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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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The Brazilian president, Jair #Bolsonaro, should face murder charges for his role in the country’s “stratospheric” #coronavirus death toll, a draft report from a senate inquiry into Brazil’s #COVID19 crisis has recommended. #HerdImmunity #COVID #Corona
Charge Bolsonaro with murder over Covid toll, draft Brazil senate report says
Draft text says neglect, incompetence and opposition to science fueled ‘stratospheric’ death toll
www.theguardian.com
“Anyone else think our govt aren’t actually following a #HerdImmunity strategy but are in fact playing their own version of #SquidGame?” asks @mozdt
Nope! It is herd immunity & it appears there is method to their madness
I call it the #PalantirPlan👇 https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1447820717534466049
3/. Every epidemiologist, virologist or public health expert will tell you that #HerdImmunity is an “outcome” NEVER a “strategy”
Without a vaccine it would involve sacrificing the vulnerable in vast numbers
This “strategy” would also clearly damage the economy
So why do it?👇 https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1252354324136521736
“There were two clear drop points. One of them was in May when we had the announcement of early easing of lockdown & the other one was when the news broke about #DominicCummings’ trip to Durham. Confidence never recovered” @Dominic2306 H/T
@theonlypeterkay https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1377289010373091328
“Still boiling!”
#DominicCummings #Cummings #BarnardCastle #Palantir #HerdImmunity #PalantirPlan #HerdImmunityScandal #GenomeUK
https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1377017456695332866
“The greatest advantage human beings have is the variety of the gene pool”
In 1982, Isaac Asimov was asked about the danger of scientists & govts “playing god”
Sadly, his warning have been ignored
See my hashtags #PalantirPlan #GenomeUK & #DataGrab. https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1443102017371713543
“You ask what I’d do with rulers who believe themselves to be Gods. I'd take them to the ocean & sail them three days out to sea in my rickety skiff, & I'd watch their faces as a whale breached & barreled beside us.”
Port Madryn, Argentina, via @maxijonas
@wejoHQ @PalantirTech The NHS = the most trusted brand in the UK
Cambridge Analytica = the least trusted
Yet Peter Thiel’s #Palantir rprtdly taught #CambridgeAnalytica how to scrape data
#FacultyAI who jointly run the data store also have links with Cambridge Analytica https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1310607600422133771
“We could close our eyes & pretend that contrary to all the evidence, #Palantir is a rights-respecting company or we can call this façade what it is: another company placing profit over people, no matter the human cost.” Michael Kleinman, @amnestyusa on #PalantirTechnologies.
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