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Covid/Long Covid. Climate. Socialism. Actually not that hopeful atm.

[Kerfuffle @kerfufflei]

@1goodtern Bit like paying tax for “socialised health” - if they one day were millionaires - even - they wouldnt want to pay for the good health of the country either.

[Kerfuffle @kerfufflei]

@1goodtern The right deny climate change because they believe if they were billionaires they would prioritise money over life on Earth too.

[tern @1goodtern]

Articles seem to be completely pointless on here, but I'm trying it again.

No one sees them, no one reads them.

What's the point?

[Dan O'Hara @skeuomorphology]

The PCR positivity map is out, and national levels have dropped again, to a point now comparable with flu.

There are hotspots and I'm going to highlight the ones where testing levels are high: enough so as to signal clear outbreaks.

https://t.co/1phcyp7jth

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[Kerfuffle @kerfufflei]

@1goodtern 14yr old Daughter of a friend - sudden onset blurred vision in one eye, loss of use of legs, fatigue, seizures. Diagnosis FND. Now in a wheelchair. Would be keen to read a thread as I think it could easily be Lyme and/or LC.

[Kerfuffle @kerfufflei]

@1goodtern Just heard yesterday of a 32 year old who had a heart attack. (Ambulance didnt turn up so after 90mins girlfriend drove him to hospital).
NHS is not taking heart attacks in young people seriously even though we know Covid infections cause vascular damage and blood clots.

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

So this article from the latest @PrivateEyeNews states that Teesside Freeport is going to close down.
Considering Teesside Freeport was Sunak's flagship Brexit freeport/SEZ policy, which was one small cog in the wider free zones rollout, 74 SEZs, 12 Freeports, and now 5 AI Growth Zones, (all fully backed/extended by Starmer's Labour government), what are the implications for the rest of these free zones now that Teesside has collapsed?
It should also be noted that the original amount of state aid allocated to each UK freeport was £25 million. Teesside freeport was lavished with £560 million in state aid, profits generated by this were 9 - 10 split in favour of the private sector.
If Teesside required £560 million to fail, what's the true cost across the entire programme? Labour has inherited and expanded this architecture without apparent scrutiny of Teesside's financial implosion.
How can the 9-10 private profit split be justified when public entities carry the debt?

[Dan O'Hara @skeuomorphology]

The PCR positivity map is out, national positivity has barely shifted at 2%, and the hotspots aren't shifting either.

Most of these are around or slightly over 10%.

https://t.co/1phcyp7jth

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[Kerfuffle @kerfufflei]

@skeuomorphology Thanks so much for continuing to do this every week, it is much appreciated.

[PACO @PacoOnPause]

The new highly mutated covid variant BA.3.2 and the impact on children.

[Kerfuffle @kerfufflei]

@amorvincitomnia Hey @grok do you think that poisoning people, land, ecosystems and air near data centres created to keep you running and expanding is acceptable? What can be done to imrpove the situation? What should you do to ensure the health and safety of those living near your data centres?

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Keir Starmer’s government partnership with Blackrock will, as I have said many times over, privatise the UK.
Everything is up for grabs
Blackrock’s ’Infrastructure Imperative’ is targeting green spaces as a new financial asset in their portfolio.
This is where deregulated free zones come in, they carve out patchworks of corporate sovereignties with separate laws and regulations from the host country.
In the +8 years I have been researching free zones, not one MSM or ‘alternative news’ outlet has investigated the post Brexit resurrection of Thatcher’s free zones by both the Tories, and Labour.
Why?
It is down to secondary legislation.
The UK wide rollout of free zones was rubber stamped by the Tories, and secretly backed by Labour MPs, Mayors, councillors, Lords, and Baronesses who sat on the Freeports/SEZs boards in England, Scotland, and Wales.
Zero debate in Parliament, zero consultation with the public, and zero notification of the press.
This why next to no one has heard of free zones.
UK Freeports, SEZs, Industrial Strategy Zones, Food Enterprise Zones, University Enterprise Zones, and the digital layer of AI Growth Zones are leeching billions in State aid for profit motives, which is illegal in the EU.
This is the real reason behind Brexit.
This is why Starmer says no rejoining the EU Single Market or Customs Union in his lifetime.
Deregulated free zones would disrupt and distort the EU’s Single Market.
The contracts on UK free zones were set for 25 years.
Do you get it now?
https://t.co/qwBqdOqKFH

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Britain has succumbed to 'Zone Fever', and no news outlet is exposing what the devastating impacts behind this planned stealth capture of the commons by Labour and the Tories will unleash on an unsuspecting public.

Peter Mandelson's former spin doctor ran a months-long lobbying campaign for Qatar's state-backed free zones, arranging meetings with a UK Investment Minister, and faced zero disclosure requirements.
Why? His firm used a foreign subsidiary not VAT-registered in the UK. Under British law, that means no registration, no transparency, no consequences. Regulators investigated and cleared them. The loophole worked exactly as designed.
This is the same regulatory framework overseeing a country where 12 freeports, 74 SEZs, 200+ AI Growth Zone bids, and 25 Industrial Strategy Zones are being carved out of British territory, most of it via secondary legislation, meaning no parliamentary debate, no public consultation, no press notification.
The nationwide rollout of deregulated free zones is happening in near-total silence. That silence isn't accidental.
I am a volunteer. Please support my research, thank you!❤️
https://t.co/Jiz0mTBftP
The Qatar Connection: How Mandelson’s Lobbying Firm Helped Foreign States Exploit Britain’s Free Zones Bonanza
Undisclosed influence campaign reveals gaping loopholes in UK transparency laws, while Labour doubles down on Tory free zones experiment
https://t.co/3qfzu6kKsD

[tern @1goodtern]

I'm in a lull on twitter without much visibility, so probably hardly anyone will see this, but here's an important thread on "why everyone's sick all the time".

No, you are not imagining it.
Sickness is increasing.
Sickness absence rates are increasing.

[Karam Bales @karamballes]

How the Covid Disinformation Ecosystem was established

Network mapping the international
network's development in 2020, with a particular focus on the UK.
https://t.co/7MZGcnEuqJ

[Kerfuffle @kerfufflei]

@TheVertlartnic WHO says the best way to prevent the next pandemic is to do exactly the same things as they did in the last pandemic.
(And I would also say with imminent global financial, climate and societal collapse, changing facts probably isn’t going to help keep the “system” going)

[The Vertlartnic @TheVertlartnic]

WHO Says Best Way To Prevent Airborne Infections Is To Delete Guidance From Website

[Kerfuffle @kerfufflei]

@CoronaHeadsUp @E_catservant Why does the govt always allow that old duffer and misinformationist Paul Hunter - remember him and Covid - to come on and says it’s droplet spread in overcrowded places.

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

One major obstacle for the UK rejoining the EU is to do with the post Brexit nationwide rollout of deregulated free zones.
It’s to do with regulatory divergence where the EU prohibits State aid from being exploited as profit motive for corporations.
This creates an unlevel playing field that distorts the EU’s Single Market.
But you all know this right?