Prince Philip Taken To Hospital

Prince Philip, 99, was taken to King Edward VII Hospital in London.

In a fleeting statement, Buckingham Palace said that His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh was admitted to the King Edward VII Hospital in London, on Tuesday evening.

It was said that the Duke’s admission was a precautionary measure, on the advice of His Royal Highness’s Doctor, after feeling unwell, and that the Duke was expected to remain in the hospital for a few days for observation and rest.

Royal sources have reinforced Prince Philip’s hospitalisation was not an emergency admission, and that The Duke of Edinburgh was taken from Windsor Castle, where he’s spent the past few months, to London by car – not by ambulance, and walked unaided into the hospital.

The sources added that Prince Philip had been feeling unwell for a short time and also clarified the illness was not related to COVID 19.

His wife, the Queen remains at Windsor Castle, where she’s been working and living since the start of the pandemic.

A source close to the Duke said Prince Philip remains in good spirits.

Prince Philip and the Queen have been self-isolating at Windsor Castle for the most of 2020, and there, in January, the elderly couple got their first shot of vaccine against COVID 19, and in a rare statement on private medical matters concerning the monarch, Buckingham Palace said at the time that the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh had received their COVID 19 vaccinations.

A palace source also said the decisions to reveal the vaccination was made by the Queen, and they said that to limit exaggerations and further speculation, Her Majesty decided that she would let it be known she’d had the vaccination.

Prince Philip was last admitted to King Edward VII Hospital in December 2019 for observation and treatment.

At the time, the Duke of Edinburgh was flown from Sandringham just a few days before Christmas, just as the Queen was travelling north to meet him for her winter recess.

Prince Philip remained in hospital until Christmas Eve when he was spotted walking out of the King Edward VIII Hospital unaided.

The Duke resigned from public duties in August 2017, when he dropped out of royal engagements with one last duty carried out at Buckingham Palace, and he’s lived the past few years almost entirely outside of the public eye at his five-bedroom cottage, Wood Farm, in Norfolk.

Hopefully, the Duke will improve pretty swiftly and be out of hospital soon. However, being the Royal Family does demonstrate that a life of limited to no work, zero stress, no bills to pay, no money concerns and immediate, private healthcare can have you living a long life.

And before anyone says that I seem resentful and bitter and twisted, countless people don’t live a life of idleness in unadulterated indulgence, using money earned by the arduous graft of the public.

However, I do wish him an expeditious recovery, and as a human being he’s had good innings, that’s for sure, and I’ve got to admit, he’s been a star, a straight talking, no-nonsense guy, and he has a sense of humour – well, you’ve got to, to be married to the Queen.

Father-Of-One, 30, Who Got Wasted On Duty-Free Whisky And Vodka Before Refusing To Wear His Face Mask On Ryanair Flight

A father of one who got drunk on duty-free whisky and vodka before refusing to wear a face mask on a Ryanair flight from Krakow to Manchester is facing jail.

Adrian Front, 30, was detained by police at Manchester Airport after airline workers reported him for drinking alcohol and repeatedly removing his face covering despite being warned to wear it throughout the journey.

The factory worker told one cabin crew member to ‘f*** off’ before refusing to leave the aircraft when cops boarded. He then took off his face mask numerous times when escorted into the back of a police van.

Adrian Front, who lives in Hull, had been returning home to the United Kingdom from his native Krakow, in Poland, after a visit to see his baby daughter.

He’d been downing whisky and vodka on the back row of the aircraft while feeling low after having to leave the child behind with her mother.

At Manchester Magistrates Court he admitted being drunk on an aircraft and was ordered to face a judge at Crown Court as JPs said their sentencing powers were insufficient.

The court heard the arrest happened on January 29 this year after the flight touched down at 10 pm, and Katherine Allen, prosecuting, said police were alerted to a disruptive passenger on an inbound flight and were told by cabin crew a man had been drinking his own bottles of alcohol despite being told by staff not to drink.

She continued that he was also refusing to wear his face mask and had asked to take it off, to which cabin crew declined, before removing it anyhow as they walked away.

Ms Katherine Allen said the defendant was also rude to the cabin crew and told one of them to ‘f*** off’, all the while being mindful that there were about 100 passengers on board including children.

He was found with whisky and vodka and there were several children near where he was and he refused to get off the aircraft, and the officers said they could smell alcohol coming from his breath and his eyes were bloodshot.

He wouldn’t leave the aircraft but officers hoped he would leave without creating a scene, but he continued to be rude, still refusing to leave.

