Schoolgirl, 13, Left Fighting For Life After Bath Bomb Almost Killed Her

Emelia Brain was given an adrenaline shot and rushed to the hospital for treatment after she dunked herself in a hot bath containing a milk laced cosmetic.

She was left fighting for her life after using the bath bomb, which she later discovered contained milk.

Emelia Brain screamed for help from the bathroom minutes after she submerged herself in the aromatic water.

The girl’s mum and dad rushed in to discover their daughter gasping for air and clawing at her throat as they sprang into action, puffing ten doses of an inhaler into her mouth before calling 999.

Paramedics arrived inside five minutes and plunged shots of antihistamine and adrenaline into Emelia Brain.

Covered in angry red welts, the teenager was blue lighted to New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton where she was given a large dose of steroids and told she would be okay.

Once her safety was confirmed, Emelia’s dad Scott read the bath bomb package to find it had milk in, something his daughter is seriously allergic to.

For her mother Maria, the thought of what could have happened to their daughter had she gone into anaphylactic shock while at home alone preys on her mind, and Maria said, what if they’d been downstairs with the door closed?

Or that she could have been in the house by herself, whereby she might not have stood a chance, and that the reaction was so quick because she was ingesting the vapours.

Since a young age, Emelia Brain has had to be cautious about what she eats and the cosmetic products she uses, and her allergies first became apparent when she kissed her mother on the lips after she’d been eating yoghurt and her face ballooned up.

Tests found she was allergic to all dairy products, eggs, tree nuts and the cold, and she also has asthma and being conscious of how seriously ill she could fall if she ate the wrong snack or used the wrong soap, and from a young age Emelia Brain learned to diligently read labels.

And along with younger sister Elisia, 8, who has asthma and environmental allergies, Emelia makes videos for her YouTube channel about living life with allergies, but on January 15 this year Emelia Brain had a momentary lapse when she scanned the Bomb Cosmetics brand Unicorn Christmas Bath Bomb label she’d been given as a present.

Convinced it didn’t contain anything she was allergic to, Emelia Brain dunked it into the bathtub, watched it fizz and then got in.

Her mother explained that they had gone to bed when Emelia got in the bathtub, but inside a minute and a half Emelia let out a cry for help and her mother knew she was in trouble and that she couldn’t breathe.

All food and beautifiers et cetera should come with bold instructions and guidance because many of the ingredients and preparations are too difficult to read, but is this intentional, or merely an oversight?

It appears that allergies in children now are a complete minefield and recent tragedies have brought the issue of allergies into the limelight, and dealing with allergies is an everyday fact of life for millions of people in the United Kingdom.

Under current guidelines, food packaged on-site before sale doesn’t require a specific allergen label, and according to Allergy UK, such conditions affect between six and eight per cent of children.

For children with severe allergies, daily tasks can be challenging, from eating lunch to travelling on public transportation, and when the allergen comes into contact with the antibodies, these cells release certain substances including histamine, which causes swelling, inflammation and other problems.

People with severe allergies may be at risk of anaphylactic shock, a drop in blood pressure which can lead to loss of consciousness and sometimes death, although it can be managed with an adrenalin auto-injector, otherwise known as an EpiPen.

In the two decades up to 2012, the number of hospital admissions in the United Kingdom for anaphylaxis grew by 615 per cent.

Nikos Papadopoulos, professor of allergy and paediatric allergy at the University of Manchester said that allergies have been increasing for more than a century, and they’re still increasing in some areas and appear to have reached their plateau in others.

And he said that it was also important to note that numerous children have hypersensitivities that are mild and therefore are not given much attention. For instance, a bit of dry skin, or the occasional wheeze episode or mild hayfever.

Around the globe, children are far more likely than ever before to develop food hypersensitivities, and inquiries into the deaths of British teenagers after consuming buttermilk, sesame and peanut have highlighted the sometimes tragic consequences, especially when a six-year-old girl in Western Australia died as the result of a dairy allergy.

The rise in allergies in recent decades has been especially prominent in the West, and food allergies now affect approximately 7 per cent of children in the United Kingdom and 9 per cent of those in Australia, for example.

