Virgin Media Is Offline

Virgin Media crashed this morning, leaving thousands of customers complaining of being unable to access the internet, make phone calls or watch TV.

According to Down Detector, which monitors website interruptions, there were 17,100 issues recorded at about 11:00 GMT.

Virgin Media confirmed it was experiencing difficulties, but said they were linked to its TV services rather than Wifi infrastructure.

The company tweeted that they were aware of a problem concerning TV services and they were working hard to resolve it as promptly as possible.

People across the country have reported difficulties, with hot spots in large cities such as London, Nottingham, Birmingham and Manchester.

One Virgin Media customer tweeted the company saying: ‘What’s happening with Broadband in PE4? Lost all connection can’t even contact on phone or app.’

Another added that the entire TV was down. ‘Glasgow, what’s going on?’ And asked if they’d been hacked, and was their personal information safe?

One customer, Alex MacLeod, tweeted: ‘Can you inform us what is happening with TV signal in Perth? I have no TV and can’t get onto the website. It also appears to be down. Tried phoning but can’t get through.’

Down Detector gets networks status updates from numerous sources including social media and reports submitted to its website.

Virgin Media also experienced a blackout last week, with more than 2,000 customers reporting a problem with their internet connection.

When it works Virgin Media is great, but that’s when it does work.

Virgin Media is ridiculous and not fit for purpose, yet the company have the audacity to bump up their prices every year while their service gets worse.

I’m not really sure why it’s called Virgin Media anymore because Richard Branson doesn’t own any part of it. He used to own three-quarters of Virgin Mobile, but now he gets paid £8.5 million each year for the use of the Virgin brand name.

Virgin Media is a British telecommunications company, which provides telephone, television and internet services in the United Kingdom, and it’s now owned by Virgin Media O2, a 50:50 joint enterprise between Liberty Global and Telefónica.

This country has become a farce. Nothing works properly and you get ripped off on everything. You work long hours for very little money and the money that we earn buys little to nothing and those products that we do buy have diminished in size with each passing year. Even confectionary has got smaller over the years, on the premise that they will make you fat. Boris Johnson should take a look at himself in the mirror sometimes, he might not like what he sees.

And we should expect to see a lot more of this. Electricity, internet and phone networks will all be down on a weekly basis now that we’re in this new green economy – it’s called the new normal.

If companies can’t provide you with the service that you pay for then you should be entitled to compensation while it’s not working, but it seems that they’re not accountable for anything, but they’ll tear you a new anus if you owe then even a penny.

Virgin Media is shocking and when you contact them, well, you’ve got more chance of contacting the man on the moon, but the moment you cancel your direct debit you get bombarded by them. I actually had an incident where I cancelled my sim card because I didn’t need it anymore. The chap on the other end of the phone wanted to know the ins and outs of why. I asked him to turn my sim off at midnight – guess what, he turned all my services off and when I complained they offered me a £10 goodwill gesture!

Downing Street Throws A Lockdown Party For ‘The Gazelle’, Dominic Cummings’ Protégé

It was reported that one of the boozy lockdown bashes held at Downing Street over lockdown was a leaving party for Dominic Cummings former aide Cleo Watson.

The Prime Minister and his Downing Street staff are accused of breaking COVID rules by hosting three celebratory parties in 2020.

On November 27, Boris Johnson is said to have given a speech at a crowded leaving do for a senior aide, who a newspaper outlet named as Cleo Watson, nicknamed ‘The Gazelle’.

The 32-year-old was one of Dominic Cummings protégés but has now left No 10 to write an erotic political thriller about the lewd goings-on in Westminster.

At the time Britain was in the grip of the second lockdown, with all indoor social gatherings forbidden unless they involved a single household bubble.

Friends of his former communications chief Lee Cain denied the event was for him, saying that he left in the first week of the month.

Then, on December 18, Downing Street staffers allegedly held their own celebratory party featuring a Christmas quiz and Secret Santa. At that time, London was subject to Tier 3 restrictions, with indoor gatherings banned and the rule of six outside.

According to a newspaper outlet, at each of the two parties, there were 40 or 50 people jammed cheek by jowl into a medium-sized room.

