Alarming Video Demonstrates Coronavirus Droplets Can Linger For An Hour After Being Propelled 2 Metres

Experts at Mater Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, used a high-speed camera to test the effectiveness of various kinds of face coverings and they discovered that wearing a surgical mask or cloth covering limited the number of droplets that were suspended in the air.

But without any protection, their experiment revealed that aerosols could be propelled more than two metres and remain in the air for an hour.

The research was conducted by Dr Kevin Nolan, an engineer at the University College Dublin, and Ronan Cahill, Mater Hospital’s professor of surgery, and was carried out using two separate methods.

The first was Schlieren technology, a method which uses high spec mirrors and light to reveal the density of fluids and gages, as well as the speed and distance they can travel when someone breathes, coughs or sneezes.

Dr Kevin Nolan told a media outlet that they can see that large droplets descend quickly to the ground while smaller particles which can contain the virus linger in the air and he said that when someone with COVID 19 coughs or sneezes some of the particles carry the virus and others don’t, which is why he refers to it as Russian roulette.

As Schlieren technology doesn’t cover great distances, the team also came up with a method using high powered lasers to demonstrate how far droplets can travel and how long they stay airborne.

Dr Kevin Nolan said that their combined investigations demonstrated that wearing a mask had a tremendous impact on how far droplets could travel and he said that conspiracy theorists would have you believe that masks don’t work because the virus is so small and can travel through material, but that it’s a misinterpreted science.

The researchers also discovered that aerosols carrying COVID 19 could exit through the abdomen during keyhole surgery, potentially putting whole teams of medics at risk and they emphasised the importance of staff taking additional precautions when it came to carrying out laparoscopic surgeries on COVID patients.

Dr Cahill added that their findings had made it easier to picture precisely what’s happening within the environment when someone expels aerosols and he said that when you can see precisely what’s happening using the technology it’s extremely shocking now they have a different way of looking at it.

Unfortunately, if you’re going to catch COVID 19, you will. You can wear a mask, scrub your hands until their red raw, clean your home with bleach, clean shopping that’s brought into the home, yet you can still catch it.

And by the standards that they’ve mentioned, we should all have COVID 19 by now, as we all spent the first few months wandering around through mists of droplets lingering in the atmosphere for hours without masks on.

Sweden doesn’t have compulsory social distancing and they don’t appear to have a problem, but then that’s because they trust their Government.

And surely pubs should not be open at all, but it’s okay the Government believes that COVID only comes out after 10 pm, but if it’s lingering for an hour beforehand in the pub, that could be disastrous.

And what about those people that don’t have to wear a mask because of health reasons, what chance will they have? But then the masks have worked extraordinarily well so far in universities and now we have another lockdown, that’s worked really well, hasn’t it?

And people that live in China religiously wear masks, even before the COVID was reported, so why so much of the spread of it in China? But it’s funny how Sweden has done okay with no over the top constraints.

We need to build up our immunity against viruses like this. Not hide from it by going into lockdown and then coming out and hoping it’s gone, and so many rules just don’t make any sense, and yes, I do wear a mask where I have to, just like the rest of the sheep, but only because I don’t want to end up with a huge fine.

Amish Brothers Get Probation For Molesting A 12-Year-Old Relative

Dozens of people in Webster County have taken to social media to share rage over the sentencing of Aaron and Petie Schwartz after the two were convicted of child molestation – the brothers received five years probation.

The brothers, who confessed to raping their 12-year-old relative, could still end up behind bars.

Last week, Webster County Prosecutor Ben Berkstresser filed a motion to have Aaron and Petie Schwartz’s probations revoked, arguing the brothers had contact with the victim after they were convicted, which is forbidden under their sex offender supervision agreement.

Court records reveal Petie Schwartz, 18, and Aaron Schwartz, 22, could serve up to 15 years in jail if their probation is withdrawn – a hearing on the matter is scheduled for October 6.

Webster County Prosecuting Attorney Ben Berkstresser asked a judge on Thursday to revoke probation in the cases of two Seymour area Amish men who pleaded guilty to child molestation earlier this month, online court documents reveal.

The Springfield News-Leader reported the two men took a plea agreement to evade jail time.

Under the agreement, their 15-year jail sentences were suspended, provided they obey all probation conditions set by a judge.

