Ashley Judd In Hospital Following A Catastrophic Accident

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reprieve For Alabama Death Row Prisoner Requesting Pastor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

White Tiger Cubs Possibly Died Of COVID

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Contraceptive Pill Could Soon Be Sold Over The Counter

The contraceptive Pill could soon be sold over the counter without a prescription.

A move to make two brands available without written authorisation is under development, the Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency stated.

The drugs companies concerned have asked for their progestogen-only contraceptive Pill to be reclassified from prescription to pharmacy products.

The move, which is the first of its kind, would allow over the counter sale under the supervision of a qualified pharmacist.

Drugs company Maxwellia is looking to make its Lovima contraceptive prescription free and HRA Pharma wants the same for its Hana Brand.

It’s been welcomed by consumer healthcare association PAGB, which described the move as a landmark opportunity in women’s health.

Chief executive Michelle Riddalls stated that they were fully backing the reclassification requests, shifting stocks from prescription-only to make them available over the counter, once their safety and efficacy have been rigorously evaluated and established, and that this was a positive move.

She said that it would allow people to self-care where appropriate, reducing inconvenience for people and protecting NHS resources such as GP appointments for those who require them most.

She continued that the applications by Maxwellia and HRA Pharma have special importance as they’re the first to seek over the counter licences for any kind of daily contraceptive Pill, 60 years after the Pill in its original form was made available via prescription on the NHS for married women only.

And that the MHRA consultation serves as a landmark moment in women’s health and one which they hope will be viewed positively.

A qualified pharmacist would supervise any purchase and use a checklist to identify women who can be safely supplied with the drug, and both brands would be available for women of childbearing age, which would also include adolescents who meet the criteria for supply.

The MHRA said that for under 18s, and especially those under 16, who needed the Pill it remained necessary to confirm that the girl was not being exploited or abused.

Around nine in ten women in England, around 3.1 million who are on contraception take the Pill, figures from 2018 show.

The traditional progestogen-only Pill prevents pregnancy by thickening the mucus in the cervix to prevent sperm from reaching an egg, and it needs to be taken reliably every day and is 99 per cent effective if taken correctly.

However, does this mean that it will cost more than the prescription price, and will the drug company’s get even more money, or is it a brilliant idea and the NHS will save a fortune now that they don’t have to subsidise it?

But then wouldn’t it be much cheaper to subsidise it, than unplanned or unwanted pregnancies in the long run? And the problem that I can see is the increase of single mums purchasing the Pill cheaper online without even knowing what they’re being supplied with.

And for some, the Pill can make you especially unwell, and is this a safe approach, especially when it influences mood, weight and health, and sometimes some colossal side effects, and this sounds like a lot of faffing about than simply visiting a GP and letting the professionals deal with it all, and also I wonder what the apothecaries think about being lumbered with all the additional work and responsibility.

And they’re saying that it will be a lot less strain on the NHS and GPs, but that’s not true because it’s usually the nurse that you go to see and then it’s put on repeat prescription if the type of contraceptive Pill you’ve been put on is effective and doesn’t cause any side effects, and usually, you’re asked some questions, such as, is there any history of cervical cancer in the family, and if so, then normally you’re not allowed to have the Pill, and another alternative is offered.

Impeachment Hearing

House impeachment managers rested their case against Donald Trump on Thursday, concluding that the deadly Capitol assault he stands accused of inciting was the culmination of a presidency plagued by dishonesty and violent rhetoric, and warning gravely that he would remain a threat to American democracy if not sentenced and banned from holding future office.

With an impassioned appeal to the senators, who were serving as both jurors and witnesses to the alleged high crime at the centre of Donald Trump’s second impeachment, the nine managers appointed to prosecute the House’s case declared Donald Trump overwhelmingly guilty of encouraging the 6 January riot.

Congressman Jamie Raskin, the lead impeachment manager, asked the senators seated silently before him that if they thought this was not impeachable, then what is? What would be?

