Coronavirus has mutated into a more dangerous version of the killer disease, leading scientists have warned, amid mounting fears of a second wave.
The novel strain of coronavirus has been identified by researchers in Indonesia, which has prompted one expert to fear positive cases could climb to half a million in the area by the end of the year.
Scientists at the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology have found an infectious but milder D614G mutation of the virus. The new strain of the virus was identified in genome sequencing data from specimens and has additionally been discovered in tests conducted in nearby Singapore and Malaysia.
Syahrizal Syarif, an epidemiologist with the University of Indonesia, has warned the prevailing level of infections is out of control and said current modelling suggests positive cases could climb to 500,000, come the end of December.
Mr Syarif said that the situation was grave and that local transmission was currently out of control. The leading epidemiologist also feared the current figures could be much higher if the capacity for testing was increased.
Indonesia has written more than 172,000 positive cases of COVID 19 since the start of the pandemic, now modelling suggests this could almost treble in the next four months.
Signs of a second wave of coronavirus emerged after the Indonesian capital Jakarta saw a record daily increase of more than 1,000 cases.
Across the country, there were also 2,858 new infections, including 82 deaths. The daily figure was just below the previous high, set a day earlier when 3,308 people tested positive.
Dwi Oktavia, an official at the Jakarta health agency, called on people to stay at home and wear a face mask when they go out in order to stem the outbreak.
He said there needs to be an awareness and a concerted effort, be it from the Government or the people, in addressing the growing number of cases.
The surge in the number of cases across Asia comes as Europe is on the verge of a second wave.
The World Health Organisation has warned the continent is entering a critical moment.
France reported 7,379 new confirmed cases, the most since lockdown, in what the health ministry described as an exponential surge. But a further 5,453 new cases were reported in the country, with the number of patients being admitted into intensive care rising from 387 to 400.
Huge crowds assembled at Trafalgar Square calling for no more lockdowns and no to vaccinations and there seemed to be little social distancing or people donning face masks.
Thousands of anti lockdown demonstrators rallied in central London, claiming coronavirus is a hoax.
The ‘Unite For Freedom’ march began in Trafalgar Square at midday on Saturday, with demonstrators calling for no more lockdowns, no to vaccinations and no to government lies.
Pictures and video’s from the protestors show thousands of people at the famous tourist hotspot, with many holding signs and placards and there seemed to be little or no social distancing amongst the huge crowds and very few seemed to be wearing face coverings.
The brother of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Piers was expected to make a speech and activist Sonia Poulton, who was part of the demonstration, posted a video on Twitter.
She said that people were coming to make their opinions heard against forced vaccinations, compulsory masks, forced anything really. No more lockdowns and no more second wave business.
Notorious conspiracy theorist David Icke was also seen making a speech at Trafalgar Square.
Messages on signs read ‘coronavirus is a hoax’ and no to forced vaccines and masks are muzzles. Other signs read ‘masks reduce immunity’ and ‘masks increase infection risk’.
Despite more than 40,000 deaths in the United Kingdom from coronavirus, another sign said it was ‘fake science’ and COVID 19 can be compared to a ‘bad flu’. Another handmade sign read ‘COVID hoax’.
A flier for the event said that there would be top doctors and nurses speaking the truth against government pushing fears and disregarding science.
@waite_richard tweeted: “Trafalgar Square Now!!! Standup!! No to RNA Vaccines, No to Masks, No to lockdowns!”
There have been numerous anti lockdown demonstrations across the United Kingdom and Europe through the pandemic and earlier this month, unmasked campaigners came together for a ‘freedom gathering’ in protest of the lockdown.
Tens of people gathered in Victoria Square in Birmingham to make their views on face masks known and they gathered around a speaker and a sign which read ‘COVID 19 is a smokescreen for a bigger agenda’.
The speaker said that everyone can’t go to pop concerts until Boris Johnson says so. “What’s that all about? It’s about control, exactly. Many of you already know this”.
“So many people are walking around with masks on. What about the issue of the mask? Do masks protect you? Look at the scientific studies.
“They say they have next to no effect.”
And now it seems like millions are finally waking up about this scamdemic or should we say plandemic.
And we know that there has been a virus, but how many people have really died from it? Plus there’s been lots of confusion, especially by the likes of David Icke and other conspiracy theorists.