Initial charges filed in June accused each man of six counts of statutory rape and one count of incest.

According to investigative reports from the Webster County Sherriff’s Office obtained by the News-Leader under the Missouri Sunshine Law, a doctor’s state hotline call reported on June 6 initiated the investigation – the victim has had a baby in recent weeks.

Probable cause statements from each case reveal that the girl was found to be pregnant and admitted to a doctor that she had been having sex with the two men.

Investigators said the pair each confessed to having relations with the child about six times over the previous year and both admitted to investigators that they were conscious of her age.

One of the brothers is the father of the child, Berkstresser said, according to the Webster County Citizen and he said it needed to be noted that in this case, there were four brothers, two of them juveniles, while the other two legally are adults, but all of them had sexual relations with their sister and there was no question that this happened.

He said, in the end, this wasn’t a case of a parent and child, where a parent in a position of authority sexually abused or exploited their child. This was a case where four siblings engaged in acts with their sister and he said that he offered a 15-year prison sentence founded on that.

This is extremely sad indeed and these boys need punishment or they will replicate the behaviour again.

The poor young girl has lost her innocence and become a mother and she will need love, counselling and protection and these brothers need to be in prison for an extremely long time.

This poor girl will probably be shunned for the rest of her life and her child too – the community she lives in will condemn her and she will have to leave.

And this judge needs to be removed from the bench, his verdict overturned and these men sent to jail and we should be extremely furious with the prosecutor who allowed this to happen.

And what sort of message is this sending other children their age? That nothing bad will happen to them if they get caught doing such a heinous crime like that and that some judge will feel sorry for them and basically slap them on the wrists and send them home so that they can do it again.

OH BOY, IT’S A GIRL!

Hayley, 33, had painted her nursery pink, filled it with girly gear, picked the name Isabella and written it on the room’s walls.

Friends threw her a pink-themed baby shower with gifts including an ornament engraved with Isabella, but Hayley was in for a shock when she gave birth after 33-hours of labour at a hospital in Stockton on Tees, County Durham, just over a week ago.

She said: “When the midwife said, ‘He’s here’ I was like, ‘What do you mean He?’

“At two scans I’d been told my baby was a girl”. But when she gave him a cleanup and lifted him she saw his bits.

It meant she had to come up with a new name – Alfie – as well as redecorate the nursery and take back a load of clothing.

Single mum Hayley, a teaching assistant, added that was the craziest experience.

Her dad had quipped, “What would you do if you had a boy?” and it happened.

She said she was over the moon when she found out she was going to have a girl, but that she absolutely loves Alfie and wouldn’t change him for the world and that it was meant to be.

Hayley isn’t the first this has happened to and it won’t be the last, but baby scans are not 100 per cent accurate and errors can be made and what’s wrong with not knowing what sex your baby is and waiting for the surprise at the end of the delivery?

Of course, this is barely a story, it happens all the time, but it’s so nice that the baby was born healthy and that should be the most important thing when having a baby, not the gender of what the baby will be.

FANGS FOR NOTHING

The creepy crawly plunged its fangs into Paula Smith, 52, making her leg to triple the size and she believes it was retaliation for destroying its web.

Hairdresser Paula Smith had to go to A&E after the bite because she had blisters the size of 10 pence coins on her calf.

She had been walking her dog with husband Neil, 53, near her home when she felt the spider nip her leg.

Paula Smith looked down to find the creature on her right calf before she knocked it away.

Three days later, after her leg had become puffy and blisters had materialised, she noticed red track marks streaking down her leg and decided to go to A&E. The doctors confirmed she’d been bitten by a false widow spider, whose bites produce necrosis of the flesh.

Most bites from bugs result in symptoms comparable to a bee or wasp sting but the fact that they’re looking for a mate at this time of the year has sent them into a bit of a frenzy.

Before heading to A&E, gran of five Paula Smith said she rang 111 after her leg became swollen and solid to the touch. She said her leg felt like someone was blowing it up, it got tighter and tighter as the night went on.

By the time she got up the next morning, it was like a huge balloon.

They went to the local chemist and they gave her hydrocortisone cream, recommended her to elevate her leg, take ibuprofen to take the swelling down and to take some antihistamines.

