15) South Sudan has begun rationing electricity in its capital, Juba, due to the high cost of oil used for power generation.
16) Laos has made working from home mandatory for all non-essential civil servants and introduced rotational shifts to reduce commuting demand.
13) Bhutan has officially banned the sale of fuel in jerry cans to prevent hoarding and has established strict rationing priorities for emergency services.
14) Vietnam is accelerating a transition to ethanol-blended gasoline ahead of schedule to reduce its reliance on pure fossil fuel imports.
11) India has invoked emergency powers to divert liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) away from industrial users to prioritize household cooking needs.
12) Slovenia became the first EU member to implement fuel rationing, limiting private drivers to 50 liters of petrol per week and businesses to 200 liters.
10) Nepal state-run oil corporation has begun rationing cooking gas by filling cylinders to only half their normal capacity (7.1 kg) and is urging a nationwide switch to induction cookers.
8) Egypt ordered early closures for malls, restaurants, and government offices while switching off illuminated billboards.
9) Myanmar introduced an "odd-even" rationing system where private vehicles can only purchase fuel on alternating days based on their license plate numbers.
6) Thailand ordered civil servants to work from home, set office air conditioning to 26–27°C, and halted petroleum exports to preserve domestic stock.
7) Japan and announced its largest-ever release of strategic oil reserves, approximately 45 days' worth, to stabilize local markets.
5) South Korea launched a nationwide energy-saving campaign and released a record 22.46 million barrels of strategic oil reserves. It also temporarily lifted limits on burning coal.
3) Pakistan closed schools for two weeks and cut free fuel allocations for government vehicles by 50%. It also hiked high-octane fuel prices by 60%.
4) Bangladesh, shut down universities and colleges and implemented five-hour rolling blackouts for households to prioritize the garment export sector.
2) Sri Lanka instituted a weekly public holiday for public officials and schools. It has also revived a QR code-based fuel rationing system that limits private cars to 25 liters of petrol per week.
Via @academic_la on Xitter
Meanwhile most Australia Premiers & PM are calling meetings.
1) The Philippines declared a national energy emergency. Government offices have shifted to a four-day work week, and agencies must cut fuel and electricity use by 10–20%.
This is not a drill.
Global supply chains are bleeding out and you cannot just build a pipeline to replace this stuff overnight.
The modern economy is having a cardiac arrest over an invisible gas.
Aerospace Grounded
Space exploration and defense missiles rely on helium to pressurize rocket fuel tanks.
It is completely irreplaceable because it does not combust or freeze in deep space.
The Tech Collapse
Every single microchip in your smartphone your car and your computer requires helium during manufacturing to keep environments ultra clean and cool.
Without Qatari helium the global semiconductor industry hits a brick wall causing massive electronic shortages.
The Medical Nightmare
MRI machines literally cannot function without liquid helium.
It is the only substance cold enough to keep their massive magnets from overheating and destroying themselves.
Hospitals worldwide are bracing for a reality where life saving diagnostic scans just stop happening.
Here is the brutal breakdown of this invisible shortage
Where does it comes from?
Qatar is the 2nd largest producer of helium on earth.
They extract it at massive industrial facilities.
But because Iran has completely choked off the Strait of Hormuz all of those Qatari export ships are stuck.
We are running out of helium and the reality of what this means will shock you.You probably think helium is just for party balloons. The truth is it is the absolute lifeline for our most advanced technology.
And right now roughly one third of the entire global supply is completely trapped.
Via @osintPk on Xitter
NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THE HELIUM CRISIS BUT THE REALITY WILL SHOCK YOU
Everyone is panicking about oil but there is a silent crisis happening right now in the Strait of Hormuz that will actually stop the modern world from functioning.
New Human Rights Watch report finds that the US Israel massacre of an elementary school in southern Iran has to be investigated as a war crime. The US and Israel had sufficient information and intel to know whether it was a school or not.
www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...
A good documentation of COVID history preserving data for posterity before it is vanished substack.com/home/post/p-...
So does this app include those who don’t live in the USA?
#C0VIDisnotover #maskforyourlife #cleantheair
threadreaderapp.com/thread/20267...
We just published our “Insights from lack of transmission in a controlled transmission trial with naturally infected donors” in the journal PLOS Pathogens. I've summarized it in a Substack post. "How not to catch the flu?" profairborne.substack.com/p/how-not-to...
#Influenza #AirborneInfection
"It Feels like Everyone is sick"
Please help me continue my efforts to:
1. Raise Awareness for Covid and Long Covid.
2. Provide advocacy assistance.
3. Advocate for education, mitigation, and air filtration.
gofund.me/c4dae9171
Education as well, anywhere that indoor air is important, which is everywhere.
@toshiakima.bsky.social @VSTMMJJ@med-mastodon.com
NSW Parliament currently has an inquiry into indoor air quality .I’d also encourage everyone to send a submission, closing date is the end of January.
parliament.nsw.gov.au/committees/Pag…
Current specific area of interest is workforce impacts of COVID, indoor air quality in workplaces & healthcare facilities. I already have links but want more. Please add link of particularly good & relevant article &/or paper please add link in comments. Location irrelevant.
