David morrison

We've all just agreed to forget that Liz Truss was ever Prime Minister.

“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”

Aldous Huxley

AIR-BORNE: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
'The air teems with invisible life. This last biological frontier remains so mysterious that it took over two years for scientists to finally agree that the COVID pandemic was caused by an airborne virus.' @carlzimmer.com
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AMR is more complicated than a lack of drugs Later this month (Nov 18–24) is World AMR Awareness Week (WAAW), the annual reminder of this long smouldering crisis in modern health care. This is the first year with the new name as it was formerly ...

"Too often #AMR is framed as an immense although conceptually simple challenge: delay resistance to current drugs and produce new drugs. But we need to go beyond this, we need to pull every lever at our disposal to minimise infection even before we turn to drugs."

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Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV.

"The idea that world events and life-or-death political decisions should turn on what one elderly US citizen sees on a television set sounds like it should be the premise for a dystopian satire written in the 1970s..."

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‘The damage is beyond repair’: The CDC faces another round of deep staff cuts | CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suffered another round of deep staff cuts late Friday, with disease detectives, outbreak forecasters, policy and data offices among those impacted, ac...

“The administration did not like that CDC data did not support their narrative, so they got rid of them. They didn’t like that CDC policy groups would not rubber stamp their unscientific ideas, so they got rid of them”.

The damage to the CDC is “beyond repair”.

Michael Hirschorn in the New York Times: Voting for Mamdani Taught Me Why Trump Won

Time to hang up the gloves, @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

The cruelty of saying “hospitals are ready” by increasing ICU beds and body bags… instead of fixing the ventilation.

Just mull over that for a bit #MedSky.

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

Use only water or fresh air on tear gas or pepper spray.

No milk, vinegar, antacids, urine, etc. and especially not in eye.

Thank me later,

An actual expert

COVID: Concerned about the pressure on our NHS, as we enter the darker, colder months, and want to protect services, staff and patients!
Then, it's time to be more focused on the spread of this disease, especially in healthcare settings, as well as the labour, social and economic impacts. #LongCOVID

What a horrific tragedy. This is what happens when people decide it’s acceptable for drug users to die, and when we allow law enforcement to pretend to be experts on drugs and how drugs work. It’s very likely that this man would be alive today if he had received medical care instead of imprisonment.

“For more than 3 hours, officers can be seen walking past while he lay on the floor in his urine in obvious distress…noting he was foaming at the mouth & having seizure-like activity…mistaking his medical emergency for a drug overdose…”

Except a drug overdose is also a medical emergency...

Almost 55,000 preschool children in Gaza acutely malnourished, Lancet study estimates Study shows clear link between Israeli aid restrictions and malnutrition among children aged between six months and five years

Please let this peace plan work. At last there is hope.
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British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.

Reform says something unhinged
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Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
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Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
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Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁

Babies' deaths in Cameroon show how US aid cuts curtail malaria fight Nine-month-old baby Mohamat burned with fever for three days before his family took him to the closest health centre in northern Cameroon, but it was too late. He died of malaria that day.

9-month-old Mohamat died of malaria in Cameroon. Before U.S. aid cuts, he likely would have survived. Malaria deaths are rising after years of progress. Abrupt and irresponsible budget cuts can have deadly consequences.

Two world maps (panels A and B) display the global impact of USAID health funding and its estimated effect on mortality between 2001 and 2021. Panel A (Top Map): Title: "USAID disbursement (in quartile)" This map shows countries shaded in four shades of purple based on the quartile of USAID health disbursements received from 2001 to 2021. Darker purple (quartile 4) represents the highest levels of USAID disbursement, while lighter purple (quartile 1) represents the lowest levels. Countries in sub-Saharan Africa, such as Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, are shaded in the darkest purple, indicating they received the most funding. Some countries in Latin America, South Asia, and Eastern Europe are shaded in lighter purples. Grey-colored countries (e.g., China, Russia, Western Europe, and parts of Oceania) are not recipients of USAID funding and are excluded from the analysis. Panel B (Bottom Map): Title: "Deaths prevented by USAID, 2001–21 (%)" This map shows the estimated percentage of deaths prevented due to USAID health assistance, with countries shaded in various tones of blue to green. Darker blue represents a higher percentage of deaths prevented (up to 18%), while light green represents lower estimated prevention rates (~5%). Sub-Saharan African countries again show the most notable impact, with many shaded in medium to dark blue, indicating substantial mortality reduction. Countries in Latin America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia show moderate impact (light blue to green), while much of Europe, East Asia, and North America are greyed out or show minimal/no impact due to lack of USAID engagement. Color Scales: Panel A uses a 4-point purple scale for USAID funding quartiles. Panel B uses a gradient from green to dark blue representing 5% to 18% of deaths prevented.

The Trump regime looked at these maps and thought that it's totally okay to defund USAID and kill 14 million people over the next 5 years (including 4.5 million children under five) because they're not white. Trump apparently also deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

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hugs. these things hit you in strange ways

new genuine economic concern just dropped

“This morning, Germany is one nation again.”

This is how BBC Breakfast News reported on German reunification, 35 years ago today.

omg bloody screaminnnn with laughter here!

At a time when new cyberattacks debilitate British businesses seemingly daily, the UK government is demanding that security is made worse for UK users.

it does seem to have big numbers and somewhat trustworthy, not likely to be looked at in another trial, times have changed

hmmm the anti vaxxers will love this, add it to the ivermectin

Hundreds of US women charged with pregnancy-related crimes since fall of Roe Study finds prosecutors targeting low-income women mainly in US south – and figure likely to be an undercount

Feature, not bug

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WATCH: "They are underwater across the board, and they know it. And that is causing them to double down in public. But it is backfiring. That is why—whether it's a shutdown, whether it's all of this—they want us to blink first. And we have too much to save," says AOC.

British Politics' Midlife Crisis Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

In the uk adults are not vaccinated against pertussis. It’s quite difficult to get the vaccine. We have quite high rates, usually in young adults

The James Comey Indictment Is Huge. The Reaction So Far Is Exactly What They Want. Why it’s useful to read the Niemöller poem backward.

This is brilliant & it captures what's happening to justice in the U.S. better than anything I've read.
"That’s how authoritarians work, how they have always worked, and it’s why it’s useful to read the Niemöller poem backward." slate.com/news-and-pol... by @dahlialithwick.bsky.social

They’re not focusing on fentanyl traffickers because fentanyl traffickers are American.

When Trump and every Republican claimed - just a few months ago - that migrants were bringing fentanyl into the country they knew that wasn’t true. They lied. Will the people who fell for that lie figure it out?