A Baffling Brain Disease That Resembles Deadly Mad Cow Disease

More than 40 cases of a baffling brain illness that resembles mad cow disease has been reported in Canada, and according to CBC, the illness has similarities to the rare and fatal brain disorder known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and its variants, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy, which is also known as mad cow disease.

But even though it’s comparable to CJD, officials say it’s not the same disease.

Health officials in New Brunswick, Canada, are now struggling to understand how 43 people got the illness and what the obscure neurological disease is, and officials have confirmed that five people have now died.

According to CBC, the first diagnosed case in the area occurred in 2015, but the cases have proceeded to grow over the years, and in 2020, there were 24 recorded cases and so far in 2021, there have been six cases.

Bertrand Mayor Yvon Godin told the news site that residents are extremely concerned about the disease.

Godin said that residents are worried and that they’re questioning if it’s moose meat, is it deer or is it contagious? And that they need to know, as quickly as possible, what’s causing the disease.

As the investigation and research continue to figure out what the disease is, neurologist Dr Neil Cashman has offered some insight into what it’s not.

He says there’s no evidence that points to it being a prion disease like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and he told the CBC that there’s no evidence, not a hint, even in the three post-mortems that have been completed, of a human prion disease, and that came as a surprise to him.

And he said, so in reality, this is something different, and they need to get on the stick and figure out what it is, and as Dr Neil Cashman and a team of experts continue to search for more answers, he says due to the cases being restricted to specific areas, the illness fits with the notion of an environmental toxin.

And he said that a lot of scientific understanding will be needed to pin it down to a cause, adding that it’s unknown when they will have a more detailed explanation for the public.

He maintained that it was likely continuing investigations would give them the cause in a week, or it was possible it would give them the cause in a year.

And it wouldn’t be a surprise if they didn’t blame it on the AstraZeneca vaccine, but somehow, somewhere, someone will eventually say it’s down to the AstraZeneca vaccine – quick perhaps Canada should be locked down, and will these scare tactics never end?

Blame it on Brexit, well, let’s face it, everything else has!

AOC Claims Over-Worked Amazon Staff Are Forced To Defecate In Bags

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has waded into a dispute over Amazon’s handling of its workers, claiming that a relation of hers left the company amid unimaginable performance pressure and that defecating in bags was a common approach to manage work activity.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke out as almost 6,000 Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama were deciding whether they want to form a union, the biggest labour push in the online shopping giant’s history.

The organising in Bessemer could set off a chain reaction across its operation nationwide, with more workers rising up and demanding more favourable working conditions. Vote counting started on Tuesday and could take several days.

AOC joined Democrats including Bernie Sanders and Wisconsin Representative Mark Pocan who are demanding multimillion tech giant allows workers to form unions to be able to push for better conditions.

The New York congresswoman tweeted that on Tuesday night a loved one of hers that worked at Amazon delivery last year left because of how vulnerable it made them feel, working for a company that also puts so much preference pressure on their workers that defecating in bags is a regular enough occurrence that there are internal memoranda about it and that her complaint was frequently made.

And the practice of peeing in bottles to maintain workflow in Amazon warehouses was fairly well documented.

Even delivery drivers claim to be under such pressure that relieving oneself couples with threats of joblessness, and last week, Rep Pocan made a comparable claim to Ocasio-Cortez and he said that paying workers $15 an hour doesn’t make them a progressive workplace, when they union bust and make their workers pee in water bottles.

And Amazon replied, on their official Twitter account: ‘You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you?” And that if that was true, nobody would work for them, and they said that the truth was that they have over a million incredible employees around the world who were proud of what they did and that they have great wages and health care.

According to Brookings, Amazon and Walmart combined raked in approximately $10.7 billion in profits throughout the pandemic, signalling a 56 per cent rise in business, something the institute attributed to Americans spending more on home delivery rather than venturing out to the shops to circumvent exposure during the height of the COVID 19 pandemic.

Not sure about defecating in bags, but the bottle thing does sound like it could be real, and it wouldn’t be difficult for a delivery driver to hide out in the back of his delivery van to pee, and then dump the bottles in the garbage containers around the parking area before driving off.