Within 24 hours it had blistered, gone really red, the skin had started to break down and it started to look mottled all across her calf and down her ankle and foot.

Staff at the hospital prescribed a five-day course of antibiotics and advised her to continue using hydrocortisone cream.

The doctor at the hospital said in the worst-case scenario if it wasn’t sorted immediately with antibiotics it can turn into sepsis.

Last month a roofer feared he would lose a leg after being bitten by a false widow spider.

Tony Mayne, 32, was called into hospital as his knee started seeping pus and his leg turned red and ballooned.

The United Kingdom appears to be getting hotter and hotter summers and as this happens we will no doubt start seeing more dangerous and venomous species plague the United Kingdom in the end.

Generally, spiders make it over here in fruit freights, but they don’t normally endure long in our environment, but no doubt that will change in the years to come.

Coronavirus Vaccine Mass Roll-Out Could Be Diverted By Two Years

These essential components, needed to guarantee everyone is vaccinated against the disease, are in short supply including glass vials to store the medication.

Sources in the logistics and medical sectors claim other features the country is floundering with are refrigerated lorries to transport the drug and pallets to pack it, as well as PPE for medics who are administering it.

This comes despite Health Secretary Matt Hancock saying this month that a mass rollout of a vaccine could be seen in the early part of next year. However, a logistics expert working on the delivery of the Oxford Vaccine Group (OVG) told a news outlet that Downing Street has not contacted the research team or its manufacturing partner AstraZeneca.

Philip Ashton said he expected the Government to be working closely with them to ensure the supply chain procedures were in place should the possible cure get the green light in the coming months.

Philip Ashton, chief executive of logistics group 7Bridges said that he was not aware that the Government had spoken to the OVG about the logistics of getting the vaccine to the whole population yet.

He said that they may not get the mass vaccination on the timeline they think and that it was doable if the Government starts the planning right now and he said that they can expect frontline workers and high-risk populations to be vaccinated by the end of the year, but vaccinating the whole population would be a real challenge.

The logistics expert did not think that the United Kingdom had enough cold chain trucks used to ferry the vaccine and it’s been reported that the Oxford vaccine will need a controlled temperature of between 2C and 8C during transport or it will not survive.

Britain will need up to 120 million doses, it’s calculated to vaccinate the whole population and also have booster doses ready for those who require them.

Another unidentified source working with the OVG team said No 10 has not contacted them over the logistics of mass production. This comes after a government medical adviser suggested people in the United Kindom could wait two years before receiving the vaccine.

Professor Mark Woolhouse, of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (SPI-M), said that most of the people that he’s spoken to who are involved in vaccine development believe that they may have a vaccine in six months, but it’s unlikely that they’ll be able to roll it out in mass scale by that time.

And that it’s a problem because the UK is dependent on a certain type of glass which is only available in the EU and this may be hard to source after December when demand increases and people aren’t going to put up with being told what to do for much longer, so they want to hope they get a vaccine soon.

And if things persist like this, bad things could happen across the whole country because people are getting furious now and the chances are that by the time the so-called vaccine comes along, the virus will be gone – this really does enhance our confidence in the Government.

The Valley Towns Joined At The Hip

At the heads of the Swansea Valley, ensconced on the edge of the Brecon Beacons, you’ll find Ystradgynlais, the second biggest town in Powys, but just a stone’s throw away, or about a mile from high street to high street to be clear, is neighbouring Ystalyfera.

Both traditional mining communities, they share shops, schools and even a postcode, but now local coronavirus lockdown means they’ll be worlds apart. And while it might take less than 30 seconds to cross from one borough into the other, local lockdown rules imposed in Neath Port Talbot have created an unimaginable and worrying problem for some.

If only to highlight it’s closeness, the Cwmtwrch recycling centre is listed on both Powys and Neath Port Talbot Council’s website as a designated drop off point, but from 6 pm on Monday, September 28, the Neath Port Talbot local authority area entered a local lockdown, meaning residents, including those in Ystalyfera wouldn’t be able to leave the county unless it was for essential journeys.

But what does this mean for its Powys counterpart, or for the people who live and work on the border?

Robert Megson is the proprietor of The Aubrey Arms, dead set between both counties and while his postcode says he’s in Powys, the official boundary of Neath Port Talbot, and lockdown, is just 352 metres away.