Across Europe, 2 per cent of adults have food allergies.

This New York Scientist Is Treating Human Beings Like Lab Rats

Dieter Egli, a scientist based at Columbia University, is creating human embryos, altering their genome, and then destroying them inside 24 hours.

But if scientists can treat human beings like lab rats, what does that say about our overall attitude towards human life?

If we treat human life like it’s a matter of technical mastery and control, we no longer treat it like a precious gift that deserves our respect.

A Chinese scientist created an international scandal when he altered the genes of a pair of unborn twins, in what became known as the CRISPR scandal.

But another scientist in New York was doing something quite similar, without incurring the international backlash.

His research was rife with ethical concerns and had the potential to unleash a dystopian future on the world.

Dieter Egli, a scientist based at Columbia University, is creating human embryos, altering their genome, which is the DNA sequence and then destroying them inside 24 hours.

Dieter Egli told NPR that they just do the editing and then hope everything goes right and implant that into a womb.

But this is pure sophistry. Why else experiment with gene editing if not to eventually bring gene-edited babies to term?

Presumably, as his research proceeds, he will destroy embryos at later stages of development, and then ultimately bring some to term as genetically edited children.

This raises a multitude of questions, not just about killing the unborn, but about what human beings are in the first place.

Human beings are not products to be created and destroyed on a whim.

They’re not inanimate objects to be disposed with at any time, and treating them as such is dangerous and wicked.

The human beings that Egli has irresponsibly created and destroyed have the potential to develop into thriving adults, just like the rest of us, and if scientists can treat human beings like lab rats, what does that say about our overall approach towards human life?

Are we more concerned about the possible dangers of genetically modified food than we are about genetically altered human beings?

This line of research poses additional possible problems because changes made to human genome would be passed down to future generations through individual’s germlines, and we have no idea what kinds of complications that could create in the long term.

Egli and others claim this technology will be used to find cures to genetic diseases, but it could also easily be weaponised in the wrong hands, and designer babies could be used as super soldiers, a possibility that China is reportedly already exploring, and be used as a tool for eugenics.

And until we the people force our government to stop financing the NIH and NSF, these people are free to conduct whatever experimentation they want, and this is why these barbaric’s in New York passed a law and then cheered about it – New York, the hotbed for all things moral and right, I don’t think so!

This is Dr Frankenstein Syndrome where they believe that eugenics is a God philosophy, and it seems that human life now has no value and now we have another Josef Mengele.

It will not end well with people attempting to play God because you can’t mess with nature, and the vanity of man will cause so much woe, where man are deciding the life or death of other human beings and bending the laws of nature, and there appears to be a lot of sick people out there these days, and the fictional novel ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley illustrates what occurs when a man tries to become the creator, God!

Matt Hancock to hold COVID Briefing

Matt Hancock held a televised coronavirus briefing, just hours after Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed some lockdown restrictions could be lifted in weeks.

The Health Secretary spoke to the nation from Downing Street to update the nation on the fight against COVID.

It comes as new positive coronavirus cases have fallen by 20 per cent in the past week, with an additional 30,004 people reported to have the virus.

With England’s third national lockdown beginning to pay off, Boris Johnson indicated some restrictions could be lifted in a matter of weeks.

He said that they were studying the data as it came in, and they were looking at the rates of infection and that the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation predicts the most vulnerable will be vaccinated by February 15, but before then they’ll be looking at the potential easing of some measures.

And that the country has made tremendous progress in conquering the virus and that he didn’t believe people would want to see another huge wave of infection.

He went on to say the reopening of schools continued to be a priority, and he said that there was nothing more he wanted to do than to reopen schools because he’d worked so hard to keep schools open for a long as he possibly could.

He said that they wanted to see schools back as quick as possible and that they wanted to do it in a way that was consistent with combating the pandemic and keeping the infection rate down.

A No 10 source added that while a review of the current measures could take place before the middle of next month, the measures would remain in position until after February 15.