Anti-Maskers In Aisle Twelve

An anti-mask demonstration in a busy supermarket has been branded a slap in the face to NHS workers after dozens of people mocked COVID restrictions and descended on a Tesco store in Essex.

The protestors disregarded social distancing and rules surrounding face coverings.

Customers are required by law to wear masks inside all stores unless they’re exempt for medical reasons.

Footage of the gathering was recorded at the Tesco store in Princess Road, Chelmsford, on Saturday after the demonstration was posted on social media, and an image was posted on Twitter that invited participants to join them for a spot of maskless shopping, describing it as the perfect way to peacefully protest while buying their weekly groceries.

At least 34 people were understood to be involved in the planned protest.

Police were called out to the incident and spoke to the maskless customers, with many insisting they were exempt from wearing face coverings.

A joint investigation has now been launched by city chiefs, police and Tesco to evaluate how this transpired.

The demonstration comes just two months after officials were forced to open a makeshift morgue in the city where more than 12,000 people have tested positive for COVID.

Clips show a red-headed woman roaring ‘come on warriors’ in the Tesco car park as a gathering walked out of the store clutching baguettes, shopping bags and bottles of wine.

One video also highlights a bizarre melody playing in the background with lyrics about indoctrination camps, vaccine scam, Technotronic sham and depopulation plan.

Officials have blasted the group for compromising locals just as the nation can again see family and friends.

NHS Million, a grassroots campaign managed by NHS workers to highlight gratitude of the health service said that it was a slap in the face to all NHS staff who’ve worked themselves into the ground and jeopardised their own lives to keep people protected, and they said that organising a maskless shopping excursion was not big, it was not smart, but that it was illegal.

A spokesperson for Chelmsford City Council said that Chelmsford City Council were very disappointed that a small number of people chose to shop without masks in the city centre supermarket on Saturday.

The Government want us to all wear masks, that way it conveys a message that this is a killer virus and that it will get you and your family. However, the effectiveness against the virus is nil, and if they did give protection, that is negated because people fiddle with the front of them all the time, so they get the germs on their fingers which they then can transfer to food, and they wear these masks all the time, where they inhale the fibres into their lungs, which is also bad.

Face masks only decrease the spread of droplets, and they can reduce the spread of the virus, but the masks won’t dull it altogether, and they only offer minimal protection.

These face-coverings or green face nappies will only protect minimally, but the droplets can also be picked up from surfaces when touched, and then subsequently from touching the face, and this is why hand hygiene is essential as well, but wearing a face mask will only benefit to a point, so if you want to wear one, that should be up to the individual, and it shouldn’t be forced upon a person.

Masks really don’t help, and they’re filthy unhealthy things, and even if you put four on it probably wouldn’t help, or you could just go and hide behind your sofa.

Unbelievable Moment Teenager, 18, Who Was Pronounced Brain-Dead Blinks And Begins Breathing On His Own

An 18-year-old who was pronounced brain dead after being hit by a van blinked and began breathing on his own hours before his organs were due to be donated.

Lewis Roberts, from Leek, Staffordshire, was hit by the vehicle in his hometown on March 13 and sustained catastrophic head injuries.

He was rushed by air ambulance to the Royal Stoke University Hospital where his family were told four days later he’d lost his fight for life and to say their last goodbyes.

They agreed to donate Lewis’s organs to help seven other people, but just hours before the surgery the teen started to breathe again on his own.

His sister Jade Roberts, 28, posted an extraordinary video with her brother from his hospital bedside on March 18.

She was recording the machine monitoring his breathing and said: ‘Are you ready Lew, one, two, three breathe.’

The device then showed a brown line and she yelled out in shock, adding: ‘Have a break, clever boy.’ Someone added through tears: ‘He’s just twitched.’

Later in the clip, after several futile attempts to get him to breathe on his own – Jade said: ‘One, two, three, and a big breath.’

The machine again turned brown and his sister said: ‘I’m telling you, Lew, you’re amazing, you are amazing.’

