Mississippi: “After a June 14 severe thunderstorm dropped some of the state’s largest recorded hail on Noxubee County, row-crop farmland there suffered up to 50% yield loss.” extension.msstate.edu/news/feature-s…
“They are dying essentially. It’s something that we’ve never experienced before. We’ve had dry conditions later in the season but to have it at the end of May, beginning of June like this is unprecedented.” globalnews.ca/news/9761043/d…
“The lack of water has significantly affected vegetation and crops in the middle of the growing season, leading to delayed sowing and low yield forecasts.” joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and-u…
Crops in drought:
“57% of the U.S. corn crop
51% of soybeans
64% of sorghum
50% of winter wheat
Those numbers are up from last week, when 45% of corn and 39% of soybeans were covered in drought.” agweb.com/news/crops/cro…
Central Pennsylvania: “Crops are looking stressed out there and we are at this point concerned about farmers losing yields in their crops.” fox43.com/article/news/l…
“Standing in his field of stunted, withered maize, Santi Caudevilla is very worried. ‘If the weather does not change it will be zero. Nothing is going to be harvested.” cnn.com/2023/05/02/eur…
“An unusually dry May in the Midwest has raised concerns over this year's corn crop in the Corn Belt, the region stretching from the panhandle of Texas up to North Dakota and east to Ohio which dominates the country's corn production.” newsweek.com/corn-prices-so…
“He predicted that ‘there’s going to be very little harvested come this fall, if any.’” h/t @heatherwritesss klkntv.com/some-nebraska-…
@heatherwritesss “Georgia is known as the ‘Peach State’ for its normally abundant crops, producing more than 130 million pounds of the fruit every year.
“Farmers in B.C. are dealing with challenges amid the worst wildfire season in recent years, causing them to brace for potential crop loss.” vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/06/28/bc-…
“The U.S. Department of Agriculture now rates only half of the U.S. corn crop as good or excellent — the lowest percentage since 1988. Nearly two-thirds of the nation’s corn-growing areas are in drought.” apnews.com/article/drough…
Media is cleverly describing this as a “weird” fluke instead of the new normal. We won’t be hearing about the imminent threats to our survival, as they distract us from working & consuming. It’s going to get very ugly, very fast. Prepare accordingly. stateline.org/2023/06/23/dro…
Soooo, now that global food prices have hit record highs, and the US just ended food assistance for millions, what is the plan to feed people amid catastrophic food and water shortages? What’s that? The plan is to kill folks with mass disease before they starve to death? Oh, ok.
“About 26.5 million Americans reported sometimes or often not having enough to eat between June 7 and June 19, according to the Census's latest Household Pulse Survey - up 4.4% from last month's survey and 12% from June 2022.” reuters.com/world/us/us-hu…
“Corporations & oligarchs with massive fortunes can hire as many junktanks (so-called thinktanks), troll farms, marketing gurus, psychologists & micro-targeters as they need to devise justifications & to demonise, demoralise, abuse & threaten people trying to sustain a habitable planet.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
But if we can persuade the masses FEAR & KNOWLEDGE are the problems, then the logical solution is preserving the status quo, & the record profits can continue while we collectively march to our mass premature deaths. Everyone wins! 🥰
BREAKING: The news, & our collective survival:
“Successive heatwaves threaten nature’s ability to provide us with food, say researchers, as they warn of an ‘unseen, silent dying’ in our oceans amid record temperatures scorching the Earth.” theguardian.com/environment/20…
“The government said it was imposing a ban on non-basmati white rice after retail rice prices climbed 3% in a month after late but heavy monsoon rains caused significant damage to crops.
Crop diseases are the real nightmare, & few think about them.
“Flooding ‘may exacerbate the prevalence’ of diseases that affect corn, rice and soybeans. reuters.com/world/china/ch…
2021: “Climate change may pose an increased risk for crops to become infected with pests and pathogens, leaving the yields inedible and risking quantities of the world's food supply.” abcnews.go.com/US/climate-cha…
“When temperatures get too hot (above 27.8C, or about 82F), wheat photosynthesizes more slowly, and when it gets very hot (above 32.8C, or about 91F) enzymes in the plant can start to break down.” theguardian.com/environment/20…
Everyone is asleep, blissfully unaware of what’s coming.
