intelligence and was awarded contracts to handle vast data sets on UK citizens for British spy agency GCHQ.
(05.06.2020)
UK government has published the contracts it holds with private tech firms and the NHS for the creation of a COVID-19 data store, just days after campaigners fired legal shots over a lack of transparency.
Available on the openDemocracy website, the contracts describe how the arrangements between the NHS and Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and AI firms Faculty and Palantir (which subcontracts to AWS) will operate.
(04.01.2020)
(02.04.2020)
Palantir said it is not involved in the harvesting or storage of health data but is working with the CDC and HHS to provide its Foundry suite of tools to analyze the agencies’ COVID-19 data. The set of data tools has the power to “clean” and “harmonize” the information flowing in from local hospitals, states and other sources related to the virus, according to a source with knowledge of the arrangement between the company and the government.
(21.05.2020)
Last month, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded the contract for this platform to Palantir Technologies, a secretive data-mining firm known for its work with the Pentagon, intelligence agencies and law enforcement during the so-called global war on terrorism. The HHS Protect Now platform will aggregate data from at least 187 different sources, including the federal government, state and local governments, hospitals, and the private sector.
As Palantir‘s executives were preparing over the summer to release shares publicly for the first time, they faced a challenge: how do you convince investors to buy into a 17-year-old company that has never turned a profit?
– Officers will ‚move through the gears‘ and fine people £200 if they think a person is flouting the restrictions
– It comes as footage showed three police officers surrounding a woman for leaving her house more than once
– Another four officers appear to arrest a different woman for what she claims was ‚sitting on a bench‘ by sea
Dass jemand Transitreisender ist, muss allerdings belegt werden. „Das muss der Behörde glaubhaft versichert werden können. Ich sehe ja an der Grenze, wo jemand herkommt und wo er hinfährt. Diese Daten können dann an die jeweilige Behörde übermittelt werden“, erklärt der niederösterreichische Militärkommandant Martin Jawurek.
Es sei wichtig, dass man den Übergang „sehr sicher gestaltet, vom Lockdown in ein Leben mit mehr Bewegungsfreiheit. Bewegungsfreiheit ist sehr wichtig, dass die Akzeptanz der Bevölkerung da ist. Ich gehe davon aus, dass die Bereitschaft mit jedem Tag Lockdown sinkt. Und es gibt auch Kollateralschäden und das muss man jetzt überlegen wie man diese Schäden minimiert.“
Wie Polizeisprecher Johann Baumschlager mitteilte, gab es eine Festnahme und 39 Anzeigen. Die Protestveranstaltungen seien „grundsätzlich ruhig und sehr entspannt“ verlaufen.
Viele Schülerinnen und Schüler in Italien sind verärgert über die Bildungspolitik in der Coronavirus-Krise. Ursprünglich hatte die Regierung in Rom angekündigt, dass ab Montag landesweit die Hälfte der Schüler aus den höheren Jahrgängen wieder in die Schule darf. Die Lombardei und ein Großteil der übrigen Regionalregierungen entschieden nun jedoch, dass sie weiterhin zu Hause lernen müssen.