The Prime Minister is under mounting tension from his backbench MPs to outline his strategy to return the United Kingdom to normal now the vaccine is being successfully rolled out across the country.

With almost half a million people getting their first dose of a jab yesterday, meaning 6.3 million Brits now have some level of protection against coronavirus.

Former chief whip Mark Harper, chairman of the lockdown sceptic COVID Recovery Group has been demanding restrictions begin to be eased from the start of March.

He said once the most vulnerable had received a jab there was a need to help start bringing the economy back to life.

But have you seen the roads, they’re as rammed as they were pre COVID, and borders were supposed to be closed in England, yet people are still coming into the country.

And Boris Johnson keeps throwing the doormat under the bus and you can see the fear in his eyes, and if people acknowledged that instead of being British thinking they would know that there’s no need for half this madness.

Positive cases don’t matter because the test is flawed and the author of the test said so with a 99.8 per cent recovery rate from whatever this is, and there are scores of respiratory viruses, so why didn’t the Government want people to hide before?

I’m sure Boris Johnson makes it up as he goes along, like a bumbling nincompoop as he does so. Is this so he can just get our hopes up or is he playing games with us? And the oligarchs will continue this madness as long as they want to, but if you want the vaccine, have it, if you don’t then don’t, it’s that simple.

Perhaps they were playing games right from the start and now it’s coming back to bite them on the bottom because they’ve told us so many inaccuracies, they now can’t remember which ones they’ve told anymore.

94-Year-Old Woman Forgets To Pay Her Care Home And Is Thrown In Prison

Juanita Fitzgerald spent her 94th birthday in a prison cell.

The elderly woman just forgot to pay her care home, Franklin House, a $161 bill and here’s how this awful story went down.

Juanita Fitzgerald lived in Franklin House, a senior care home in Florida because she needed advanced support due to the health conditions she lived with, but she believes that the home wanted her out.

For years, Juanita Fitzgerald believes that the home had been trying to force her out because of the cost of her care, and then one day, she forgot to pay, and the home decided to kick her out.

She offered to pay, but her payment was refused. Instead, they demanded that she leave, but it was her home, it was where she had all her friends and she had nowhere else to go, so she refused to leave.

Franklin House called the police, who sided entirely with the home, and Juanita Fitzgerald was arrested for trespassing and the police forcibly took the elderly woman away and she was left bruised and in tears.

She was imprisoned, and for many days, Juanita Fitzgerald was kept in the Lake County Correctional facility, but other prisoners were horrified by this treatment, several others weren’t shocked at all.

Juanita Fitzgerald’s case is an illustration of what happens when a system cares more about money than human life.

Fortuitously for Juanita Fitzgerald, somebody was able to bail her out of prison and when the matter reached the attorney’s office, her charges were thrown out, but sadly, there’s no undoing the damage already done.

This was so wrong, and shame on the police and the care home for treating a senior citizen like this. This was uncalled for, and hopefully, nobody treats their mother or family like this.

And this is meant to be the Christian way – this should never have happened.

Welcome to America, the land of the free and home of the brave – I don’t think so.

Mind you, in jail she would have got three meals a day, a warm place to sleep and free medical care – sounds better than the place that kicked her out, which says a lot for America’s care system that has you locked up in a cell with bars and her arms were all battered and bruised, and where were social services when they were needed?

Of course, we don’t know the whole story, but whatever it is, as long as she didn’t shoot or kill anyone, putting her in prison at that age just doesn’t make any sense, and why did the care home not give her warning?

Probably because the office is being managed by imbeciles who have no idea that people in their 90’s forget quickly and she needs a Power of Attorney because many elderly people would not remember to do all the bills and shame on those who work there without using their own brains.

With these elderly people, there’s often confusion and perhaps even some dementia in play and the staff should be aware of this and have contact with a family member or even social services.

Elderly people need an advocate and we will soon be in this situation ourselves and those people should think about what they’re doing before they do it, but then I guess this is our future.

No one cares when you’re elderly and handcuffing and leg restraints are overkill because this is what we’ve come to as human beings.