A source also alleged there was a third, smaller gathering on November 13, the night Dominic Cummings walked out.

The Prime Minister’s official spokesperson didn’t deny the gathering had taken place but he said that at all stages, the rules had been followed.

The Prime Minister’s press secretary added that they didn’t recognise that account, as they’ve said COVID rules had been observed at all times.

Asked which parts of the report were being dismissed, she said that she wasn’t going to get into individual aspects of speculation.

Separately, a spokesperson described it as total nonsense and maintained that Mr and Mrs Johnson had held parties in their private flat.

Sir Keir Starmer questioned Boris Johnson on the claims at PMQs and he asked if a party was held on December 18 as reported.

Boris Johnson evaded the question and told the Labour leader that all guidance was followed completely.

Sir Keir Starmer said the COVID rules at the time said that you mustn’t have a work Christmas lunch or party and that Boris Johnson was taking the British people for fools.

It seems that now, it’s do as I say and not as I do, and all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others!

At least when Matt Hancock got caught violating the rules, he resigned, all Boris Johnson can do is lie, and what about the police outside guarding No 10, did they just turn a blind eye to all the goings-on?

At the end of the day, when you think about it, we the British public are allowing the few to govern the many, so how weak are we to let them get away with it?

This is the Prime Minister of the country who makes the rules and forces them on the common people but doesn’t follow them himself and I’m amazed at how many people support him when he’s selling you lies – this country is doomed!

And Boris Johnson actually makes Guy Fawkes look great, after all, he was only destroying the Houses of Parliament, Boris is destroying the whole country.

What Boris Johnson should do is just admit that he broke the rules, and now he’s just digging a huge hole for himself, but of course, he still expects the people to take notice of him.

The Police Are Accused Of Being Soft On E-Scooters

Britain’s biggest police force will no longer routinely seize e-scooters being ridden illegally on public roads.

The Met will instead seize them only from repeat offenders or when needed to keep the public safe, a move that was slammed by MPs and campaigners who branded the vehicles death traps.

The force has seized 3,637 privately owned e-scooters this year, but anyone stopped while riding one illegally will now have the law explained to them rather than see their scooter instantly seized.

Peter Bone, Conservative MP for Wellingborough, said the new approach to enforcement beggars belief, and he added they should be hardening their position on e-scooters, not softening it, that they were a menace and a danger, and that if someone is riding them illegally they should be confiscated.

Sarah Gayton, a street access campaign coordinator at the National Federation of the Blind, said there was no excuse for riders not to understand the extremely clear law prohibiting the use of privately owned e-scooters on public roads.

She said the police should just take them from people who are riding them illegally, then people would quit riding them illegally, and that the accident rate amongst young people was terrible.

At least six people have died in accidents involving e-scooters since July 2020, with about 200 riders severely injured.

Scotland Yard accused retailers of marketing the vehicles without making consumers knowledgeable of the laws.

Commander Kyle Gordon, head of roads policing, said it’s especially unhelpful that retailers, completely knowledgeable of the risks they’re creating, continue to profit from marketing machines prohibited for use on public roads without adequate guidance.

He said that he was calling on retailers not to exploit their customers in the run-up to Christmas.

The thing is if retailers weren’t permitted to sell these e-scooters, then people wouldn’t purchase them because they wouldn’t be on sale, and if it’s illegal for people to ride these illegal e-scooters, then it should be illegal for shops to market them and they should also be fined for selling them.

Sadly e-scooters are here to stay and they will increasingly become part of our everyday life unless our Government stop these shops from selling them, but of course, they’re an inexpensive, eco-friendly mode of personal transport so people, particularly young people are going to want to own one.

These scooters are extremely hazardous to pedestrians, especially the elderly for whom a collision could be deadly, and illegal e-scooters don’t have any tax or insurance, so there is no come back on the person using one, but for the person who’s been hurt or even killed for that matter, there’s no personal injury claim to be had.

These e-scooters are often ridden/driven at high speed on the pavement and pedestrian areas and I for one don’t like them because being disabled I could be knocked over by one at any given moment and have had them flying past me and quite honestly it takes the wind out of my sails as they go past.

Next, the police won’t be prosecuting bank robbers, they’ll just be stopping them and explaining the law.

