Status of COVID-19: As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) in the UK.

 Status of COVID-19

As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) in the UK.

The 4 nations public health HCID group made an interim recommendation in January 2020 to classify COVID-19 as an HCID. This was based on consideration of the UK HCID criteria about the virus and the disease with information available during the early stages of the outbreak. Now that more is known about COVID-19, the public health bodies in the UK have reviewed the most up to date information about COVID-19 against the UK HCID criteria. They have determined that several features have now changed; in particular, more information is available about mortality rates (low overall), and there is now greater clinical awareness and a specific and sensitive laboratory test, the availability of which continues to increase.

 The Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) is also of the opinion that COVID-19 should no longer be classified as an HCID.

The need to have a national, coordinated response remains, but this is being met by the government’s COVID-19 response.

Cases of COVID-19 are no longer managed by HCID treatment centres only. All healthcare workers managing possible and confirmed cases should follow the updated national infection and prevention (IPC) guidance for COVID-19, which supersedes all previous IPC guidance for COVID-19. This guidance includes instructions about different personal protective equipment (PPE) ensembles that are appropriate for different clinical scenarios.

Definition of HCID 

In the UK, a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) is defined according to the following criteria:

• acute infectious disease
• typically has a high case-fatality rate
• may not have effective prophylaxis or treatment
• often difficult to recognise and detect rapidly
• ability to spread in the community and within healthcare settings
• requires an enhanced individual, population and system response to ensure it is managed effectively, efficiently and safely

Classification of HCIDs

HCIDs are further divided into contact and airborne groups:

•  contact HCIDs are usually spread by direct contact with an infected patient or infected fluids, tissues and other materials, or by indirect contact with contaminated materials and fomites

• airborne HCIDs are spread by respiratory droplets or aerosol transmission, in addition to contact routes of transmission

List of high consequence infectious diseases

A list of HCIDs has been agreed by a joint Public Health England (PHE) and NHS England HCID Programme:

Contact HCID	Airborne HCID
Argentine haemorrhagic fever (Junin virus)	Andes virus infection (hantavirus)
Bolivian haemorrhagic fever (Machupo virus)	Avian influenza A H7N9 and H5N1
Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF)	Avian influenza A H5N6 and H7N7
Ebola virus disease (EVD)	Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)
Lassa fever	Monkeypox
Lujo virus disease	Nipah virus infection
Marburg virus disease (MVD)	Pneumonic plague (Yersinia pestis)
Severe fever with thrombocytopaenia syndrome (SFTS)	Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)*

*No cases reported since 2004, but SARS remains a notifiable disease under the International Health Regulations (2005), hence its inclusion here

**Human to human transmission has not been described to date for avian influenza A(H5N6). Human to human transmission has been described for avian influenza A(H5N1), although this was not apparent until more than 30 human cases had been reported. Both A(H5N6) and A(H5N1) often cause severe illness and fatalities. Therefore, A(H5N6) has been included in the airborne HCID list despite not meeting all of the HCID criteria.

The list of HCIDs will be kept under review and updated by PHE if new HCIDs emerge that are of relevance to the UK.

HCIDs in the UK

HCIDs, including viral haemorrhagic fevers (VHFs), are rare in the UK. When cases do occur, they tend to be sporadic and are typically associated with recent travel to an area where the infection is known to be endemic or where an outbreak is occurring. None of the HCIDs listed above are endemic in the UK, and the known animal reservoirs are not found in the UK.

As of February 2020, 2019, the UK has experience of managing confirmed cases of Lassa fever, EVD, CCHF, MERS and monkeypox. The vast majority of these patients acquired their infections overseas, but rare incidents of secondary transmission of MERS and monkeypox have occurred in the UK.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid?fbclid=IwAR1WvHvkce7fl-rS-nWM2_V1gh45aQn52yaXb4ZV2xUeHuNyRjSY3NTjbhg

Black Lives Matter, Street demonstrations and the Second Covid19 Wave

At the end of the first world war, there was a nasty killer virus spreading; people went out in the streets in large numbers to celebrate the end of the war; it caused a second wave of virus infections and more people died than during the war.

In 2020, we have Covid19, which has killed between 40,000 and 60,000 people in the UK alone. Now the Government is (in my opinion, jumping the gun) easing the restrictions on social contact.

So now, as well as crowds gathering in places such as beaches, we are seeing mass demonstrations on the streets in agreement with the demonstrations in the USA about police murdering and mistreating black people: many people think they are safe if they wear a mask - they are not.

Will we now see the dreaded second wave of Covid19 infections and many more deaths?

COVID19 = Coordinated Orchestrated Virus International Distribution 2019.

COVID19 = Coordinated Orchestrated Virus International Distribution 2019.

Governments are "alert" to the fact that a truly effective vaccine will never be made and are already telling us that even if we have had it already and have antibodies we may not be immune (which means vaccine will not work on everyone) so they are intent on slowing down the infection rate so that health services can "cope", all based on the herd immunity idea that the  extra deaths (70,000 per year in the UK) will mostly be the aged and sick and will slow down population growth which is essential - next step will be to reduce births - sadly the way population is growing and the need to decrease it, with more being born than dying every day, the whole planet is facing disaster.