He said that they’re right on the border, but usually they’d be having people coming from everywhere and that the pub gets a tremendous amount of local business, as well as people from further away and that they also get a lot of people from Ystalyfera as well.

He said that the crazy thing was that the new rules meant that somebody in Builth Wells could travel there and come and eat in the Aubrey, but somebody a stone’s throw away in Ystalyfera can’t, which was madness.

And while the new lockdowns had been extremely difficult for the pub and restaurant, Mr Megson said the 10 pm curfew was the final nail in the coffin and that even before the lockdown in NPT was announced they’d seen a tremendous decline in business, about 30 per cent – even just the talk of lockdown had an impact.

And it seems that this is the only place with these travel constraints, which makes absolutely no sense and the Welsh Government has delivered no scientific proof but appears to be implementing them arbitrarily.

It makes sense that Wales should trim down their contact with others, increase social distancing, not socialise indoors, all wear masks and start contact tracing, but it makes no sense that they all have to stay in their local authority area.

But then we have lunatics running the asylum and it’s an utter embarrassing shambles that will go down in history and people are getting frustrated and furious and rightly so and something is going to give as everyone has a breaking point.

And it seems that this coronavirus is the most intelligent virus known to man – far more intelligent than the Welsh Assembly, it seems.

Prince Charles Warns That As Many As One Million Youngsters Could Need Urgent Help

The Prince of Wales has warned that as many as one million young people could need urgent assistance due to coronavirus and he said our youth was facing a uniquely difficult time amid the uncertainty of the COVID 19 pandemic.

In a rare intervention, Prince Charles said the destructive despair of unemployment is facing Britain’s youngsters once again and he said that the young are in particular need of measures to protect them from the most destructive effects of the crisis, adding that the country must not let positiveness drown under a surge of economic predictions.

He added that while it’s all too easy to assume that nothing can be done, the task ahead was undoubtedly vast, but it was not impossible and he said there has never been a time as uniquely challenging as the present, when the pandemic has left possibly another million young people needing urgent assistance.

Contemplating on how he established the Prince’s Trust charity in 1976, with the severance pay he got from the Royal Navy, Charles added that he was old enough to recall other times when hope was scarce and despondency seemed the only thing in great supply.

He said that in the mid-Seventies, when he left the Royal Navy, youth unemployment was one of the pressing problems of the time and it seemed that they should do something to try to make a difference, however small.

The Prince’s Trust has helped its millionth young person, with research from the Trust revealing that 55 per cent of 16 to 25-year-olds are more anxious about being unemployed than they were a year ago.

The Prince’s Trust set up the Young People Relief Fund in the immediate aftermath of the pandemic to deliver additional aid to those pummeled by the economic fallout.

However, if he actually cared, he has a bunch of castles, palaces and mansions – he could sell these off to help the economic fallout, rather than being more worried about the elephants and peasants carbon footprint.

Thousands of students are paying considerable sums of money to attend universities and this year, graduates are now discovering that nobody is waiting to welcome them into the workplace and that their futures are extremely bleak indeed.

Sadly the world has transformed and the local technical college might be a better option for future employment than university and Charles and his family are all JobCentre proof and they will never have to claim Universal Credit or lose their property or be a slave to the corporate owners.

And it’s clear the way of working we once knew is over because automation and now COVID 19 has accelerated its demise and it’s time we began implementing a Universal Basic Income (UBI) and taxing the multi-billionaires more heavily. I wonder how much Charles will donate?

The Royal Family should simply stick to smiling and shaking hands with the public because they actually contribute nothing to anyone and they live in the life of luxury and haven’t got a clue what it’s like to struggle and of course, the Windsor’s are an authority on unemployment.

Thousands of promising young people will be studying hard at university, hundreds more just graduated, wondering if their years of study have been an expensive waste of time as there are no jobs waiting for them and this true cost of this virus will be the future of young people all over the world.

And believe me, Charles is never going to be as worried as the young people themselves, yet he’s in a position financially to make a difference to these people, instead of giving a worried speech and informing everyone of something that we’re all well aware of.

Princess Eugenie Won’t Accept A Royal Title For Her Baby If Offered By The Queen

A family friend has told Vanity Fair that Princess Eugenie won’t accept a royal title for her baby if offered by the Queen because it’s a curse and she wants her child to have a normal life.

