UK life expectancy has declined by 2 years in the past decade, with healthy life expectancy falling by 2 years in just 4 years (2020-2024), primarily due to the 'COVID storm' phenomenon where prior immune priming from infection or vaccination combined with reinfection creates new symptoms and worsens health across the population, with toxic liver disease rising over 100% across all age groups and regional variations showing the most significant declines in Northeast and Northwest England.
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Britain's HEALTH Crisis Is Real?Added:
A lot of people may be telling you that your uh observations of people getting sick are not real. But you can see from the headline here that UK life expectancy has declined by 2 years in the past decade.
This is not your imagination. This is real.
The question is why?
And this is part of the problem because nobody wants to really address the primary issues that are going on.
And therefore, that's why we keep on going in a circle because there is an elephant in the room. Now, what I'm trying to do in the next few weeks and months is break down each part of what it is that you're seeing.
Toxic liver disease is rising across every age group from the 0 to 17s up to the over 75s. We're talking about more than a 100% increase. And so this will be the next topic that I'll be looking at in terms of pandemic or post-pandemic trajectories. And this is the kind of thing that will explain why so many people are sick.
The question is is what can you do about it? Well, make sure one that you come along to that webinar. The link is in the description and you'll have a better understanding of where we are going.
Here is the Armstrong Economics. This was on the 1st of May 2026. Healthy life expectancy in the UK declined by 2 years in the past decade. Now, you have to observe this carefully.
They have said in the past decade. Now, remember, yes, they are right. Actually, they could say in the past 20 years or even maybe not the 20 years. The point being is that the trajectory changed not before 2020. So they should have said in the past 4 years.
But they chose decade.
Both were correct, but only one was actually truth. Something changed around the pandemic. Now, as usual, when you look at what they're saying, they are pointing out a number of factors.
Obesity alone could have reached levels where 2/3 of the adults in the UK are overweight or obese. They seem to be suggesting that obesity suddenly spiked around the pandemic. The reality is that obesity was a risk factor for severe COVID-19. So obesity would have taken some of the people out of the pandemic.
So in theory, their impact on healthy living should have decreased. So here is what they're talking about. It's not all-cause mortality.
Healthy life expectancy, and this is from the Office of National Statistics here. Healthy life expectancy UK between 2011 to 13 and 2020 to 2024.
And so the number of years people are expected to spend in good general health in the UK, including subnational areas. And so they have defined it really as healthy life expectancy measures health-related well-being and represents the average time an individual is expected to live in very good or good general health based on how they perceive their general health. And so it's a question really to you.
Do you feel that you're in good health?
And if you said yes, then good. That would be one tick. If you If you said no, then that would then change the demographics, the understanding of the the census. So that's really what it's about. But for it to fall 2 years 2 2 years in 4 years is absolutely incredible. So just so that you know what the numbers are actually looking like, I went and I broke it down based on the localities in the UK. It's very, very interesting. So I'm going to show you the map here. I don't know if I can make it bigger. Um but you can take a look at it here. This is the map of the UK, the whole of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland.
Anywhere that is dark blue means that they are above the national average. So you can see I have to hover over it. The national average on the left is in gray. So in this area here, and this area is um you can see which area it is here. Um this area here is Perth and Kinross.
I've highlighted this because it's one of the few areas, and I'll zoom in. It's in Scotland here, where the life expectancy has increased 65.1 to 65.3 above the average. So they've always been above the average. And what you have to realize, as I I had to go look at this, is because I realized that in effect in that region, you had a lot of people moving from the cities in COVID who preferred to work from home. And so that may have been one of the reasons why you had an increase in that area.
But across the board in the UK, we are talking about a 2-year decrease in terms of how it is that a healthy life expectancy is. And now, this is what I'm saying. When they said in the um in the in the article, look again, it says here, "Healthy life expectancy in the UK declined by 2 years in the past decade."
Okay?
When you actually look at the statistics, this is what the statistics show.
It had been absolutely stable up till 2020 and suddenly fell off 2021, 2022, 23.
This is significant.
So this is where the fall off had happened. So it's definitely something around the pandemic.
I don't want to say there's an elephant in the room, but there's an elephant in the room.
Why would this not be seriously included in terms of the analysis? Now, the article did touch on it, but it wasn't necessarily the focus. And you can see here, COVID accelerated this entire process in a way that policy makers are reluctant to fully acknowledge.
Why would they be reluctant?
They would be reluctant because they cannot categorically say that this is just related to infection.
That's the problem.
If they say it's because or around COVID, they're going to have to answer the question, is this primarily because of COVID infection or COVID vaccination? And they don't want to touch that. My feeling is that it is the combination. Now, I have said this over and over again. And this is something that is very important to try and grasp when we think about the mechanisms as to what is going on in terms of the the pandemic. So I'm going to show you my image as to what I think is happening and what I've been describing for the longest time. So this is what I call the COVID storm.
Where you have prior immune priming from infection or prior immune vaccination priming and a reinfection.
And when you look at this carefully, this storm is new or different symptoms from the original infection.
This storm is what I think is driving all of these changes with excess mortality as well as worsening health generally across the population. Now, this is likely to be happening in multiple parts of the world. And the reality is that there is no appetite to actually try and understand better the science of it.
But the implications are occurring all the time, whether people like it or not.
And as I said, there is no getting away from the reality of what is happening.
When you look at the numbers, and I'm going to break it down by um almost by region, you can see it here by region. It's showing you uh what the likely 2019 to 2021, that's in gray here.
Blue is 2022 to 2024.
In every region, Northeast, Northwest had the biggest fall.
Yorkshire and Humber, significant fall.
Every region had a fall. London had the probably smallest fall cuz it has a younger population.
Across the Southwest, you can see everywhere people feel less healthy.
Now, as I said, there is no ignoring the fact that people don't feel well.
And if you leave them alone and you don't address it, the outcomes are going to be horrendous. Again, here is the graph. You can see that up until 2020, it was stable.
63.7 for females, 62.8 for males.
By the time it has hit 22 to 24, it's 60.9 and 60.7.
This is significant and was remarkable.
It's becoming closer for females and males. That means that more women are feeling unwell than men.
How long does this have to go on before it's taken seriously?
And I know what a lot of people who are in the public-facing part of this discussion are thinking or were thinking.
They figured that if you just delay addressing it, it will stabilize on its own and then you can talk about it as a historical issue.
It's not stabilizing.
It's not going away.
And the reason is very simple.
Until you address the fundamental problem with regards to ongoing reinfections, that's not going to happen.
And this is the problem is that once COVID is circulating in an immune-primed population where people are getting reinfection after reinfection with a pathogen that we have never come across, something that can do this kind of pattern of of pathophysiology ever. This is by far the most lethal virus we've come across outside of something like HIV.
And it's being left to circulate. People are being told to move on.
But they're getting sicker and they are dying.
What kind of leadership is that that leaves the population to suffer and die because they don't want to face responsibility for the questions that will come if they acknowledge it.
That is effectively all it is.
They are not thinking about you. They're worried about themselves.
So, you have to start to worry about you and therefore make sure you learn. This is what's coming up in the next few days.
You have a responsibility. I think the even though they are free tickets, I don't know if there are any left, the donation tickets. You can donate anything that you can afford. It doesn't have to be the full price. There is no excuse that you don't at least listen to the information and use it to help yourself and your family.
There is no way out of this and it's only going to get worse.
Let's at least be prepared for what could be a bumpy ride.
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