Our police are supposed to uphold the law, they’re not supposed to choose which laws they hold up, and we’re becoming a nation of doing what you like, where you like when you like.

This is a dereliction of duty. I mean, how difficult would it be for the police to remove an illegally ridden e-scooter. Just stop the rider, and if it’s illegal, seize it there and then, put it in the boot of the police vehicle, problem solved. But no, the police have now effectively validated an illegal and hazardous activity, so we should be seeing some more injuries or even worse.

Chris and Roberta Laundrie Are Selling Their Florida Home

Brian Laundrie’s parents are selling their Florida home after his death and the killing of his fiancee Gabby Petito.

A ‘for sale’ sign was seen in front of the North Port home of Chris, 62, and Roberta Laundrie, 55, which is where their son Brian was last seen before he disappeared and was later found in October.

The house had previously been swarmed with reporters after Brian Laundrie returned on his own from a road trip without his fiancee.

Gabby Petito’s remains were later found at a Wyoming park in September.

Brian Laundrie’s parents listed their home days after their lawyer said their 23-year-old son had been killed by a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

The family’s lawyer Steve Bertolino has dismissed allegations that Brian Laundrie’s parents had been involved in both their son and Gabby Petito’s death and won’t face charges.

Both Brian Laundrie and Gabby Petito lived in his parent’s home until their deaths.

The Laundrie family home, which sits on a 10,00 square foot lot, is estimated to be worth an approximated $210,000 and $340,000, according to a newspaper outlet. It’s unclear if its connection to one of the most notorious crimes of the decade will help or hinder its value.

The FBI had previously received backlash after withholding information that Brian Laundrie had a gun during their hunt for him.

Steve Bertolino, told a newspaper outlet that one of the family’s guns was missing when Brian Laundrie disappeared, but that they kept it secret because they didn’t want the public to panic. It remains unclear where the gun is now.

Steve Bertolino said that they didn’t want the public going into a frenzy on that and he wasn’t deemed dangerous to anyone that he might have met out on the street.

A gun was hanging in his bedroom in photos taken by a real estate website before he disappeared.

For weeks, the FBI declined to answer questions regarding if Brian Laundrie should be considered armed and dangerous.

Steve Bertolino also told Insider that he had no reason to believe any charges would be filed against the dead man’s parents, even though the Laundrie’s had received national backlash for their silence when Gabby Petito was first reported missing on September 11.

Steve Bertolino said that Chris and Roberta are still grieving the loss of their son and are hopeful that those findings bring closure to both families.

Chris and Roberta shouldn’t be blamed because they’ve been through hell for the sins of their son Brian. They weren’t to blame because they didn’t kill anyone, they protected their son because he hadn’t been found culpable of a crime apart from using Gabby Petito’s bank card, and in America, you’re innocent until proven guilty.

However, what they did was extremely cruel because they must have known how worried and desperate Gabby Petito’s family must have been. At the very least they could have responded to them, but then their son did bring this onto them.

The problem is they might be able to move but the legacy will follow them everywhere, although it will calm down because, in the end, nobody will give a damn about what happened – what’s today’s news is tomorrow’s history.

I don’t blame them for moving, but they didn’t exactly behave in a responsible way, but then again, a parent is always a parent and they will always protect their child, and they’ll probably do what O J Simpson did and purchase a $1 million home in Palm Beach because in Florida homes are untouchable in lawsuits.

The Head Of Moderna Warns That It Will Be Months Before A Specific Jab Is Developed To Combat Omicron

COVID vaccine maker Moderna warned that it will take months to develop an Omicron specific booster jab as Scotland identified three more cases of the mutant strain.

Stephane Bancel, chief executive at the Massachusetts based vaccine manufacturer, said he expects the highly evolved COVID variant to cause a material reduction in the effectiveness of existing vaccines, warning that the outcome was not going to be good.

He warned that it will take until summer 2022 for Moderna to develop a new vaccine and scale-up manufacturing to vaccinate entire populations.

Scientists say it will take two weeks to actually work out how effective jabs are against Omicron, which has twice as many mutations on its spike protein as Delta. The strain is expected to make current vaccines significantly weaker at stopping infections, but it’s less clear how it will affect hospitalisations and mortality.