He maintained, that if they didn’t find it a high crime and misdemeanor, then they’ve set a new, terrible example for presidential misconduct in the United States of America.

Over two days, they gave a methodical description of Donald Trump’s month’s long crusade to persuade his followers the election had been stolen, and when all other endeavours to overturn his electoral defeat failed, Donald Trump summoned his faithful followers to Washington for a demonstration on 6 January, his last stand.

Hours before Congress met to certify Joe Biden’s success that day, Donald Trump urged the masses to fight like hell to stop the steal.

Congressman Joe Neguse, one of the managers said that when President Trump stood up at that podium on 6 January, he knew that many in the crowd were inflamed, were armed and were ready for violence. It was a dangerous situation and he knew it.

On their second full day of arguments, the prosecutors turned to the words of the rebels themselves as proof they were acting at Donald Trump’s direction and they played several new video clips and pointed to legal documents and media accounts in which the attackers said they were following Donald Trump’s wishes.

One rebel yells at a police officer that they were invited there and that he would be happy. Another said that they were fighting for Donald Trump.

Diana DeGette, a Democratic congresswoman from Colorado said that they didn’t shy from their crimes, because they believed they were following orders from the commander in chief, and that they came because he told them to.

One most likely consequence of this impeachment will be proof that a preponderance of the Grand Old Party Senators are self-serving subservient liars and fantasists, because Donald Trump’s guilt, as charged via his impeachment, is quite simply, even completely apparent beyond all reasonable doubt, so let’s see if those Senators prove us wrong.

And the crowds were following Donald Trump to the brink of a cliff, and when they got there, Donald Trump said jump.

There are two types of Trump followers. One will stay silent and the second will act like gremlins, but they both have one thing in common, to defeat the Republican Party.

They just want a Trumpian Grand Old Party, but perhaps their fantasies are deliberate and intentional lies, rather than true beliefs that would indicate genuine delusion, but of course, many of his disciples are genuinely delusional as well.

Four years of Donald Trump has shown the prevalence of some fairly horrifying far-right ideology in US society, and I’m not sure the Jack can be so easily put back in the Box, but I do hope that I’m wrong.

Unfortunately, I think a decision has already been made, and Donald Trump will be found innocent regardless of the evidence.

Donald Trump was right when he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight on a busy street and he still wouldn’t lose any votes and no one would do a thing.

The Woman Who Kept Toddler In Cage

A two-year-old boy was kept in a homemade cage and another toddler was left riddled with injuries during a horrific catalogue of neglect.

A news outlet reported that evil Claire Boyle trapped the toddler in a modified cot, maintaining the cage was for the boy’s protection.

A second child, who escaped the neglect, was found to be so seriously bruised doctors thought he might have a blood disorder.

Previously a court learned that Claire Boyle had tried to sell a child for £1 million and had shaken him, screamed at him and abandoned him.

It only came to light after a four-year-old boy escaped from the flat by squeezing through a six-inch gap in the window and dropping four feet to the ground.

He was discovered alone in the street in his pJ’s in the rain after escaping the property.

When taken to hospital to be checked over, doctors found so many bruises they thought he may have blood cancer or a blood clotting disorder.

Dr Christine Findlay, a consultant paediatrician with NHS Ayrshire and Arran, said there were fingertip injuries on the four-year-old boy which suggested a child having been grabbed.

The paediatrician said the boy had so many bruises, doctors thought he may have an underlying medical condition which predisposed the child to bleed, a blood disorder, like haemophilia or leukaemia.

Boyle claimed the older boy self-harmed and the cot was modified to protect the younger boy and is now facing jail after racking up her third conviction for child neglect.

The 34-year-old and her partner Timothy Johnston, 57, were both sentenced to neglect on Thursday after a hearing at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court.

The court heard a passer-by spotted the older boy alone in saturated nightwear in a street in Newmilns, Ayrshire, on October 3, 2018.