However, if COVID 19 was that deadly then they clearly wouldn’t be letting small children go back to school or any children for that matter. And what about all those beaches that were full of thousands of people? We all know viruses love masses of people and by now those people protesting about COVID 19 should be showing some signs of contamination.
The NHS isn’t even treating cancer patients who are now beyond any help to survive and many have died and some elderly people in care homes with COVID 19 were kept from going to the hospital and they were even refused a GP visit and some were even denied oxygen and died a terrible death of suffocation.
Even old people with COVID 19 were sent out of the hospital to a care home to contaminate others as the hospital didn’t want them and don’t forget the public pay for the NHS by taxation and then the NHS stop treatment for people with cancer.
Then we have the Nightingale Hospitals that were built to deal with thousands of people with COVID 19 but then they were left empty, so where is the pandemic?
People might think that protestors have no intelligence but the ones with no brains are the ones that listen to the likes of comedian Matt Hancock, and if he said that we had to eat dog poop because it would stop us from getting COVID 19, would people really do it because this British funnyman said so?
Sir David King, a former chief scientific adviser, criticised the Government’s administration of the crisis and claimed minister’s consciously allowed coronavirus to spread.
Sir David King, who was the Government’s prime scientist from 2000-2007, said the shocking number of deaths was unjust and a total cock-up by the Government.
He said he founded the Independent SAGE group of experts to address the entire mash of the official response in the initial stages of the emergency.
Sir David attacked the Government of supporting the questionable idea of herd immunity, when a huge number of people get the disease, allowing for a level of immunity in the population.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has repeatedly stated that herd immunity was never part of the Government’s coronavirus response but Sir David said the Prime Minister believed in the herd immunity programme and that the Prime Minister said that we had to be prepared for losing some of our loved ones and that every one of us had to be prepared.
So, Sir David said there was that expectation that they consciously allowed the virus to spread and Sir David said he set up the rival body of scientists due to the secrecy encompassing the Government’s SAGE committee at the start of the crisis.
He said the Government certainly didn’t want the public to know that Dominic Cummings was a member of that committee and he said that you shouldn’t have an adviser to the Prime Minister, who isn’t a scientist because then you’ve got two sources of possibly contradictory advice.
Sir David said faith in the Government had been corroded through the pandemic and condemned Boris Johnson for failing to adhere to the truth and he added that it seemed that Boris Johnson always says what he believes is convenient.
Senior Tory backbencher Charles Walker said it had become difficult for Conservative MPs to support the Government due to the climate of uncertainty and he said that too often it looks like the Government licks its fingers and sticks them in the air to see which way the wind is blowing.
And that it had become increasingly difficult for backbenchers to support and defend government’s policy because so often that policy is amended or discarded without warning.
Whether that approach is on purpose or by chance, the climate of uncertainty it creates is unsustainable and corrodes confidence and we’re being butchered by the Government.
And adding to this huge international scare and promoting even more separation and fear into our society is the mainstream media and death and the fear of death brings in the money and the business for these media peers, and for certain Government departments whom, at present, are promoting the virus through mainstream politics and are using the media to spread their agenda.
But not only that, this fella sat back and watched the Government annihilate the people with this virus and now only comes out to condemn the Government, but where was he throughout all of this?
It’s a bit like the NHS chucking infected grannies into care homes to initiate mass carnage – Hitler comes to mind! And they seem to be using the concentration camp guard defence for murder “My boss told me to do it, but I knew they were going to be killed”.
But saying that, Sir David King also seems to be a disgruntled has been and he was nowhere to be seen at the start of this crisis but now appears after the battle to bayonet the wounded.
Education Committee chairman Robert Halfon called on the exams regulator to decide within weeks whether GCSE and A level exams will go ahead next year, following criticism over results chaos.
School exams could be scrapped next summer, a senior Tory MP has announced and he’s asked the under fire regulator Ofqual to conclude by October whether to press ahead with exams or to award grades based on teacher assessments.
It comes amid continued criticism over the Government’s handling of education through the pandemic, which saw ministers deliver a turbulent U-turn on A level results.
Teachers were asked to predict grades for students after exams were cancelled due to the coronavirus. However, some 40 per cent of results were downgraded by a computer algorithm, provoking an outcry over the impact on the fate of thousands of teenagers.