The prosecutor then said that he was arrested for being intoxicated and was later yelling in Polish when in the police van, continually removing his face mask throughout without being asked to do so.

Perhaps they should just ban him from any air travel for five years or more, that would have an impact on him.

Of course, everyone should be allowed their freedoms, and if someone doesn’t want to wear a mask, then it should be that places are also free to deny you to be in their space if you don’t wear one, although this should not apply to a person if they have a disability.

This has nothing to do with masks, it’s got to do with the fact that he was drinking his own alcohol on the aircraft, and not theirs and it annoyed them. If he’d been left alone, he would probably have fallen asleep, and all this man’s probably going to get is a fine and a slap on the wrist.

Jo Whiley Offered COVID Vaccine Before Her Sister

Jo Whiley has said she’s living through a nightmare after being offered the coronavirus vaccine before her sister, who has learning difficulties and diabetes and whose care home has been locked down due to an outbreak.

The BBC Radio 2 DJ, who’s been fighting for her younger sister Frances, who has the rare Cri du Chat genetic syndrome, to be prioritised for the jab, has spoken of her distress after a COVID outbreak in Frances’s care home.

Jo Whiley said she would give up her jab in a heartbeat if she could so that her sister or any of the residents in her care home could have it instead.

According to figures from the Office for National Statistics, 60 per cent of people who died with COVID in England up to November last year had a disability, and for people who had a medically diagnosed learning disability, the risk of death was 3.7 times greater for both men and women than for people who did not.

People with diabetes, as well as those with a severe or profound learning disability, are in priority group six for the jab, but Frances comes under priority category four due to her diabetes and underlying health conditions.

Invitations for the first dose had started to be sent out on Monday to people in priority groups five and six, which includes the over 65s and people considered clinically vulnerable.

In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Jo Whiley, 55, said it had felt like a long wait for Frances to get the vaccine and when she got the call she’d been dreading that there had been an outbreak in the care home, her blood ran cold.

She said that it was frustrating and it was horrible and that she felt like she was living through a nightmare. That it was difficult and hard for her parents and hard for everyone in the care home, which continues.

She added that then, ironically, she got a message to say she was scheduled to have her vaccine before her sister who’s got learning difficulties and underlying health conditions, which didn’t make any sense at all.

Jo Whiley described the impact on her sister’s mental health as pretty extreme and said Frances had become quite distressed by being unable to see her parents because she usually returns to her parent’s home every three weeks.

It’s sickening that disabled people aren’t being given the vaccine at this stage. They all have underlying, multiple conditions which makes them very vulnerable to this virus, hence the incredibly high number of COVID deaths in this group.

The problem is the government believe that disabled people cost them far too much money and they’re seen as a burden to society, and this is all pretty disgraceful, but expected from the Conservatives, and it’s of no surprise that 60 per cent of deaths from COVID has been of people with disabilities, and this is a complete failure to protect the most vulnerable, and also extremely disturbing.

Anyone in a residential home should be a top priority regardless of whether they’re elderly or not because both groups are vulnerable, and both require care from people coming in each day, so both deserve protection, and this is not good enough because however you look at it, vulnerable people must not be forgotten.

Amanda Holden Takes A Week Off Radio Hosting Duties Following Lockdown Breach

Amanda Holden will not host her Heart Breakfast radio program this week as she’s taken the week off performing duties.

The move comes coincidentally after she admitted breaching lockdown rules after getting a distressing phone call from her elderly father on Friday.

Britain’s Got Talent judge, 49, will not host the radio program this week as usual alongside Jamie Theakston and has taken a break to spend time with her children Alexa, 15, and Hollie, nine. She also turns 50 on Tuesday.

Lucy Horobin will fill in for her for the remainder of the week.

A news outlet reported her week-long absenteeism was planned before her controversial lockdown breach.

The star travelled from her residence in Richmond upon Thames, Surrey, to where her parents live in Cornwall after getting a distressing phone call.

Amanda Holden has admitted to breaching the rules, with her agent stating that Amanda was conscious of the rules and is devastated she had to break them.

The presenter’s spokesperson told a news outlet that Amanda was aware that all families are going through difficulty during these tumultuous times but got a distressing telephone call from her elderly father on Friday afternoon.

Amanda Holden’s spokesperson said that on balance Amanda felt the round trip to Cornwall necessary to contain the matter at her family home and that the extremely personal situation has now been aided and Amanda is now back in London.

The spokesperson said that Amanda didn’t act on impulse and has adhered to COVID rules every step of the way in all three lockdowns.