Britain yesterday expanded its current booster rollout for all adults over 18, even though the vaccines are expected to be much weaker against Omicron, it’s hoped that topping up everyone’s immunity to extremely high levels will give an additional line of protection against the incoming wave.

Scottish health authorities announced three more Omicron cases overnight, bringing the UK total to 14, and laboratories across the country are investigating hundreds more likely cases and there are signs the strain is already circulating in the community.

Boris Johnson will hold a Downing Street press conference to give an update on the COVID situation and lay out the sequence of measures that kicked in to tackle the variant.

Face masks have now been made compulsory in shops and on public transport in England. Those who are close contacts of possible Omicron cases must also self isolate for ten days, regardless of vaccination status, and double vaccinated people arriving in the United Kingdom are also expected to self isolate for two days, and only leave their homes when they’ve got a negative PCR test.

But UK public health chiefs have urged people to avoid socialising before Christmas except they need to, to further curb the spread of the virus. There are also calls for masks to return to restaurants, pubs and bars.

A SAGE scientist said the United Kingdom was very well equipped to fight another variant. Professor Paul Moss said expanding the booster programme would turbocharge immunity to super-high levels to help keep the Omicron variant at bay.

Although it’s been reported that this is a milder variant, but we really don’t know much about it at the moment, and we really can’t find a vaccination for every strain.

But then again, it’s big money for the pharma companies and we’re just the guinea pigs, and no one in South Africa is known to have been hospitalised with the Omicron variant, nor is anyone believed to have been seriously ill with it.

However, putting the fear of God into people so that they will comply with these draconian measures appears to be working. It also takes the public’s awareness away from the important things that the Government doesn’t want to address or admit.

If Boris Johnson doesn’t make enough people terrified of Omicron I’m sure he’s got nine other variants up his sleeve, and of course, Boris Johnson knows his career can only last as long as COVID.

Numerous people have had their two injections and many recognise the importance of it, but all viruses start off strong, but over time become more transmissible but less deadly, and if SAGE advisors weren’t so politically driven they’d admit to this.

Perhaps the Government are just playing safe due to their cavalier response to more unanticipated strains because they need to be seen to be doing something, and if wearing masks is as far as they take it then that’s okay, but if they push it, then they will find that many people will just ignore them.

Drivers Risk A Fine Of £5,000

Motorists are being advised to be cautious what they wear this Christmas behind the wheel because some festive outfits or winter clothing could see them hit with a £5,000 penalty.

Any clothing or footwear that isn’t deemed suitable for driving as it could compromise a person’s ability to control a vehicle, could see a driver in hot water.

A newspaper outlet stated that typically many people get into the celebratory mood with online searches for Christmas outfits, which have risen by 1,280 per cent over the past 12 weeks, and motoring experts at National Tyres and Autocare have urged those taking to the roads to be careful of what they’re wearing.

While it’s not technically against the law, failing to wear the correct footwear while behind the wheel breaks Rule 97 of the Highway Code and could be classified as driving without due care and attention.

The Highway Code says that a person should ensure clothing and footwear doesn’t stop a person from using the controls in any way.

High heeled footwear or boots can restrict the movement of ankles and shoes with a thick platform sole can impact the use of pedals.

While inflatable fancy dress outfits are popular, attempting to drive in one can affect visibility and the ability to steer or use the gear stick and other controls.

Failure to have proper control of a vehicle could lead to a maximum fine of £5,000 and/or a discretionary disqualification and nine points on a person’s licence.

Failure to have proper control of a vehicle could lead to a maximum penalty of £5,000 and/or a discretionary disqualification and nine points on your licence.

Michael Bourne, group marketing director at National Tyres and Autocare said that driving in outfits that impact your driving ability could cause an accident.

I’ve never heard of such nonsense in all my life, but of course, they just need another rubbish reason to harass drivers, and Santa had better watch himself out there, flying about with a hat and coat and bundles of unfastened presents in the back.

And it now looks like that our freedom to wear what we want has been eroded, like our freedom of speech, and I see nothing is being said about dash cams and other things hanging from rearview mirrors that can block line of sight, including people wearing a baseball cap which could also restrict a drivers line of sight.

