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Look, I've gone round on this a few times, and I hope I'm wrong, but there seems to be a *really nasty increase* in mortality rates for under 1s here in the last 24 months.
People were already on top of this for the 2022 and 2023 data, but I think the trend has worsened.
Look. The deaths in that age range have trended up slightly...
... so if you're just looking at the deaths you might not notice that *births have kept on dropping*.
Think about nucleotide entropy this way.
There's a remote island and a flock of one species of finch get blown there.
There are dozens of different species of seed-producing plants on the island.
The finches are initially adapted to only one type of seed, but gradually their ancestors change through selection so that the ones with bigger beaks are able to eat the bigger seeds, and ones with long thin beaks are able to eat the smaller ones.
Ones with strong beaks are able to crack through the hard seeds.
Ones with curvy beaks are able to reach into the pine cones.
One of the brilliant things about the Ukrainian drone strikes on the Russian airbases by way of drones shipped close to the targets in shipping containers is that the only logical Russian response is to increase security checks on all shipping inside Russia. Which means...
... that Russia may have to start treating every shipping container like a potential bomb.
Massive delays at ports, rail hubs, warehouses. Every container merits inspection. That’s thousands per day. Russia’s military logistics, already straining, potentially gets a whole lot slower.
It's quite staggering when you look at the doubling of days of sickness absence for doctors in the NHS in five short years.
We're not "back to normal".
We're going *out of control*.
Zoom in to "Gastrointestinal Problems" and "Cold Cough Flu-Influenza".
Look at that genuinely astonishing rise from *2019* to now.
I mean, seriously, flipping look at it.
Doctors were off sick with stomach problems or respiratory infections for FOUR TIMES AS MANY DAYS IN THE LAST YEAR AS THEY WERE IN 2019.