Reports suggest some neighbours of her parents reported her to the police, however, but Devon and Cornwall Police refused to discuss the matter. And what delightful neighbours they must have been. Perhaps they’re part of the #BeKind Movement – you know, the ones that mean you’re kind when it suits you.

And perhaps, in the absence of knowing all the details, it’s plausibly wiser for us to all mind our own business.

I’m sure that most people would do the same if their parents were in trouble or needed help, and we should quit attempting to humiliate her with this online bullying.

She presumably didn’t do any harm to anyone. She got in her vehicle and drove, and if her father needed help, then obviously she was going to go. After all, what wouldn’t people do for their family if they were in crisis?

And there’s a lot of resentment from people because if she wasn’t famous who would care about her trip? And I wager that if the same people who bothered to pick up the phone to report her had a distressing phone call from their family they would have done the same thing.

And it appears that the United Kingdom didn’t need COVID to make them the way they are. It seems this country is on a downward spiral of nastiness and misery without bats intervening.

And honestly, why do people care? Why do people fret so much about what others are doing, when they should be worrying about themselves and their own families.

Goodness me, jealousy is extremely unattractive!

At the end of the day, someone reported her, then sold it to the tabloids to make some quick money. Now, that’s reality!

Some rules are worth breaking because what sane person wouldn’t go to their parents if they were sick or in trouble? And who cares, people have been breaking the rules since day one.

Trophy Hunter Enticing Brits To South Africa

The boss of a trophy hunting company is emailing tourists with hunting deals to entice them to his ranch in South Africa during the pandemic.

Carl Knight, 47, is offering the discounted excursions to South Africa and Zimbabwe, both wrestling with coronavirus crises, in a bid to appeal to new customers.

The deals from Take Aim Safari claim unbeatable rates and lures tourists with the promise of slaying lions, leopards and elephants, and legally shipping them back home.

A news outlet said that Carl Knight charges $14,000 (£10,000 for an elephant trophy and $20,000 (£14,500) for a lion plus hunting expenses, and he claimed that endangered animals are abundant at the moment due to the continuing pandemic.

The news outlet approached bragging Carl Knight about his vulgar deals, but he insisted it was no problem, and he said that he appreciated the advertising. He also said that they should keep it up there because he didn’t give a s**t, and then went onto say that their hunts were legal and whether they liked it or not it was of no significance to him.

Eduardo Goncalves from the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting has called for Carl Knight to be stripped of his British citizenship, and the US government said that lions could be gone from the wild by 2050.

Yet Carl Knight is still selling profitable hunts in these and other endangered animals to make money for himself and to put a sick smile on the face of those who enjoy killing animals just for sport.

Damian Aspinall of animal charity The Aspinall Foundation said that trophy hunting was repulsive and has to stop, and that we should be doing all we can to help these endangered animals to flourish in the wild and that it was our moral duty.

Carl Knight was born in Epsom, Surrey, but now lives in Johannesburg with his wife and two sons.

He continued that the trophy hunting industry was the world’s sickest so-called sport and that it needed to be consigned to the dustbin.

The number of elephants in Africa has been cut from about 26 million in pre-colonial times to 400,000 today, and that since the 1990s, lion numbers in the wild in Africa have further decreased to about 24,000.

And now MPs are demanding an instant prohibition on trophy imports to the United Kingdom, with Boris Johnson pledging to ban them in his manifesto.

When will these ignorant mortals learn that they can’t disrespect the animal world, but of course, they can’t seem to find anything to satisfy their worthless lives besides killing these magnificent animals.

However, if their hunting is legal in these countries, that means that the animal conservation societies are fighting an upward battle to try and prevent it, so their governments need to protest against the killings at the highest level.

All wildlife should not be touched, and these people are just vicious hunters. But these people are not such brave men because if they were they wouldn’t have rifles and weaponry. Let them fight with just what they were born with, instead of being cowardly and spineless.

And you’ve got to be cruel, sick and barbaric to want to kill such magnificent animals and look happy about it, but this is all about money and the people who do this have no shame, and it’s morally wrong to hunt and kill these animals, but sadly they only see the money coming in, and it just proves what lengths these people will go, to increase their bank balance.

Katie Price Spoiled With £10k Flowers

Katie Price was spoiled by her beau Carl Woods on Valentine’s Day as he treated her to flowers worth £10,000.

The ex glamour girl, 42, got two enormous bouquets worth £5,000 each as they spent their first Valentine’s Day together.