So, now they’re telling us what to wear – the world is getting more and more like a prison every day, and this is all under the cover of COVID that the government have been ushering in a never-ending list of monetary penalties for the most trivial transgressions.

Back in the day, there would have been a public objection, but under the cover of COVID, now the British public have been trained to accept all and everything without issue, and the government are actually getting away with it.

Now, I could understand it if you were caught driving with flip flops on, that could be extremely dangerous, but who in their right mind is going to be driving along dressed as a Christmas tree?

This reminds me of ‘A Christmas Carol’, and it clearly appears like government want to be performing the role of Scrooge, and before you know it we’ll all be in lockdown again for Christmas.

The United Kingdom has gone stark raving mad, and soon Father Christmas will be known as Virus Claus, and Rudolf with his red nose will be causing a distraction to pilots.

Bosses Are Warned To Support Women

The amount of employment tribunals citing menopause has surged in recent years, and experts are now warning companies to increase support or face legal action.

According to figures from HM Courts and Tribunals Service, menopause was cited in only five cases in the last nine months of 2018 but jumped to ten mentions in the first six months of 2021.

Experts say women are frequently standing up for themselves over menopause-related discrimination and challenging bosses who don’t acknowledge or offer support for symptoms.

There are 34 recognised menopause symptoms, including brain fog, electric shock jolts, itchiness, loss of libido, joint pain and a burning mouth, alongside the better recognised hot flushes and irritability.

In a newspaper outlet in Scotland, one woman alleged her boss embarrassed her in front of co-workers in relation to her menopause symptoms, including an episode where she was called a dinosaur in front of customers.

She was awarded £28,000. In another case, social worker Maria Rooney, 49, challenged Leicester City Council of wrongful dismissal.

She maintained her anxiety and depression caused by menopause were ignored, and Aggie Kownacka, a recruitment worker, was told by her boss that it was no big deal that her cancer diagnosis would trigger early menopause at the age of 37, another tribunal heard.

The HM Courts and Tribunals Service numbers relate only to cases that were escalated to a tribunal in England and doesn’t cover a vast number of employment disputes resolved privately.

According to the consultancy Menopause Experts, menopause was highlighted only eight times in employment disputes in 2017 but was cited 116 times in the first six months of 2021.

Sinead Casey, a partner at Linklater’s law firm said the menopause revolution is coming, with increasing calls for more awareness and support, and she said that employers need to wake up and also leave themselves wide open to legal vulnerability if they don’t.

More than five million working women are aged 40 to 55 in Britain and approximately 80 per cent of those will have symptoms of menopause while employed.

It is also true that more women take off time than men do because they have to also take care of their children, then there’s pregnancy, maternity leave and so forth, but that doesn’t make them any less valuable than a man because I’d like to see a man carry babies, produce milk to feed them and be the primary caregiver.

The point is that women who do the same job as a man are also doing the reproducing and nurturing of the next generation and I’d like to see men do it because if they had to, they would also whine about the length of their maternity/paternity leave as well.

But it’s not just women, it’s men as well that are suffering because if you’re male and between 40 and 50 years old, companies want them gone because they would rather employ youngsters who they know won’t just keel over on the shop floor.

Menopause might not be classed as a disability, however, some of the symptoms might constitute a disability, meaning it could trigger other problems that could affect the body, therefore, an employer should make reasonable adjustments and protect that person from less favourable treatment, particularly from co-workers.

Sadly there are a lot of workplaces out there that discriminate against women, even in this day and age, and soon women will start getting the boot because they’re taking time off work because of menopause, and those workplaces that do discriminate against women or anyone for that matter, well, it doesn’t really say much for them, does it?

Shop Staff Fears After Return Of Mask

The new mask mandate for shops and public transport can’t be left to retail to enforce, one of Britain’s top supermarket bosses warned.

From tomorrow, police will be given the power to issue people fines of between £200 and £6,400 if face coverings aren’t used on trains, buses and tubes and in shops, banks and post offices.

However, the new rules, stated by Boris Johnson, don’t apply to indoor entertainment settings, such as pubs, restaurants, theatres and cinemas.