Lives Will Be Lost If Boris Johnson Fails To Restart The Everyone In Scheme

The Everyone In initiative, implemented through the first wave of the COVID 19 virus, took tens of thousands of rough sleepers off the streets and helped them start the transition into a more secure and long term accommodation.

In the space of just 72 hours, this grand plan took thousands of people off the streets. It saved lives and broke the illusion that homelessness was an intractable problem to solve.

Since then, Boris Johnson’s government has noticeably scaled back its ambitions and it’s insisted that the Everyone In programme has continued to support rough sleepers, and while it’s true that numerous people were helped in the first lockdown and have now been moved into more permanent accommodation, lives are still in danger and too many people remain on the streets.

As you read this article, thousands of people sleeping rough are being exposed to unbearably freezing conditions, as well as COVID 19. This makes them extremely likely to become sick, at a time when the NHS is now wavering on the brink of being overwhelmed.

As the temperature plummets, local authorities are activating their Severe Weather Emergency Protocol, which provides emergency accommodation for rough sleepers on extremely cold winter nights.

This will offer interim relief to those sleeping rough, but it will only last as long as temperatures remain below freezing.

A renewed focus on ending homelessness for good is needed to ensure displaced people who are taken indoors can be given support to transition into permanent accommodation.

However, without the resources they need, already stretched local councils will be unable to help everyone and can’t provide long term solutions.

The Government maintains that it’s continuing endeavours to help people off the streets and a recent announcement has outlined its next steps to help rough sleepers this winter. However, these plans are far less ambitious than the programme of help offered last spring.

The housing secretary, Robert Jenrick, has urged local councils in England to increase their efforts to take people off the streets, but councils are being asked to do too much with too little.

And they’re unable to help all those sleeping rough, let alone stop new cases of homelessness occurring, and the £10 million in financial support on offer to councils falls considerably short of what’s required.

It’s also money that will be allocated from an existing pot of £700 million.

In 2018, the homelessness charity Crisis estimated that it would cost around £10 billion to end homelessness for good, but the Government’s total spending to date is a fraction of this, and we’re becoming a Dickensian Britain.

This is the Conservatives operating in a yo-yo fashion, and is Boris Johnson concerned on whether lives are lost or not? After all, why can’t the barracks and hotels be used for our homeless since they don’t seem to be worried about using them for asylum seekers? Or come to that, even churches!

This is shocking, especially in a country that’s so prosperous, that they’re neglecting the homeless.

And it appears that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and this kind of mentality has to stop, because what happened to the idea that we’re all in this together?

With this cold snap, there will, of course, be many deaths because of the combination of cold and COVID, and after the pandemic, there will be a tsunami of poverty. There’s also going to be issues of mental health, homelessness, addiction, domestic abuse and suicide and the Government just don’t give a damn.

Joe Biden Spoke To Mexican President

According to a phone call readout issued by the White House on Saturday, Joe Biden discussed his plans to reverse Donald Trump’s immigration policies with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Friday.

The new US President outlined his strategy to reduce migration by concentrating on addressing its root causes, the readout said, including efforts to increase, resettlement capacity and lawful alternative immigration pathways and to improve processing at the US-Mexico border.

The White House said that the two leaders agreed to work together towards reducing irregular migration, and López Obrador tweeted that Joe Biden had been courteous and polite.

He said that they addressed matters linked to migration, COVID 19 and cooperation for development and welfare, and that everything betokened that relations would be beneficial for the good of their people.

It was reported that López Obrador also embraced Joe Biden’s acceptance of the Mexican migrant community’s contributions to American life.

Joe Biden’s first steps on immigration policy, including an early push to open a pathway to citizenship for approximately 11 million people living in the US illegally, which even allies in Congress acknowledge may be a Herculean task, have provoked an immediate backlash from the right.

The new President’s candidate for secretary of homeland security, and this oversight of immigration policy, has been held up in the Senate.

Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, put a hold on Alejandro Mayorkas, who was both deputy homeland security secretary and director of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) under Barack Obama when Joe Biden was vice president.

