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A surprise bonus from COVID-19 vaccines: bolstering cancer treatment Patients who got shots of mRNA before starting a type of cancer immunotherapy lived much longer

A surprise bonus from COVID-19 vaccines: bolstering cancer treatment | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Great piece from @samfr.bsky.social . Fixing the NHS looks like a long, expensive haul to me. Prevention needs so many join-ups in policy- from more access to nature, to mental health, food strategy, tackling poor housing to even things like noise, air and light pollution…

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

I hate all of this in almost every way a thing can be hated. I hate the factless waffle that surrounds Big AI’s every improbable goal. I hate how insipidly stupid, or just plain evil, those goals so often are, and the yawning chasm between them and any form of achievable reality. I hate that Big AI’s successes are inflated and its failures ignored — or are even categorised as hilarious mis-steps, like when AI chatbots tell people to eat poisonous mushrooms, put glue on pizza, or make air diffusers from chlorine gas. I hate that Big AI consumes so much energy that every time you generate a six-fingered portrait of Anne Frank or a scene from the Vietnam war in the style of Studio Ghibli, you might as well just kill a polar bear with a crossbow. I hate that it can run roughshod over every copyright law and environmental protection on the planet in pursuit of the data it needs to continue failing, with no consequences save for the enrichment of the worst people on Earth, who have managed to make all of this magical bullshit seem sensible to an intellectual class comprised of people I wouldn’t trust to print an email.

On hatred.

'Europe is not only home to our traditional allies; it is an enviable zone of democracy, wealth and prosperity with which it benefits us to have good relations, and from which we can sometimes learn'

Snyder on the new US imperialism

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‼️Posting again for the uninformed‼️

The mainstream media, NHS leaders & Government have failed to support GPs

35m appts a month, 5m MORE than 2019

The combined TOTAL use of A&E/Ambulances/111 is LESS than the INCREASE in appts provided

GPs are doing this with less funding

#TeamGP #Medsky

I don't know if it exists, but I'd want to show something that was based on data from 2022 onwards - after mass vaccination. People have had at least 2 vaccines & probably a couple of infections by now & believe the earlier data doesn't apply any more.

The older cohort of children who weren’t eligible for UK vaccination in 2021 will reach adulthood in the next 5 years, so that might be when it becomes noticeable to the general public

So theoretically, we could start seeing rates of long Covid at this level in all unvaccinated young people.

Sumary from Australia data:
The cause of car crashes is car driving (I.e. Vehicle KM Travelled = Road Death rate)
£ spent on road building = more road deaths

They will all say correlation ≠ causation
1) pretty clear correlation
2) corroborates with lots of other data
3) test against Bradford Hill

The only time the NHS got similar funding to G20 nations was 2000-2010

This was the impact

Shopfront resembles the shopfront from Mr Benn. Red Knight, navy uniform etc

the shopfront from Mr Benn. Red Knight, navy uniform etc

Pulled up at a traffic light in some small Swiss town and...
..wait... what?

#MrBenn

Here’s how Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement must offer hope 'The government needs to recalibrate policies'

To revive economy UK govt must redistribute wealth.

Bottom 50% of the population has 5% of wealth; bottom fifth has 0.5%. 1% have more than 70% population combined.

Median wage is £29,604. Real average wage unchanged since 2008.

Cut taxes on the bottom 50%. Tax wealth. End tax perks of the rich.

This is very important:

“Society benefits a lot from people walking & cycling!

New figures from the Norwegian Directorate of Health show we save:

🚲 33 NOK for every km people cycle
🚶‍♀️ 49 NOK for every km people walk

This is compared to people not being physically active e.g. if they drive a car.”

Westminster be warned – Britain’s future will be decided in the north. Get on the right side of that | Andy Burnham As political and business leaders meet for the Convention of the North, our position is clear: we need a genuine new deal, and soon, says Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester

We need a New Deal for the North.
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The role of masks and respirators in preventing respiratory infections in healthcare and community settings The covid-19 pandemic saw frequent changes and conflicts in mask policies and politicization of masks. On reviewing the evidence, including studies published after the pandemic, the data suggest respi...

Anyone want to see our latest paper on #masks?
#healthpolicy 🧪

www.bmj.com/content/388/...

It really doesn't matter what the White House recognises. It matters what is the case. Trying to seal a deal without all pertinent partners is like trying to dictate the weather by closing the curtains.

It’s a cliché to say it—and no two historical scenarios offer a perfectly compelling analogy—but what each American is doing now is what they’d be doing were they a German living in Germany and were it 1936-38

There’s no more doubt about who the appeasers or the bad guys are—they’re in the open now

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

Let’s say you had a really REALLY big opportunity to present for 40 minutes on a platform that would reach millions.

What one slide of data would you share, to convince the masses that SARS2 is worth doing EVERYTHING possible to avoid infection, & if you do, don’t get it again (play the long game)?

Happy #Lawyercat Anniversary for all who celebrate! It's been four years since the kitten appeared in my Zoom courtroom, and I released the 48 second video that made the whole world laugh. Here is the full video showing the big reveal at the end (in two parts because Blue sky). Enjoy!

Oh.

The problem of long waits and corridor care was fixed largely by focus on the known problems. Performance stayed fixed between 2005 and 2010 with fewer than 2% of arrivals waiting longer than 4hr to leave A&Es...

Once upon a time (25 years ago) the NHS had a good understanding of the causes of long waits in A&E. The biggest problem was flow through beds. It wasn't attendance volume, staffing levels or overwhelmed GPs...

Making sense of the new ONS estimates on A&E waiting times and mortality Long waits in A&E kill patients. A new analysis of mortality and A&E waits by the ONS–despite issues in the analysis and presentation of the...

OK, this is a busy "news" day. But I'm still reprised that the ONS analysis of excess deaths caused by long A&E waits in England has received so little coverage. Results reviewed here: policyskeptic.blogspot.com/2025/01/maki...

“Since 2010, there have been almost 40,000 compensation claims for injury and deaths caused by delays in care, costing more than £8.3 billion — enough to build 15 hospitals the size of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.”

Spending less often costs more.

YouTube video by Nicholas Wilson RZA unironically creates a terrible beat for a Guitar Center promo

Had never seen this before I'm crying. How does it just keep getting worse. Bro cooking nothing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=59NV...

YouTube video by Tony Goldstone Correcting misallocated arrears from the England pay award 23/24

ICYMI‼️ *super important* thread consultants in Engl & Wales
I've taken over £2600 off my 24/5 AA liability for not paying for false psuedogrowth... yr 18 consultants could save over £7k.
Watch carefully & read whole 🧵for instructions.
Pls repost/shr inc those not on social
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