The Queen’s granddaughter, 30, and her husband of two years Jack Brooksbank, 34, announced on Friday they’re expecting the baby in early 2021.

A family friend of the couple has now revealed how titles don’t matter to the couple, who will raise the child at their residence of Kensington Palace, and said they just want a happy healthy child.

And it was said that Eugenie knows that a title can be a curse as well as a blessing and she and Jack want their child to live an ordinary life and eventually work to make a living.

Sources have also revealed that the couple will pick an ordinary name for their firstborn.

According to the rules of the House of Windsor, Eugenie’s baby will not automatically be entitled to the HRH styling, which only extends to grandchildren of the monarch, but a source said that even if the Queen did offer a title as a gift, it was not Eugenie or Jack’s want for their child to have a title.

Despite having royal titles, Princess Eugenie and her sister Princess Beatrice are not presently considered to be senior working royals, because they don’t carry out duties full time on behalf of the Queen.

The sisters, who are ninth and tenth in line to the throne, both have full-time jobs and don’t receive cheques from the Sovereign Grant, the government-supported fund that finances Queen Elizabeth II’s official responsibilities.

Princess Eugenie works as a director for Mayfair based gallery Hauser & Wirth and receives no money from the Queen.

Eugenie graduated from Newcastle University in September 2009, after studying English Literature and the History of Art.

After finishing her studies, Eugenie moved to New York to work for online auction firm Paddle8, before moving back to London in 2015.

She and her sister presently attend a handful of royal affairs a year, including sometimes joining the Queen at one of her annual garden parties in the summer, and making an appearance with other royals at Trooping the Colour.

Meanwhile, Jack, who’s European brand manager for Casamigos Tequila co-founded by George Clooney doesn’t have a title or an HRH.

And it now seems that royal titles are becoming too much of a burden and the time will finally come when all modern royals will forsake all HRH titles.

I’m actually beginning to like Eugenie and her sister because it seems like they have a lot more insight than their parents, but of course, the new baby won’t need a title, it will have everything offered on a plate, and as soon as the sex is known, the baby’s name will be put down for the finest schools.

Of course, the Queen has done a fantastic job as our non-executive head of state, but the monarchy is giddy and obsolete and it’s time for them to find something else to do with their lives.

And Princess Eugenie is from a rich family, who’s married into wealth – there will be nothing ordinary about the child’s upbringing. Although I think that Princess Eugenie is quite a decent genuine person that was born privileged, which isn’t her fault, the same as it’s not her fault that she has odious, self-seeking parents. They both seem like a really nice couple, so good luck to them both.

Russia Strikes Deals to Market Its Coronavirus Vaccine Internationally

Russia has struck preliminary agreements to market its COVID 19 vaccine to more than 10 countries in Asia, South America and the Middle East, a development that could give Moscow valuable economic and political leverage internationally.

Russian officials say they have secured preliminary deals for the vaccine to be delivered to countries such as Brazil, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and India and in addition, Russia says it’s in various stages of discussions with approximately 10 other countries to purchase the vaccine.

All told, it has received offers or indications of interest in the vaccine for a total of 1.2 billion doses.

The vaccines will be manufactured abroad and dispersed worldwide from there as soon as November, but officials say the shot will need local regulatory clearance before being circulated.

The shot, called Sputnik V, after the satellite the Soviet Union launched ahead of the US in the Cold War space race, was endorsed by Russian authorities early last month, despite scepticism from the West about the speed with which it was registered.

Russian researchers completed only small scale tests on 76 volunteers before securing approval. Data from these early trials revealed that the shot was safe to use and generated an immune response but experts say large scale trials are required before establishing the vaccine’s effectiveness.

Russia began trials on 40,000 volunteers in late August.

Russia hopes to launch mass vaccinations of its own people by the end of the year. Meanwhile, China has injected hundreds of thousands with its own experimental vaccine.

Experts have expressed concerns over a rush to use vaccines that haven’t quite completed testing, as the widespread use of an ineffective shot could lead to a renewed spread of the coronavirus.

American officials have indicated the US is unlikely to use a Russian or Chinese vaccine because of doubts over testing methods.