They alerted police, leading to an inquiry and when officers entered the home they discovered a younger child ensnared in the makeshift cage in a bedroom.

Giving evidence, Police Constable Adam Peppard said that the toddler’s nappy was full and hanging low and he was upset and that he was inside a makeshift cot, and that the bottom of the cot had been removed and strapped to the top to prevent the child from getting out, and that it had been turned into a very dangerous cage.

Now, this couple will be shoved into a cage, but that just won’t be good enough because these children have suffered at the hands of monsters, and these children will now suffer for the rest of their lives – this kind of abuse never goes away.

And it’s beyond me why some people are so evil to even think of hurting a child in this way when children are so precious, and once again, these children have been let down by social services – I mean, how many convictions did this woman need before something was done for these children?

Why was this woman and these children not being closely monitored?

There are no words for people like this, they should be put in prison and never be released again.

Social Services let her have her children with her, knowing she had other neglect convictions, how is that even possible? And if Social Services are allowing this to happen, what future have these children got?

She needs to be sterilised and given a life sentence, and Social Services need to be investigated.

These people are monsters of the highest degree, and perhaps they should be put in cages to be poked, prodded and punched every day, till they’re black and blue, then see how they like it.

POSTMAN PRAT

A postman left a helpless pensioner lying in the snow in biting temperatures after a bad fall because he was too knackered to help her.

Shocking footage showed the Royal Mail worker ignoring elderly Patricia Stewart despite her pleas for help. He then left the scene without giving her a hand, leaving Patricia Stewart to the mercy of the Baltic weather conditions in Falkirk, Scotland.

In the video, he said to her that he couldn’t help, he was too knackered.

Patricia Stewart’s love ones were left seething and slammed the disgusting clip as they blasted the postie for his actions, with Royal Mail now investigating.

The OAP’s niece Sheryl told on social media how the OAP was helped inside by a kind-hearted Hermes worker a short time later, who then fetched a neighbour.

Sheryl told a news outlet that she was appalled and outraged and that she’d been looking after her aunt since September.

She said that she didn’t think it seemed right at first because she didn’t think anyone would leave a 72-year-old on the ground, but then she saw the video and she was in disbelief, and that if she hadn’t have seen the video, she wouldn’t have believed it, and that it beggars belief, and she said that she didn’t know what this man was thinking, it was bizarre.

She wrote on Facebook that here was their postman this morning. Her aunt had fallen and was laying on the path in the snow, and that if you listen to the video closely you’ll hear the postman telling her Aunt that he couldn’t help her because he’d been working since x time this morning in this weather, and then walked away leaving her 72-year-old mother in the snow.

She said that fortunately the Hermes girl appeared shortly after and done what the postman should have and called on a neighbour to assist, and she said thank goodness for that girl because this could have been a very different situation if she hadn’t turned up when she did.

She said that she didn’t have the words for how disgusting it was, for a human being to treat another human being in this way, words failed her.

Sheryl said that her aunt was feeling much better after her fall, as messages of support flooded in from Royal Mail workers across the country.

Hopefully, Royal Mail will soon have a vacancy when they fire this man. However, on the other hand, perhaps he was obeying the 2m rule, so maybe Boris Johnson will be praising him, personally.

This man should be fired because it was a horrible thing that he did, but I bet there will be some loophole and they won’t be able to sack him, as it’s not in his contract to pick people up off the floor, but what despicable human behaviour.

There might be 2-metre distancing, but this woman was vulnerable and had it been someone who’d got stabbed in front of you and was bleeding to death, are you going to be like “Oh I can’t help because of the two-metre distancing”, or “Sorry, but I’m too tired”.

I’m surprised he didn’t lean over her and put a note through the door, saying I couldn’t have cared less.

We know he was just a man working, but failing to help or call on others to help, that’s not the action of anyone who can be called a man.