She’s also said to have got a hamper worth £500 from her smitten partner, as well as a bunch of balloons.

Katie was pictured standing outside his home in Essex holding up her two enormous bouquets, as well as giving Carl Woods a gooey smooch to say thank you.

She couldn’t suppress the delight on her face as she set eyes on the enormous floral arrangements, which Carl Woods had been seen carrying up the drive.

The couple have been dating since last year and their romance appears to be going from strength to strength, and Kate is now dreaming about marrying her toyboy lover and is keen to have a baby with him.

The mum of five admits she’s smitten and can’t wait to settle down with the former Love Island contestant, and during a recent appearance on Steph’s Packed Lunch, Katie admitted she’s now planning the wedding and has chosen the perfect gown.

She said that they will get married this year plus they now know how they’re going to do it and her apparel.

Host Steph McGovern then asked if they were already prepared, and Katie responded that they knew precisely everything and that everyone would be so shocked this time, and that for this one, it was the real deal and it was forever – and, two, the style of dress and style of wedding.

If they make it down the aisle, it’ll be Katie’s fourth marriage.

She previously married Peter Andre in 2005, the father of her two children Junior and Princess, but the union ended in divorce in 2009.

Her second marriage, to MMA fighter and actor Alex Reid, lasted from 2010 to 2011. While her third marriage to Kieran Hyler lasted from 2013 to 2019. They split after she caught him cheating on her.

She also has two children with Kieran Hyler – Jett and Bunny, as well as son Harvey, 18, from a prior relationship.

The flowers that Carl Woods gave to Katie were nice but not worth £10,000 for two bouquets. One is nice, but the other one was like something you’d pull out of a ditch. The rep must have had a pair of binoculars around his/her neck because they certainly saw Carl coming, and who in their right mind buys flowers for that amount, they’re just flowers!

I’m not too sure where this shop is based, and I have to say they are gorgeous flowers but way too pricey. Good Golly Miss Molly that could have paid one of her debts off.

It’s absurd, Carl could have bought her a bunch of delightful things with that kind of money – he could have bought her some beautiful flowers for much less money – pretentious or what?

And there just happened to be a newspaper photographer there while she paraded her £10,000 flowers – some people can’t afford to put the heating on, but then she’s always tackless and brainless as per usual.

Of course, she will probably get paid for the story, and I thought she was disabled and couldn’t stand properly, but she could stand to hold a flower arrangement – I do hope she’s not claiming disability, otherwise she’ll be paying that back as well.

Or perhaps it’s a miracle and her leg has finally healed – next, she’ll be walking on water!

Dominic Raab Says Vaccine Passports Could Be Needed To Get Into Pubs Or Supermarkets In The United Kingdom

Dominic Raab insisted vaccine passports could be needed to get into pubs and supermarkets in the United Kingdom.

The Foreign Secretary contradicted a string of other government statements as he said the idea was under deliberation.

The comments will provoke outrage from Tories who are already genuinely alarmed about the way the pandemic has pounded civil freedoms.

Ministers have revealed that work is underway on vaccine passports that could allow foreign travel to resume, with Spain the latest country to say it’s ready to welcome Brits who’ve had jabs.

But the government has repeatedly said such documents will not be introduced in the United Kingdom, suggesting it would be discriminatory, and Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said just last week that the move was not on the cards.

The dramatically different position from Dominic Raab came in an interview on LBC radio and pressed repeatedly on whether vaccine passports could be needed to get into pubs and supermarkets in this country, he said it was something that hadn’t been ruled out, and that it was under deliberation, but that of course, they’ve got to make it workable.

Dominic Raab said the modalities and mechanisms of how people could prove they’ve been vaccinated were all being looked at, and he said that they’ve got to know that the document that is being presented is something that they can rely on.

The comments came amid claims larger City firms are expecting to start using digital health passports from next month to help get workers back into offices, and COVID 19 testing firm Prenetics has signed deals with about 100 companies, including investment banks based at Canary Wharf in London to help get staff back to work safely.

Workers using its Digital Health Passport will download an app onto their mobile phones, which will store results of their COVID tests and vaccine certification when they’ve had their jabs.

In the meantime, Spain’s tourism minister has stoked hopes Britons could go on holiday this summer with vaccine passports.

Fernando Valdes has reportedly raised the possibility that travel could resume within months due to the success of the UK’s rollout.

He also played down the idea that holidaymakers would have to isolate when they arrived in Spain, saying there are other means of curbing the spread.