It’s not known what led ministers to take the decision but it’s thought they didn’t want to impact the hospitality trade, which has experienced enormous economic losses during the pandemic, while scientists said masks in pubs would just not be feasible.

Richard Walker, managing director of Iceland, said his workers on the shop floor could not be asked to intervene when they recognise a rule breaker.

He told a newspaper outlet that they completely support the reintroduction of compulsory face masks in stores, however, they won’t be asking their store co-workers to patrol it, and he said that their store teams, alongside all retail workers, have shown valiant efforts in terms of ensuring safety for customers and building back consumer confidence and it’s important that they stay focused on the long term recovery of the high street.

He said that they need to continue to encourage people to shop in stores if they feel comfortable, and he was confident that the latest guidelines wouldn’t deter customers from doing so.

The British Retail Consortium said it’s up to the police to support the measure, adding that customers are asked to respect the rules and be thoughtful to their fellow shoppers and too hard-working shop workers.

The Co-op chain said that throughout the pandemic, they supported their customers wearing a face covering when shopping in their stores, but it wasn’t their job to implement face coverings or to refuse to serve a customer who decides not to wear one.

The Association of Convenience Stores chief executive James Lowman said that they’re helping retailers to prepare for the change in face-covering rules, but they’re very concerned about abuse against their staff from customers who don’t want to wear a face covering, and he said that they urge all customers to be considerate towards shop workers during this time and to remember that they don’t set the policy, they’re just doing their job by communicating it.

Those that work in retail shouldn’t have to challenge anyone who isn’t wearing a mask because it’s certainly not worth them opening up to abuse, there was enough of that last time – retailers are not law enforcement.

This is two years down the line and there’s no change. What will it be? Five years down the line and there still won’t be any change, and is this the way that we have to live our lives now? What a terrible thought, and by complying, you give permission for the state to do it and go further.

The scientists, opinion pollsters and the media won’t stop there, they’ll demand you wear a mask in more and more places until you’re wearing one in your home, and the only thing that the elites were being honest about was when they said that this was the new normal, and don’t worry, there will always be plenty of self-righteous, gobby staff who will only be too pleased to treat their customers like dirt on their shoes.

So much for Boris Johnson’s irreversible roadmap, but then he clearly just says whatever is convenient at any given moment.

Sussexit Replaces Megxit At The BBC

A controversial royal documentary has opted not to use the term ‘Megxit’ airing in tomorrow’s episode after the word was previously criticised by Prince Harry.

The term could have appeared in the second episode of BBC Two’s The Princess and The Press, which is due to air tomorrow.

Instead, the name of the episode has been dubbed ‘Sussexit’, a newspaper outlet reports, and the documentary will examine allegations about behind the scenes palace briefings and an alleged lack of support received by the Duke and Duchess.

Prince Harry said that perhaps people know this or maybe they don’t, but the term Megxit was or is a misogynistic term, and it was created by a troll, increased by royal correspondents and it grew and grew and grew into mainstream media.

The prince added that in putting the focus of their joint departure on his wife, the word Megxit was sexist.

The palace was reported to be annoyed at the first episode of the two-part documentary last Monday and has only been in recent contact with the filmmakers.

It dismissed the allegations as excessive and unfounded and has allegedly complained at not having what it deems a right of reply, with no previews of the episode before it aired.

The Duchess of Sussex’s lawyer Jenny Afia will appear in tomorrow’s second episode which covers events from 2018 to now, including claims made in March that the duchess bullied two personal assistants.

Jenny Afia said that those accounts were incorrect and that this story that no one can work for the Duchess of Sussex, she was too difficult and demanding as a boss and everyone had to leave, it’s just not true.

Besides the alleged turmoil inside the palace, it will also include revelations about Martin Bashir’s interview with Princess Diana in 1997. Mr Bashir admitted this year that he’d faked two invoices to secure the princess’s trust before the interview.

Buckingham Palace, Clarence House and Kensington Palace took the measure of issuing a joint statement to the BBC at the end of the first episode.

They said that a free, responsible and open press is of vital importance to a healthy democracy.