Wars between super-powers must be avoided due to the nuclear threat; people would not accept enforced birth control or limits or maximum age limits that science fiction has proposed; we cannot simply starve people even though we starve many in third world countries already, so how do we reduce population growth or the population itself?

Allowing the consumption of poisons in our food and water supplies and tobacco and pharmaceuticals that kill so many? Slow spread of a virus that targets the old and sick?

Who could imagine that? Or is it just nature fighting back? Or aliens? Or the devil? And what is the difference?

And just look at what is happening on the beaches.

What is the confusing Government message?  Stay alert - well we should stay alert every day and stay alert of about what the Government are doing!  They are telling us that!

Then what I see is people that "think it's all over" or that it won't get them.  Are they simply dumb or selfish or are they confused.  So much for Government messages.

On the one hand we hear government telling us this virus is deadly but we see them bumbling along and failing to tackle it one every level.

I for one am not convinced by what our Government is saying, yet I know that there is a message within it; they hide the truth in plain sight.

I for one know that most of the most powerful politicians and business people are not interested in us, they are only interested in making themselves richer, more powerful and famous.

We can do nothing about all that.

So I say, find joy in your life, relax best that you can, stay safe and keep others as safe as possible and consider what is most important in your life and focus on that.

Cannabis May Kill Coronavirus and No, The Study Hasn't Been Done By Bob Marley

Friday 22 May 2020

The study mentions how they have identified a minimum of 13 cannabis plants that are high in CBD that can affect the ACE2 pathways that the coronavirus uses to get inside one’s body.

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the world like never before. Most countries across the globe have been under lockdown to curb its spread.

Researchers across the world are working in the direction of coming up with a vaccine to prevent the novel coronavirus. However, there has been no success till now. But, according to the latest study, Cannabis can be used to prevent deadly COVID-19 disease.

The study has been carried out by a group of Canadian scientists consisting of Bo Wang, Anna Kovalchuk, Dongping Li, Yaroslav Ilnytskyy, Igor Kovalchuk, and Olga Kovalchuk.

Titled ‘In Search of Preventative Strategies: Novel Anti-Inflammatory High-CBD Cannabis SativaExtracts Modulate ACE2 Expression in COVID-19 Gateway Tissues’, the study mentions how they have identified a minimum of 13 cannabis plants that are high in CBD that can affect the ACE2 pathways that the coronavirus uses to get inside one’s body.

In the study’s abstract that has been published in Preprints it has been mentioned that researchers have been able to develop 800 new Cannabis sativa lines and extracts and have come up with a hypothesis that high-CBD C. sativa extracts might modulate ACE2 expression in COVID-19 target tissues.

Dr. Igor Kovalchuk in a statement to Calgary Herald stressed on the importance of considering each and every therapeutic possibility that comes in the way in these circumstances.

Elaborating upon the study he told the Calgary Herald, “A number of them have reduced the number of these (virus) receptors by 73 per cent, the chance of it getting in is much lower. If they can reduce the number of receptors, there’s much less chance of getting infected.”

https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/cannabis-may-kill-coronavirus-and-no-the-study-hasnt-been-done-by-bob-marley-2631341.html

https://ccguide.org/news/shownewsarticle.php?articleid=23612

UK Government puzzle - can you work it out?

It's ridiculous - "they are saying" one infected person could infect 5 more; those 5, 5 more each, that's 125, then times 5 times 5 times 5, ... they say everyone is just six steps removed from everyone else on the planet; they say the fruit pickers from Eastern Europe (what one the Brexit vote) are tested before they take off and sit 2 metres away from each other and presumably stay 2 meters away from everyone whilst working and don't go shopping, yet two people that live together cannot sit together in a park; then we read that thousands of people are being brought home and not tested or put in isolation .. Boris said at the start, about herd immunity, so us, the herd, animals, need to catch the virus to build herd immunity, but not all at once because the health service his party underfunded can't cope - so is that the plan, so we all get it, he saves on pensions, population drops, but grows too because we bring so many home and so many at home will be making new slaves, ooops i mean babies, and he and his cronies can sell care badges whilst boosting their own salaries by 10%, increasing their own pensions by 5 grand each, and awarding large sums to their rich tory members who are "suffering" because of his mismanagement whilst he "takes one for the team" by going to hospital for a few days and then off to Chequers for a holiday whilst everyone else has to stay at home?

Have I got that right?

UK Government mismanaged Covid 19 Corona Virus crisis from the start

Boris Johnson and his cronies mismanaged this virus from the start, in fact long before the start - it must be obvious even to an idiot that health is the priority in any good society - or even "herd", as Johnson called us - and nothing should be considered more important than servig the health services, for without life and health we have nothing meaningfull to strive for.

UK Government bringing Brits home from abroad, no testing, no isloation, released to public transport all throughout the country

Foreign Secretary's statement on coronavirus COVID-19, 6 April 2020

""On commercial flights we’ve helped over 200,000 UK nationals come home from Spain, 13,000 from Egypt, 8,000 from Indonesia.

