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Wintertime is Here

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 17, 2023

THE month of November is fast approaching (our anniversary). Wintertime is here already and so are various diseases, including malicious thugs that try to cause more problems than a literal virus.

A month ago, a day after my wedding anniversary (just 4 hours afterwards) our old server was shut off without notice, explanation, or even notification. It was shut off based on a lie, a falsehood, and an hour later both my wife and I discovered that we had contracted COVID-19. First time, so it's not easy. Nice, isn't it?

Anyway, we and the site have since then recovered, unlike the country's health system. Many people I speak to struggle not just financially; yesterday my best friend told me he had fallen ill for 6 weeks and had to take antibiotics to eventually recover.

Deaths with "COVID-19 on the death certificate" in the UK now stand at 230,737 (with ~300 more deaths per week or 1,200 per month). 4+ years have passed and COVID-19 still kills many people across my country. News sites, however, got too 'tired' to mention excess deaths, so I write about these almost every week, including today*.

Keep safe out there. The world is in a bad shape. █

_________* As per this morning's weekly data release by ONS, excess deaths in the UK carry on. 9.2k deaths for this week were registered in years prior to COVID-19 and now it's about 10k (about 10% increase). Public health crisis? No word in the media.