Meghan Markle Court Case

The Duchess of Sussex sued Associated Newspaper Ltd (ANL), the publisher of The Mail on Sunday and MailOnline over several printed news articles which published portions of a handwritten letter she sent her father back in August 2018.

She’s been seeking damages for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over five articles, which were published in February 2019 and included extracts of the letter.

The whole case was scheduled to be heard at the High Court this month, but the matter was postponed until autumn 2021 due to a private reason.

Mr Justice Warby decreed that publishing Meghan’s letters to her father was manifestly excessive and therefore unlawful, and the judge said that it was, in short, a personal and private letter.

The preponderance of what was printed was about the claimant’s behaviour, her feelings of distress about her father’s behaviour, as she saw it, and the resulting rift between them, and Mr Justice Warby said that these were essentially private and personal matters.

He ruled that the claimant had a reasonable expectation that the contents of the letter would remain private, and he stated the Mail articles interfered with that reasonable expectation.

The judge continued that there was no possibility that a different judgment would be reached following the trial. Mr Justice Warby also determined that the publication of the letter did violate her copyright.

However, the judge added the issue of whether Meghan was the sole author of the letter or Jason Knauf, formerly communications secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, was co-author should be decided at a trial.

He said the court was satisfied, however, that there should be a case restricted to matters relating to the ownership of copyright.

After the decision was announced, the Duchess of Sussex said in a statement that after two long years of pursuing litigation, she was thankful to the courts for holding Associated Newspapers and The Mail on Sunday to account for their legal and dehumanising methods.

She said that those tactics and those of their sister publications MailOnline and the Daily Mail were not new and that in fact, they’d been going on for far too long without consequences.

And that for those outlets, it was a game, but for her and so many others, it was real life, real relationships, and real sadness because of the damage that they’ve done and proceeding to do that runs deep.

It seems the media goes way too far. What the world needs is reliable, fact-checked, high-quality news, but all we get these days is misleading information, witch hunts and nonsense, but they will continue to print more Meghan Markle stories and feed them to the public because it’s the way the newspaper industry and social media works. After all, interaction means interest, and nothing stays secret for long, it always gets out in the end.

This letter was a private correspondence between father and daughter. However, where does one draw the line between using the newspapers to wash one’s soiled linen in public to get the side of the story they’re thrilled to share and then they cry foul play, where some little titbit is published from the other side, and if you play with fire, you get burnt in the process.

Meghan Markle may have won the battle for now but she’s yet to win the war, but perhaps that war is not just from the newspapers but also British gossipers and hypocrites.

Harry and Meghan aren’t in exile, they just want to live their lives and not be scrutinised by someone or the newspapers every time they go out of their home – after all, that’s what’s meant when you say a private life, but when on social media then they must expect some backlash somewhere by someone.

NHS Breast Surgeon, 57, Who Was Fired After Setting Patient On Fire

An NHS surgeon was sacked after a patient was accidentally set on fire during an operation has won almost £65,000 in a race and unfair dismissal claim.

Breast specialist Obi Iwuchukwu, 57, was suspended after a woman sustained significant burns whilst he operated on her in August 2013.

Mr Obi Iwuchukwu had used an alcohol antiseptic on the patient that ignited like a flash of lightning when he then endeavoured to use a heated surgical tool to sterile wounds.

All personnel involved in the incident at the South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Trust hospital received counselling, an employment tribunal heard.

More than five years later, after a long legal action, the surgeon has won compensation, successfully demonstrating that he’d been unjustly dismissed and racially discriminated against by the hospital trust.

However, the damages he will get are nowhere near the £5 million he was originally seeking.

The latest tribunal in Newcastle heard that Mr Iwuchukwu, formerly from Nigeria, began work in Sunderland as a general surgeon with an interest to breast surgery in 2007.

During his time there he had several run-ins with co-workers, the panel was told.