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson originally stood by the results, before making a mortifying U-turn days later and Ofqual boss Sally Collier has stood down following the debacle.
Mr Halfon said that schools, the Department of Education and Ofsted need to work out how much disruption there will be to the students learning in the coming year. He further said that serious investigation needs to be done and that they then need to make an announcement about exams within the next few weeks.
He warned that teens may have fallen too far behind due to months out of school and boosted concerns that a second wave could force students back to home education.
It comes as Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said that children would suffer if they failed to return to school and that if a child isn’t in school, they stand to lose far more than just a few months of education and that it would be a tremendous dent in their future life chances.
He further said that education was a birthright, so he wanted to make sure that they get all children back to school, back to learning, back to playing and back to being kids again.
Gavin Williamson maintained he wasn’t intending to quit despite critique of his record, saying he would continue to graft away.
Teaching unions have blasted the Government for releasing crucial guidance for secondary schools in lockdown zones. The measures include plans for a rota system to reduce student numbers, something ministers had earlier ruled out.
The past six months have been a national catastrophe for education and Robert Halfon gave examples of what he thought had gone wrong in the handling of the coronavirus crisis for schools which he called in some ways a disgrace.
He said that there had been unbelievable efforts by teachers and support staff to continue teaching during the coronavirus school closures, but that not all children were reached.
And Robert Halfon added that they knew that, for one reason or another, millions of children had not been learning and millions of children had not had any contact with their teachers.
Shinzo Abe has resigned as Japan’s Prime Minister after eight years in government.
In a news conference, the Prime Minister said he didn’t want his illness to lead to mistakes with major policy decisions. He also apologised to citizens from the bottom of his heart for not being able to perform his obligations.
The resignation will trigger a leadership race in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the victor of which must be formally elected in parliament.
Japanese stocks have fallen following the announcement prompted concerns amongst investors that his signature monetary and fiscal policy programme, Abenomics, might cease after he leaves office.
Concerns about his health began after he went to the hospital twice.
Officials from the governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) had attempted to squash speculation that Mr Abe may be unable to serve out the rest of his term, due to end in September 2021.
One of Mr Abe’s hospital visits is known to have lasted approximately eight hours.
The Japanese leader is known to suffer from ulcerative colitis, a lifelong condition.
The severity of his condition was partially responsible for forcing him out of office after just a year during his previous term as prime minister in 2007.
The Prime Minister’s deputy, finance minister Taro Aso, is expected to take over as acting Prime Minister. However, his departure is almost guaranteed to spark a leadership race in the LDP.
The Japanese Prime Minister made his most recent hospital visit on the same day he became Japan’s longest-serving leader and Shinzo Abe broke the record for consecutive days in office set by his great uncle, Eisaku Sato, half a century ago.
A senior LDP member said that Mr Abe’s condition seemed to have flared up again but that he was now on the mend but that he was probably exhausted mentally.
The government’s chief spokesperson, Yoshihide Suga, said he had met Mr Abe twice a day and hadn’t seen anything that showed he was in bad shape.
The media have quoted government sources as saying Mr Abe would consult with doctors again, probably over the phone before he’s due to speak to reporters.
The Japanese Prime Minister is also expected to defend his handling of the coronavirus pandemic amid an apparent second wave of new infections in Tokyo – Mr Abe hasn’t briefed the media on the coronavirus crisis since mid-June.
Offices could offer regular coronavirus testing to help get Brits back to work following pressure from Boris Johnson to get staff behind desks.
The Government will urge companies to launch a regular testing drive amongst their workers to help keep the economy on course if there are spikes in coronavirus through the winter.
And there’s been meetings between business managers and Whitehall officials over how to roll out the extensive use of mobile testings units in factories and offices around the nation.
Employers who have their workers regularly tested could even be permitted to stay open in the event of a local lockdown and director-general of the British Chambers of Commerce Adam Marshall said companies could embrace the idea but only if the Government guarantees the cost of tests are cheap.
He said that they’re supportive of the ramp-up of testing if that helps businesses evade blanket future lockdowns.
A standard swab test currently costs about £100, which is out of the budget of all but the wealthiest companies such as Formula One, the Premier League and a handful of City of London businesses, who have brought in regular testing.