Moscow’s drive to give access to its vaccine abroad highlights President Vladimir Putin’s goal of establishing Russia as a primary player in the international race to secure COVID 19 vaccines.

Analysts say Moscow could ultimately use the shot as a soft power tool to draw countries into its orbit.

Vladimir Frolov, a former senior Russian diplomat and Moscow based political analyst said that the idea was that the vaccine could win Russia some hearts and minds in the non-West and increase its geopolitical leverage.

Separately, Russia strives to manufacture 30 million Sputnik V doses by the end of this year for its own population.

The country has been hit badly by the virus with more than one million cases, representing the fourth largest caseload in the world and Russia has struck preliminary agreements to market the vaccine to more than 10 countries, according to Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, the country’s sovereign wealth fund, which has spearheaded the vaccine effort.

If this saves millions of humans in impoverished countries and their children don’t perish from starvation then we should all be for it, but we’re not all going to want to save the rest of the world from COVID 19 when we can just save ourselves.

And we malign Russia, laugh at them, scorn them, but they just shrug their shoulders and go about their business with persistent determination and if this works, which hopefully it will, it will not be the first time they will have saved humankind.

I’m sure my views will be savaged by the ignorant, the self-important and uninformed but I must say that I have a grudging admiration for them.

They have been around as one nation for a very long time, so there must be a method to their madness, even if they are insane methods.

There’s Enough Food To Go Round!

The executive director of Waitrose has attacked panic buyers saying that their actions inevitably mean someone else will go without.

Panic buying across the United Kingdom has restarted amid fears of a second wave of coronavirus and another lockdown with customers reporting queuing for 20 minutes to enter shops before similar further delays at checkouts.

And online customers found it near impossible to get delivery slots from Asda, Morrison, Ocado, Sainsbury’s and Tesco and some didn’t have any free slots for up to two weeks.

Restrictions on things which disappeared most quickly during the country’s first lockdown, such as flour and eggs, have been put in place. However, shops have insisted that empty shelves once supplied with toilet paper and pasta will be quickly replenished.

One disgruntled customer wrote on Twitter: ‘Brilliant job @Morrisons Thamesmead. No queues outside the store.

But David Dowles added that aisles were crammed inside – there was no social distancing, with queues 40 deep at the tills. The place was mobbed and still, people were being allowed to come in.

The executive director of Waitrose, James Bailey, told a news outlet that there was enough food to go round, but he added that if one person supplies their house with all the packs of pasta they can get their hands on, it inevitably means somebody else will go without and they could be the most vulnerable or key workers.

It came after Tesco became the latest supermarket to impose rationing on food and household goods, but in a bid to sidestep bulk buying which left shop shelves across the United Kingdom nearly bare in March, the supermarket colossus will limit items such as flour, dried pasta, toilet roll and antibacterial wipes to three per customer.

It comes after Morrisons on Thursday announced rationing would be introduced on specific items in its stores up and down the country and the restrictions came as supermarket chiefs looked to sidestep an over repeat of stockpiling hysteria seen in stores at the beginning of the pandemic in March.

Images from supermarkets across the United Kingdom have already shown empty or rapidly emptying toilet roll racks, just days before the Government announced tighter constraints in a bid to stave off a second coronavirus wave.

More than a quarter of the UK population are living under additional coronavirus constraints with new measures on socialising coming into force in regions of the country, with a prohibition on households socialising in each other’s homes, which came into effect at midnight on Saturday in Wigan, Stockport, Blackpool and Leeds – Cardiff and Swansea locked down from 6 pm on Friday, taking the number of people under more stringent rules to 17 million.

So, here we go again. We should have had the opportunity to reflect, act as a community and care for each other, but still, the selfish stupidity comes to the forefront and no lessons have been learnt, and it does make you wonder if humankind does actually deserve to survive.

Of course, supermarkets will be making millions, but really there’s no need to panic buy and we should all quit being ridiculous – what is everyone panicking for, the world’s not coming to an end.

Some people are greedy entitled imbeciles and this country is a disgrace and it seems that people just can’t share and don’t care about other people’s lives and it’s a very hostile place to live in.

However, some people do get carried away, but it’s no wonder when there’s so much doom and gloom reporting by media outlets and they need to take some responsibility for that.

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