The optimistic comments emerged as the government steps up work on a method of vaccine passports that could free those who’ve had jabs from the draconian restrictions on travel.

But COVID vaccine passports are all part of the plan, and everyone will be forced to have the jab in the end or stay locked up at home – welcome to the new normal.

It’s criminal to force people into having a novel, experimental vaccine that’s already caused some deaths, and all so we can just go to the superstore or go on holiday.

Passports just to live our daily lives is Orwellian and dystopic, in the extreme, but this is actually what our future society is going to look like!

I’m not even sure why they’re even considering this line of action. After all, if the vaccine is as good as they say it is, and everyone who wants it can have it, what risk do the people who chose not to be vaccinated pose to the ones who have been vaccinated?

This is particularly sinister and must be stopped in its tracks.

Now this all sounds about control, and they’ve managed to convince so many people to rush for this vaccine, and to get the sheeple to do as they want them to do, and now these people will submit to anything they’re told to, which will help the government force it on us all.

Ashley Judd In Hospital Following A Catastrophic Accident

Ashley Judd has been taken to hospital following a catastrophic accident in the Congo.

The Kiss the Girls actress announced in an Instagram Live that she was resting in a trauma unit in beautiful South Africa after sustaining extensive catastrophic injuries during a rainforest excursion.

Ashley Judd said that she’d been travelling in the Congo when she tripped over a fallen tree.

She recalled lying on the forest floor for five hours and wailing like an animal while being transported back to her camp by her Congolese brothers.

She added that she faded in and out of consciousness during the journey out of the rainforest and to the capital of Kinshasa,
and had kept herself awake by reciting Bible passages.

She was eventually taken to hospital in South Africa after what she described as an especially frightening experience.

In the Instagram Live, Ashley Judd stated that the accident was a reminder of her privilege as a person of means travelling in the Congo, explaining that the difference between a Congolese person and herself was disaster insurance that enabled her, 55 hours after her accident, to get to an operating table in South Africa.

Ashley Judd, who’s the daughter of country singer Naomi Judd, has appeared in movies including Heat, Double Jeopardy and Bug.

In 2018, she sued convicted rapist and former film magnate Harvey Weinstein for destroying her career after she rebuffed his sexual overtures and scuppering a chance to star in the Lord of the Rings trilogy by portraying her as difficult to work with.

In 2020, an appeals court allowed Ashley Judd to pursue her sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein.

The thing is, if Ashley Judd had a catastrophic injury, she wouldn’t have been live streaming on Instagram, would she?

I’m not sure if this was a huge catastrophe, although I’m sure it must have been a painful one, and severe enough to have had to have surgery, but a massive catastrophic injury would have been more like spinal cord damage or brain injury.

Perhaps what the doctors had to do to her leg means that her leg will never be the same again, and she was in a country with poor healthcare and high-risk infection.

There’s no telling what the actual injury was, it just said that she tripped and had to be carried out, however, she made sure she let everyone know how her white privilege along with disaster insurance enabled her to go to South Africa for treatment, even though numerous people in the Congo are sick and can’t afford health care.

And that’s great – good for her for highlighting her obvious white privilege, but massive and catastrophic was a tad hyperbolic and overly dramatic when compared to people facing life-threatening injuries.

The article was a complete clickbait pile of junk, and it didn’t even say what her injury was, but they did try their best at making it sound like she was on the verge of dying, and what did her past sexual assault and lawsuit towards Harvey Weinstein have to do with her accident – clearly, someone was trying to profit off her history.

Reprieve For Alabama Death Row Prisoner Requesting Pastor

An Alabama prisoner got a reprieve from a planned lethal injection after the US supreme court said the state must allow his pastor in the death chamber.

Thursday’s scheduled execution of Willie B Smith III was called off by Alabama officials after the justices maintained an injunction issued by the 11th US circuit court of appeals, saying he couldn’t be executed without his pastor present in the chamber.

Department of corrections spokeswoman Samantha Rose said the execution wouldn’t proceed given the ruling.

Alabama has said that non-prison staff shouldn’t be in the room for security reasons.

Justice Elena Kagan wrote in an opinion accompanied by three other justices, including Amy Coney Barrett that Willie Smith has been condemned to death, and his last wish was to have his pastor with him as he departs this world.

Justice Elena Kagan said that Alabama had not carried its burden of showing that the exclusion of all clergy members from the execution chamber was necessary to ensure prison security. So, the state couldn’t now execute Willie Smith without his pastor present, to ease what Willie Smith calls the transition between the worlds of the living and the dead.

