Yesterday: on every TV channel they were showing reports saying I’m serving time in the best penal colony, with perfect conditions and restaurant-quality food. ⠀ Today: the third person from my unit has been hospitalized with tuberculosis in recent weeks. There are 15 people in the unit, which means 20% are sick—well above the epidemic threshold. So what? Do you think it’s an emergency, with ambulance sirens blaring? Nobody cares. The only thing the administration cares about is how to hide the statistics. So, as in the meme: Boy: puts on a mask to protect himself from coronavirus. Man: sleeps in the next bunk over from an inmate coughing with tuberculosis. ⠀ So this is our “ideal, model penal colony.” Every prisoner prays to God not to end up here, and inside it’s filth, tuberculosis, and no medicine. Looking at the horrific bowls they slop the prison gruel into, I’m honestly surprised there isn’t Ebola here too. ⠀ When they took away the third person with tuberculosis, we went to read the “disease prevention” notice board—they have this illness listed there too. It says you need to strengthen your immune system with good nutrition and protein-rich food. At first, naturally, everyone laughed at me, and then at themselves. Because the meat was stolen from our meals back in Moscow. In Vladimir, the butter and vegetables were stolen. And here on site, in Pokrov, they’ve already carried off the last crumbs to their homes. Leaving the inmates porridge like paste and frozen-through potatoes. Go ahead, strengthen your immune system. So the answer to all those TV reports is simple: there isn’t a single word of truth in them. Not in the big things, not in the details. ⠀ And I invite the correspondents from Putin’s TV channels to spend the night in our “ideal prison,” in the next bunk over from a coughing inmate. Or better yet, right next to me. I quote the official reading from today’s temperature check: “Navalny A.A., severe cough, temperature 38.1°C.” ⠀ But there is a bright side too: as the saying goes, “fight fire with fire.” If I’ve got TB, maybe it will drive away the back pain and the numbness in my legs. That would be nice. Strengthen your immune system 😉 ⠀ P.S. Of course I am continuing the hunger strike. I have a legal right, guaranteed by law, to bring in a specialist doctor at my own expense. I will not give that up, and prison doctors can be trusted exactly as much as state TV.