But the rate at which testing is being developed to allow faster swab results has led to hope costs could plunge and be accessible to more companies and acting Head of the Institute of Directors Edwin Morgan said the important issue is who pays for it?
And he said that if bigger companies want to do it voluntarily, then great, but if you’re a smaller company, lots of them still aren’t in excellent shape and it’s much more difficult.
Office buildings around the country have stayed empty since lockdown was introduced on March 23 and a fresh study of 8,000 adults from eight countries has revealed that workers in the United Kingdom and the US are least likely to want to return to the office.
The study, done by ManPowerGroup, discovered that the main reason people didn’t want to go back to the workplace was because of concern over a second wave.
About 73 per cent of British workers had adverse feelings about returning to the office, compared to only 54 per cent in Germany.
The Prime Minister’s deputy spokesperson said workers should start asking their employers when they can return to pile pressure onto bosses to get offices COVID safe and he said anyone who can’t work from home should have a COVID safe workplace they can do their job from.
Since the beginning of time the human race has developed it’s working methods, previously it was to maximise profit for employers or to save the Government money, for example, to move to industrialisation, relocating to other countries and shutting down industries, for example, coal mining.
As a consequence of this transformation which was damaging to both the individuals affected up to the community that was shut down.
Throughout these times government assistance was minimal if anything at all. The effects were intense and continued for years. Then along came COVID 19 and the Government messed up the crisis management of that in the early stages.
Businesses now have a duty of care for workers and with that in mind, they’re developing new working methods that reduces or eliminates the risk and protects employees.
The negative side is some industries will suffer and people will suffer a loss which will increase costs to the country but with time, help and support to the affected, this country will recover, that’s what we do.
Tony L Lavoie, from Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was purportedly caught having sexual relations with his mum, Cheryl Lavoie, aged 64, on May 20.
The 43-year-old, who lived with his mum at the same address, said it was the first time the incident had happened.
Tony Lavoie said that he doesn’t know what happen, it just happened.
The police were originally summoned to the house to respond to a disturbance, and an officer was met by the cousin of Tony Lavoie’s spouse.
The cousin told the officer that Tony Lavoie’s wife had called her after she wandered in on the pair.
The officer spoke to the mum and son individually, the local paper reported, and both admitted they’d had consensual sexual relations.
Cheryl Lavoie said the incident had occurred as the pair had become closer over the past few months, and they began having sex when they started kissing.
Fitchburg police charged the mother and son with incest and issued them a summons to appear at Fitchburg District Court on August 20, the charge is a felony. The couple were arraigned and released on personal recognisance.
The judge ordered them to stay away from one another, according to the court records. They both pleaded not guilty and will return to court on October 27 for a pretrial hearing.
A person convicted of incest in the state can be imprisoned for up to 20 years.
Talk about keeping it in the family. Mind you, if you saw these two without the headlines you might question if they were all the ticket.
So, to summerise, this man does the Hockey Pockey with his mumsy, the wife discovers them and does the right thing and reports him to the police instead of setting her husbands bits ablaze, then got angry with Facebook for making the husband leave her.
We hear stories like this about people, but you don’t really think they exist and if they put everyone in jail for incest, there wouldn’t be a Trump voter left south of the Mason Dixon line.
And to quote Donald Trump, he said that if Ivanka wasn’t his daughter, perhaps he’d be dating her but then Donald Trump does like to date tall, slim and blonde women and Ivanka Trump is blonde, slim and tall.
And for anyone who has ever seen a syllogism, this should be pretty evident that Ivanka would be an apparent preference for Donald Trump, obviously if she wasn’t his daughter, and this is precisely what Donald Trump said – you don’t expect Donald Trump to change his dating preferences, do you?
But this seemingly wouldn’t satisfy some of us, but lets for the purpose of discussion assume Donald Trump did indeed say he would date Ivanka, so what, this is none of your or my business but an issue between two consenting adults.
And for all those who moan about how Donald Trump’s offensive and repugnant words make him unfit to be the President – should someone be judged for harmless acts, simply because someone else finds them offensive?
And if that’s the case, do you also believe it’s okay to be against homosexuals and transgenders, just because some people find it offensive?