We’ve also chartered flights from 7 different countries, bringing home more than 2,000 British nationals.

"We’ve repatriated a further 1,550 from cruise ships, including most recently the Coral Princess and the Zaandam.

""And for those travellers still stuck abroad, we’re doing everything we can to keep international airports open, to keep commercial flights running, and to charter flights, when there are no other options – under the new arrangements I announced last week, and which have now been agreed with 14 airlines.

We’ve allocated £75 million to support those arrangements. We’ve already had flights back from countries including Peru, Ghana, and Tunisia.

"And we’re fixing further flights from India, South Africa, Nepal and the Philippines, which will fly later on this week.

"So, I want to reassure people that every arm of government is doing everything it possibly can to defeat coronavirus and rise to the challenges it presents us at home and abroad."

Open letter to the Prime Minister of the UK, Boris Johnson

Open letter to the Prime Minister of the UK, Boris Johnson.

Dear Boris,

Thank you for your recent mailing that you had written, printed and posted to everyone’s private addresses. I must say that I was surprised because I imagine that took a lot of effort and cost a lot of money. Could I suggest that next time you use the press, media, emails and text services and social media to save money that could be put into, for instance “the fantastic NHS”; surely that could have been better used to buy the essential equipment that the NHS is so short of? There could be publsihed an opt-out service by text, I am sure the computers could handle that.

In response, may I ask you a few questions that you and your team could maybe use the media to answer.

1) A few weeks ago, you publicly asked the public to stay at home to avoid risking infection from Covid 19, or risking infecting others. Did you think that such advice would be heeded by the population and how long did it take you realise that a stronger “order” was needed?

2) Whilst giving such advice, why did you show yourself proudly shaking the hands of patients infected with Covid 19 in hospitals? What sort of example was that? Or did you put yourself at risk to emphaise the dangers?

3) Why did you continue to visit the House of Commons and sit in close proximity to your colleagues and staff and even allow yourself to be shown on TV shaking their hands? Do you now understand that you put yourself and them at risk, especially after shaking patients’ hands?

4) At what stage did you realise that the Corona Virus was a threat to everyone and that it was likely to overburden the NHS and result in so many deaths?

5) When did you realise that the NHS is “fantastic” (one definition being “imaginative or fanciful, remote from reality”)?

6) I was sorry to see that you have had to go into hospital – how will you manage to “run the country” whilst seriously ill in a hospital bed?

7) Will you now consider ensuring that the NHS has adequate supplies, especially as you say, it will get worse before it gets better? Will you ensure that hospital staff have enough Personal Protection, transport to and from work and income appropriate to their essential value?

8) How often did you wash your hands or touch your face? Do you think that was how you became infected or do you have any idea how you became infecetd and how many others you may have infected by not heeding your own advice?

9) Are you accepting full salary whilst off sick?

10) Are you intending to apologise to the public for your blundering delays and resign?

Many thanks for your kind attention and care



Alun Buffry
Norwich North

Corona Virus, 5G and YOU

There are 2 issues here, 5G and Corona virus. I don't think many people here are saying that 5G is good, or that it is not dangerous to health or even life. I don't think anyone here is saying that the virus is good or a danger to health. I don't think anyone here is against stopping both.

The differences arise because some people believe that the virus is man made and escaped a laboratory, or was even released deliberately. Obviously the 5th generation technology was invented.

The ultimate question is whether either was created as a weapon are if so why, and do those that are so using either have themselves protection against it?

The question is, is 5G making us less immune or more prone to suffering and dyeing from the virus because some of us are surrounded by the effects of 5G?

Is there a correlation between countries with 5G set up and corona virus infections / deaths?

Some people refer to scientists or their supposed reports and theories either way. There is disagreement between the scientists themselves. Why?

The answer is that we have to use the word "believe", or at best "conclude". It is surely a matter what one believes - just like whether man walked on the moon, whether the illuminati exists, whether the British royal family are lizards etc etc - that is why they are called conspiracy theory.

One thing I believe for sure, one should not base one's life and risk ones life and the lives of others based upon what some politician, scientist, doctor, lawyer, teacher or preacher says.

The ultimate question is surely what can we do about it either way.

Wash hands, keep a safe distance, try not to catch anything and try not to infect anyone , eat well, sleep well, if possible, help others and realise the most important truth of all. "You are alive"

Does anyone actually disagree with that - of course somebody will, somebody will say that it is all an illusion, or a holographic universe or part of some super-being's computer game. Well, I know that! ;)

Another thing I believe, that the super rich, super-powerful, want to hang on to what they have, even at the cost of human life. They will lie and cheat to control the masses. And they are a miserable frightened super-rich and powerful because they too know that they will die and there is absolutely nothing they can do about it. They know that all their riches and power has not made them happy and they don't know what to do about that either.

So I say, look for where we find happiness, joy, freedom, contentment and peace - inside ourselves; it is not in 5G and it is not in no5G. It is not in the virus and it is not in the cure. It is not in this world at all. It is within inside each of us and if we cannot find it, find somebody or something that can show it, spark it up, and the enjoy it.

Alun Buffry

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