Earlier this month, Josh Hawley showed support for pro-Trump rebels who invaded the US Capitol, and on the same day objected to electoral college results in the Senate in an endeavour to overturn Joe Biden’s victory.

The senator, who faces calls for censure or expulsion about his actions on 6 January, cited concern about Joe Biden’s immigration policies.

Josh Hawley claimed that Mayorkas, the architect of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which shields from deportation undocumented migrants brought to the US as children, had refused to say he would enforce the laws Congress has already passed to secure the border wall system.

Joe Biden has ordered the end of construction on the wall, a flagship Trump project.

Mayorkas was last approved by the Senate in 2013, before the announcement of a Government report in which people throughout the rank of USCIS complained that he’d intervened to help rich foreign investors seeking EB-5 visas.

The US gives aid worth $320 million a year to Mexico. That money is supposed to be portioned out to education, housing, food, water and other Government expenses, but it would seem that US funding is not finding its way to where it’s supposed to go. Particularly when people are risking life and limb to get into a country to try to get the most menial jobs to earn enough to live on, and it should make one wonder what’s wrong with that country’s Government.

There’s no revolution going on in Mexico that I know of, but there does seem to be a serious problem when a country doesn’t care for its citizens and fails to ensure basic needs like food, clothing, shelter and a decent living wage.

However, if the Mexican Government were to clean up its act, their citizens would prosper and immigration wouldn’t be so much of a problem anymore, but this money that the US is giving to Mexico is absolutely nothing because it’s effectively feeding the drug cartels, and the US giving them a handout is a waste of time and not very effective because the money they give to them just causes more problems than they solve.

Doctor Warns Of Mental Health Pandemic

Dr Chris George said patient after patient was presenting with problems brought about by factors including job losses and relationship breakdowns.

The GP said that others are likely to be suffering in silence and that more work needs to take place to reach out to people in despair.

He gave a snapshot of the situation on the ground to a news outlet after charities raised concerns about the impact of the health emergency on people’s mental health.

According to the Mental Health Foundation, key signs of distress, including isolation and suicidality, have worsened throughout the pandemic.

Dr George said that on the ground there’s an enormous abundance of patients presenting with mental health problems and that you could call it a pandemic in mental health problems.

And that it’s been like that since the start of the pandemic when the country went into lockdown in March, and he said there’s been a tremendous amount of mental health in clinic, in particular, and that people who’ve had mental health problems in the past have found it has worsened.

For other people, it’s the first time they’ve had difficulties and they’re mainly experiencing depression and anxiety.

He said that he only sees the proportion of people who come forward and that there must be so many more people struggling by themselves and not knowing where to turn or how to ask for help.

Dr George, 33, lives in London and works in Surrey and has been on the frontline and attends calls at community settings including care homes.

His frontline duties also include working for the 111 services and he was a volunteer for the London Nightingale Hospital before it was stood down.

Outside of his professional brief, he serves as a spokesperson for the Healthcare Worker’s Foundation, which supports bereaved families of NHS workers.

Dr George said that it’s sad hearing the patient’s stories and you want to help as best you can.

And he said that some of the issues people encounter include the loss of their job and not having an income, stress on relationships with partners, marriage breakdowns and panic attacks and that people are having panic attacks at work and crying in the bathroom or crying on the way home after dropping the kids off at school, and that this has only increased as the pandemic has gone on.

Now even the mentally strong are beginning to suffer, let alone the ones who were struggling to begin with.

Being kept away from family and friends, losing jobs and businesses and delayed medical treatment – the Government needs to end this now and take us out of lockdown, open everything up and let us all get back to normal and live our lives.

It’s already been established that the vaccine probably won’t give us immunity. Masks don’t protect us fully and why are Subway and Costa permitted to be open but a pub or restaurant can’t, even though they both sell food and drinks, which is considered to be essential.

And it all seems like a sick joke and loads more people are likely to be presenting with poor mental health as a side effect of the pandemic and its restrictions, but nobody seems to be getting any help.

Many people are at breaking point, many of whom are feeling suicidal with a few self-harm attempts, with not being able to pull themselves out of that black hole, and it disgusts me that mental health is never given the funding it needs and never truly gets taken seriously.