I’m not a Trump fan by any stretch of the imagination, but the hypocrisy of some who raise a hue and cry because they think Donald Trump dating his daughter is gross, but are keen to disparage those who find homosexuality and transgender people gross and don’t embrace it are annoying.
They seem to like to keep it in the family over there in America, I can hear the banjos going in the background but on a much more serious note, this is clearly a case of Oedipus complex which is usually attributed to children of approximately the ages of three to five, but this normally ends when the child identifies with the parent of the same sex and represses their sexual desires.
Oedipus Complex can linger into adulthood though but it can be cured in psychoanalytical treatment but when the Oedipus Complex has not been resolved, an unhealthy obsession can grow and remain.
This leads to boys becoming fixated on their mothers and girls becoming fixated on their fathers, causing them to prefer romantic partners that mirror their opposite-sex parent as adults.
The standard pathology of mum is that she did everything for you and there’s nothing outside of a mother aside from nurturing their infants, but when she just wants to keep them as her infants, then there’s something wrong.
And this is indeed an ugly thing for a mother to keep her children infants forever because children need to develop independence and competency far exceeding that of a feeble infant.
The dad’s job is to break the infant bond by encouraging his son to embrace competency, vitality and self-confidence and a good mother who is both emotionally strong and shall we say not crazy will encourage the male bonding experiences as well and know to back off and let go when needed.
And when a boy grows into a man with an overprotective, oppressive mother, he becomes the ideal and moral anti-patriarchal, feminist white knight that the Social Justice masses would like him to be.
The only thing that a man with such a mother internalises is Toxic Shame in the form of unconscious messages, “I’m no good, I’m incompetent. I need a woman to take care of me because I’m sick and weak and just a little infant on the inside”.
The Oedipus man doesn’t want a woman, he needs one because he needs to be taken care of emotionally and in severe cases may live with his mother until he’s thirty years or older.
The rest of us will just move out and date women after women who serve as a mum in some such capacity.
If you take two males who are total pigs, their lives literally a mess, financially and emotionally. One male tosses his filthy clothes on the floor instead of putting them away in the basket but on the weekends, his sweetheart comes over, pesters him about his sloppy ways but then would pick up his clothes and wash them for him.
This seems to be the adulthood re-enactment of sh*tting all over oneself because as an infant we defecate in our nappies and mummy cleans up the nappy sh*t but as an adult, this man will find an adult level representation for the same things and his literal sh*t becomes a ritualised fetish for sh*t so that he can participate in the infant routine where he plays the infant and his girlfriend plays the care taking mum.
On a cloudy day in late July Nigel Farage, the eurosceptic, anti-immigration leader of the Brexit party, attempted and failed to stay at a hotel in Worcestershire.
He attempted to reserve a room at the 4 star Bromsgrove Hotel and Spa, but it was closed to the public. It turns out it was accommodating 147 illegal migrants and the taxpayer is paying for it.
In an accompanying, 10-minute video Nigel Farage could be seen travelling to the site on the alleged insistence of local residents while making a number of allegations about the state of immigration in the United Kingdom.
But does his central contention, that the UK taxpayer is footing this multi-billion pound bill to put up illegal migrants in four-star hotels hold up to scrutiny?
And while many of the claims Nigel Farage makes in his video are a complex mixture of inebriated figures and statistics used to support his points of view, his assertion that the hotel is populated by illegal immigrants seems to be amongst the easiest to debunk.
The Britannia owned Bromsgrove Hotel and Spa is, as a number of hotels across the country, is used to temporarily house asylum seekers, according to the government and the site’s operators, Serco.
Unlike irregular migrants who may be in violation of the law, asylum seekers are those striving to legitimately and legally make a claim for sanctuary in the United Kingdom, for instance, to flee oppression.
Interim accommodation has long been a part of the asylum application process and makes up part of the UK’s international obligations to protect those seeking asylum. And those asking for asylum are unable to work while they’re being processed by the Home Office, so they’re housed by the taxpayer until their application is either approved or declined.
In the video, Nigel Farage repeatedly says the hotel is housing 147 young men, at one point adding that they’re mostly in amid the ages of 18 and 26. However, it’s unclear how he would have reached that number, with Serco staff later confronted by the politician saying they’re unable to reveal data on those staying at the locality.
