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.

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 have just had the craziest morning.
I meet up twice a year with five colleagues to coordinate an annual event.

When I arrived the first two were already there... One was talking about how her husband (early 50s) has not returned to work after a stroke six months ago, and about how she (early 50s) was dealing with unending fatigue.

I haven't worn ffp2+ masks for the entire pandemic.

I bought a load in mid January 2020, and started wearing them in February 2020.

But then I fell for some weird disinformation... The weird disinformation was that there wasn't enough manufacturing capacity to make enough ffp2+ masks for healthcare workers.

How do I put this.

The people who say that endless repeat covid infection is not a concern... They say it, despite the fact that studies like this one are only coming out now after *five years of work*. It was based on cases in 2020.

There *is* enough evidence in to say that endless repeat Covid infections are going to be detrimental to long term health on an individual and population level, but there will be even more evidence to come. There will be problems caused by cases caught *today* that will not be out for years.

In the mid 2000s, I got ill while finishing a project in Eastern Europe, and developed some health conditions that nobbled me for a few years, and my whole life changed track.
I didn't go back, but I never took my eye off what I had seen start to develop:
Putin's new empire.
🧵 Let me explain.

Covid infections cause damage to the brain.

Damage to the brain increases the risk of anxiety and depression.
They are *physical* and *biological* conditions.

What did you think was going to happen when we infected everyone repeatedly with Covid? The clinical medical condition of 'Anxiety' is not primarily caused by *something that is worrying you*.

Unmentioned by the government, by health media, by doctors, by wellness commentators, by anyone, there has been an >astonishing< change in the underlying causes of deaths in the UK. This is the proportion of each week's deaths in the UK that involved 'a disease of the respiratory system' in the years leading up to Covid's arrival.

Here's a question about Covid.

Are Things Getting Worse?

Do you think things are getting worse or better?
📈🧵 You probably wouldn't have thought so from the way everyone is acting or talking.

But...

People just don't seem to understand the significance of this.
Do we have to explain everything?

Not only is the 50% increase in sickness absence hurting efficiency, the sicknesses *cost money to treat*.

If this is representative of the population, it suggests huge increases in healthcare needs and costs. If people are *off sick* 50% more, that's a pretty strong indicator that people are *sick* 50% more.

Arg. I'm just going to bash through a messy thread.

I've been whacking my head against this data for three months after looking it up, and it's only got worse for the last three months.

It's about that question "are people still getting sicker".

Summary in the next tweet... Basically, I'm starting to think that there's a trend of sickness absence worsening since 2020, but that *2022* was an outlier.

So things gradually get worse 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024...

👀
Insurance News:
"Reacting to a troubling rise in chronic illnesses among younger Americans, two organizations... have joined forces to form a new initiative... to help insurers better support policyholders before they become critically ill."
😮
insurancenewsnet.com/innarticle/par… Read it.
It's all the health problems caused by Covid infections wrapped up into one health insurance news story.
👀

Thanks to @MeetJess and @acrossthemersey

I guess most western people seeing the name 'Operation Sindoor' will think it's just a dull neutral military name, but oh boy it is not. 👀

Sindoor is *the red line* drawn in *the parting of the hair* at a Hindu marriage... And the military Operation Sindoor is *a line of blood* in the *partitioned region* of the Kashmir Valley, overwhelmingly Muslim, politically fragile, deeply contested.

A red line in the parted hair of a Hindu bride... drawn in a Muslim region. 😬

I had an English NHS doctor replying to one of my tweets the other day saying "no one's more sick now, stop these lies".

Except... there's a problem there because the NHS publishes data about how many doctors are off sick each month... And this is what it looks like in graph form.

This is *how much more likely* doctors in Hospitals and Community Health Services (HCHS) are to be sick in each of the last five years than in the three years leading up to the pandemic.

🔥🩸 Oh here we go again.

More evidence for doctors, journalists, governments and everyone to ignore:
Covid messes with how your body moves blood around.
This time, it’s the capillaries, the tiniest blood vessels that keep every part of your body supplied with oxygen: Thanks to @TimofejM77894 for posting this one.
I'll try to explain the bits I understand...

https://x.com/TimofejM77894/status/1918688342981456133

Is it just me or is it nuts that the world should be trying to pretend that Covid didn't just kill thirty million people. Trying to pretend that it was never here.

A lot of people have noticed it. In the past few years, a bunch of different infections in England have started moving together.
Spikes, dips, rising and falling in sync. And not just the trough of the covid mitigation days.

Look at that weird mini-plateau on the right for both Lyme and Legionella.

I've just seen some staggering data on how badly infections are affecting urgent care here *now*.

It's hard to comprehend.
It's hard to get your head round it.

You need to see it to believe it.
👀 I'm going to try to show it visually.

I'm going to show three graphs of the weekly numbers of people facing one of the types of delay in urgent care.

Pre-pandemic.
Emergency Phase.
Rampant Spread.

*all with the same scale*

@Keir_Starmer Right.
I've had enough of this.
I'm going to run you through some very simple statistics.
Let's start with this one.
It's the staff illness absence rate for NHS staff.
This is it below in the lead up to the pandemic. @Keir_Starmer It's astonishingly consistent pre-pandemic.
If we put pre-pandemic average of 4.13% on there you can easily see the winter peaks of absence, and the improvements in the summer.

But variation from year to year?
There's hardly any.

Remember how they lied to you that you were deconditioned because of lockdown, and then we studied elite athletes before and after covid infection and it was covid infections that dramatically affected their fitness level? Remember when liars said there was absolutely no way that Covid could persist in the body after the initial infection, and then now there are covid sequences popping up that have been replicating inside people for three straight years and have 100 mutations?

Henceforth I will be using the word thinkstopper instead of 'thought terminating cliché".

You know. Those sentences that are simply designed to stop you thinking.

For example: Me: "If we don't cut emissions drastically now, the consequences for future generations will be catastrophic."

Him: "Oh, I don't know, I reckon the planet will sort itself out eventually somehow."