Pressure On Priti Patel To Close Kent Asylum Barracks

Fears of a health crisis at a military barracks housing asylum seekers in Kent have escalated after 120 people are thought to have tested positive for COVID 19.

About 400 people are living at Napier Barracks in Folkestone where a virus outbreak has added to concerns over conditions.

Residents, many of whom have crossed the English Channel in small boats, have described it as unbearable and say that social distancing is difficult and there have been reports of suicide attempts.

Earlier this month, numerous residents went on hunger strike in protest at conditions which reportedly include 34 sharing one shower.

The controversial facility features barbed wire-topped barriers and hosted Canadian troops in the Second World War, and a petition to close down the site, along with a similar facility at a barracks in Wales, has accumulated more than 10,000 signatures.

The Home Office, which seized the site last year, insists the accommodation in Kent is safe, suitable and COVID compliant.

An open letter to all British subjects from an asylum seeker living at Napier Barracks and reportedly signed by more than 200 other residents has been shared by refugee charity Choose Love.

The letter calls out Home Secretary Priti Patel and immigration minister Chris Philp over conditions at the site, and it says: “We came to this country to save our lives. Lives which were mostly in danger because of war and prosecution.

“Yet we found ourselves in an army camp and we are surrounded by fences and security guards.”

The undated letter says that at least 120 cases of coronavirus have been identified at the barracks with more test results pending.

That figure was put to the Home Office, who have so far refused to comment.

A petition by Freedom from Torture to empty the barracks in Kent and Wales and close them down has racked up more than 10,000 signatures in fewer than two days, and Kolbassia Haoussou, a lead survivor advocate at the charity, said that a major crisis was unfolding in these unsanitary and unsafe places, with numerous people being confined there, who have low immune systems and mental health problems linked to the abuse they have escaped from.

Bella Sankey, director of charity Detention Action, echoed calls to close the barracks before they’re engulfed by tragedy and immigration minister Chris Philp said that they take the welfare of those in their care very seriously and asylum seekers could contact the 24/7 helpline run by Migrant help if they have any problems.

Use of Napier Barracks to house asylum seekers was originally approved for six months under emergency provision but the Home Office has said it’s considering prolonging its use past the current deadline in around March.

None of them should be permitted to leave the barracks if 120 people have tested positive for COVID, and the rest of them should be made to take a test and self isolate until the results come back.

Although it will be difficult, if not impossible to isolate the ones with COVID from the people that don’t have it, especially where there’s overcrowding.

I guess we could just send these asylum seekers back to their country, but legally we can’t because they have the legal right to claim for asylum until it’s decided what will happen to them, whether they can stay or whether they have to go back.

Although normally asylum would be in the first safe country they come to, and that would be France and not here, the United Kingdom.

Sadly, once they’re in the United Kingdom, legally we can’t just send them back if they make it here, and they then have the legal right to apply for asylum.

Horror As Neglected Dog Left To Starve

The dog called Rodney was left with bones protruding. He was emaciated and he had sores on his legs caused by laying down in a damp kennel.

The dog was neglected and left in a damp and filthy kennel and was so starved he’d tried to eat his tail.

The lurcher cross was found in the back garden of a house in Huyton, Merseyside after an estate agent went to the property to carry out an eviction.

The dog was discovered locked up and freezing in a soaking wet kennel and he was so neglected he’d chewed part of his tail and the estate agent reported the matter to the RSPCA.

RSPCA animal rescuer Inspector Pamela Bird was sent to investigate and took the dog to the RSPCA’s Greater Manchester Animal Hospital.

His bones were protruding and he was emaciated and his tail had also been left severely damaged as a result of him chewing it. He also had sores on his legs caused by laying down in the wet kennel.

It was discovered that Rodney had been left in the kennel alone for at least three weeks, with visits from his owner to feed him taking place only every few days.

The dogs tail was so damaged it had to be removed halfway, but despite all he’s been through he still has the capacity to wag it.

Now he does so at almost every opportunity while in the care of the RSPCA’s Warrington, Halton and St Helen’s branch where he’s been nursed back to full health.