And in an update, Jade said on March 26 he’d managed a whole day without using a ventilator, but she said on March 28 he had to use it again due to what could be a chest infection which is being looked into.

Jade Roberts added in a Facebook post last week that after taking out various tests the hospital informed them that Lewis had given up the fight, no response and had suffered brain stem death.

She said that they signed forms you wouldn’t even believe and conversations you’d never believe, and that they were planning to say their last goodbyes, and that her brother was officially certified as dead last week, and that his death was even reported to the coroner.

Jade said that she headed up at midnight to hold her brother’s hand and she asked him to breathe after one, two, three, and she said that they were waiting for a brown line to register for numerous days, to confirm he’d taken a breath for himself but they had nothing.

She said that when she said breathe the brown line showed and he took a breath, but they were told it must be a mistake and that it was impossible.

And the hospital said that they were sorry and that they realised it was a difficult time for the family, and they agreed that Lewis could no longer hear them.

She said that she got back home to a phone call that Lewis was breathing and that his eyes were dilating, which before there was nothing, yet they’d been told he was brain dead and had suffered brain stem death and was declared as dead.

The hospital family can’t even believe the miracle and they said they’ve never witnessed this and that Lewis was the second person in the whole wide world to do this, but where there’s life there’s hope, and it just proves how cautious we must be about turning off the machine and declaring those who are in a coma beyond recovery, and medical ethics mustn’t be allowed to slip away in our increasingly utilitarian society.

Prince Andrew Is Seen Amid Increased Pressure For Him To Speak To The FBI

Prince Andrew was seen departing Windsor Castle as he was pulled into the US court battle engulfing Ghislaine Maxwell after she was charged with new crimes connected to Jeffrey Epstein at a time when the paedophile was socialising with the royal.

The Duke of York is now facing renewed calls to be questioned by the FBI after developments in the child sex inquiry overnight expanded the breadth of the investigation.

Ghislaine Maxwell, who was Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime associate and former girlfriend, faces further charges of sex trafficking conspiracy and sex trafficking of a minor in the eight-count indictment, as well as earlier charges that include perjury.

An amended charge against Ghislaine Maxwell now covers alleged offences stretching from 1994 to 2004 in New York and Florida, including allegations that she paid the girl, known as Minor Victim 4, hundreds of dollars for each sexual act with Jeffrey Epstein. The indictment said that the girl was 14 when the grooming started.

She’d previously pleaded not guilty to helping Jeffrey Epstein recruit and groom three teenage girls for sex between 1994 and 1997 in New York. Ghislaine Maxwell, 59, has been jailed in Brooklyn since her arrest last July.

The time frame of the new accusations has expanded to between 1994 and at least 2004, which includes the time where Jeffrey Epstein was associating with influential men like Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton.

During this time Prince Andrew became friends with Jeffrey Epstein and purportedly had sex three times with one of his victims, Virginia Roberts, accusations the Duke denies, but neither Prince Andrew nor Bill Clinton was named in the court documents but it significantly raises the possibility of them both being brought up at Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial.

The indictment also reveals that prosecutors plan to seize Ghislaine Maxwell’s assets if she’s convicted, and during a bail application she revealed that she and her husband Scott Borgerson were worth $22.5 million.

The new indictment dramatically increases the legal peril faced by Ghislaine Maxwell, who’s pleaded not guilty to all the accusations so far.

The 24-page document says starting at least in or around 2001 Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein lured and recruited, and caused to be enticed and recruited, minor girls to visit Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach home to engage in sex acts with Epstein, after with Epstein, Maxwell, or another employee of Epstein’s would give the victims hundreds of dollars in cash.

And it appears that Prince Andrew is skulking behind his mother’s petticoat because there’s no prospect of him going back to the US now. Or perhaps he’s not dodging US officials, but that he’s just a tad busy now for the next twenty years – he’s also discovered he can sweat again.

The US authorities don’t just want to talk to him, they want to question him to see if he’s got any link to these crimes, and he knows that if he goes back, he will be eaten alive, but this is never going to go away because there will always be uncertainty in the back of people’s minds.

