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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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1/. On Wednesday, @MattHancock claimed that GPs having exclusive access patient data was "undemocratic"(!)
This is bonkers
There are 7.5k trusted data controllers in the NHS at the moment
How will it work with 60m?!
He ALSO broke #COVID rules & lost his voice👇
#BreakingNews https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1405079931596558338
3/. #MattHancock says that he thinks that GP’s having exclusive control of patient data is “undemocratic”
Instead he says he wants every citizen to control their own data(!?)
He says people are enthusiastic about sharing their health data as long as privacy is assured #CogX2021
11/. #DidoHarding says she will cut back the number of foreigners in the NHS
@I_am_spottacus responds:
“I am a foreigner
I’ve worked in the NHS for 17 years
Nights
Weekends
Holidays
I may have looked after you or your mum or your baby as it was born” https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dido-harding-end-nhs-reliance-on-foreigners-0t6mq9w2b
@dgurdasani1 They call it “genomics” now not “eugenics”
Very, very scary I’m afraid https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1401800134191726597
All roads lead to genomics
Dido Harding’s was chair of Genomics England
Palantir rptdly taught #CambridgeAnalytica to scrape data
Is the #NHSDataGrab really about about population-wide genomic data?
Complete control?
Bell-Curve eugenicist’s wet dream?
https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1394562822462398467
@MattHancock @HinchHospital @JDjanogly At least you were wearing a mask, something youDIDN’T do when walking through the Aga Khan Centre at #CogX2021 on Wednesday
You also didn’t have a temperature check
No wonder you didn’t want a quick interview with me
Can we do one next week? #COVID19 #coronavirus #GenomeUK https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1405598392051503107
Hancock in the headlights!
First he lost his voice
Then he claimed that GPs having patient data was "undemocratic" (there are about 7.5k data controllers in the NHS at the moment. How will it work with 60m?!
He ALSO broke #COVID rules, not having a temp check or wearing a mask https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1405075489811795974
Perhaps it says more about the state of my mind than it does about the state of the country, but watching the #ENGSCO game in the pub, I thought I saw a British Union of Fascists flag
They were at the anti-lockdown demo last year
Look out for them at the ‘Freedom March’ today. https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1299717959749902336
For one of the first times since the 1930's, the British Union of Fascists flag was unfurled in Trafalgar Sq today
Like Hitler's Nazi's, Mosely's Nazi's were defeated
Britons came onto the streets of London to fight them gave their lives to rid Europe of the scourge of fascism https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1134437596199829504
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