“‘We don't understand the full picture,’ said Matthew Travis, the USDA's point man on the crisis. ‘It's very challenging for us.’” phys.org/news/2023-10-i…
North Carolina: “It's been so dry. We've had half an inch of rain this month. A half an inch. We were supposed to have more than three. These plants are so stressed -- and now the cold.” wcnc.com/article/news/l…
Who could have predicted…
“A new report finds the federal government is spending billions on crop failures caused by extreme weather — and it’s growing only more expensive.” thegazette.com/agriculture/re…
We aren’t ready. The public has no idea what’s coming because media narratives are carefully managed, and governments have decided Keeping Up Appearances is more profitable than warning the public & planning for climate collapse.
“A 39-year-old woman presents to the ED via a protective order after attempting to make her children drink bleach because she believed they were infected with parasites…
The patient does admit to being diagnosed with COVID approximately 3 weeks ago..”
We began ignoring this in 2023, & we never looked back.
“Patients with no previous diagnosis of a psychiatric disorder have a greater probability of being diagnosed with their first psychiatric disorder 14 to 90 days after being diagnosed with COVID.” clinicaladvisor.com/features/psych…
As it turns out, the probability is MUCH greater.
“Their research found patients who had COVID-19 were 60% more likely to suffer from mental health problems than those who were not infected. When hospitalized, the likelihood jumped to 86%.” ksdk.com/article/news/h…
The funniest part of all is we’re going to call it a LAB LEAK, & then we’re going to do absolutely nothing to mitigate it, prevent it, or to assist the families who continue to be affected by it. No one will be spared.
We’re going to call it a LAB LEAK, and then we’re going to blame vaping when people continue to die of it.
China has been giving people repurposed HIV drugs for COVID since 2022.
The US can’t make money off this, so we get ineffective Paxlovid instead. Though our approach isn’t working, we continue to double down because it’s profitable. The “lab leak” discourse will change nothing.
Did a Bait & Switch just occur? Lately I’m noticing everyone’s opinions are backwards. I heard a left-leaning YouTuber say “Aside from faith & family, the flexibility of working from home & homeschooling is still important to conservatives,” while insinuating this is no longer important to the left. Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of content designed to convince us remote work/learning, public health protections, & public health in general are unimportant to the left.
This is 2 years after we learned American worker productivity was declining at the fastest rate in 75 years, school attendance was plummeting—“Covid looks to have severed something,” & CEOs announced they would be actively coming to rid the country of Work From Home. 🧵
When we learned remote work was cutting NYC office value by half, we began hearing remote work was morally wrong & leading to daytime drugs and drinking habits.
“Who really benefits from the Great Remote Work Experiment?” 🥴
2020: Covid is oncogenic.
2021: Covid accelerates cancer progression.
2022: Covid interacts with 96 cancer genes
2023: Pancreatic cancer is the most likely cancer to occur after Covid infection.
2024: COVID caused an uptick in rare cancers
2025: mRNA pancreatic cancer vaccines while everyone is reinfected with Covid, & all the infants, toddlers, kids, & teens are infected & reinfected with Covid, & nothing EVER changes. Why?
2023: “The trend is getting more & more alarming. We are noticing trends in hematological malignancies, breast cancer, colorectal carcinoma, & pancreatic cancer…
With COVID added to the mix, Patel now fears a ‘perfect storm’ of factors will trigger inflammatory responses in some patients, causing cancer to arrive years earlier than normal & making it deadlier once it is diagnosed.”
I tend to believe we are FINALLY experiencing the consequences of ignoring unprecedented record disease/disability/death for 5 years, but we are blaming this very predictable collapse on other things & individuals, while dutifully pretending all our problems have nothing to do with the choices we made over the last 5 years.
The wounds are self-inflicted. Sadly, Both Sides of the political aisle work directly for corporations & billionaires, not us. We live & die to maintain their record corporate profits, & we exist at their pleasure. We are becoming too expensive to maintain in the present conditions, especially since everyone is sick & getting sicker. So we turn a blind eye as people die en masse. As middle schoolers die in public, we call it “natural causes.” As young adults die in record numbers, we call it “God’s Plan.” As Boomers die off while still working multiple jobs to survive (instead of retiring), we pretend it’s all very normal. Eventually we will be replaced by AI so the elite can continue living well, uninterrupted, despite the poors dying out. But we won’t get the privilege of seeing it coming or calling it what it is, we will be forced to pretend we can’t possibly know why it’s happening, & told we can’t possibly afford to find a solution.
The End.
I made a thread. When we started hearing American worker productivity was declining at the fastest rate in 75 years, media began churning out anti-WFH articles with headlines like, “Remote Work Comes With Daytime Drugs & Drinking Habits.”