There’s no publicly accessible detail on how many people are currently staying in the building, although the hotel had 148 rooms when it was open to the public and after being turned away from the hotel, he said that as he wandered into the hotel, he was not welcomed and was told it was closed, but of course, it’s not closed because all 147 beds are taken, making it probable the figure was, in fact, the number of rooms Nigel Farage had been unable to book on their website.
Also, staff and families were left in tears when asylum-seekers moved out of the Rivenhall Hotel in Witham.
The director of the hotel which housed 40 asylum seekers spoke out after backlash led to their removal and Nigel Farage annihilated Priti Patel by posting a video about Rivenhall Hotel in Witham, where he alleged illegal immigrants were living.
The families who’d been staying at the hotel were in fact approved asylum seekers and arrived at the hotel under a pre-arranged agreement on August 11 but the Home Office promptly reacted to the furore, maintaining the placement of the asylum seekers in Priti Patel’s constituency was an oversight.
This led to all 40 individuals seeking asylum being forced to move out of the Rivenhall Hotel on Sunday (August 16).
Mark Venkatasami, the director of Rivehall, said both the asylum seekers and employees were left in tears as they were sent onto coaches to be removed from the site.
And in the week they were at the hotel, Mark Venkatasami said the asylum seekers arrived distressed and starving.
Over the coming days, he heard horrific stories of their time in their home countries where they had escaped from.
According to the Refuge Council, a person seeking asylum is a person who’s left their country of birth and has formally asked for asylum in another country but whose application has not yet been concluded.
They further state that there’s no such thing as an illegal or bogus asylum seeker and under international law, anyone has the right to ask for asylum in any country that has signed the 1951 Convention and to remain there until the authorities have assessed their application.
The Refuge Council also states that it’s recognised in the 1951 Convention that people escaping oppression may have to use unconventional means in order to escape and claim asylum in another country as there’s no legitimate way to travel to the United Kingdom for the specific purpose of seeking asylum.
Mark Venkatasami said as the days went on, he watched them start to settle in before they were removed less than a week later, but not only have those few days shrouded the hotel in negativity, he also claims, it also left his hotel empty, with no work for his employees post lockdown.
The plan to house the asylum seekers in his hotel, he said was to help save the hotel, keep his employees in work as well as provide a secure place for those seeking asylum and the staff and families were in tears as the asylum seekers were moved on, and because of Nigel Farage’s stunt, the staff at the hotel face job losses and possible liquidation.
Sweden, which controversially never went into lockdown and has rejected the use of masks, currently has a 14-day case rate of 36.6 per 100,000, according to data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
In France, that rate is 59.8 per 100,000 despite implementing a stringent lockdown and stringent mask measures.
Spain’s 14-day case rate is 152.7 and the United Kingdom is 22.3.
Arne Elofsson, a professor in biometrics at Stockholm University, said that Sweden was doing fine and that stringent rules don’t work as people seem to break them.
The Scandinavian country recorded 399 new cases on Friday and 258 on Saturday but Stefan Lofven, the Prime Minister, insisted on Friday their response to the pandemic was right.
He told a newspaper the strategy that they’ve chosen, he believes is right, so that they can protect people and limit the spread of the virus and that what had been discussed most and what they did differently in Sweden, was that, they didn’t close schools and there are now quite a few people who believe they were right.
From the start of the global outbreak, Sweden began voluntary social distancing rules, home working and recommendations for people to circumvent public transportation.
The mandatory rules there were brought in introduced an embargo on groups of more than 50 people, constraints on visiting care homes, and table only service in bars and restaurants.
However, the decision to not lockdown has come with consequences.
A sum of 5,810 Swedes have perished of COVID 19, significantly higher than its neighbours in Norway, Denmark and Finland.
Anders Tegnell, the top epidemiologist leading the response to Sweden’s pandemic, maintained the infection rates of Spain, Belgium and France have increased after mask mandates in public spaces came in.
And he said the belief that masks can solve their problem is very dangerous and when looking at the total number of people contaminated since the pandemic started, Sweden has one of the highest figures in Europe with 843 cases per 100,000.
That’s more than double of France, registering 349 cases per 100,000. However, Anders Tegnell claims the higher level of cases indicates a kind of resistance among the people by people carrying antibodies for COVID 19.
