A penny has been trying to drop in my mind for a while, but it hasn't quite fallen yet. It's about how some of these simple-minded folk who have clawed their way in charge of public health organisations don't seem to be able to get their heads around complexity.
The reality of the situation with infectious disease is that different diseases transmit in different ways.
And different diseases have different short term and long term impacts.
Trump is a locked in Russian asset, run by Putin himself.
But just think for a moment how phenomenally hard that is to maintain - Trump is one of the most public people in the world.
Consider this for a moment...
Putin has to be constantly hyper-careful about communications with Trump.
Digital comms are dangerous due to *anyone* who might listen in.
Western intelligence agencies are no longer allies in this sense, but even then we've known that even allies listen in on each other's communications, especially when those communications are with Russia.
I see it year after year after year.
I first saw it in Spring 2020.
I see it over and over again now, in 2025:
People who catch Covid catch secondary infections far more often than they do after any other common virus.
And do you know what?
The governments see it too.
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Let me show you.
Using some government data.
This handy chart comes at the end of the weekly 'flu and covid surveillance graphs' report published each week by the UKHSA - the UK Health Security Agency.
It's dancing at the edge of my ability to express it, but I have an intuitive sort of feeling that the current destruction of public health in America isn't a turnaround from the policies under Biden, but a natural next step of the progression.
I've been banging on for five years about the foolishness of ignoring the science of what Covid and other infections do to you.
And ignoring the harm caused by repeat covid infections always seemed to me a first step in ignoring the danger of all infections.
You may have heard about 'ocean acidification' and filed it under 'things that scientists warn about and that sound a bit scary but that I don't understand'.
So let's sort that out...
We've pumped a huge massive load of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels and forests and stuff in general, but mostly fossil fuels.
That in itself is a problem because the extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere acts like a sheet of glass on a greenhouse, letting heat in and letting less heat out.
You may or may not have seen a couple of the recent news stories about a potential remedy for *some* back pain triggered by infection.
Most of the articles have been absolutely awful at explaining what is going on, so let me have a quick go.
First off, the bacteria they reckon are responsible for some of the infections and some of the back pain are really common.
Cutibacterium acnes.
They're all over your skin. In your hair. Up your nose. In your mouth.
When they stay there, they're not normally a problem (although they can cause acne - the clue is in the name).