With all-time temperature records already broken (about 40 degrees in England), we’ve now entered a long-enduring period of unprecedented heat. Suddenly many people’s homes, designed for a relatively cold climate, become unsuitable accommodation and going outdoors is ever more appealing.

Thankfully there are still many public parks and bicycle lanes, so we’ve taken advantage of the heatwave to have a summer holiday, a staycation.

I’ve not left Manchester in 2.5 years. I don’t miss flying, that’s for sure. It became less pleasant than ever.

Data published 2 days ago:

Only about 2,000 Brits per day, mostly young kids, ‘decide’ to give those shots a shot (or the kids’ parents decide for them); the companies are reaching for the “bottom” or the “low end” of the “market” now (about 15 million Brits got no COVID-19 shots at all)

Vaccines need to improve, but the patent cartel works to ensure the monopoly is preserved and people have shots administered to them without actually solving the problem (this summer is the most deadly and infectious so far… by far)

I’ve long advocated hosting from home, to the extent possible, but this site is managed from Northern Ireland and physically hosted in London since 2004. Maybe one day, provided a fast connection and assurance of no outages, I’ll host it from home. With rising energy prices we now see the media discussing power “rationing” (i.e. planned outages). That would completely mess up prospects of hosting from home.

Last night we had several site outages, which are very rare. I think this happens less than once a year.

According to weekly data published just hours ago.

01-08-2022: 289,322 PCR tests, 6.2 of which positive (7-day period ending that date)

01-08-2021: 2,177,820 PCR tests, 7.7% of which positive (7-day period ending that date)

01-08-2020: 712,277 PCR tests, 0.9% of which positive (7-day period ending that date)

Released hours ago, but the media is just ignoring it, following the “official” narrative.

England alone:

UK-wide:

Norsoc Manchester seems to have ceased to exist, as did the Web site maintained by Christan Brox-Nilsen, who is still based near here (he’s the one who was taking all the photographs for the site).

That was before we dated (me on the right).

One thing Norway and the UK have in common is that they’re not EU members. Sadly, however, the UK’s appeal for foreign students has also diminished since then. Maybe that’s why Norsoc ceased to exist years later.

If people realised how dangerous COVID-19 still is, it might ‘harm’ business, so why release data? Right? Right, UK Health Security Agency?

Still waiting? Did they quietly kill it? With silencer?