And will Ghislaine Maxwell ever stand trial, will it happen? Because she knows too much about too many top people. And that photo of Prince Andrew and that girl will never go away, and it makes you wonder who owns the copyright.

Tax Cigarette Giants To Stub Out Littering

Even as many smokers kick the habit, cigarette stubs remain the most prevalent form of litter blighting in our towns and countryside.

The scourge is so extensive that the bill for cleaning up the mess is precisely calculated at around £40 million a year.

With the burden of that cost falling mainly on already strained councils, ministers are now considering forcing tobacco firms to pay an additional tax to help finance the cleanup but attempts to get the industry to voluntarily take fiscal responsibility for the disposal of butts and other rubbish have been unsuccessful.

Other possible solutions such as encouraging smokers to carry around portable ashtrays have, unsurprisingly, also never taken off.

Cigarette filters are particularly damaging because of their high content of plastic fibres and the toxic chemicals from the cigarette itself, and butts can linger in the environment for numerous years and deliver these chemicals into the air, soil and water, harming plants and wildlife.

Imposing a tax on single-use plastic, which a cigarette butt effectively is, would be made possible by a novel power currently being legislated for in the Environment Bill.

This would require the tobacco industry to fund the full disposal costs, with the Government leaning towards a tax to ensure that the industry takes sufficient fiscal responsibility for the litter created by its products.

The move mirrors endeavours to tax chewing gum, which also costs millions to clean off streets every year.

And it comes as Keep Britain Tidy launches the Great British Spring Clean, proudly supported by the Daily Mail, the national litter picking effort which takes place between May 28 and June 13 this year.

Environment minister Rebecca Pow said that cigarette butts are a scourge on our communities, dirtying our streets or ending up washed down the drain and contaminating our waterways and oceans.

She said that we must all take action to preserve the environment and that they’re committed to making sure that the tobacco industry plays its part, and that was why they were exploring how cigarette companies could be held fully accountable for the hideous scourge of litter created by their products.

Public health minister Jo Churchill added that they’re making remarkable progress in their ambition to be a smoke-free nation by 2030 and that while this is making a real impression on public health, the environmental repercussions of smoking due to cigarette stubs and package littering was still a significant issue.

But it’s not only tobacco companies that are at fault, it’s other companies as well that manufacture foods with plastic coverings et cetera. And what about forcing a fine on those companies when people throw away crisp packets or coke cans on the street, so this is a stupid idea.

You could, however, penalise the person that throws the item away, but then councils should make sure there’s enough cash in the pot to put more waste bins in so that people can throw their waste away in the first place, that way there wouldn’t be any abdication of personal responsibility by manufacturers or councils, only the person who casts the item on the ground without any consideration for anyone else or the environment itself.

If they make cigarette companies responsible, then are mask makers going to have to pick up their trash – will take out places have to pick up their boxes and containers, because you can’t make one company responsible and not another, but then that’s what litter pickers are for, and it keeps them in a job, where they certainly don’t get enough money for what they do!

Boris Johnson Sparks Row After Announcing Britons Have Had Enough Days Off

Boris Johnson has sparked a row by stating that Britons have had enough days off, as he rejected proposals for a bank holiday when lockdown is lifted.

The Prime Minister was accused of being irresponsible after he insisted the most important thing was to get people back into the office when the pandemic wanes.

The comment came as Boris Johnson addressed the online Conservative spring forum, delivering an upbeat message about his hope for getting back to normal, and there have been indications that the huge move to home working during COVID could permanently destroy city centres, and hold back young people at the start of their careers and hinder team working.

The premier said he can see nothing in coronavirus data to change his lockdown easing roadmap, and quipped that he’s looking forward to a pint and a haircut, and he said that in just a few days, he’s finally going to be able to go to the barbers, but that more importantly, he’s going to be able to down the street and cautiously, but irreversibly, he’s going to be able to drink a pint of beer in the pub.

And that as things stood, he could see absolutely nothing in the data to dissuade him from proceeding along with their roadmap to freedom, unlocking our economy and getting back to the life we love. However, he continued that a third wave was being witnessed in Europe and said that bitter experience has shown him that this could hit the United Kingdom three weeks later.