The case was the latest in a string of legal battles over personal spiritual advisers at executions.

The court in 2019 stayed the execution of a Texas prisoner who maintained his religious freedom would be violated if his Buddist spiritual adviser wasn’t allowed to be in the death chamber with him.

Brett Kavanaugh suggested in a dissent that states that wanted to evade litigation on the matter should figure out a way to allow spiritual advisors into the execution room, as other states and the federal government have done.

Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch didn’t reveal how they voted, but both would have had to side with Brett Kavanaugh, John Roberts, and Clarence Thomas for the execution to continue.

If the execution had gone ahead, it would have been the first by a state in 2021 and one of the few at the state level since the inception of the COVID 19 pandemic last year, and according to the Death Penalty Information Centre, no state has had an execution since 8 July.

A prison spokeswoman said that afterwards, Willie Smith was taken from a holding cell near the execution chamber and returned to his cell on death row.

Capital punishment is the barbarism that lowers society to the level of its most dangerous criminals because nobody has the God-given right to kill another human being and it just lowers ourselves to their level of brutality.

However, that said, Willie Smith was convicted of killing a Birmingham woman almost 30 years ago, and he was condemned to death in 1992 for the October 1991 abduction, robbery and murder of Sharma Ruth Johnson who was shot execution-style at a cemetery. Her body was found in the trunk of her burned-out car with a shotgun wound to her head, and I’m sure that when he shot her in the head he didn’t ask her if she wanted her pastor there.

White Tiger Cubs Possibly Died Of COVID

Two tiger cubs who recently died in a Pakistani Zoo seem to have been killed by COVID 19, officials have announced.

The two 11 week old white tiger cubs who lived at Lahore Zoo died four days after starting treatment for feline panleukopenia virus, a common respiratory virus affecting cat’s respiratory systems.

However, a post-mortem has revealed severe lung damage, with pathologists concluding they died from COVID 19.

Although no PCR test for coronavirus was conducted, zoo deputy director Kiran Saleem told Reuters the zoo thought the cubs were the victims of the pandemic that has killed 12,256 people in Pakistan.

Kiran Saleem said that after their death, the zoo administrators conducted tests of all officials, and six tested positive, including one official who handled the cubs, and he said that it reinforced the conclusions of the post-mortem and that the cubs probably caught the virus from the person handling and feeding them.

Pakistan’s zoos typically receive heavy critique from animal rights activists, who say hundreds of animals have died from poor living conditions there, and Zufishan Anushay, founder of JFK (Justice for Kiki) Animal Rescue and Shelter, told Reuters that once again the negligence of the management and authorities has come out.

And said that white tigers are extremely rare and need a particular environment to live a healthy life and that by caging them in unsanitary conditions with no medical arrangements, they will keep seeing those incidents.

She said that COVID 19 is a new virus, and the world is making policies for humans, but that it shouldn’t neglect animals in pet shops, zoos and everywhere else.

Saleem denied the allegations of neglect at the zoo, telling Reuters that animal rights activists were welcome to attend and inspect the facility’s safety and sanitation etiquettes themselves.

In December two Himalayan brown bears were flown out of the Islamabad Zoo to a sanctuary in Jordon.

That rescue came weeks after an elephant Kaavan was transferred from a Pakistani zoo to a sanctuary in Cambodia, the culmination of a year’s long campaign that included pop icon Cher amongst its supporters.

At the Peshawar Zoo, officials have said four giraffes died in 2020, and last year, two lions at Islamabad Zoo suffocated when workers lit fires in their enclosures.

The CDC also lists several animals in zoological facilities have tested positive for COVID 19 in America, including large cats, great apes, lions, tigers and a puma.

But now it seems that every living thing that dies is going to be blamed on COVID, and I guess it could also be argued that our brain cells have also allegedly died from COVID, because now so long ago we were told that animals couldn’t get it.

However, that’s what science does, it changes its opinion based on the evidence available.

If you want something that keeps the same statement, regardless of evidence, you should just try religion!

Science is supposed to be based on facts, but scientists are allowed to change those facts based on differing opinions.

It can’t be that hard to test for COVID in animals, but without a proper test we shouldn’t rush to make any claims until we know for sure, but then I suppose it’s another way to keep the news feed going, whether it’s news-based or fact-based, and it won’t be long before people are giving their pets away.

At the end of the day, we don’t know much about COVID and it’s continually mutating, and circumstances like this have to be examined. So, there might not be any reason to panic, but there’s also no reason to blow it off either.

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