This involved an incident in which he clashed with a German co-worker who told him that they weren’t working out of a hut in the Congo, which Mr Iwuchukwu answered that Britain was not like Nazi Germany.

The tribunal also heard how co-workers had started to have concerns about Mr Iwuchukwu’s performance, in particular the number of complications his patients suffered after surgery. Then on a fateful day in August 2013, a grave incident took place during an operation he was conducting.

The tribunal panel was told that during the operation he was handed alcohol, rather than an aqueous, based antiseptic solution which he applied to the patient.

He then used a diathermy pen which targets electrically induced heat to prevent the wound from bleeding. It ignited the alcohol preparation and the patient suffered a significant burn.

It was described in the subsequent investigation as though a flash of lightning had entered the theatre. All staff were given counselling.

The hospital suspended Mr Iwuchukwu, the only black man of African birth working there, and began a string of investigations before concluding in November that year that system error rather than individual human error was mostly to blame.

Despite this, the hospital continued with the surgeon’s suspension without evaluating whether he could return to work in some fashion.

He had various problems with his co-workers and patients – would you want him operating on you? And it’s of no surprise the NHS is short of money because of all these payouts, and no one stated how much the patient was paid out.

The surgeon was given the wrong solution by another member of staff whilst operating. It wasn’t his job to check, the operating theatre should have been kitted out for that particular surgery before he even entered the room, and then suddenly it became a racist matter, but what about the poor patient?

However, patients do sign consent forms before any surgeries, in case something goes wrong, although I’m sure it didn’t say on the form ‘In case we set you on fire’.

PRINCE CHARLES AND CAMILLA HAVE HAD FIRST COVID VACCINE DOSE

Clarence House has confirmed that the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwell have had their first dose of COVID 19 vaccinations.

Prince Charles, 72, and Camilla, 73, are both in the fourth priority groups for the jabs, given they’re both over the age of 70.

Details about where the vaccines were given and which version was given have not been made known.

News of the couple’s first jab comes after Prince Charle’s parents, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, were vaccinated last month.

The 94-year-old ruler and Prince Philip, 99, were given the coronavirus jab at Windsor Castle, and Buckingham Palace, which seldom comments on private health issues concerning the royal family, also announced that the vaccinations were given by a royal household doctor.

Prince Charles tested positive for coronavirus in March last year.

Clarence House stated at the time explaining that the Prince of Wales was exhibiting mild signs and was isolating at the Birkhall residence in Scotland.

A Clarence House spokesperson said at the time that he’d been exhibiting mild symptoms but otherwise remained in good health and had been working from home.

The spokesperson said that the Duchess of Cornwall had been tested but didn’t have the virus and that following Government and medical advice, the Prince and the Duchess were now self-isolating at home in Scotland and that the tests were carried out by the NHS in Aberdeenshire where they met the criteria needed for testing.

The spokesperson explained that it wasn’t possible to ascertain from whom the prince caught the virus owing to the large number of engagements he carried out in his public role during the weeks prior.

Regardless of which version of the vaccine the royal couple were given, they will require a second dose to be completely vaccinated.

But surely everyone going to work should be a priority to keep this country afloat. The Queen and Prince Philip can shield because they have no financial concerns, and this has all become a little irritating.

The idea was to protect the elderly and vulnerable, with the top four tiers they fit into because they couldn’t jump the queue, and it now appears that having the vaccination might not prevent the spread of the virus.

And some people are saying that working people should be having the vaccine first and that those who are too old or not working can isolate, but this is barely breaking news.

But then the elderly and vulnerable have been isolating for almost a year, and let’s face it there’s not many perks to being old, so we shouldn’t really begrudge them this, and it also means that families don’t have to run around after them as much, especially if they’re a key worker or homeschooling their children.

And the vaccine has not properly been tested and it’s still being trialled and we’re all being used as guinea pigs all in the name of big pharma, but I guess it’s nice to catch up on our royal family and get positive news, but two pensioners getting their jab is hardly news, is it?

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