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What is Covid Memorial Day?
On 5 March 2020, the BBC reported that a 70-year-old woman in the Royal Berkshire Hospital had become the first Briton to die of COVID-19.
Exactly one year and so many deaths on, Covid Memorial Day will be a moment for Britain’s to take a moment to grieve.
Why is it important?
“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers o-er wrought heart and bids it break.” (Shakespeare)
All grief experts agree that it is vital for grief to be witnessed.
If it is not expressed and recognised, grief can turn to anger and depression. Sharing the pain of loss is an important stage in the grieving process and moments of collective grief are particularly powerful.
How can I get involved?
- Send us or post/Tweet a memory, a reading, a poem, a song, a photo a painting. Post your own messages using the #CovidMemorialDay hashtag
- ON THE DAY: Light a candle. Take a pebble to the top of a hill. Walk through the park or sit by the sea. Feel the loss.
- Spread the word. Contact musicians, faith leaders etc to see if they will perform or speak/pre-record or live-streamed
Covid Memorial Day is ENTIRELY non-political.
It is like a saloon in a Western where you take off your gun-belt to come in.
We say: “Whether you’re Piers Morgan or Piers Corbyn we still feel the same need to grieve”.
Covid Memorial Day is not an organisation or campaign. It is an idea born from the recognition that “grief must be witnessed”.
READ ABOUT US HERE: Newsweek, The Sun, Amnesty International, NE Bylines
THE SUN https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14241492/minute-silence-for-covid-memorial-day-today/
NEWSWEEK (https://www.newsweek.com/global-disaster-memorial-day-covid-1558329)
THE SUN https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13609011/covid-memorial-day-brits-candle-january-1-remember-died/)
AMNESTY INTERNAIONAL https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/01/we-must-give-our-sorrow-words/
NE BYLINES https://northeastbylines.co.uk/covid-memorial-day
Recent Media
- ‘Grief must be witnessed’: A time of national mourning for UK COVID-19 victims is overdue
- Covid memorial Day – It Is Time to Give Our Sorrow Words
- LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS Covid Memorial Day – Brits asked to put picture of candle in the window on January 1 to remember those who have died
“The world’s more full of weeping than he can understand” (Yeats)
— CovidMemorialDay (@CovidMemoryDay) December 31, 2020
There is a lot of grief at the moment
Grief is important
It’s the flip side of love
The more you deeply you love, the more deeply you must grieve#CovidMemorialDay - 1st Jan - will give space express our loss. pic.twitter.com/S5usLsY2fh
@CovidMemoryDay
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Terrifying!
At @CogX_Festival, I attended a session that's given me nightmares ever since
Here Marc Warner, CEO of #FacultyAI which - alongside #Palantir run by right wing genomics evangelist, Peter Thiel - has access to our NHS health, data says morality is merely mathematics https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1422487701127827461
12/. Jann Tallin & Marc Warner founders of #FacultyAI who run the #COVID Data Store with #Palantir, on ethics
JT: Do we have moral principles that will survive?
MW: It is becoming essentially a mathematical discipline...it has to be talked about as a technical field of study😮
10/. “You ask me what I would do with rulers who believe themselves to be Gods
My answer is simple
I’d take them to the ocean & sail them three days out to sea in my rickety skiff
And then I'd watch their faces as a whale breached & barrelled beside us” https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1421791351625166851
40/. “We’ve arranged a society based on science & technology, in which nobody understands anything about science & technology
This combustible mixture of ignorance & power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces”
(Carl Sagan)
That time is now!
Ten years after @WikiLeaks lifted the lid on the intn’l surveillance industry, #Pegasus shows same practices are used
Even their names are trolling us
Candiru = the Amazonian fish that lodges itself in the penis
Palantir = Tolkien's all-seeing crystal
https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1417121254117711873
1/. Gross press freedom violations revealed by #PegasusProject can’t be met with impunity
Govts & agencies who’ve spied on journalists must provide answers on this misuse of NSO technology #Pegasus #PegasusSnoopgate @amnesty @globalfreemedia @pressfreedom https://forbiddenstories.org/pegasus-the-new-global-weapon-for-silencing-journalists/
39/. “You ask for forgiveness not permission” (Peter Thiel, Palantir)
Genomics has the capacity to reshape humans & transform society
Every futurist will tell you this is the way the world is going...but how to achieve this as quickly as possible?
38/. We know that Big Tech firms mine our data for commercial & national security purposes, but the new frontier lies not in our consumer behaviour, but in our biological selves
Population-wide genomic data would offer huge benefits...It would also give govts unprecedented power https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1378992496487886848
26/. This diagram also shows the move by the #PalantirThree to the Trump admin in Feb/March 2017
Kevin Harrington > Dep Asst to the President for strategic planning
Michael Kratsios > WH deputy Chief Tech Officer
Justin Mikolay > Special Asst to Sec of Defence
No coincidence!
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