Going to take a break and do some pruning on my return as being triggered by some anti-psychiatry, rabid anti-vax and low key anti-Arab accounts.

Twitter detox every now and then is good if you want to keep smiling.

I guess institutionalisation of the nation is what happens when you let the lunatics take over the asylum.

Tiga - ‘What You Need’
youtu.be/bCdpxHOCKno?si…

Queens Of The Stone Age - ‘No One Knows’
youtu.be/s88r_q7oufE?si…

The y-axis doesn’t go to zero, but this is still a catastrophic chart, with a very obvious trigger.

In the not-so-future world of conveyor belt medicine we can just deploy a machine to tick the box that the service user has been informed about *Fournier’s Gangrene.

*humans, eat your breakfast before looking this up

You can’t have a war on a virus, you can only have a war on people.

The World Health Organization (WHO) treaty & IHR revisions propose to expand 'surveillance' capacities for infectious diseases. In 2021, Europe & the US imposed a costly travel ban on S. Africa as punishment for identifying omicron, even though the variant was obviously everywhere. Without guarantees by

Why is it so popular to post videos of regular people embarrassing themselves?

Not a very compassionate thing to do.

(also, there are enough embarrassing politicians and bureaucrats to highlight instead)

We shouldn’t forget how easily liberal lefties became racist bigots to save the NHS—The Guardian pandemic response provided a nice model for the next populist dictator….

Radiohead - ‘High and Dry’
youtu.be/7qFfFVSerQo?si…

Winter coat back in action. This weather is most disappointing.

Ireland had the SECOND highest proportion of care home deaths IN THE WORLD when Covid hit in early 2020.
This alone should give rise to an INQUIRY, but just as with #Stardust those in power will avoid one until it is far too late to make any difference.
irishtimes.com/news/health/ir…