Mark Honigsbaum

As bombs rain down on Tehran, the world appears more than divided than ever. But was war in the Middle East inevitable? Or is the current conflagration further evidence of how Covdi-19 destabilised our world, plunging us into permacrisis? open.substack.com/pub/markhonigs…

“Infectious diseases do not disappear when attention shifts elsewhere. They persist, adapt, and return when conditions allow.” #meningitis #measles

@mattwridley I will, wifi reception in Cornwall permitting 🙏

I hope @honigsbaum listens in.

Belter from Eze

North London forever!!!!! Go Gunners !!! ⁦⁦@Arsenal⁩ !

Before Covid came along, England was doing pretty well with meningococcal disease. Which is great because it's a disease that can *kill a healthy teenager within hours*... ... or leave them alive without limbs, hearing, or memory... But... and it's a really big but... 🧵

The meningitis outbreak sparking panic across southern England is a reminder that the infection can strike anyone, anywhere at any time. I should know - in 2012 it claimed the life of journalist friend shortly after his arrival in Paris. markhonigsbaum.substack.com/p/meningitis-o…

The MenB vaccine only became part of the childhood routine vax programme in 2015 - so current university students were NEVER offered a MenB vaccine. It is available to buy privately, but costs a whopping £110 per dose… …whereas the government procure it for just £20 per dose.

The likes of Matt Hancock continue to claim the NHS wasn't overwhelmed during the pandemic. Experts like Dr Kevin Fong exposed that myth during the inquiry hearings. On Thursday, the inquiry must be clear: years of austerity left the NHS overwhelmed and unprepared.

@CovidJusticeUK @Charles83230639 ‘The scale of death was truly astounding’ open.substack.com/pub/markhonigs…

CATA (Covid Airborne Transmission Alliance) has today issued this press release ahead of next Thursday's publication of the Inquiry's module 3 report: tinyurl.com/CATA-press-rel…

Mega important megathread for those wishing to understand NHS England’s decision to downgrade COVID from an aerosol to a droplet infection at precisely the time it was spreading on hospital wards, endangering the lives of nurses and patients.

Finally, the report must make clear this simple truth: The cost of restoring capacity and funding now would be dwarfed by the cost of failing to act before the next crisis hits. 10/10

“Not a single major bourgeois publication has … acknowledged the 6-year anniversary of Covid-19. The pandemic has been deliberately erased from public consciousness by the political establishment, even as the virus continues to spread, disable and kill on a mass scale”.

As a new study calls into question one of the central planks of the "lab leak" hypothesis, I review the long history of pandemics and describe how researchers have long puzzled over their origins. markhonigsbaum.substack.com/p/opportunity-…

“The researchers found no peculiar changes in SARS-CoV-2 before it jumped into humans. It gained mutations as it spread from bat to bat, just like other bat coronaviruses did.” Scientists Get a Glimpse of How New Pandemics Are Made nytimes.com/2026/03/09/sci… via @NYTimes

Fascinating article on how in Ireland empathy for Palestinians and other “oppressed” groups has been weaponised by progressives to gaslight the country’s Jewish community and deny the reality of growing antisemitism.

This Sunday (08/03) marks the UK’s Day of Reflection of the Covid-19 pandemic. But how much difference will it make? asks ⁦@DavidTollerton⁩. And what public appetite is there for it? theconversation.com/what-the-uks-d…

Stanley Plotkin, the 93-year-old "godfather of vaccines," is watching his field’s achievements slip away. trib.al/nb2k31b

This is a brilliant take down of Matt Goodwin after he lost the Gorton & Denton by-election . 🤣