Matt Hancock's greatest achievement?

[Millymog]

It seems very obvious to me, (especially from Matt Hancock's gloating tone) that one of the biggest winners of the pandemic (aside from all those government contracts to their cronies) was the mining of personal health data / records of all of the population of the UK via the back door of the vaccination scheme.

I imagine Boris congratulating MH on this data collateral outcome of the vaccination process.

It is no co incidence that in July 2021 unless you expressly and specifically opt out all of your health data can be automatically shared by many UK government departments without prior express reference to you.

Do you agree?

The government was sharing data before the vaccination programme. I shop at Sainsbury’s and started doing my grocery shopping online in March 2020. I received an email from Sainsbury’s to say I was identified as a vulnerable customer and could have access to priority delivery slots. I’m only in my early 40s so it wasn’t my age that identified me as vulnerable. I am disabled though (hidden disability) and receive Personal Independence Payment. The government must have shared a database of people receiving disability benefits with supermarkets. I can’t think of any other way Sainsbury’s could have identified be as vulnerable. I should add I was very grateful to beboffered the priority delivery slots.

IloveSooty, yes I know they were data sharing before the vaccination programme.

I genuinely did not mean my post as quasi conspiracy theory tone.

It was more I just imagined somewhere some behind-the-scenes type conversations involving MH around the time or shortly after it became obvious that the vaccination programme did work (in the large) against C19 - so then the gmt started looking at it from their own (other) agenda

Being a bare faced lying weasel who never answers a question with a straight answer. Prick.

The government must have shared a database of people receiving disability benefits with supermarkets
The government shared a list of the people who they had down as ECV and shielding. Nothing to do with benefits, I've never claimed a benefit in my life. It was weel known and widely publicised at the time.
This was to enable those who couldn't leave the house to get shopping delivered. I was utterly grateful for that.

@Kyph

The government must have shared a database of people receiving disability benefits with supermarkets The government shared a list of the people who they had down as ECV and shielding. Nothing to do with benefits, I've never claimed a benefit in my life. It was weel known and widely publicised at the time. This was to enable those who couldn't leave the house to get shopping delivered. I was utterly grateful for that.

Well I’m not ECV, nor was I shielding and I received a vulnerable priority delivery slot. I don’t know how else Sainsbury’s would have known I’m disabled. I’ve not disclosed this to Sainsbury’s or Nectar. But as I say, I was grateful to get the delivery slots and I was able to get shopping delivered my for retired neighbours too.

I think normal data restrictions went out the window when the pandemic hit.

Matt Hancock's greatest achievement.....wearing his pink tie at all his press conferences.

I think normal data restrictions went out the window when the pandemic hit.

This.

The initial reasons for the above data restrictions (and many many other things it seems) going out of the window at the start of the pandemic was only one of a number of other assumptions about life in the 21st century which I think now will be proven to be wrong or fundamentally changed.

The right to privacy is only one of them.

This is not to say that the initial reasons for doing so were not right at the time.

The point is that the consequences of abandoning previous tenets of life at the dawn of the pandemic have been conveniently carried over into the new normal in ways which suit the current government.
I think that will be felt in years and even decades to come.

There is far far more big brother in society now than people realise.

Matt hancock killed vulnerable people in care homes and lied about it. This same creature wants me to believe he has my best interests at heart and so I have to take an experimental vaccine. No thanks