Asked whether the UK could have a bank holiday called ‘National Hangover Day’ once the pandemic wanes, he said Chancellor Rishi Sunak was pretty keen for people to get back into the office.

And that the general view was that people have had quite a few days off, and it wouldn’t be a bad thing for people to see their way round to making a fleeting stab at getting back into the office.

Shadow employment minister Andy McDonald told a newspaper outlet that Boris Johnson’s comments were cavalier, and that he was attempting to satisfy the libertarian wing of his party on the one hand by talking about getting back to the office, then suggesting he’s being cautious, and that he can’t just toss out comments like this because you can’t ride two horses at once, and that wasn’t leadership, it was just cavalier.

Boris Johnson is so far detached from what’s happening to us real people, living real lives, for example not bankrolled by the gravy train, that we can’t take a word he says seriously.

And as for a haircut, he could at least run a brush through his mop once in a while because if he has no pride in himself, how can he have any pride in what he does.

The Amish Community In Pennsylvania Becomes The First In The US To Achieve Herd Immunity

An Amish community in Pennsylvania has become the first in the US to achieve herd immunity to COVID 19 after 90 per cent of their homes became infected with the virus when they resumed church services late last spring.

The administrator of a medical centre in the heart of the Amish community in New Holland Borough estimates as many as 90 per cent of Plain families have since had at least one family member infected, and that this religious enclave accomplished what no other community in the country has – herd immunity.

And Allen Hoover, an Old Order Mennonite and administrator of the Parochial Medical Centre, a clinic that essentially serves the Plain community said that you would think that if COVID was as infectious as they say, it would go through like a tsunami.

Public health officials and epidemiologists didn’t argue the extensive outbreak Allen Hoover reported, but they voiced concern that misplaced understanding of herd immunity in a population that makes up 8 per cent of Lancaster County may compromise the effort to turn the tide on the pandemic.

As Allen Hoover observed, faith in herd immunity has inspired members of the Plain community to relax on essential mitigation efforts such as masking and social distancing, and they may see little motivation to be vaccinated.

Additionally, it’s unknown whether achieving herd immunity last year would be beneficial now.

Six infectious disease experts with whom LancasterOnline talked to expressed unease with a reliance on the assumption the Plain community had achieved herd immunity, and they pointed out that if that was not the case, prior infection and existing antibodies may give limited protection.

Eric Lofgren, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Washington State University said herd immunity is only valid at a given point in time, and that it wasn’t a switch that once it gets thrown, you’re safe and it will wear off.

This collision of science and personal experience could leave Lancaster County vulnerable just as county health officials attempt to make headway vaccinating residents against COVID 19.

David Lo, professor of biomedical sciences and senior associate dean of research at the University of California, Riverside said that you can have a long period where you believe everything is okay, but you have this entire susceptible population.

David Lo continued that all it takes is one person who’s infectious to give you this sudden outbreak.

This is particularly interesting, and it essentially appears to present the fact that it would be better to simply let the virus run its course, and for the elderly and vulnerable to self-isolate.

But then these people are extremely healthy. They’re slim and active and eat real food, and maybe we wouldn’t expect to see the same outcome in people whose cells are weighed down by insulin and junk food.

And Amish people differ from the rest because they don’t watch TV, and they at least have some common sense. They only fear God, and they absolutely don’t buy into this hype about COVID 19 – they’re living their lives normally.

Boris Johnson Plans To Raise Chewing Gum Tax

A new tax on chewing gum is set to be introduced to help meet the cost of cleaning Britain’s streets.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson hopes to raise more than £100 million from the new scheme which will target gum manufacturers.

About 300,000 pieces of discarded chewing gum can be found on Oxford Street, London at any one time and it takes about three months to clean them all away.

According to a news outlet, the Government intends to recover the costs of disposing of the gum by taxing manufacturers, and hope to make the hundreds of millions of pounds spent on cleaning each year.

Previous proposals for a tax on chewing gum already won support from the Local Government Association and Clean Up Britain campaign.