Anders Tegnell told the ‘Unherd’ website that they’re now seeing in Sweden a speedy decline in the number of cases, and of course, some kind of immunity must be responsible for that, since nothing else has changed.
Well done Sweden, it’s a pity Britain bottled it. It would have saved thousands of lives from Cancer, Strokes, Heart Attacks and suicides, that’s all before the recession started to destroy us as well.
Sweden, which controversially never went into lockdown and rejected the use of face masks, currently has a 14-day case rate of 36.6 per 100,000 but then Sweden has huge advantages.
A population density that’s a fraction of ours, 12 times less, in fact, and a population that’s responsible and takes its civic responsibility seriously.
Almost half of them live on their own, homes of 1 and their Government did inflict some constraints. Yet they have twice our infection rate – they have 575 deaths per million, we have 610, so they haven’t done all that well.
And why does the media keep reporting these figures as though it’s a competition? And how can Sweden, with a population of 10,099,265 people compare with a country such as the United Kingdom?
We have almost that amount of people living in London and UK communities are much more densely crowded than in Sweden, although Stockholm is pretty congested, particularly in the suburbs where there’s a lot of immigrants living and it seems as if the comparisons are worthless except if people are interested in the more obscure truths.
However, the Swedish government has been remarkably clever and it’s the elderly that have passed away, thus the Swedish government has saved millions on nursing homes and services for the elderly in need, which seems to be a financial gain of format.
Researchers say there’s no safe level of caffeine consumption for those who are expecting or trying for a baby and they discovered the mind-altering substance is linked to an increased chance of miscarriage, stillbirth, low birth weight and leukaemia.
It may also increase the chances of childhood obesity.
NHS guidelines say 200mg of caffeine a day, which is equal to two cups of instant coffee will not cause harm. However, other health officials such as the European Food Safety Authority and the American and UK Colleges of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists advise limiting caffeine but say that it doesn’t have to be erased altogether.
But Professor Jack James, from Reykjavik University, in Iceland, has called for the advice to be entirely altered following his evaluation.
He examined 48 earlier studies from the past two decades that studied the impact of caffeine on pregnancy outcomes.
Any caffeine risks harming the baby but the risks increase as more is consumed, the study suggests.
Even 200mg a day seemed to increase the risk of miscarriage by up to 28 per cent and stillbirth by up to 38 per cent.
Professor James said current evidence doesn’t support assumptions about safe levels of maternal caffeine consumption and the increasing scientific evidence supports advice to pregnant women and women considering pregnancy to sidestep caffeine.
The experts acknowledge women who consume caffeine may be more likely to have other unhealthy addictions, such as smoking.
Some experts, however, strongly disagree with the findings of the study and claim that caffeine has been in the human diet for a long time and that various substances found in normal diets can also be dangerous to pregnancies.
Caffeine is found naturally in some foods and beverages, such as tea, coffee and chocolate. It’s also added to some energy drinks, cold and flu medications and some soft beverages.
Doctors warn many substances in a normal diet can be dangerous in high dosages and there’s little indication a small amount of caffeine is unhealthy and Dr Daghni Rajasingham, from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said the conclusions of the study add to the large body of evidence that supports limited caffeine consumption throughout pregnancy.
However, pregnant women don’t need to totally cut out caffeine as it’s suggested and just because the safe limit isn’t known, it doesn’t mean it can’t be safely consumed.
If a single cup of coffee made a difference we would have billions of cases around the globe in the last few decades, since virtually every pregnant woman in modern history has had either consumed coffee or tea throughout their pregnancy and it makes you question how the human race has lasted this long before scientists began telling us what to do.
Who finances these ludicrous findings, and what are pregnant women expected to drink now – water? And we appear to be getting contradictory advice on what’s safe to eat and drink but the best guiding principle in life is everything in moderation.
And if we took any notice of all this foolishness, we would all be suffering – have you seen the state of people today? Coffee and tea are the least of our problems, with sugar-filled beverages and alcoholic drinks being more of a problem, along with Genetically Modified Foods.
And if it was as dangerous as they’re saying it is, the population would be half the size and I wonder how much money is being wasted doing this research? Loads of women drink Coffee and Tea throughout their pregnancy and guess what, they’re children are fine and these researchers should quit trying to intimidate people.
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