Staff at the branch are now wanting to find a forever home for adorable Rodney, aged 3, who it’s believed has never lived in a home.

Alana Bibby, welfare team leader at the branch said that Rodney is such a jolly and happy chap and you wouldn’t know he’d had such a bad start in life.

She said that he’s come on great in their care and that he loves people and he leaps up as if to say ‘hug me’ at most opportunities and she said that he was so stressed with being left on his own for such long periods, without any interaction that he chewed his tail and had to have it amputated halfway up, so now he has half a tail but still enthusiastically wags it.

Words fail me because the law isn’t stringent enough for this and it needs to be reviewed with more effective punishments because no living creature deserves to be treated like this, and if they treated an animal in this way, God knows how they would treat their children.

And it says a lot about a person when they willingly abuse something that can’t speak or fight back, and hopefully, the RSPCA will pursue this, but as we all know, animal abusers in this country get punishment equivalent to ten minutes in the naughty corner.

BACK TO SQUARE ONE

Matt Hancock has warned COVID vaccines maybe 50 per cent less effective against the new mutant South African strain, putting us back to square one.

The Health Secretary said there was evidence in the public domain that the new variant is more resistant to jabs, but cautioned that scientists are still carrying out tests.

He made the remarks during a web chat with travel agents this week, in which he explained that tough border restrictions may be required for a long time to keep new variants of the virus out of the United Kingdom.

In a video of the webinar, leaked to a news outlet, he was questioned whether Brits will be able to go on holiday this summer. Matt Hancock said there was a chance.

But that tougher travel restrictions might be required as there was evidence in the public domain, although they were not sure of the data, so he wouldn’t say this was in public, that the South African variant reduces by about 50 per cent the vaccine effectiveness.

He continued that scientists are testing the mutant strain at the Porton Down laboratory and are carrying out a clinical trial in South Africa to see what impact it has on the AstraZeneca vaccine.

The Health Secretary added that if they’d vaccinated the population and then they got in a new variant that evaded the vaccine, then they’d be back to square one and that tougher international restrictions are the price that for example Australia has paid for stronger domestic protection, as in more life getting back to normal domestically.

He said that with the new variants that they’re seeing around the world, South Africa and Brazil are the two most worrying, but the third most worrying one is the one they don’t know about because they haven’t spotted it yet.

It came as Boris Johnson revealed the new strain sweeping the United Kingdom is more dangerous than the original, and the NHS was urged to add ‘COVID tongue’ to its menu of approved symptoms.

Ministers said Britain’s borders could be closed altogether to keep out new strains of the virus, and the Government’s chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, also said there’s concern that both the South African and Brazilian strains may have some resistance to vaccines.

And he told a No 10 press conference that they were more concerned that they have certain features which suggest they might be less responsive to vaccines.

So, now they’re not certain if the vaccine will work and now it might be 50 per cent less effective. Perhaps we should just disregard the whole thing and get back to existing while we still have a life.

And it seems that they don’t know what they’re dealing with, and it’s all just a guessing game with people’s lives, and it makes you now question if they’ve locked us down with inaccurate testing and if they have, who will be held responsible?

Because people are going to want answers, especially if someone died of a heart attack and had COVID slapped on their death certificate, and people are going to want answers as to why the results that were given were deliberately incorrect.

Masses of people have done everything that’s been asked of them and it doesn’t appear to have done any good, especially during the lockdown, and lots of people are having their say, but that doesn’t mean that they’re all wrong.

Two people can have a difference of opinion, but it might be that neither of them is wrong – there are fors and against on both sides.

We should be protecting the vulnerable and let everyone else get on with their lives, and we should stop worrying about the ifs and buts and perhaps start trying to live our lives.

This seems like it’s going to be a failed vaccine, so where is this going? Not to mention how it will affect everybody later on because it’s not been tested properly, and now they’re saying the jab won’t stop you getting the virus, it won’t stop you from spreading it and now it’s half as effective as it was.

So, what’s the point? But they’ll still carry on jabbing you with it!

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