A Whitehall source told the paper that the new tax would be implemented unless chewing gum manufacturers willingly offer to meet the cost of cleaning gum off Britain’s streets, and they said that there are talks to see if they will cough up voluntarily but officials are now looking at how they would impose a levy.

They want cleaner streets so they can make a significant difference to communities.

The Prime Minister, who’s described gum on streets as monstrous acne of viscous grey blotches, had previously written a newspaper column in 2010 addressing the cost of having a clear away discarded gum, which he termed a plague.

This isn’t the first time chewing gum tax has been proposed by the Government, with former Chancellor Philip Hammond having suggested one in response to tackling plastic waste, and Philip Hammond had been soliciting advice on which products and substances to include in a tax package, with chewing gum one of the options having been considered.

The proposed new tax comes as part of the Prime Minister’s attempt to restore Britain after the pandemic to make it stronger and better.

While relaunching his Government last year, speaking in Dudley, in the West Midlands, the Prime Minister said that, despite the ongoing health difficulties and emerging economic crisis, it was the time to be ambitious about the future.

Boris Johnson said the Government wanted to build, build, build, but added that he would build back better, build back greener, and build back faster.

Additionally, the Government announced a £56 million fund last week to help prop up Britain’s high streets, but shouldn’t they begin with providing more refuse bins and street cleaning operatives before they start fleecing us for any and everything?

So let’s get this right. They’ve made it illegal to leave the country, a draconian law that’s never existed in the last 1,000 years in the United Kingdom. They’ve put the country into an extra half a trillion pounds of debt and they’ve made it illegal to even enter a pub, yet they’re focusing their time on a chewing gum tax.

It’s good to see that our current Tory government are thinking about the important issues of the day.

And it seems that the Tories response to everything is tax, and it’s good to see that Boris Johnson has got his priorities sorted!

Shops To Stay Open Until 10 pm Six Days A Week

Shops will be able to stay open until 10 pm six days a week to turbocharge the high street and help the economy recover.

Robert Jenrick announced that from April 12, extended daily opening hours will be introduced when non-essential retail reopens its doors.

The Communities Secretary said this would further ensure the safe reopening of non-essential shops by giving people greater flexibility to dodge peak times and reducing transport pressures, and a news outlet said that our high streets and town centres are the core of our communities.

Yet over the last year, they’ve mostly fallen silent, with many of our cherished high streets struggling as lockdown and social distancing measures have taken their toll, and that’s why they’re set to do everything they can to support the safe reopening of shopping areas as they carefully move out of lockdown.

And as part of the £56million ‘Welcome Back’ fund, Mr Jenrick is encouraging councils to continue supporting social distancing measures and easing planning rules where possible.

The Government is also extending flexible working hours on construction sites, allowing food deliveries to supermarkets over more time periods, and keeping the flexibility for pubs and restaurants to erect marquees to help increase the seating capacity in a COVID secure way.

The arrangements will continue until June 21, when lockdown is expected to end, although this could be extended.

Of course, we will then see people shopping like fools, spending their money.

And what’s wrong with this government? Because if people are required to work these shifts, then they should be getting paid for it, and they clearly should be getting more than the minimum wage for working unsociable hours.

And working these extra hours will unavoidably cause a few more night crimes.

Of course, these shops are not being made to stay open, but if the shops do choose to stay open, they have to remember that their employees aren’t slaves, and I’m sure there are loads of people who could do with the extra money.

But more importantly, what shops will stay open, there are barely any left to reopen, and the retail sector has been impacted by numerous job losses, and are those shops going to be able to afford staff to cover the extra hours?

What the government should be doing is reducing the rents charged by the greedy commercial property multi-millionaire rentiers, but that’s never going to happen.

And we’re heading backwards pretty fast. It will be 12-hour shifts 6-7 days a week with no sick pay.

Rents and mortgages, in general, are now causing huge debts, and people just can’t afford them anymore because wages don’t meet the prevailing cost of living. It’s just not enough, and now they’ll introduce as many zero contracts as possible and they’ll max out the hours so that they can put money back into the pocket of the wealthy.

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