Michael Gove scrapped the £56bn school building project in 2010 that was set to replace every single RAAC school in the UK.

He then replaced it with nothing.

Fast forward 13 years and they are all falling down.

Whose fault is it?

The English language is a wonderful thing, and we know some rules without knowing we know them.

‘Have you ever heard that patter-pitter of tiny feet? Or the dong-ding of a bell? Or hop-hip music? That’s because, when you repeat a word with a different vowel, the order is always I A O. Bish bash bosh. So politicians may flip-flop, but they can never flop-flip. It’s tit-for-tat, never tat-for-tit. This is called ablaut reduplication, and if you do things any other way, they sound very, very odd indeed.’ From ‘The Elements of Eloquence’ by Mark Forsyth.

#English #language

This is a long ass post. And it's a terrible post. Trust me, I know that.

If you see me wearing a mask in public (I still do, and will continue to do so until there's some kind of breakthrough with this covid crap - a sterilizing vaccine that prevents infection), figured worth mentioning why. I hear people trying to say it's over (sadly, no, we've stopped talking about it, but it's certainly not even close to over), this is a screenshot of the US CDC document explaining how to classify Covid deaths. The document is available to the public - sadly, it doesn't match up with what they're telling everyone about catching the disease.

1. This is called SARS - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, it will never be a mild disease generally speaking. It's not primarily spread by droplets, it's airborne (and it's going to coat everything in the room even after it settles out of the air - so wash your hands after you touch things in a public space), and someone infectious walking through a place with poor ventilation and no mask will leave behind enough active virus to last for 5 or 6 hours in a room. Not everyone who has it will be infectious - and not everyone who's infectious has symptoms.

2. The name is misleading, it's a vascular disease, not a respiratory disease. It causes immune dysfunction, damages your heart, your liver, your kidneys, your brain as well as your lungs. 1/10 infections cause Long Covid (not 1 in 10 people, 1 in 10 infections - even in vaccinated people) - Long Covid is the result of damage to your brain and internal organs. Whether it's permanent, how long it lasts depends on how severe the damage is.

3. Vulnerable people. This gets mentioned a lot - problem is, anyone who has had the disease qualifies as a vulnerable person, because:

4. catching it grants no immunity to catching it again, because it attacks your immune system. It makes you more vulnerable to catching it again. It also makes you more vulnerable to everything else, bacterial, viral, and fungal infections, because again, it damages your immune system. It also mutates quickly, so even if you had immunity to a strain (you did not), new strains aren't the same, and you'd still be vulnerable.

5. a mild infection means it's not bad in your respiratory system - there are no symptoms for heart, kidney, liver, or brain (or any of your other internal organs) until they're damaged badly enough they stop working properly.

6. In autopsies, they've found recently active virus activity in every organ of people who had it months ago, meaning your symptoms clearing means it's cleared your respiratory system, but there's no way of knowing where or whether it's still active, or if it's actually gone.

7. There is no flu going around. If you have the flu, it's probably Covid. SARS.

I'll never say don't live your life, or hide away, but why governments and health authorities and media have decided to go silent on this is inexplicable - yeah, it's annoying, yeah, people are sick of it... but yeah, it's still going around, it's still killing people, and it's still leaving people disabled, 1/10 infections causing disability. Why a deadly, life altering virus is being ignored? Thankfully there are still doctors, scientists, and disease experts monitoring it and talking about it, sharing wastewater data, but media and health organizations, governments are silent. At current rates, they're saying that 50-99% of the population of planet earth will be dealing with C-19 related disability by the end of 2025. Young people are having heart attacks and strokes due to clotting and heart damage. Image is from the right side of Page 2.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf

I know this post sucks.

I hate that we live in this dystopian, bullshit reality.

I just want people to be more careful - this whole "you have to live your life" line is complete crap - yes, you should live your life, but you should also try and make sure you don't lose it or destroy it by taking unnecessary risks. Today matters, yes, absolutely, but so does tomorrow, and catching this will lower your number of tomorrows. Personally, I'd like to see everyone thrive and live long healthy lives. It's too late for millions of people already, that have died, that have long covid and can barely function. It's not over.

#COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsNotMild #WeAreStillInDanger #MasksWork

Keir Starmer’s approval rating among the public is negative among all age groups, according to latest poll, speaking volumes of the impact he makes when seen by the public and for the effect of his ‘red Toryism’.

Among 18-24yos, 25-49yos and 50-64yos, Starmer’s approval levels are significantly negative

Of his own making

https://skwawkbox.org/2023/08/13/starmer-disliked-by-all-age-groups-poll-finds/

Why your spouse can’t get chemo: “The average net price of generic drugs fell by more than half between 2016 and 2022”

https://www.minnpost.com/other-nonprofit-media/2023/06/drugmakers-are-abandoning-cheap-generics-and-now-u-s-cancer-patients-cant-get-meds/

Monopsony buying has pushed manufacturing to India where law is flexible and monitoring expensive.

#jgshare