However, too often it’s excessive and unsupported allegations from unnamed sources that are presented as facts and that it’s disappointing when anyone, including the BBC, gives them plausibility.

I wonder why Harry appears to think that Megxit is misogynistic, or is this just another example of his truth as he sees it?

Apparently, Harry didn’t learn that much at school and didn’t understand that ‘Megxit’ is a made-up word and therefore called neologism. It’s not sexist and doesn’t refer to anything of sex, and he’s making a claim that’s not accurate so that he can dictate what’s said about his wife Meghan.

And it doesn’t matter what they say or do or how many lawyers they send in, it’s not going to change what people think of them because the general public has already made their minds up about them. I really like Harry, he’s a hilarious personality and I prefer him out of the Royal Family than in it, as for Meghan I’ve not quite made my mind up yet, I suppose it will depend on how many times she dips her trotters in the royal swamp so that she can try to unearth as much pig swill as she can.

Everyone is saying that Harry and Meghan should have their titles removed, but the Royal Family won’t do that, even though they’ve attacked the Royal Family, but it’s a really good PR stunt.

If the Queen was going to do something, she would have done it by now, which means that she supports what they’re doing – as I said, a very good PR stunt.

A Mutant Strain Of COVID Shows Unusual Symptoms

A South African doctor who first raised the alarm on a new COVID variant Omicron has revealed that patients are presenting with unusual symptoms.

Dr Angelique Coetzee, who runs a private practice in the South African administrative capital of Pretoria, said she first noticed earlier this month that COVID patients were presenting with a multitude of unusual symptoms.

The doctor, who’s practised for over 30 years and chairs the South African Medical Association, said that none of the Omicron patients experienced a loss of taste or smell, typically associated with COVID, but instead presented with unusual markers like extreme weakness and a raised pulse rate.

Dr Coetzee told a newspaper outlet that their symptoms were so different and so mild from those that she’d treated before and that she was compelled to notify South Africa’s vaccine advisory board on November 18 when she treated a family of four, all of whom were suffering from extreme fatigue after testing positive for COVID 19.

First seen in South Africa earlier this month, Omicron has since been discovered in Britain, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Botswana, Israel, Hong Kong and Australia, and Australian health authorities are conducting an investigation into a suspected case.

The discovery of Omicron, dubbed a variant of concern last week by the World Health Organisation (WHO), has sparked concerns around the world that it could resist vaccinations and lengthen the nearly two-year pandemic.

Omicron is potentially more infectious than earlier variants, although authorities don’t yet know if it will cause more or less severe COVID 19 compared to other strains.

Dr Coetzee reassured the media that the new symptoms she’d seen were mild and that all of the patients she was treating had recovered well, and she said that they had one really interesting case, a child, about six years old, with a temperature and an extremely high pulse rate, and she wondered if she should admit her to the hospital, but then when she followed it up two days later, she was so much better, but the doctor also said she was worried the variant could pose a bigger threat to the elderly.

The discovery of the new variant has prompted numerous countries to strengthen COVID restrictions and impose harsh border controls in an attempt to contain the spread.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday imposed isolation for all UK arrivals pending PCR test results and compulsory masks in shops and on trains and put a multitude of countries on the red list for travel restrictions.

However, there will be many people who will be more interested in putting up their Christmas tree than listening to Boris Johnson.

People may have lost their sense of smell, but clearly, the doctors and scientists have lost their sense of ‘common’, and most people aren’t listening anymore, and they’ve been falsely claiming that people have died from COVID when in fact they haven’t.

Experts in South Africa have said that it seems like this Omicron variant is less dangerous than the delta variant, which was less deadly than the alpha variant. Perhaps we should be celebrating because every time this virus mutates it appears to get less dangerous.

The whole virus thing will ultimately be resolved by natural evolution. It will, of course, keep becoming more transmissible but less dangerous, and eventually, it will spread everywhere in the world, providing antibodies through natural infection, and within 5 years, when the Zambian Zebra variant is hovering around, we will be treating COVID like the flu.

But the plan is pretty clear. Mandatory masks from early December. Vaccine passports mid-December. January lockdown, lifting of restrictions in the spring, lifting in the summer and then repeat again, but is this really how we want to live our lives?

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